With all your expertise and first class cricket experience, how long do you think that might have taken? Slack eventually edged one to the slips off Patrick Patterson for a dogged 143-ball 52 with 6 boundaries. Sadly, any coach is only as good as the material he has to work with, and if the spinners coming through aren't any good, and don't make the team better than it already is, why would you pick them? This one was supposed to be in The President’s Box as last year (a suitable size of venue) but had to be moved to The Thomas Lord Suite (ridiculously oversized) due to some flooding problems and the need temporarily to relocate some MCC staff to The President’s Box.

Players can be given contracts because of their one day attributes; although they are often available for the championship they rarely play. Given SportNetwork’s track record, I have uploaded the text of my MTWD pieces into Ogblog, so if the above “proper” link doesn’t work, you can at least read the text here. In fact in those days there were few contracts if any around in club cricket in the south and in Wilf’s case he simply joined the club on the same terms as anyone else: he paid an annual subscription and match fees. This is a forum for members of the MCC - with limited guest access for Middlesex CCC members and supporters. Sportnetwork require regular editorial material as the quid quo pro for providing their site and system.We now learn that Fletch has been barred from the Middlesex room for turning up in beach bum shorts and flip flops,the abuse he suffered on text thereafter was well deserved.

The family settled down in High Wycombe, and Slack soon earned a name in school cricket, gradually making it to village cricket for Frieth. I have been a cricket fan since my school days (I will not tell you when as that will give my age away).It is a total waste of time to pose the question at a forum, to which some members have travelled with some difficulty and where matters of cricket policy should be discussed. Cricinfo have published an article about the wait for a bouncer, which came in the 19th ball of the match. As i live outside London traveling to lords is always quite long so would help having forums after games.

In truth, not really my kind of entertainment; personally I would have preferred more time to socialise. one gets two","good time for a hattrick" LP'isms flying all over the place,Olly on to bowl and the over rate goes back to -2, someone really needs to explain this to us mere mortals. With the Brailsford Review coming, the early leaks on the outcome don't sound promising for counties.The Ashes of 1981 (the season when Slack won the Middlesex cap) saw England performing terribly under Ian Botham and the mid-series appointment of Brearley as the replacement captain. Indeed, they seem to have selected a few fringe players during the ongoing triangular series involving England and India, so it is a bit of a surprise that Abbott hasn't had a go. Sir Andy Nash reckons it's because the TMGs, some of whom like Yorkshire are heavily in debt, so the ECB wants to free up more money to pump in by getting rid of the non TMGs. If he is done due to injury which he seems to be picking up more of the older he gets it will be another sad day for cricket in general (not just Aussie cricket), the guys a battler so I fully expect him to be out there on day one of the Ashes next year. The ECB accepted, however, that "the failings identified have largely resulted from a lack of effective governance and oversight of the financial position of Middlesex Cricket" and insisted the "core business of MCCC and MCB" will be run separately in future.

Low crowd at the forum, don't blame people for not turing up given the world cup but given yet another captain going I tought a few more memebers might turn up to find out whats going on. For some reason I couldn't get sound working so I had to rely on sub-titles referring to whiteboard cricket, Radlip and poor pictures. For example, Middlesex would “recruit” players from other counties, while other counties would “poach” our players. Perhaps one liners from the audience (if that is what they were) were not turned into sub-titles; there were some brief gaps. When Alleyne consumed Barlow and Clive Radley without a run on the board things looked particularly gloomy for Middlesex.There were several sections and subsections (Gus got mightily confused/confusing over the segmentation aspects of the show), including video clips and discussion, with the whole 2016 squad forming a large panel. Angus Fraser spoke about hoping Hughes could once again play for Middlesex, and judging by the fact he made more of an impression on those around the club compared to most overseas players, I imagine Gus had passing thoughts on a few occasions in the last few years about once again signing Hughes (if only for Twenty20 due to Chris Rogers filling our County Championship berth), before realising that Hughes's possible or actual commitments with Australia would prevent that from happening due to him being on the fringes of the side in all formats. Author Ian Louis Harris Posted on October 22, 2009 October 1, 2018 Categories Cricket, Other Sports (fives, football, hockey, etc. I am told that Janet continued to follow Middlesex avidly despite her ill health, so she must have been thrilled when we won the County Championship in such exciting circumstances in 2016.