Battling the elements but pleased to be back in the middle

Alan Pearce on 16 May

The new season for me dawned on a bitterly cold and windy day during the first weekend in April, when I needed five layers to stave off the elements....

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Preparing for the season ahead

Alan Pearce on 26 Feb

It’s Sunday 24 February as I sit in front of my laptop penning this blog.

This means, of course, that it is just seven weeks before I find myself w...

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Plenty of reasons for festive cheer

Alan Pearce on 14 Dec

It’s a bitterly cold evening in mid-December as I sit composing this blog but I am cheered by the fact that England are within touching distance of re...

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Tournament in full swing

Paul Richardson on 12 Dec

Bangalore is an incredible place and the people have been very accommodating. A couple of the players have been struck down with sickness but so far t...

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Roll on next summer!

Alan Pearce on 12 Oct

It is with a somewhat heavy heart that I greet the month of September these days since it heralds the end of another English cricket season.

My fir...

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Coming into the home straight

Alan Pearce on 08 Aug

It seems barely possible that, as we move into July with the longest day already behind us, we are beyond the halfway point of what has been a frustra...

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Pastures new but same old story about the rain

Alan Pearce on 12 Jul

The glorious sunshine at the end of May soon gave way to more wet weather as we entered the month of June.

Two further cancellations were intersper...

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Swann senior, a smashed window and the septic tank

Alan Pearce on 06 Jun

My optimism that a new month would bring better weather was soon put to the test as the unrelenting rain caused the postponement of a game which would...

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