I posted a couple of months ago about my cricketing 50th anniversary — 50 years since I first played, back in 1973. And I have just realised that I am using a bat that is modelled on one I bought 40 years ago.
Not quite Trigger’s broom (or Plutarch’s Ship of Theseus, for the more Classically-minded), but there is a direct lineage from my old Gray-Nicolls GN500 to the bat(s) I have used this season with the Essex Seniors over60s.
(more…)I played my first organised game of cricket in 1973, for the Cleveland Road Primary School.
And my first game for 2023 is scheduled to be on 9th May, with Essex Seniors 60+.
(more…)On 12th April, I shall be walking with fellow Essex Seniors cricketers to support the Bob Willis Fund — raising money (donation link at the foot of this post!) for better prostate cancer screening — with Prostate Cancer UK.
Prostate cancer is the number one diagnosed male cancer in the UK, killing 11,500 men a year. There is still no national screening programme.
The Bob Willis Fund is supporting research to develop new tests, which is why I shall be joining #RonsMarch.
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