http://1tip1hand.com/cricket/freedom-series-mohali-test-in-defence-of-spinners-wickets/

Oh for the love of God.

Based on your broad take on Indian pitches nowadays, as Chandigarh in December is cooler, temperate, I wonder whether this has to offer up something altogether different to the other Indian test pitches.

Cricinfo go into a great deal of detail about pitch preparation and what constitutes a good pitch across the formats:

http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ABOUT_CRICKET/PITCHES/PREP_OF_PITCHES.html

Possibly only of great interest to those of us who are in the trade of grass cutting. My mate who sweeps my chimneys used to look after the ground at Fenners. He had to provide a turf sample at 11pm before next day’s play. Apparently being a chimney sweep is far less stressful.

Indeed x2 A P Webster.

I suggest you ask to be shown around the MTRC on some mutually convenient occasion – the staff there are very friendly and seem very proud of the club.

KC & I discussed the near-aptronym quality of the Booze/Booths supermarket. Further, viz the Cricket Badger several cricketers spotted reportage, I did wonder whether the Middlesex team members really were going to Booths to get milk.

But KC felt that punctuating as “milk” on such flimsy evidence would be a grammatical device too far.

http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/sourav-ganguly-notable-absentee-india-best-test-xi-3050780/

The greatest-ever Indian cricketer is, however, included. You could never leave out Dravid, could you, eh readers?!

Half way through he shouts: “Hang on, are we on the wrong platform? But it says Folkestone and Dover!”

I walk past the Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club frequently, it’s clearly a lot nicer on the inside than it looks from the outside.

The Booths in MediaCityUK, by the way, is a fine place for buying beer, perhaps the finest supermarket for that purpose in the Manchester/Salford ‘twin cities’ area (as no-one calls it).

…I came down from cloud nine sufficiently this weekend to write up my recent trip to Manchester.

Highlights include best part of four days at Old Trafford watching Lancashire v Middlesex, several visits to the real tennis court in Salford and a face-to-face meeting with King Cricket himself.

Usual caveats apply – the piece is more than pamphlet length and it does mention the cricket. But there are also several pictures:

http://ianlouisharris.com/2016/09/15/a-visit-to-manchester-mostly-for-lancashire-v-middlesex-but-also-some-real-tennis-and-an-evening-with-king-cricket-12-to-15-september-201/