The first piece for All Out Cricket (no. 90) which started the ball, ahem, rolling? Continue reading
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Another 100 runs?
Well, after May’s thrills, June has been a mixed bag culminating in a run of some sort of form. My innings this season now read:
[40no – 2 – 3 – 5 – 16no – 20 – 6 – 0no] – 5 – 5 – 0 – 0 – 40 – 44 – 1 – 18
So, in my first 16 innings this season, I have an aggregate score of 205. Continue reading
From dexter to sinister again
[first published 20th March 2012]
Things advance in some ways. Two weeks ago I made a short film of a coaching session I had with Simon Funnell. Forty minutes of one-handed drills are exhausting, and even using a lighter bat, 2lbs8oz instead of the 2lbs10oz one which I carried through last season, my right arm was exhausted by the end. You see, I’m not permitted to engage my left hand until the middle of April at best. This is frustrating in many ways, not least because I can’t bat properly nor practice behind the timbers at all. Methinks I’ll start the first game down the order and in the deep. Or scoring. Continue reading
Let’s talk about nets, baby
The first of a regular column for All Out Cricket (no. 91). Continue reading