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Hacking Sensation as the Cricketgate Scandal Continues!
The Cricket scandal has now moved from within the clubs involved to the the hierarchy at the League. There is now a stand off between the clubs that has got so serious that a trained mediator may have to step in. The crux of the matter is this: There is no way that the guy from the other club is going to accept he was wrong and there is no way we ...
What Comes First in Youth Cricket, Mental or Physical Tiredness?
The Under 15 cricket team I am running has this season had unprecedented success to date this year, winning eleven out of eleven games played so far in a season that is consisting of no fewer than eighteen fixtures in just over two months. We entered in to the North Hants league two teams consisting of virtually the same players, the idea being that the ...
Francis Galton, the Father of Eugenics
This week I have turned my attention from the great cricketer AE Stoddart to Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin no less. Galton came to my attention when I read a piece about 2011 being exactly 100 years since his death aged 89, an age which must have been quite a staggering achievement back then considering wars and disease etc etc. Amongst other ...
AE Stoddart and Carol Vorderman
As I feared, Sunday was a complete an utter washout, wrecking the North Hants top of the table clash between Kingsclere and Oakley under 15's as well as the much anticipated and long awaited Sunday afternoon fixture between Broughton and Old Hurstonians. The rain commenced at 7.00am and never relented, resulting in the whole day resembling one of late October ...
A Wonderful Day of Ups and Downs In London
I treated Harry to a day out in London for his birthday on Thursday and what a fun time we had, even if, as is the norm in the life of Bob Lethaby, not everything turned out according to our plans. On arrival at Waterloo we decided that we would do what every tourist does and go on the London Eye. We had done this many years ago when Harry was very young ...