The Grumbler
@thegrumbler
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I did not get voted on to the Essex board which means I have the time to take on the role of Minister of Sport It seems me and the PM are on the same page
This is one of the coolest pictures ever taken sport imo. The starched collar on a cream shirt, the tailored blazer, the gasometer in the background, the haircut, the half-smile expression on his face, the hue Art.
🗳️ Essex members - voting closes tomorrow at 4pm. 👉 Click this link to read my bio and about the contribution I wish to make to Essex CCC www.mrrichardclarke.... You should have an email with details on how to vote online
FOUR days of men's cricket at home between now, July 16, and August 27. The height of the summer when the kids are off and people are looking for things to do Utterly ridiculous. No way to grow a sport.
Voting for the Essex board ends on Friday, 4pm. ✅Vote Richard Clarke 🏆In honour of our last Blast victory, I have made a little video. The loudest shouting is mine Also, I have put my pitch on my website www.mrrichardclarke.com/essexcccboard
Good news that Noah Thain has signed long-term. While money is a factor as well, I do like the idea of eschewing an overseas to play Thain and Benko more. It is the Essex DNA to back youth. We are playing 7 or 8 in Blast right now.
I thought we had Northants away but BBC say it is Hampshire away, 4.30pm on Wed
Nice night for it. Must-win game. I’m in the pavilion pre-game if anyone wants to chat
More daggers in the ❤️ of the ECB & those who run cricket "The hostility to scrutiny or introspection, the pure arrogance of a governing class that wants your vote but doesn’t really care either way, because they control the levers of power & you don’t" www.theguardian.com/...
Unlike Jordan Pickford, Simon Harmer is not going to be beaten at his near post tonight.
Scyld Berry has nailed the ECB to the wall. The gift of experienced journalists is proper perspective. This is what modern media lacks. Everything is turned up to 11, normally for little reason Here, Berry dissects the ECB's key personnel with a scalpel www.telegraph.co.uk/...
Well, we were smashed. But thoroughly enjoyable afternoon. Work in progress.
We need to sign more players called Bosch. It is the ultimate Essex name.
Mad dogs and English county cricketers go out in the midday sun Writing my @thecricketpaper column on the boundary at Radlett. Middx v Sussex 2s in a T20. Middx almost full strength, incl Boyle
OK, it's tea on Day 4 and I'm calling it - Kent v Midds (especially) and Durham v Northants are squeakers Get on those streams. Double tabs!
I bet one of these or Durham/Northants turns into a squeaker All looking like very competitive finishes
The bottom two in Div One have won. Hants beat the moral leaders Sussex. And every time Mickey Arthur's Derbyshire win, a cricketing angel gets its wings (Name that movie?)
So you know those ‘work from the ground’ marketing ideas? Bring your laptop and use our super fast WiFi etc. How does that work alongside this (v serious) stipulation, which I thought applied at every ground? (Bit dirty. It’s under a tree at Essex)
Essex all out 184 in 57.4 overs after winning toss. But spinner Patterson-White 6-43 So we are opening with Harmer and Critchley?
Everyone in Div One who won the toss chose to bat By mid-afternoon they are all in trouble
Hard work for both sides in the sun Westley falls to spin on stroke of lunch to edge session to Notts 87/3
Get your Championship cricket fix while you can. Last chance till late August Top of table v Champions. Won the toss and batting. Benko and Pepper replace Thain and Cox Flipping hot
Unlucky to have Cook, Akhter and Thain all injured at the same time. Jones in squad above Killeen. Hmm. Presume that means Benko comes in. That makes 3 seamers and 3 spinners. Shores up the batting too.
🚨Ladies and gentlemen, we have squeaker. Look at the equation. Get on that Northants stream