G&C 175
GOOGLIES & CHINAMEN
An Occasional Cricketing Journal
Edition 175
July 2017
Caption Competition
1. Mark Nicholas : Don’t look now but Henry is wearing the new England ODI kit.
2. Michael Vaughan: You see Mark I am completely dry under my right arm.
3. Fourth Man: I can’t wait till 2020 when we get to do the toss up.
4. TMS Producer: Henry, can you give your summary of yesterday’s play now?
Henry Blofeld: Well, we had an exciting days play with runs and wickets and all the sort of things that you would expect from an intense conflict. Someone who looked like Marcus Trescothick, but who couldn’t have been because he wasn’t playing, batted very well until pigeons alighted on the square and a row of buses went past the ground at the pavilion end. Everything changed at that point and the fourth umpire emerged wearing a very becoming straw hat which, I think,should be made a standard for all officials in this green and pleasant land of ours. Blah, blah, blah…
Out & About with the Professor
So at last there is some good news.
In a month full of murder and mayhem, of faith-based terrorism and horror resulting from corporate/council incompetence there was a tiny item of joy for all followers of cricket...Henry Blofeld has retired.
At long last our radios are going to be released from the sound of this toffee-nosed buffoon. I haven't seen any bunting being hung out at Headingley but I feel sure the Committee will be open to the idea of some kind of formal celebration. I have been told that some people enjoy his commentaries. I just haven't met any of them. I have however met dedicated cricket fans who just have to switch off when Blofeld comes on air. There is, of course, a role for buffoons in the entertainment world and I read that he is going to go on a "road show" to theatres around the country (what fun!) but I don't know who ever thought that this was an acceptable way of broadcasting commentary on cricket. It seems to me that in perpetuating the image of cricket as a game for the privileged, his contribution has done little but harm. I have not read any explanation for his decision to go – surely all the most obvious reasons have long ago expired – perhaps the Beeb have at last realised that this is not the image they want to project.
I have, of course, listened to Blofeld hundreds of times. I have even listened to his commentary when I have been at a match. It is quite clear, if we didn't already know, that he has the sketchiest idea of who the players are - especially if they are those foreign chaps so jolly tricky to tell apart. I recall being at one Test listening to TMS with the dreaded Blowers on trying to describe events. He said, or said something very close to: “…and that ball is fielded down there by…er…Kallis…er…or it could be Ntini”.
This is supposed to be part of his charm, part of being Dear Old Henry. Well, I confess to not being charmed. It seems self-evident that if you don't actually know who is playing you do not have an ideal set of qualifications for the job.
Having said all that, surely it is also time for the Sky team to be refreshed. Perhaps DIG could join the road trip as well...what larks!
Will Ballance get the nod on Thursday? If so, it will represent a remarkable recovery from the position when he was dropped, when it almost seemed unkind to keep picking him. His form as Yorkshire captain has earned the recall of course and it has also resulted in a very strange looking Yorkshire batting line-up at Scarborough with two Academy lads getting into the side (one by a somewhat roundabout route) to be joined by captain Bresnan at No.6. At this exact moment, with Yorkshire 159-7, it doesn't appear to be working too well.
There are two types of weather at Scarborough: hot (rare) and freezing cold (not rare). Today there was also wet to add to the chill. Not great weather for cricket. The debutant for Yorkshire (in the absence of Ballance, and I suppose Root and Bairstow) was Tom Kohler-Cadmore, released early by Worcestershire to come back to Headingley. It would be hard to think of a top-score of 31 as a dream debut but it was, at least, top score. Whether the Yorkshire folk will warm to the Malvern College old boy with a double-barrelled name will remain to be seen. I suppose if he keeps top-scoring all prejudices will fall aside.
Come to think of it, he could be just the sort of chap of whom Henry Blofeld would approve…but let’s not hold that against him.
This and That
Middlesex seem to be directionless this season. After the run of draws to start the championship season we had the bad loss at Southport and the dreadful performance at Chelmsford. In between was the innings victory against Yorkshire which whilst praiseworthy seems to have been an aberration rather than an improvement.
The calls on players for the myriad international activities cannot help and, as previously, I have no idea who they see as their best side. At present Stirling would have to get in but at whose expense? In the Essex debacle it seemed as if they had their preferred top bowling outfit performing – Murtagh, Roland-Jones, Finn, Rayner- although Helm was on England duty. Franklin and Voges were missing. Were they injured?
What have we learned about the England ODI side? Certainly, that they would prefer to chase and that they reckon that no total is too high for them. But it all seems to go wrong if there is something in the wicket, South Africa at Lords, or if it is a used and tired wicket, Pakistan. Pakistan proved the old adage that it is bowling that wins matches. It doesn’t hurt to be the underdog either.
When Essex scored 370 for 5 in their semi final 50 over match against Notts at Chelmsford they must have felt confident of victory. Cook had scored a run a ball 133 but ten Doeschate made 102 from just 66 deliveries including six sixes. Notts started with their big hitters Lumb, Hales and Wessels at the top of the order but they were all out after nine overs with the score at 80 for 3. Samit Patel then added 100 with Brendan Taylor and 185 with Steven Mullaney whose 111 from 75 balls included 6 sixes. Patel was undefeated on 122 as Notts won in the final over.
In their previous outing in this competition at Taunton Notts had made 429 for 9 with Taylor scoring 154.
Samit has been in fine form this season and has scored two double hundreds in the Championship. He was treated badly by the England set up which couldn’t accommodate a fatty in their injury prone fitness regime.
Hales won the Royal London Cup almost single handedly for Notts. His 185 not out was scored against an international based Surrey attack, but was this to Hales’ disadvantage? Centrally contracted players and those included in the various international set ups get to face each other in the nets regularly and must become familiar with their actions and varieties.
Middlesex Matters
The Great Jack Morgan will endure all to keep us updated
My trip to Richmond for the big 3 day clash between Middlesex and Surrey 2s started badly because i) it was absolutely freezing in the icy blasts of wind; ii) there were no teamsheets available, there were no announcements and there was no information on any of the notice boards, so it took me some time to identify 10 of the 11 Middx players (some do not have numbers at 2s level and on days like this numbers are anyway covered by 2 sweaters), but could not manage the eleventh because I had never seen him before and (of course) he had no number, and (of course) I was much worse at identifying the Surrey blokes; and iii) rumours went round that they were abandoning the 3 dayer and, instead, were going to play a couple of one-dayers and this rumour was succeeded by another that they were going to play one 2 day match because Middlesex 2s have qualified for some limited overs final on day 3 and this one was true, as far as I know.
