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Village Cricket Umpire Prefers DRS

Posted on Sun, February 19, 2012 by

I remember my first, and thus far only, experience of umpiring a club game with not only a double shot of pleasure, but also with a wince of regret and at least a dab of ‘I wish I’d had the … Continue reading →

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Caption Competition

Posted on Sun, February 19, 2012 by

I put this photo on Facebook yesterday, and quite a few people seemed to like it. Someone suggested I make it into a caption competition, so here goes: Post your captions below, and whichever one makes Freddie gurgle the most … Continue reading →

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Village Cricket Team gets DRS

Posted on Fri, February 17, 2012 by

Due to the vast number of errors in umpiring decisions in village and social cricket, a small village team has invested in their own version of the Decision Referral System (DRS). Maid Upton CC have spared no expense in installing … Continue reading →

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Mindless Idiots

Posted on Tue, February 14, 2012 by

Usually this blog is full of fun, good news and hopefully a bit of laughter, but today finds me in angry mood. I’ve just got back from Babbacombe, and it looks like someone has been at the astroturf pitch with … Continue reading →

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Me and the Ancient Mayans

Posted on Sun, January 29, 2012 by

Twenty-twelve, it just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? And it’s finally here, the international year of alliteration and the Chinese year of the dragon. I recently did a ‘who do you think you are?’ type of test, that was … Continue reading →

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Some Winter Reading

Posted on Mon, January 2, 2012 by

In a cricket mad house this Christmas there were bound to be a few cricket related books changing hands. Books by Flintoff and Botham were given to my mother and I received Graeme Swann’s autobiography, The Breaks are Off, and … Continue reading →

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