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Week Seven - Wormsley

Date: July 22, 2011 | Category: Richard O'Hagan

I'm skiving off from playing again this week. Instead, I'm headed for Sir Paul Getty's ground to see the Unicorns take on Nottinghamshire Outlaws in a Pro40 game. I've no particular affiliation t...

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Week Nine - You Win Nothing With Kids

Date: July 22, 2011 | Category: Richard O'Hagan

At our club we feel that we have a sensible approach to team selection. For the league games on a Saturday, we put out the best possible sides available, irrespective of age. For the Sunday (friendl...

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Week Ten - Civvie Street

Date: July 22, 2011 | Category: Richard O'Hagan

All club cricketers go through that odd phase where they have to realise that their team mates have lives outside of the cricket club. They have families, children and most importantly, jobs. And th...

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Week Eleven - Another Season Begins

Date: July 22, 2011 | Category: Richard O'Hagan

It isn't often you get to play cricket with Herod and The Pope, but they are two of the more venerable members of the Law Society side who take the field for our season opener against St Catherine's C...

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Week Twelve - A Different Sort of Game

Date: July 25, 2011 | Category: Richard O'Hagan

One of the beautiful things about cricket is that it embraces all levels of talent, all levels of interest and all levels of willingness to be involved. Later on in the season – weather permitti...

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Week Thirteen - Something of a First

Date: July 25, 2011 | Category: Richard O'Hagan

I was a late adopter of Twitter. For a long time I couldn't see the point. And then I made the mistake of voicing that opinion out loud (posting it on Facebook counts as 'out loud' nowadays, surely?)....

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Week Fourteen - Tight Finishes

Date: July 26, 2011 | Category: Richard O'Hagan

On a slightly overcast July evening, I crouch in my crease. Before me, the bowler begins his short run. He bowls. The ball is flatter and shorter than his previous three. I step back into the crease, ...

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It is such a strange feeling

Date: August 4, 2011 | Category: Peter Miller

It is such a strange feeling. I have been watching England play cricket for 20 years now. During that time I have had all sorts of heroes. Gooch, Thorpe, Stewart, Flintoff, Trescothick and Michael Vau...

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Why I hate Twenty20 cricket

Date: August 4, 2011 | Category: Peter Miller

I love cricket, everything about it. The rules, the way that the game is a complete mystery to the outsider I even like the fact that if you tell someone that you love the game they will have one of t...

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Club Cricket Top Performers - July 2011 - Midlands

Date: August 10, 2011 | Category: News

After another month of action in club cricket around the country, we take a look at the top individual and team performances in the 25 ECB Premier Leagues. Barnt Green continue to lead the way in t...

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