I do not know, of course, who won the toss, but Middlesex batted first against a useful looking attack that included Mark Footitt, Matthew Dunn, Conor McKerr (soon to be joining Derbyshire on loan) and Mathew Pillans (soon to be joining Leicestershire on loan). Paul Stirling (35) and skipper Harry Podmore (30) batting at 6, were the best of an ordinary bunch as Middlesex could only manage 179 all out. The known Surrey bowlers were all outshone by an unknown medium fast bowler rumoured to be called Atkinson, who was easily the best of the Surrey attack and finished with 6 for 63.
Surrey batted much better than Middlesex with Arun Harinath (soon to be joining Leicestershire on loan) making 90, captain Freddy van den Bergh 68, Oliver Pope 50, and Pillans 42 as they totalled 361-8 dec. The best of the Middlesex bowlers were Ravi Patel (2-20) and Podmore (2-32). A tall left armer I could not identify on day one turned out to be new signing called Tom Barber (I think) and he might be useful though he only got one wicket in the innings for 60.
Middlesex batted better second time around and Stirling's rapid 80 (out of an opening stand of 133 with Ryan Higgins) was very impressive. Higgins went on to 61 and the game faded away to the draw that everyone knew it would be with George Scott and Rob White also getting in a bit of batting practice before the close. Short match, featuring unknown players, ends in draw: did you see the headlines?
Middlesex brought in Paul Stirling and Tim Murtagh (both returning from Ireland duty) to replace Dawid Malan and Steve Finn (both absent on England duty) for the Championship match against Somerset which started at Lord's on June 2nd. It seemed strange that young Somerset captain Tom Abell did not fancy bowling first on a bright green track, so there was an actual toss, which Abell won and, of course, chose to bat. Soon, however, it seemed that Abell might have got it wrong because immediately after lunch, they had slumped to 80 for 5.
However, the adhesive South African Test opener Dean Elgar was still there and he now received some excellent support from allrounder Lewis Gregory. This pair added a brilliant 249 for the sixth wicket, before Elgar departed for an exemplary 158 off 298 balls with 21 fours and a six. Ex-Middlesex allrounder Josh Davey proved a useful ally for Gregory before the latter fell for a career best 137 off 231 balls with 17 fours and a six. Davey and his new partner Jamie Overton now wielded the long handle and 56 runs came very quickly before Davey's valuable innings ended at 47 with 4 fours and a six, Overton soon followed for 37 with 3 fours and 2 sixes and the declaration came at 443 for 9. Captain James Franklin returned the best bowling figures for the home team (2 for 34), while John Simpson held four catches behind the stumps.
Middlesex lost 2 wickets for 64, but the situation was stabilised by a stand of 52 for the third wicket between Nick Gubbins (56 off 139 balls with 5 fours) and Adam Voges. The latter was now joined by Stirling in an entertaining stand of 101 for the fourth wicket before Stirling became one of 3 victims for ex-Worcs and Surrey keeper Steve Davies for an impressive 52 off 77 balls with 6 fours and 2 sixes. Voges appeared to suffer a nasty leg injury and had to retire hurt on 86 off 173 balls with 8 fours and as two more wickets fell quickly, Middlesex looked in trouble at 248 for 6 (which was really 7 as Voges looked unlikely to resume). Franklin, however, was batting soundly and he found capable partners in Ollie Rayner who helped add 52 for the seventh wicket and Tom Helm who assisted in an eight wicket stand of 62. Franklin finished unbeaten on a praiseworthy 49 with 5 fours as the innings closed on 358 for 9.
Gregory was having a fine match for Somerset and returned useful bowling figures of 3 for 59. Extra time had been played on days 2 and 3 to try to make up for time lost to rain and "bad" light on day 1, but there was no chance of a result and Abell used the opportunity to return to form with a handy 71* off 142 balls with 10 fours as Somerset ended the match on 161-3. For Middx there was a rare chance to appreciate the bowling talents of Nick Compton, Gubbins and even keeper Simpson. Middlesex 10 points, Somerset 11.
Middlesex brought in Nick Compton, Ryan Higgins (for his Championship debut), Ollie Rayner and Steve Finn to replace Nick Gubbins, Dawid Malan (both on England duty), Ravi Patel and Jimmy Harris for the Championship match against Yorkshire which started at Lord’s on 19th June. Yorkshire did not fancy bowling first so there was a toss which they lost and had to bowl first anyway as Middlesex opted to bat on a track that looked less green than the usual Lord’s offerings.
Sam Robson and Compton got Middx off to a steady start with an opening stand of 64, but then Robson found an even better companion in Paul Stirling batting at four. These two shared a magnificent stand of 187, with Stirling the dominant partner, but it was Stirling who was the first to go for a brilliant 111 off 136 balls (his first ton in the Championship) with sixteen fours and a six. Robson continued his admirable innings and found another handy ally in keeper John Simpson and these two added 62 for the fifth wicket before Robson finally departed for 159 off 290 balls with 19 fours. Simpson went on to 49 off 85 balls with 8 fours and Toby Roland-Jones (33) helped to take the total up to 446 all out off 132 overs. Ryan Sidebottom (who will be 40 in January) took 3 for 69 and Adil Rashid 3-94.
Yorkshire’s reply got off to a poor start, but Adam Lyth (37) received good support from 18 year old debutant Harry Brook (38) in a sound stand of 64 for the second wicket. Thereafter, however, it was captain Gary Ballance fighting a lone battle against the Middlesex attack as no other visiting batsman could manage more than 15. Ballance finished with an excellent 69* off 123 balls with 12 boundaries, but his team were all out for a very ordinary 208 with the damage being done by the debutant medium pacer Higgins (3 for 35) and England’s Finn (3 for 58).
