RIP Phillip Hughes

Great bat. Clearly a top bloke. A life very cruelly cut short. Great tribute by Allendale CC. Good send off by the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2014/dec/02/the-joy-of-six-phillip-hughes

Tynedale Cricket Match

We have had the final donation in this morning and so we have our total today for the Charity Cricket Match we held a few weeks ago on behalf of Tynedale Hospice at Home. The amount raised at this event is £747.75 which is a great achievement by all those who were involved.

Thank you for all the people who came along and supported Tynedale Hospice at Home. One of the top prizes was a very large amount of toilet roll from SCA - many thanks to them and also to Dipsticks who both sponsored the number of sixes hit in the game and also bought some of the toilet roll. After a great game Tynedale eased home by 23 runs. My thanks to all the players, Councillor Cath Homer, and Gary from Tynedale Cricket Club, in particular, who did so much of the organising.

If you have not booked your tickets for the next THAH event on the 14th October at the Queens Hall I urge you to do so. 

900 SCA Toilet Rolls is a large [+ very soft] prize for this Sunday's charity cricket day for Tynedale Hospice

My thanks to SCA - a brilliant local employer and makers of soft, strong and very Northumbrian Loo Roll.
SCA have donated to the Tynedale Hospice at Home Charity Cricket Day a pallet of toilet roll; this is, I am told, although I have not personally counted, around 900 rolls worth over £500.

This is quite some auction prize....a prize for the best caption / trailer for Sundays cricket match - about which more tomorrow.
Man of the match and the champagne moment will receive many things but I think both will definitely get a few rolls to sit down and celebrate with....so to speak

So farewell KP - but my guess is that you have not played your last Test!

How do you solve a problem like Kevin Peterson? Not this way...
KP is clearly both a genius and possessing an ego the size of Mount Etna. But managing such individuals is part of team management. It is about finding a place for the talent within the team. Anyone who has played any team game will know that any team is a collection of individuals and mavericks.
Sport must find a place for talented mavericks. And KP is unquestionably the most aggressive and flamboyant batsman of his generation. I have seen him live several times, and no one comes close to his ability to destroy his bowling attack
So this is one cricket lover who is hoping that KP scores a hatful of runs this season and then is recalled. After all, if he tops the averages this summer are they really going to leave our best batsman out?
PS For my part, if they will have me I shall be turning out for Allendale a couple of times this season. I bear no resemblance to KP!