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My club too has a policy that no kids should be turned away because of a lack of money. Don't think that Simster's local club is typical

My kids played competitive sport at primary school - although there were no leagues. My son plays rugby and cricket, both of which have competitive leagues. My daughter's rugby team doesn't play in a competitive league, but that's because there are only four teams in Sussex, not because...

That's very true and something that needs to be addressed. But the issue we had was with primary schools so just stumps, soft balls and bats were needed. If we can't get them interested at 8 or 9, we'll have no chance at 11 or 12.

That's true but there were better over rates a few decades back too. It was pretty standard to bowl 110 to 120 overs a day until fairly recently. It's significant that of the five occasions when a batsman has scored a century before lunch on the first day, only one was in the last 40 years. And...

It sounds great in theory but, in practice, the schools aren't interested. My club tried to get involved but only got responses from two local schools and they petered out for lack of interest. The trouble is that schools have enough to do with planning lessons, filling in paperwork and...

The Guardian has answered this: Teams to score 400 in first innings and lose by innings Inns and 75 - England, Chennai 2016 inns and 41 - England, Perth, 2017 Inns and 39 - England, Oval, 1930 Inns and 36 - England, Mumbai, 2016 Inns and 18 - Pakistan, MCG, 2016 Inns and 14 - Sri Lanka...

Different reasons though: Trott and Swann were mentally shot, Prior was injured and Pietersen was the fall guy. None of them really retired because they were ageing. Bit different this time - Anderson looks on his last legs and Cook's reaction times are looking slower

I think there's another three years before Archer qualifies for England. I reckon Garton will be the next Sussex player to win an England cap. Finn's a shadow of the bowler he was. Wood looks decent but he's injury prone. It doesn't look great out there. EDIT. I was way out with Archer. It's...

It happened twice just last year England was the losing team, of course