As poor weather was forecast for day 4, skipper James Franklin asked Yorkshire to follow on and they were soon in big trouble again as 3 wickets fell with the score on 16 and this time Ballance was not able to halt the home team’s march towards victory. Rashid (35) and Steve Patterson (30*) hung on bravely, but Ollie Rayner (4 for 35) was now in the ascendancy and Yorks were all out for 174 soon after tea on day three to lose by an innings and 64 runs. Tim Murtagh deserves a special mention for superb figures of 11-7-13-2 and John Simpson’s outstanding keeping brought him four victims in the innings and seven in the match. Middlesex 23 points, Yorkshire 3 and although Middlesex stay 6th in the table, they are now 36 points clear of the relegation places and have a game in hand on most of the teams above them. Owing to the imminent T20 season, my next visit to Lord's is likely to be in six and a half weeks' time on August 6th.
Ged Matters
Daisy and I thought it would be a nice idea to treat our niece, Lavender (daughter of Daisy’s twin sister, Buttercup) to an evening at Lord’s, with Lavender’s new beau Escamillo, who hails from Lancashire. We have treated the Bristol-based nephews Belmonte and Manolete in the past, so it only felt right.
I got to Lord’s quite early, as I had been at a long lunch, chairing the judging of the Estate Agent of the Year awards. There had been a lengthy debate about who should receive the Best In Show award. It was between the agent who described a shoebox-sized apartment as “compact, discreet and tidy” and another agent who had cunningly sold a wardrobe as “a fourth bedroom”. It seemed futile to return to the office after that.
Moreover, Daisy had very kindly volunteered to make the picnic. Daisy’s picnics are always a very tempting prospect and are also usually heaving with far more food than the group in question could possibly eat. Especially when one of the diners is joining in on the back of a five course lunch.
We waited under shelter at the top of the Allen stand for the young couple due to squally rain. When my pager went, I thought the youngsters had arrived early, but in fact it was my old friend, Stentor Baritone, who is an MCC member and happened to be around the ground for an hour or so before his evening engagement. So Stentor joined me and Daisy, helping us to make quite a large hole in the first bottle of wine.
Soon after that, Lavender and Escapillo arrived. They helped us to make an even bigger hole in that first bottle of wine. Stentor was giving the young couple the benefit of all of his years of experience in life, the universe and everything, which I’m sure must have interested them a great deal as they said very little during that period.
Soon we decided that the young couple should have a tour of the pavilion. The pavilion was very crowded as so many members were using it as suitable shelter from the increasingly unpleasant elements.
Ged is quite a well-known character around Lord’s these days, he soon realised, as various players and officials greeted him warmly and asked for the benefit of Ged’s advice as he and his increasingly awe-struck guests wandered around the various delights of the pavilion. Indeed, Ged became so full of himself in these pompous circumstances, he felt obliged to refer to himself in the Vaughnesque third person for at least one paragraph.
By the time we returned to the Allen Upper, Stentor decided to go off for his important dinner engagement, we decided it was time to start our picnic proper and the umpires decided it was time to call the match off.
Bowling Matters
Simon Hughes explains the cross-seam delivery
One-day cricket is a batsman’s game. Everything — flat pitches, short boundaries, field restrictions — is in their favour. England’s spirit of adventure these past two years has capitalised on that, raising the bar in one-day batting. Their top six have scored at a higher rate (6.28 runs per over) than anyone else since the 2015 World Cup.
But just as their batsmen have been the most adventurous, so their bowlers have been the most imaginative. With subtle variations and shrewd tactics they have squeezed much-vaunted batting lineups, giving England ten victories in their past 11 ODIs. Today Australia will find their unheralded attack harder to dominate than they expect.
Principal among their tactics is their use of the cross-seam delivery. It is essentially just a different grip on the ball — but it is surprisingly effective. It involves holding the ball with the seam at right angles to the bowler’s fingers rather than parallel. This removes the possibility of swing or lateral movement (for which the ball must be released seam-up) but as the white Kookaburra balls have a flatish seam and rarely swing, the disadvantage is non-existent.
Irregular bounce can be just as effective as sideways movement in disrupting a batsman’s flow and this is how the cross-seam delivery works. If, on pitching, the delivery lands on the raised ridge of the seam, it can kick and slow slightly. If it lands on the shiny leather it will tend to slide through quicker and lower. The bowlers cannot control how the ball will land but this adds an element of unpredictability to each delivery. It also steadily dirties the white ball, making it harder to sight.
Mark Wood and Liam Plunkett are the principal exponents of a skill introduced by Stuart Broad mainly to scuff up the ball for reverse swing.
Plunkett, the team’s unsung hero, went to the England management two years ago and asked what he needed to do to be regularly selected. He was told that he should do more with the ball. He worked on different grips and changes of pace and this year is England’s leading wicket-taker.
Invariably he comes on first change, and will immediately employ the cross-seam delivery. It was noticeable in England’s moraleboosting victory over South Africa at Headingley last month that as soon as Plunkett was introduced, the previously fluent Hashim Amla was discomforted by a number of balls that hammered into the splice of the bat and he dismissed the dangerous Faf du Plessis with a corker that bounced and left him. The matchturning snorter from Wood that dismissed New Zealand’s Kane Williamson at Cardiff, caught off the glove, was also delivered cross-seam.
Fast bowlers reared on the value of releasing the ball seam-up are often reluctant to change. The ball held in a different position feels strange, like wearing someone else’s shoes. Pitching it on the shiny side is regarded as sacrilege. But it is invaluable to England in their attempts to arrest the thundering march of the world’s batsmen.
Middlesex League Matters
Paul Smith sent me this
For anyone interested, Paul Weekes is on the brink of becoming the player who has scored the most runs in the MCCL since the league started being able to keep records of such things – see the table below.
Now before any club historians or archivists start advising me that ‘so and so’ scored x number of runs in the league and your club has the record books to prove it, please read this Email carefully before you contact me. Don Shelley advises me it took him several years of trying to get the committee to pass the requirement that clubs had to submit scorecards of their matches to the league. From the league’s paper records which Don and I have archived, we know that the league has match scorecards for first XI games from the 2001 season to date. Over the last few years Don and I have been transcribing these into a database.
So this Email is not announcing that Paul Weekes is the absolute highest run scorer, just he is the highest run scorer that the league has records to verify from within the database. As you will see at this moment, including his 73* today, he is actually dead level with Tom Simpson on 6,079. Tom did know he was previously #1 on my list, and I believe I can advise he was proud to be so. How happy he is that his record is about to be broken I cannot say!
