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Learning to take pictures with different settings.

  • Week 75 – August 21st – Women hundred final part 1

    I’m not a fan of this version of cricket, but this was a gifted from my former colleagues and friends at Quest for the redundancy that occurred last year.

    Of course modern technology, one moment I had the tickets on my phone and the next moment not, but with the help of the cricket helpers outside the ground, we got this sorted via a part of Lords that I have never seen.

    Thank you Tom for arranging this. We had good seats in the Compton stand. Considering the weather this day, the game actually started on time, yes we have been hit by rain again.

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    Women teams warming up on a wet miserable day.

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    BBC commentary team, Isa Guha, Heather Knight (current England captain) and Alex Hartley.

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    Father Time.

  • Week 75 – August 21st – Father-Time wall

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  • Week 75 – August 18th – Leeds Castle part 2

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  • Week 75 – August 18th – Leeds Castle part 1

    Pictures from another visit to Leeds castle.

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  • Week 75 – August 17th – Haysden Country Park part 2

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  • Week 75 – August 17th – Haysden Country Park part 1

    With Claire being off and recovering from her operation and to help her sponsorship challenge, we went to Haysden Country Park for a walk around the lakes and woods. Enjoy the pictures.

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    Various wildlife on the lake.

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    Wildlife and an island in the lake.

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    Young swan by the edge of the lake

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    Swans on the lake.

  • Week 74 – August 15th – Trip down memory lane

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  • Week 73 – August 8th – Kent v Hampshire Royal London Cup

    Can you believe it? Another miserable day for cricket. We arrived at the ground (Beckenham) and sat in the car for at least 3 hours before stepping outside and finally taking our seats.

    Play didn’t start until 14:30, should have started at 11:00. I said to Claire that if it rained again, we would go home.

    Not surprisingly Hampshire won the toss and put Kent in, but openers Tawanda Muyeye and Ollie Robinson gave a good start against attack including former international bowler Kyle Abbott (bowled with some good pace), until Tawanda Muyeye was bowled by John Turner for 24.

    Looking to our right, we could see a huge dark cloud moving in, so we moved to the car and just as we reached it, the rain poured down, so as agreed we left. With Kent 70 for 4 in 14.2 overs.

    Amazingly the rain stopped and they went back out, but Kent were convincingly beaten by 6 wickets in reduced 24 over match.

    This was after the Saturday match for Speldhurst II was cancelled, this summer is miserable. ?

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    Ollie Robinson taking guard.

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    Ollie Robinson pushes forward. I like when you can see the ball in the picture.

  • Week 72 – July 26th – Week 2 of lockdown ending

    We went to the county ground at Beckenham to see Kent v Lancashire in the Royal London one day cup. This was the first time I had been to ground to watch a match and I could show Claire where I did my ECB coach training from earlier in the year.

    As seems to be the case for us this year, the rain followed us and we only saw 14.5 overs of cricket.

    Lancashire had reached 71 without loss when play was halted by a downpour at 12.02, with Josh Bohannon 39 not out and Keaton Jennings unbeaten on 24. Kent’s Darren Stevens had bowled six overs for just 11.

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    The legend that is Darren Stevens during warm up

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    Darren Stevens ready to run in to bowl

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    Nice take by Ollie Robinson down the leg side pass Keaton Jennings.

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    Is Keaton going to lift his foot up?

  • Week 71 – July 19th – Week 1 of lockdown ending

    Final pictures from 150 years match between Speldhurst v MCC.

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    Nice capture of a take by wicketkeeper Edward Wesson.

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    Well beaten and captured the ball in the picture.

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    Putting some effort into that ball.

    MCC 265-6 dec in 44 overs (J Raynard 50, H Lloyd 110, A Moen 74*, James Waters 5-0-28-3) beat Speldhurst 184 in 43.4 overs (Dave Booth 36, Mike Jeffreys 44, R Balyliss 10-0-48-3, Matt P Hannon 9-3-29-3, Michael Churchill 8.4-1-34-2, R Glaysher 9-3-34-2) by 81 runs.

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