Category: Writing (my writing)

Animal Spirits or Canterbury Tails, MTWD Match Report, 5 August 2009

It seems we couldn’t find an MTWD match reporter for Day One of the Kent v Middlesex match at Canterbury, so I “sent Hippity” to do the best he could:

Animal Spirits or Canterbury Tails – click here.

Just in case anything ever happens to MTWD, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

Middlesex till we die – Animal Spirits or Canterbury Tails

I actually went to the game myself on the Friday (Day 3) and reported on it, so you can get a more conventional report and find out what happened by clicking here.

England v Australia, 2nd Test, Lord’s, Day Five, 20 July 2009

For several years now I have written occasional pieces about cricket for the King Cricket website, under my nom de plume, Ged Ladd.   Janie and I have called each other Ged and Daisy since the mid 1990s.

The King Cricket website has very strict rules about match reports: “If it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. If it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.”

This particular day was a rather important one; this was the day that England defeated Australia at Lord’s for the first time for 75 years, but none of that is apparent in my King Cricket Match Report, click here.

England v Australia, day five at Lord’s, match report

Just in case anything ever happens to King Cricket, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

England v Australia, day five at Lord’s, match report

For those of you who might actually want to know what happened in the match, for the Cricinfo scorecard and link to professional reports, click here.

Hampshire v Middlesex T20 Match, MTWD Futurology Match Report, 23 June 2009

In what appears to have been a first (and mercifully last) attempt to produce an MTWD match report before the match took place, Ged produced the following piece for MTWD.

Hawks Prove Too Much For Panthers – click here.

Just in case anything ever happens to MTWD, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

Middlesex till we die – Hawks Prove Too Much For Panthers

The reason I did this, I suspect, was that the match was a televised match and we hadn’t managed to find someone to commit to writing a post match report. Also, of course, because Middlesex were predictably awful in the T20 tournament that year, despite having won it the year before.

Here is a link to the predictably awful scorecard.

It certainly says something about commentator predictability and cliche, as the MTWD piece and the comments below it attest. King Cricket lovers will no doubt appreciate the sentiments.

Bore Draw – NOT!!, MTWD Piece, Surrey v Middlesex Day 4, The Oval, 9 May 2009

This turned out to be one of the most exciting days of cricket I have ever witnessed.

It was one of those strange situations in which everything worked out for the best.

Janie and I were all dressed up / picniced up with no place to go that Saturday, as we had Day 4 test match tickets for a Lord’s match which had somehow managed to conclude in three days.

So we went to the Oval and saw a screamer of a Day Four County Championship day there instead.

We attributed the resulting MTWD piece to Daisy feat. Ged:

Daisy watching cricket at Lord’s on a subsequent cold feet, cold hands  day

Here is that Daisy Feat. Ged MTWD report: Bore Draw – NOT!! – click here.

Just in case anything ever happens to MTWD, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

Middlesex till we die – Bore Draw Not

If you want to see the scorecard, which barely does justice to this extraordinary match – click here.

Anything Hughes Can Do (Ramps Can’t Do Better), MTWD Piece, Following Surrey v Middlesex and England v West Indies Remotely, 7 May 2009

We sometimes struggled to find reporters MTWD reporters for away matches, so ended up resorting to somewhat detached reports.

It seems that “Hippity volunteered” to report on this particular day, from his vantage point on the bed at the flat.

Hippity’s vantage point

Younger readers (or older readers with early stages of memory loss) might need to resort to this Wikipedia link to learn/remind themselves what Ceefax was.

It is sad to reflect on Phillip Hughes, who played such a huge part in that early part of Middlesex’s 2009 summer and who was so sadly cut down in his prime just five years later.

Over to Hippity: Anything Hughes Can Do (Ramps Can’t Do Better) – click here.

Just in case anything ever happens to MTWD, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

Middlesex till we die – Anything Hughes Can Do (Ramps Can’t Do Better)

In case anyone was wondering about the England v West Indies match – click here for the scorecard from that one.

Continue reading “Anything Hughes Can Do (Ramps Can’t Do Better), MTWD Piece, Following Surrey v Middlesex and England v West Indies Remotely, 7 May 2009”

I Do Declare, MTWD Piece, Middlesex v Glamorgan Day 3, Lord’s, 24 April 2009

I took Michael Mainelli to Lord’s on Day Three of this  match, having taken Charley on Day One.

Hippity wrote up Day Three, having apparently jumped into my picnic bag in a fit of pique:

I Do Declare: Middlesex v Glamorgan Day 3 – click here.

Just in case anything ever happens to MTWD, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

Middlesex till we die – I Do Declare: Middlesex v Glamorgan Day 3.

Forums Galore, MTWD Piece, 13 April 2009

Just ahead of the 2009 season, I wrote a piece for Middlesex Till We Die (MTWD) about other cricket on-line forums:

Forums Galore – click here.

Just in case anything ever happens to MTWD, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

Middlesex till we die – Forums Galore

 

Cricket Lovely Cricket? by Lawrence Booth, MTWD Book Review, 11 April 2009

As a warm up to the new season I read a book and wrote the following book review for Middlesex Till We Die (MTWD):

Cricket Lovely Cricket? by Lawrence Booth – click here.

Just in case anything ever happens to MTWD, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

Middlesex till we die – Cricket Lovely Cricket_ by Lawrence Booth

Middlesex Till We Die (MTWD) Beer Drinkers Guide Shout Out For Updates, 22 March 2009 & Consultation On Site Rules 30 March 2009

Thirsty lot, Middlesex CCC supporters/Middlesex Till We Die (MTWD) readers. I wrote a short shout out to the faithful to help update a guide to the local hostelries around Lord’s.

You can read that piece by clicking here.

If anything ever happens to Sportnetwork/MTWD, you can read a scrape of that piece by clicking here.

Undisciplined lot at times, so we needed to review the rules at that time. I wrote a consultation note about site rules and discipline, again by way of a shout out.

Click here for the piece about discipline.

If anything ever happens to Sportnetwork/MTWD, you can read a scrape of that piece here.

I’m going to guess that we had more feedback about beer than we did about rules.

A Cricket Bat At Rumtek Monastery, King Cricket Piece, Published 17 March 2009

This was the second piece of mine published on King Cricket.

It supports one of King Cricket’s themes – cricket equipment in unusual places.

The centrepiece of the article is a photograph I took of a monk at Rumtek Monastery in Sikhim who was wielding a cricket bat in our direction when Janie and I visited the place in 2005.

A cricket bat at Rumtek monastery – King Cricket – click here.

Just in case anything ever happens to King Cricket, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

A cricket bat at Rumtek monastery