Player
Club (Years)
Total Runs
Tom Simpson
Brondesbury (2001-2014)
6079
Paul Weekes
6079
Hampstead (2001-2009)
3390
Hornsey (2010-2017*)
2689
Neil Tilley
Enfield (2001-2016)
5929
Jake Milton
Finchley (2001-2017*)
5740
Sachin Patel
5696
Barnet (2001)
196
Stanmore (2002-2003)
946
Kenton (2004-2016)
4554
Luke Stoughton
5572
Ealing (2001-2016)
4717
Winchmore Hill (2011-2012)
855
Jack Plumb
Enfield (2003-2017*)
5582
Carlos Nunes
Twickenham (2007-2017*)
5566
Jim Gatting
5514
Enfield (2002-2007)
1320
Winchmore Hill (2008-2017*)
4194
David Goodchild
Eastcote (2001-2014)
5355
Dave Walker
Harrow (2001-2011)
5232
Jamie Jouning
Southgate (2001-2017*)
5194
Old Danes Matters
John McCloughlin sent me this
I guess all of you have been as appalled as I have been by the scenes from North Kensington and - like me - you have probably felt a sense of camaraderie with the local community from your time at St Clement Danes (or you might even have lived in the are yourself).
I therefore thought Old Danes would wish to see an update on the disaster from the headteacher at Burlington Danes Academy - which I , personally, see as just as much the successor to our school as SCD in Chorleywood.
Burlington Danes and - before that - St Clement Danes, when it was in Shepherds Bush - is very much a part of the local community where the disaster took place. Du Cane Road is barely a quarter mile from Grenfell Tower! Although Michael Ribton's message says that two BDA pupils who lived in the Tower are safe, reading between the lines implies there are other pupils who lived there who are still "missing" - with the dreadful consequences that will be feared.
For your information, I have forwarded Michael Ribton's message to the head at St Clement Danes in Chorleywood suggesting this appalling situation provides a perfect opportunity for her school to offer help to both Burlington Danes School and the local community there in the short, medium and long term. I have suggested a professional discussion between senior managers at the two schools that might help identify and then implement such opportunities.
As you will be aware, all of the local collection centres in the area (including Loftus Road, for us Rangers supporters) have been inundated with clothes, food, etc and they do not need anything else in the short term, but money will be needed for the families tragically affected in the long term and I'm sure you'll be able to find the appropriate donation vehicle if you are miinded to give that kind of support.
In sadness, your fraternally,
Mac
Dear All,
Thank you for your messages of support, it has been a busy day that began with a phone call at 430am. If I haven’t individually replied it doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate your thoughts and kindness, they have meant a lot. It has been very busy and emotionally charged all day.
All BDA pupils are safe and accounted for though as I said earlier many are indirectly affected, very anxious of course, and have been up all night. Two of our pupils live in Grenfell Tower: Tye in Y11 had been attacked there by a knife wielding maniac a few weeks ago; he had since moved out and was living with his family with relatives elsewhere as he was too frightened to stay at Grenfell Tower. Loujaine in Y10 was placed there when she and her family entered the country as Syrian refugees: they now just have the clothes they are wearing. We are supporting both and they are safe for the time being.
Kensington Aldridge Academy is a fairly new school, currently Y7-9 & Y12 and at the base of Grenfell Tower. We hosted their Y12 maths AS exam this morning.
I have been talking to David Benson since early this morning and we have drafted a plan. Unless there is a dramatic change in events from Monday their entire school is moving in to BDA, Y7 will be taught on the top floor of the primary school and Y8&Y9 will be taught in the classrooms freed up by our Y11 being on study leave for the nearly finished GCSEs. I am sure it will raise a few issues but it is good for us to reach out and support these young people at such a desperate time. We both feel that carrying on, being resilient and bouncing back , promoting connectedness and keeping calm will serve the local community best at this desperate time. Our Place2Be counsellors are going to support KAA on Friday when a series of assemblies are going to be held in the Burlington Atrium to outline the new arrangements as the school are braced – though I must stress do not yet know – for several fatalities. It is an arrangement that can be in place to the end of term by which time the tower, I hope, will be demolished and no longer looming over KAA.
So that’s about where we are. As I have texted to all parents at BDA , our thoughts and prayers go out to the North Kensington Community tonight. And in time, when the rescue and grieving is over, there are some challenging questions to be answered about how such a catastrophe ever occurred.
Michael
Mr M C L Ribton
Principal
Ark Burlington Danes Academy
Wood Lane
King Cricket Matters
Edwardian writes:
Cambridge is heaving at the best of times, but taking the quiet back streets from the station to Fenner’s was very pleasant. A few ‘good mornings’ and I was there by 10.30am.
I was there to meet my wife’s uncle Spike who said he would do his best to get there before eleven, having had to help his wife set up her vegan demo on the market place.
I had prepared German salami sandwiches with Stoke’s Dijon mustard. The pavilion was pretty much empty save for a few sterling souls roaring the tea urn to life and preparing lunch no doubt.
I bought a water from the bar and was asked whether, ‘I was in or out?’ With all the Brexit shenanigans in mind I was reluctant to say ‘out’ but I had my sandwiches after all.
Spike strolled in with his usual, ‘hello chief’ and we settled down for the day’s play. The pavilion got a bit livelier, so much so that we comprised a heavy throng of perhaps 15 people.
Spike proposed a beer and we sank a couple of Old Speckled Hens. As the sun rounded on the pavilion everything went a bit hazy and my scorecard went a bit nuts. I gave up on it.
Spike decided that Akil Greenidge was a cricketer to look out for in the near future. At lunch the players came in and began to wind in a lunch that was spicy, I think. Spike had designs on lunch in his car, so we ambled across the outfield and worked our way through the salami sandwiches, Spike’s neat smoke salmon numbers and a half-bottle of Italian white wine.
We talked about cricket in Italy, Zambia and Warsaw. Back in the pavilion before 2pm I needed to loose off the beer and wine and found myself next to Steven Finn at the urinals.
Play started again, and as keen as I am, the world went hazy again in a very nice way. Three of my companions were already asleep and I was drifting off too before one old chap said to no-one in particular, ‘Poulson, now that’s a very interesting name.’
Everyone was awake now and waiting for the punchline. Five minutes or more passed before he said, ‘I went to school with someone called Poulson.’
