In 1906, the photographer and former cricketer George Beldam and sportsman, politician, diplomat, academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher (from his profile on Wikipedia!) C.B. Fry published “Great Bowlers and Fielders: Their Methods at a Glance” [1]), a collection of Beldam’s ground-breaking action photographs of bowlers (and fielders) of the Edwardian age with Fry’s commentary …
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Who’s winning? Duckworth-Lewis-Stern has the answer!
I have been lucky enough to play in a couple of matches recently where we had two competent (and socially distanced) scorers, using the Play-Cricket scoring software, and at grounds with modern digital scoreboards. It was fascinating to watch the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern “par score” throughout the 2nd innings, on both occasions as we successfully defended our …
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Batting slumps and other losses of form — what to do next?
I suspect that most of us who have played cricket for any length of time will have experienced a run of poor scores. Often for no apparent reason — not down to any obvious technical failings, or over-confidence, or excessive diffidence. That next run can seem a very long way away, as you take guard …
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