Nicky Bird

IT WAS PISSING DOWN at 11.30 and then pissed down heavily until just after 1. We sat and thought about […]

Andy Taylor, who with his elder brother Rob plays for the V&A when available, suggested he could get a team

The DEVIL’S ADVOCATES, a team of barristers and teachers, are the perfect opposition I was told by their chairman before

We struggled to raise a team, it being Sunday and with several players away in Cornwall and Barbados. But Sunil

Martin Bowden was skipper, caterer, scullery maid. He saw little of the game from his servile position in the kitchen.

Paul Harris came from L.A. to play village cricket with us. It was everything he hoped for: a perfect green

That learned philosopher Roy Keane once remarked – Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. This may be true but preparation

It was the return of The Prodigal JAKE WARMAN. He turned up before our skipper, and well before Peter Linthwaite

ONE OF THOSE TRICKY MORNINGS when the forecast is iffy and Martin rings from near the ground to say a

A DODGY START to the day with threatening clouds, a wet pitch and no captain –Tom Bird was looking for