I had dinner priorities, so had to leave at 5pm, I have to say, reluctantly.
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Edition 175
July 2017
Caption Competition
1. Mark Nicholas : Don’t look now but Henry is wearing the new England ODI kit.
2. Michael Vaughan: You see Mark I am completely dry under my right arm.
3. Fourth Man: I can’t wait till 2020 when we get to do the toss up.
4. TMS Producer: Henry, can you give your summary of yesterday’s play now?
Henry Blofeld: Well, we had an exciting days play with runs and wickets and all the sort of things that you would expect from an intense conflict. Someone who looked like Marcus Trescothick, but who couldn’t have been because he wasn’t playing, batted very well until pigeons alighted on the square and a row of buses went past the ground at the pavilion end. Everything changed at that point and the fourth umpire emerged wearing a very becoming straw hat which, I think,should be made a standard for all officials in this green and pleasant land of ours. Blah, blah, blah…
Out & About with the Professor
So at last there is some good news.
In a month full of murder and mayhem, of faith-based terrorism and horror resulting from corporate/council incompetence there was a tiny item of joy for all followers of cricket...Henry Blofeld has retired.
At long last our radios are going to be released from the sound of this toffee-nosed buffoon. I haven't seen any bunting being hung out at Headingley but I feel sure the Committee will be open to the idea of some kind of formal celebration. I have been told that some people enjoy his commentaries. I just haven't met any of them. I have however met dedicated cricket fans who just have to switch off when Blofeld comes on air. There is, of course, a role for buffoons in the entertainment world and I read that he is going to go on a "road show" to theatres around the country (what fun!) but I don't know who ever thought that this was an acceptable way of broadcasting commentary on cricket. It seems to me that in perpetuating the image of cricket as a game for the privileged, his contribution has done little but harm. I have not read any explanation for his decision to go – surely all the most obvious reasons have long ago expired – perhaps the Beeb have at last realised that this is not the image they want to project.
I have, of course, listened to Blofeld hundreds of times. I have even listened to his commentary when I have been at a match. It is quite clear, if we didn't already know, that he has the sketchiest idea of who the players are - especially if they are those foreign chaps so jolly tricky to tell apart. I recall being at one Test listening to TMS with the dreaded Blowers on trying to describe events. He said, or said something very close to: “…and that ball is fielded down there by…er…Kallis…er…or it could be Ntini”.
This is supposed to be part of his charm, part of being Dear Old Henry. Well, I confess to not being charmed. It seems self-evident that if you don't actually know who is playing you do not have an ideal set of qualifications for the job.
Having said all that, surely it is also time for the Sky team to be refreshed. Perhaps DIG could join the road trip as well...what larks!
Will Ballance get the nod on Thursday? If so, it will represent a remarkable recovery from the position when he was dropped, when it almost seemed unkind to keep picking him. His form as Yorkshire captain has earned the recall of course and it has also resulted in a very strange looking Yorkshire batting line-up at Scarborough with two Academy lads getting into the side (one by a somewhat roundabout route) to be joined by captain Bresnan at No.6. At this exact moment, with Yorkshire 159-7, it doesn't appear to be working too well.
There are two types of weather at Scarborough: hot (rare) and freezing cold (not rare). Today there was also wet to add to the chill. Not great weather for cricket. The debutant for Yorkshire (in the absence of Ballance, and I suppose Root and Bairstow) was Tom Kohler-Cadmore, released early by Worcestershire to come back to Headingley. It would be hard to think of a top-score of 31 as a dream debut but it was, at least, top score. Whether the Yorkshire folk will warm to the Malvern College old boy with a double-barrelled name will remain to be seen. I suppose if he keeps top-scoring all prejudices will fall aside.
Come to think of it, he could be just the sort of chap of whom Henry Blofeld would approve…but let’s not hold that against him.
This and That
Middlesex seem to be directionless this season. After the run of draws to start the championship season we had the bad loss at Southport and the dreadful performance at Chelmsford. In between was the innings victory against Yorkshire which whilst praiseworthy seems to have been an aberration rather than an improvement.
The calls on players for the myriad international activities cannot help and, as previously, I have no idea who they see as their best side. At present Stirling would have to get in but at whose expense? In the Essex debacle it seemed as if they had their preferred top bowling outfit performing – Murtagh, Roland-Jones, Finn, Rayner- although Helm was on England duty. Franklin and Voges were missing. Were they injured?
What have we learned about the England ODI side? Certainly, that they would prefer to chase and that they reckon that no total is too high for them. But it all seems to go wrong if there is something in the wicket, South Africa at Lords, or if it is a used and tired wicket, Pakistan. Pakistan proved the old adage that it is bowling that wins matches. It doesn’t hurt to be the underdog either.
When Essex scored 370 for 5 in their semi final 50 over match against Notts at Chelmsford they must have felt confident of victory. Cook had scored a run a ball 133 but ten Doeschate made 102 from just 66 deliveries including six sixes. Notts started with their big hitters Lumb, Hales and Wessels at the top of the order but they were all out after nine overs with the score at 80 for 3. Samit Patel then added 100 with Brendan Taylor and 185 with Steven Mullaney whose 111 from 75 balls included 6 sixes. Patel was undefeated on 122 as Notts won in the final over.
In their previous outing in this competition at Taunton Notts had made 429 for 9 with Taylor scoring 154.
Samit has been in fine form this season and has scored two double hundreds in the Championship. He was treated badly by the England set up which couldn’t accommodate a fatty in their injury prone fitness regime.
Hales won the Royal London Cup almost single handedly for Notts. His 185 not out was scored against an international based Surrey attack, but was this to Hales’ disadvantage? Centrally contracted players and those included in the various international set ups get to face each other in the nets regularly and must become familiar with their actions and varieties.
Middlesex Matters
The Great Jack Morgan will endure all to keep us updated
My trip to Richmond for the big 3 day clash between Middlesex and Surrey 2s started badly because i) it was absolutely freezing in the icy blasts of wind; ii) there were no teamsheets available, there were no announcements and there was no information on any of the notice boards, so it took me some time to identify 10 of the 11 Middx players (some do not have numbers at 2s level and on days like this numbers are anyway covered by 2 sweaters), but could not manage the eleventh because I had never seen him before and (of course) he had no number, and (of course) I was much worse at identifying the Surrey blokes; and iii) rumours went round that they were abandoning the 3 dayer and, instead, were going to play a couple of one-dayers and this rumour was succeeded by another that they were going to play one 2 day match because Middlesex 2s have qualified for some limited overs final on day 3 and this one was true, as far as I know.
