The opposition captain last Sunday, Charlie Campbell, is the author of Herding Cats, a book on the art of cricket club captaincy. This showed in that… Read more “Up to you, skip #22: video evidence”

‘Doing the double’ in sport usually refers to winning both a league and a cup in the same season but in cricket it also describes scoring a… Read more “Up to you, skip #21: doing the double”

Our last two T20s raised the question of how many options the skipper has in this form of cricket. We thought at Middleton Stoney CC that par… Read more “Up to you, skip #20: one in a billion”

We took three catches on Wednesday evening. Simon Pettit moved well at deep square-leg to hold on to the first, David Lewis at mid-on caught a very… Read more “Up to you, skip #19: catching”

  Yesterday, I went to Chester for a funeral at 1.30pm and just about got back to Middleton Stoney in time for our T20 game in the… Read more “Up to you, skip #18: eulogy  “

  What a day it was yesterday at Lord’s, the cathedral of cricket! Like all cricket club captains, I have spent the day fielding questions on Super… Read more “Up to you, skip #17: Super Over”

Sir Neville Cardus wrote of cricket that, ‘The game itself is a capricious blend of elements, static and dynamic, sensational and somnolent. You can never take your… Read more “Up to you, skip #16: capricious or capacious?”

It was the perfect setting for our new club caps to be revealed to the world. Yesterday’s match was against one of the best clubs in Oxfordshire,… Read more “Up to you, skip #15: re-cap”

I’d like to claim I last wore a cap playing cricket in the back garden around 1960. The cap must have belonged to one of my two… Read more “Up to you, skip #14: caps”

In the list of cricket captaincy challenges never faced by Mike Brearley for England, the timing of the annual village barbecue to coincide with the annual visit… Read more “Up to you, skip #13: quintessentially England”