Sporting success is often secured by one individual or team trying to exert a level of pressure on their opponent until it becomes so great to bear that in the end no manner of wonderous individual shot, punch or goal can overcome in growing inevitable outcome. And despite the great Keith Millar believing that pressure in a sporting sense is not worthy of the subject compared to that faced in the ‘real’ world, all cricketers experience that feeling of the fielding team making run scoring difficult, and then having to force the issue with a series of ‘stick or twist’ decisions. So it proved on the final day of May when the Town and Country took to the field first and excellent bowling and fielding, from an inter-generational team  – always lovely to see from a ‘future of cricket’ point of view, and for the ageing members of a team […]

The V&A play the vast majority of their games in the easy to organise, safe and beautiful confines of Stonor. It is when we have to – very occasionally – arrange a game away from this environ that one is instantly reminded of the levels of admin that other teams regularly face…and it is not an experience this season’s new, and therefore slightly green, fixtures secretary wishes to embark on again in a hurry. It is safe to say that this middle aged cricket administrator learned a few life lessons during the week! Without going into detail, after 500+ emails, The Walker Ground in North London – home to league cricket’s Southgate CC and out ground for Middlesex CCC – saw 10 men, many of whom we were meeting for the first time, take to the field for the V&A against one of our regular oppositions, The Authors. The change […]