I do not know, of course, who won the toss, but Middlesex batted first against a useful looking attack that included Mark Footitt, Matthew Dunn, Conor McKerr (soon to be joining Derbyshire on loan) and Mathew Pillans (soon to be joining Leicestershire on loan). Paul Stirling (35) and skipper Harry Podmore (30) batting at 6, were the best of an ordinary bunch as Middlesex could only manage 179 all out. The known Surrey bowlers were all outshone by an unknown medium fast bowler rumoured to be called Atkinson, who was easily the best of the Surrey attack and finished with 6 for 63.
Surrey batted much better than Middlesex with Arun Harinath (soon to be joining Leicestershire on loan) making 90, captain Freddy van den Bergh 68, Oliver Pope 50, and Pillans 42 as they totalled 361-8 dec. The best of the Middlesex bowlers were Ravi Patel (2-20) and Podmore (2-32). A tall left armer I could not identify on day one turned out to be new signing called Tom Barber (I think) and he might be useful though he only got one wicket in the innings for 60.
Middlesex batted better second time around and Stirling's rapid 80 (out of an opening stand of 133 with Ryan Higgins) was very impressive. Higgins went on to 61 and the game faded away to the draw that everyone knew it would be with George Scott and Rob White also getting in a bit of batting practice before the close. Short match, featuring unknown players, ends in draw: did you see the headlines?
Middlesex brought in Paul Stirling and Tim Murtagh (both returning from Ireland duty) to replace Dawid Malan and Steve Finn (both absent on England duty) for the Championship match against Somerset which started at Lord's on June 2nd. It seemed strange that young Somerset captain Tom Abell did not fancy bowling first on a bright green track, so there was an actual toss, which Abell won and, of course, chose to bat. Soon, however, it seemed that Abell might have got it wrong because immediately after lunch, they had slumped to 80 for 5.
However, the adhesive South African Test opener Dean Elgar was still there and he now received some excellent support from allrounder Lewis Gregory. This pair added a brilliant 249 for the sixth wicket, before Elgar departed for an exemplary 158 off 298 balls with 21 fours and a six. Ex-Middlesex allrounder Josh Davey proved a useful ally for Gregory before the latter fell for a career best 137 off 231 balls with 17 fours and a six. Davey and his new partner Jamie Overton now wielded the long handle and 56 runs came very quickly before Davey's valuable innings ended at 47 with 4 fours and a six, Overton soon followed for 37 with 3 fours and 2 sixes and the declaration came at 443 for 9. Captain James Franklin returned the best bowling figures for the home team (2 for 34), while John Simpson held four catches behind the stumps.
Middlesex lost 2 wickets for 64, but the situation was stabilised by a stand of 52 for the third wicket between Nick Gubbins (56 off 139 balls with 5 fours) and Adam Voges. The latter was now joined by Stirling in an entertaining stand of 101 for the fourth wicket before Stirling became one of 3 victims for ex-Worcs and Surrey keeper Steve Davies for an impressive 52 off 77 balls with 6 fours and 2 sixes. Voges appeared to suffer a nasty leg injury and had to retire hurt on 86 off 173 balls with 8 fours and as two more wickets fell quickly, Middlesex looked in trouble at 248 for 6 (which was really 7 as Voges looked unlikely to resume). Franklin, however, was batting soundly and he found capable partners in Ollie Rayner who helped add 52 for the seventh wicket and Tom Helm who assisted in an eight wicket stand of 62. Franklin finished unbeaten on a praiseworthy 49 with 5 fours as the innings closed on 358 for 9.
Gregory was having a fine match for Somerset and returned useful bowling figures of 3 for 59. Extra time had been played on days 2 and 3 to try to make up for time lost to rain and "bad" light on day 1, but there was no chance of a result and Abell used the opportunity to return to form with a handy 71* off 142 balls with 10 fours as Somerset ended the match on 161-3. For Middx there was a rare chance to appreciate the bowling talents of Nick Compton, Gubbins and even keeper Simpson. Middlesex 10 points, Somerset 11.
Middlesex brought in Nick Compton, Ryan Higgins (for his Championship debut), Ollie Rayner and Steve Finn to replace Nick Gubbins, Dawid Malan (both on England duty), Ravi Patel and Jimmy Harris for the Championship match against Yorkshire which started at Lord’s on 19th June. Yorkshire did not fancy bowling first so there was a toss which they lost and had to bowl first anyway as Middlesex opted to bat on a track that looked less green than the usual Lord’s offerings.
Sam Robson and Compton got Middx off to a steady start with an opening stand of 64, but then Robson found an even better companion in Paul Stirling batting at four. These two shared a magnificent stand of 187, with Stirling the dominant partner, but it was Stirling who was the first to go for a brilliant 111 off 136 balls (his first ton in the Championship) with sixteen fours and a six. Robson continued his admirable innings and found another handy ally in keeper John Simpson and these two added 62 for the fifth wicket before Robson finally departed for 159 off 290 balls with 19 fours. Simpson went on to 49 off 85 balls with 8 fours and Toby Roland-Jones (33) helped to take the total up to 446 all out off 132 overs. Ryan Sidebottom (who will be 40 in January) took 3 for 69 and Adil Rashid 3-94.
Yorkshire’s reply got off to a poor start, but Adam Lyth (37) received good support from 18 year old debutant Harry Brook (38) in a sound stand of 64 for the second wicket. Thereafter, however, it was captain Gary Ballance fighting a lone battle against the Middlesex attack as no other visiting batsman could manage more than 15. Ballance finished with an excellent 69* off 123 balls with 12 boundaries, but his team were all out for a very ordinary 208 with the damage being done by the debutant medium pacer Higgins (3 for 35) and England’s Finn (3 for 58).
