MJ Mad Dog

Author: Michael James

  • Week 172 – June 27th – 300 up

    What a performance and we needed this in the County Championship.

    Kent batter Daniel Bell-Drummond has become the third man to score 300 or more runs in one innings for Kent, after amassing 300 not out against Northamptonshire in Northampton.

    The right-hander added 94 runs to his previous first-class best score, 206* against Loughborough MCCU in 2016, to reach 300* on Day Three at The County Ground Northampton, having reach a century in 178 balls, 200 in 314 balls, & his 300 in 439 deliveries, spending a total of 531 minutes batting across all three days of the LV= Insurance County Championship match so far.

    The Kent Cricket Academy product joins Bill Ashdown, who recorded two triple hundreds in his first-class career (332 vs. Essex in 1934 & 305* vs. Derbyshire in 1935) & Sean Dickson, who made 318 against Northamptonshire at The County Ground, Beckenham in 2017.

  • Week 171 – June 25th – The holiday weight

    Due to all the good food in the Lake District and despite all the walking, I put on 6lbs, so was back over 18 stone, so again, just below 18 stone for 1 week.

  • Week 171 – June 25th – Surrey v Lancashire – Part 7

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  • Week 171 – June 25th – Surrey v Lancashire – Part 1

    The forecast for Sunday was going to be good, so we decided to go to the Oval to see Surrey v Lancashire for the 1st day of the County Championship, so this at least shouldn’t be an early finish. LOL.

    Oval
    Surrey fielders practising there slip catching before the start of the match.

    Oval
    Rory Burns and Keaton Jennings at the toss of the coin, with umpires Michael Gough and Mike Burns, plus match referee Phil Whitticase

    Oval
    The two teams playing in this County Championship match. quite a few current or former international players playing.

    Impressive that the county championship can still have all these international players playing.

  • Week 171 – June 24th – Time to leave

    All holidays have to come to end at some point, today was that day. We had a great time and it went well, first time that we had been away with Claire’s parents but with her mum sadly missing.

    Lake District
    Final look with a panoramic shot of where we were staying in the Lake District.

    Final picture of the stay, again I hope you have enjoyed them?

    The journey home though, was a nightmare, with an accident holding us up on the A1. Then as we got close to the Blackwall tunnel, we find out it was closed due to work to remove a bridge, but there had been no signs to advise us. Why not?

    Finally home and completed 1169 driving miles for the week. I think I need a rest now from driving.

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