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The season for cricket: False hope but a brighter future?

The first and last months of the Calendar year, December and January, are often the most depressing times for individuals, apart from the...

Samuel Hollingshead

Jan 21, 20224 min read

Crossing the Boundary: From Covid to Cricket

On page 167 of Tom Smith’s Cricket Umpiring and Scoring, the book which provides umpires, scorers and all other cricket lovers with a...

Samuel Hollingshead

Apr 8, 20214 min read

Hare and Wheller - An insight

For those readers that know Keynsham Cricket Club, the likelihood is they will also have come across Jerry Hare and Sam Wheller; either...

Samuel Hollingshead

Jun 28, 20205 min read

Jordan Price: Cricketer, Captain, Coach

I first met Jordan when we played Cricket together at Beechen Cliff School and at Lansdown Cricket Club. Training against him was a...

Samuel Hollingshead

May 16, 20206 min read

Oskar Kolk; Throwdowns from Grandad to Captain of Lansdown Cricket Club

Ahead of the scheduled start to the 2020 West of England Premier League Season starting in the South West, I had the opportunity to catch...

Samuel Hollingshead

May 10, 20203 min read

Chew Magna Cricket Club - The continuation of cricket at Chew Court

8 miles outside of Bristol, entering in to the county of Somerset, in to the Chew Valley, on the grounds of Chew Court in the Village of...

Samuel Hollingshead

Apr 19, 20205 min read

Guess who's back? Leary's back

Upon his return to Hampset Cricket Club, Alex Lear offered an insight in to his cricketing career. With the 2019 Cricket Season fast...

Samuel Hollingshead

Mar 12, 20196 min read

From the Garden to Premier One: How?

As many of the readers may be aware, I played my cricket (very badly) at Lansdown Cricket Club. Having played at Combe Park on and off...

Samuel Hollingshead

Feb 2, 201910 min read

‘We don’t have any Umpires, fancy standing out in the middle?’ - Cricket Umpiring by Pete Ogborne

I met with Pete Ogborne, who I have known as an Umpiring Colleague, a cricket (and life) Mentor and a good friend for the past 6 years....

Samuel Hollingshead

Dec 2, 20184 min read

At the Start of Play - The Origins and Aims of Over, Time and Umps

‘If you practise hard enough Sam, you’ll be out in the middle one day’ my Father would always say. I think he meant as a player, but...

Samuel Hollingshead

Nov 26, 20184 min read

OVER, TIME AND UMPS

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The season for cricket: False hope but a brighter future?

Crossing the Boundary: From Covid to Cricket

Hare and Wheller - An insight

Jordan Price: Cricketer, Captain, Coach

Oskar Kolk; Throwdowns from Grandad to Captain of Lansdown Cricket Club

Chew Magna Cricket Club - The continuation of cricket at Chew Court

Guess who's back? Leary's back

From the Garden to Premier One: How?

‘We don’t have any Umpires, fancy standing out in the middle?’ - Cricket Umpiring by Pete Ogborne

At the Start of Play - The Origins and Aims of Over, Time and Umps