Jul 8 – First Test – Day 1
To say the First Day of the First Test did not go to plan would be an understatement. At this stage, no one is willing to own up to having had the bri...
Diary of the 17th Man
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July 6 – Meeting Prince Charles
Sarah handed out the Code of Conduct in preparation for the visit of the Prince of Wales on the Sofia Gardens pitch at 11am: Rule 1: Address him as Hi...
Jul 4 – Aus V Essex Day 4
The Day o’ The Rhino There was a sense of foreboding at breakfast this morning, and it wasn’t because Coach 2.0’s digestive system was back in balance...
July 2 – Aus v Essex – Day 2
Writers are known to be afflicted occasionally by writers block. In the same way, watching the progress of the red ball up and down a cricket wicket f...
July 1 – Aus v Essex – Day 1
On May 30, 2010 the European Court of Justice declared le droit d’oubli (the right to be forgotten) to be a human right [1]. It is an old non-right So...
June 30 – The Return of Deep Third
The Prof was very coy at breakfast, saying only that he had organised a little tour for us today. With the weather warming up and a couple more traini...
June 28 – Kent demolition and space junk
The Captain signalled to Eve (Adam Voges) and I during the morning session. The Kent lower order were batting well to hold out our pace attack on a sl...
June 26 – Aus vs Kent – Day 2
Coach2.0 cares enough about his ‘Dad’s Army’ team to organise a series of business seminars during the non-playing tour day’s to prepare the Dad’s for...
Jun 25 – AUS Vs Kent – Day 1
Let the games begin! After the rather one-sided Tour of the West Indies (The Prof won all the games of Spot The Case of ABC Bias we played on iView) i...
Mar 15 – The island of Brac, Dalmatian coast
The three of us – The Prof, The Freak and I – brushed out of Cape town early in the morning. I was so bleary–eyed I don’t even remember passport contr...