FOOTBALLING CRICKETERS (OR CRICKETING FOOTBALLERS) – Part One

Never Too Old

I was browsing, as you do, through my collection of back copies of The Cricketer magazine, and I happened to come across their summary of Kent’s 1930 season, a year that was rather overshadowed by the astonishing batting of the new 22-year-old Australian phenomenon,...
FOOTBALLING CRICKETERS (OR CRICKETING FOOTBALLERS) – Part One

WHERE IS CHESTER-LE-STREET?

On 18th January 2000, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? featured a chap called Peter Lee (definitely not the former Lancashire and England bowler) who battled his way up to the £500,000 mark and then faced the final question which would make him a millionaire. The...
FOOTBALLING CRICKETERS (OR CRICKETING FOOTBALLERS) – Part One

ALL OUT NOUGHT

I was reading something about the Olympics, and whether or not they would ever allow cricket to be one of the participating sports (my money’s on ‘not’), when my mind switched to Tokyo where they are trying to hold the Games next year, and to the last time they were...