As poor weather was forecast for day 4, skipper James Franklin asked Yorkshire to follow on and they were soon in big trouble again as 3 wickets fell with the score on 16 and this time Ballance was not able to halt the home team’s march towards victory. Rashid (35) and Steve Patterson (30*) hung on bravely, but Ollie Rayner (4 for 35) was now in the ascendancy and Yorks were all out for 174 soon after tea on day three to lose by an innings and 64 runs. Tim Murtagh deserves a special mention for superb figures of 11-7-13-2 and John Simpson’s outstanding keeping brought him four victims in the innings and seven in the match. Middlesex 23 points, Yorkshire 3 and although Middlesex stay 6th in the table, they are now 36 points clear of the relegation places and have a game in hand on most of the teams above them. Owing to the imminent T20 season, my next visit to Lord's is likely to be in six and a half weeks' time on August 6th.
Ged Matters
Daisy and I thought it would be a nice idea to treat our niece, Lavender (daughter of Daisy’s twin sister, Buttercup) to an evening at Lord’s, with Lavender’s new beau Escamillo, who hails from Lancashire. We have treated the Bristol-based nephews Belmonte and Manolete in the past, so it only felt right.
I got to Lord’s quite early, as I had been at a long lunch, chairing the judging of the Estate Agent of the Year awards. There had been a lengthy debate about who should receive the Best In Show award. It was between the agent who described a shoebox-sized apartment as “compact, discreet and tidy” and another agent who had cunningly sold a wardrobe as “a fourth bedroom”. It seemed futile to return to the office after that.
Moreover, Daisy had very kindly volunteered to make the picnic. Daisy’s picnics are always a very tempting prospect and are also usually heaving with far more food than the group in question could possibly eat. Especially when one of the diners is joining in on the back of a five course lunch.
We waited under shelter at the top of the Allen stand for the young couple due to squally rain. When my pager went, I thought the youngsters had arrived early, but in fact it was my old friend, Stentor Baritone, who is an MCC member and happened to be around the ground for an hour or so before his evening engagement. So Stentor joined me and Daisy, helping us to make quite a large hole in the first bottle of wine.
Soon after that, Lavender and Escapillo arrived. They helped us to make an even bigger hole in that first bottle of wine. Stentor was giving the young couple the benefit of all of his years of experience in life, the universe and everything, which I’m sure must have interested them a great deal as they said very little during that period.
Soon we decided that the young couple should have a tour of the pavilion. The pavilion was very crowded as so many members were using it as suitable shelter from the increasingly unpleasant elements.
Ged is quite a well-known character around Lord’s these days, he soon realised, as various players and officials greeted him warmly and asked for the benefit of Ged’s advice as he and his increasingly awe-struck guests wandered around the various delights of the pavilion. Indeed, Ged became so full of himself in these pompous circumstances, he felt obliged to refer to himself in the Vaughnesque third person for at least one paragraph.
By the time we returned to the Allen Upper, Stentor decided to go off for his important dinner engagement, we decided it was time to start our picnic proper and the umpires decided it was time to call the match off.
Bowling Matters
Simon Hughes explains the cross-seam delivery
One-day cricket is a batsman’s game. Everything — flat pitches, short boundaries, field restrictions — is in their favour. England’s spirit of adventure these past two years has capitalised on that, raising the bar in one-day batting. Their top six have scored at a higher rate (6.28 runs per over) than anyone else since the 2015 World Cup.
But just as their batsmen have been the most adventurous, so their bowlers have been the most imaginative. With subtle variations and shrewd tactics they have squeezed much-vaunted batting lineups, giving England ten victories in their past 11 ODIs. Today Australia will find their unheralded attack harder to dominate than they expect.
Principal among their tactics is their use of the cross-seam delivery. It is essentially just a different grip on the ball — but it is surprisingly effective. It involves holding the ball with the seam at right angles to the bowler’s fingers rather than parallel. This removes the possibility of swing or lateral movement (for which the ball must be released seam-up) but as the white Kookaburra balls have a flatish seam and rarely swing, the disadvantage is non-existent.
Irregular bounce can be just as effective as sideways movement in disrupting a batsman’s flow and this is how the cross-seam delivery works. If, on pitching, the delivery lands on the raised ridge of the seam, it can kick and slow slightly. If it lands on the shiny leather it will tend to slide through quicker and lower. The bowlers cannot control how the ball will land but this adds an element of unpredictability to each delivery. It also steadily dirties the white ball, making it harder to sight.
Mark Wood and Liam Plunkett are the principal exponents of a skill introduced by Stuart Broad mainly to scuff up the ball for reverse swing.
Plunkett, the team’s unsung hero, went to the England management two years ago and asked what he needed to do to be regularly selected. He was told that he should do more with the ball. He worked on different grips and changes of pace and this year is England’s leading wicket-taker.
Invariably he comes on first change, and will immediately employ the cross-seam delivery. It was noticeable in England’s moraleboosting victory over South Africa at Headingley last month that as soon as Plunkett was introduced, the previously fluent Hashim Amla was discomforted by a number of balls that hammered into the splice of the bat and he dismissed the dangerous Faf du Plessis with a corker that bounced and left him. The matchturning snorter from Wood that dismissed New Zealand’s Kane Williamson at Cardiff, caught off the glove, was also delivered cross-seam.
Fast bowlers reared on the value of releasing the ball seam-up are often reluctant to change. The ball held in a different position feels strange, like wearing someone else’s shoes. Pitching it on the shiny side is regarded as sacrilege. But it is invaluable to England in their attempts to arrest the thundering march of the world’s batsmen.
Middlesex League Matters
Paul Smith sent me this
For anyone interested, Paul Weekes is on the brink of becoming the player who has scored the most runs in the MCCL since the league started being able to keep records of such things – see the table below.
Now before any club historians or archivists start advising me that ‘so and so’ scored x number of runs in the league and your club has the record books to prove it, please read this Email carefully before you contact me. Don Shelley advises me it took him several years of trying to get the committee to pass the requirement that clubs had to submit scorecards of their matches to the league. From the league’s paper records which Don and I have archived, we know that the league has match scorecards for first XI games from the 2001 season to date. Over the last few years Don and I have been transcribing these into a database.
So this Email is not announcing that Paul Weekes is the absolute highest run scorer, just he is the highest run scorer that the league has records to verify from within the database. As you will see at this moment, including his 73* today, he is actually dead level with Tom Simpson on 6,079. Tom did know he was previously #1 on my list, and I believe I can advise he was proud to be so. How happy he is that his record is about to be broken I cannot say!
