Club Cricket from the inside.

  While we all wallow at home listening to statistics about how the start of 2026 has had the most rainfall, least sunlight and suffered from a stuck weather pattern it is hard to believe the cricket season of 2026 will ever come. But like every year summer does come at some point, weather it will get into full swing in early March likes in 2026 is a very different story. This month I wanted to look at a number of topics regarding kit; there have been two points of interest and another subject I have been wanting to write about for a while.   Cricket Boots There has always been the historic rivalry between batters and bowlers in cricket right back to the idea of gentlemen batters and “professional” bowlers. There is one part of cricket kit where this divide is still as evident as it ever was and, in my opinion, even more so. Custom cricket boots are just no longer available in the UK, there are 100’s of custom bat makers up and down the country offering all sorts of ...

    I am not football follower but each year I can’t escape transfer deadline day coming around, to follow the sports I’m interested in I follow many sports channels all of which are posting about such things in January or February of each year. In these headlines we read, contract singed, contract extended, new deal agreed or left by mutual consent. Recently in the cycling off season my feed is full of such terms. But in the last few years another feed of mine if full of these terms, a place you necessarily would not associate with such language if you were outside this very niche circle of people. These are the social media posts of cricket clubs and even newly created transfer rumours anonymous account posting about the movement of players. I appreciate people are putting a social media spin on things and helping to gain traction, but is this language necessary or even helpful to the wider club cricket environment? There are plenty of other examples of this throug...