Player
Club (Years)
Total Runs
Tom Simpson
Brondesbury (2001-2014)
6079
Paul Weekes
6079
Hampstead (2001-2009)
3390
Hornsey (2010-2017*)
2689
Neil Tilley
Enfield (2001-2016)
5929
Jake Milton
Finchley (2001-2017*)
5740
Sachin Patel
5696
Barnet (2001)
196
Stanmore (2002-2003)
946
Kenton (2004-2016)
4554
Luke Stoughton
5572
Ealing (2001-2016)
4717
Winchmore Hill (2011-2012)
855
Jack Plumb
Enfield (2003-2017*)
5582
Carlos Nunes
Twickenham (2007-2017*)
5566
Jim Gatting
5514
Enfield (2002-2007)
1320
Winchmore Hill (2008-2017*)
4194
David Goodchild
Eastcote (2001-2014)
5355
Dave Walker
Harrow (2001-2011)
5232
Jamie Jouning
Southgate (2001-2017*)
5194
Old Danes Matters
John McCloughlin sent me this
I guess all of you have been as appalled as I have been by the scenes from North Kensington and - like me - you have probably felt a sense of camaraderie with the local community from your time at St Clement Danes (or you might even have lived in the are yourself).
I therefore thought Old Danes would wish to see an update on the disaster from the headteacher at Burlington Danes Academy - which I , personally, see as just as much the successor to our school as SCD in Chorleywood.
Burlington Danes and - before that - St Clement Danes, when it was in Shepherds Bush - is very much a part of the local community where the disaster took place. Du Cane Road is barely a quarter mile from Grenfell Tower! Although Michael Ribton's message says that two BDA pupils who lived in the Tower are safe, reading between the lines implies there are other pupils who lived there who are still "missing" - with the dreadful consequences that will be feared.
For your information, I have forwarded Michael Ribton's message to the head at St Clement Danes in Chorleywood suggesting this appalling situation provides a perfect opportunity for her school to offer help to both Burlington Danes School and the local community there in the short, medium and long term. I have suggested a professional discussion between senior managers at the two schools that might help identify and then implement such opportunities.
As you will be aware, all of the local collection centres in the area (including Loftus Road, for us Rangers supporters) have been inundated with clothes, food, etc and they do not need anything else in the short term, but money will be needed for the families tragically affected in the long term and I'm sure you'll be able to find the appropriate donation vehicle if you are miinded to give that kind of support.
In sadness, your fraternally,
Mac
Dear All,
Thank you for your messages of support, it has been a busy day that began with a phone call at 430am. If I haven’t individually replied it doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate your thoughts and kindness, they have meant a lot. It has been very busy and emotionally charged all day.
All BDA pupils are safe and accounted for though as I said earlier many are indirectly affected, very anxious of course, and have been up all night. Two of our pupils live in Grenfell Tower: Tye in Y11 had been attacked there by a knife wielding maniac a few weeks ago; he had since moved out and was living with his family with relatives elsewhere as he was too frightened to stay at Grenfell Tower. Loujaine in Y10 was placed there when she and her family entered the country as Syrian refugees: they now just have the clothes they are wearing. We are supporting both and they are safe for the time being.
Kensington Aldridge Academy is a fairly new school, currently Y7-9 & Y12 and at the base of Grenfell Tower. We hosted their Y12 maths AS exam this morning.
I have been talking to David Benson since early this morning and we have drafted a plan. Unless there is a dramatic change in events from Monday their entire school is moving in to BDA, Y7 will be taught on the top floor of the primary school and Y8&Y9 will be taught in the classrooms freed up by our Y11 being on study leave for the nearly finished GCSEs. I am sure it will raise a few issues but it is good for us to reach out and support these young people at such a desperate time. We both feel that carrying on, being resilient and bouncing back , promoting connectedness and keeping calm will serve the local community best at this desperate time. Our Place2Be counsellors are going to support KAA on Friday when a series of assemblies are going to be held in the Burlington Atrium to outline the new arrangements as the school are braced – though I must stress do not yet know – for several fatalities. It is an arrangement that can be in place to the end of term by which time the tower, I hope, will be demolished and no longer looming over KAA.
So that’s about where we are. As I have texted to all parents at BDA , our thoughts and prayers go out to the North Kensington Community tonight. And in time, when the rescue and grieving is over, there are some challenging questions to be answered about how such a catastrophe ever occurred.
Michael
Mr M C L Ribton
Principal
Ark Burlington Danes Academy
Wood Lane
King Cricket Matters
Edwardian writes:
Cambridge is heaving at the best of times, but taking the quiet back streets from the station to Fenner’s was very pleasant. A few ‘good mornings’ and I was there by 10.30am.
I was there to meet my wife’s uncle Spike who said he would do his best to get there before eleven, having had to help his wife set up her vegan demo on the market place.
I had prepared German salami sandwiches with Stoke’s Dijon mustard. The pavilion was pretty much empty save for a few sterling souls roaring the tea urn to life and preparing lunch no doubt.
I bought a water from the bar and was asked whether, ‘I was in or out?’ With all the Brexit shenanigans in mind I was reluctant to say ‘out’ but I had my sandwiches after all.
Spike strolled in with his usual, ‘hello chief’ and we settled down for the day’s play. The pavilion got a bit livelier, so much so that we comprised a heavy throng of perhaps 15 people.
Spike proposed a beer and we sank a couple of Old Speckled Hens. As the sun rounded on the pavilion everything went a bit hazy and my scorecard went a bit nuts. I gave up on it.
Spike decided that Akil Greenidge was a cricketer to look out for in the near future. At lunch the players came in and began to wind in a lunch that was spicy, I think. Spike had designs on lunch in his car, so we ambled across the outfield and worked our way through the salami sandwiches, Spike’s neat smoke salmon numbers and a half-bottle of Italian white wine.
We talked about cricket in Italy, Zambia and Warsaw. Back in the pavilion before 2pm I needed to loose off the beer and wine and found myself next to Steven Finn at the urinals.
Play started again, and as keen as I am, the world went hazy again in a very nice way. Three of my companions were already asleep and I was drifting off too before one old chap said to no-one in particular, ‘Poulson, now that’s a very interesting name.’
Everyone was awake now and waiting for the punchline. Five minutes or more passed before he said, ‘I went to school with someone called Poulson.’
I had dinner priorities, so had to leave at 5pm, I have to say, reluctantly.
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