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The year has not been a bad vintage

10:43am Wednesday 14th September 2011

SO that was the season that was. There have been highs and there have been lows – but I reckon that in years to come people will look back at 2011 as one of the good ones.

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Talking Cricket: Strauss switch is nothing but a farce

8:14am Thursday 23rd June 2011

CRICKET is too often mocked. Players in Test matches come off when the slightest spit of rain falls – and when it fines up they go and have their tea.

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Plaque’s the way I like it – but statue of Lord Learie is now due

2:30pm Wednesday 18th May 2011

IT was a nice touch of Pendle Council to finally honour the legendary Lord Learie Constantine by unveiling a blue plaque on his old house in Nelson...but it is the least they could do.

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Talking Cricket: Give the county stars a shot in the league

10:09am Wednesday 11th May 2011

SURREY batsman Michael Brown returned to his roots on Saturday as he turned out for Burnley CC in the Lancashire League against Rishton.

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Sports Blog: World Cup shows the leagues are strong

8:52am Friday 25th March 2011

THE lament is a familiar one, league cricket is dying. It ain't what it used to be. We don't see any good pros anymore.

TALKING CRICKET: Red Rose mistakes can't be made again

9:44am Friday 11th March 2011

LANCASHIRE got the green light for their development of Old Trafford yesterday - and it is good news in the fact that the famous old ground can continue to stage international cricket.

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Talking Cricket Column: Gulf in class is a worry

10:34am Thursday 24th February 2011

CRICKET’S World Cup is well underway - and already the gulf between the big boys and the rest is being highlighted.

The Ashes Blog: Get set for a cracker

10:41am Friday 24th December 2010

THERE cannot be a cricket fan not feeling the tension and excitement ahead of the fourth Ashes Test...and bring it on.

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Talking Cricket: Squad proves league still rules

8:44am Tuesday 16th November 2010

THE harbingers of doom say the Lancashire League is on its last legs. They say, almost with a joy in their voices, that the most famous cricket league on the planet is struggling and the days of good professionals are gone.

Talking Cricket: It's not quite the full Monty

9:12am Friday 24th September 2010

IT’S 61 days until the start of the Ashes and yesterday’s announcement of the England squad, an announcement made with all the sort of pomp and false sense of over importance normally associated with naming the shortlist for the best middle manager of a middling local authority, sets the pulse racing ahead of the big winter.

The eyes have it as Lancashire fans travel

11:06am Wednesday 8th September 2010

Matt Donlan's Talking Cricket column: An interesting day was had at Liverpool last week as Lancashire won what eventually turned out to be a thrilling County Championship game against Hampshire.

Talking Cricket: League four are what the game is about

11:34am Saturday 4th September 2010

CRICKET fans around the globe will all have felt the pain of deep sadness in the pits of their stomachs on Sunday morning when they heard the news of the allegations against the Pakistan cricket team.

Talking Cricket: Lack of sell-out shows the price is wrong

3:30pm Wednesday 25th August 2010

SHOCK horror, Lord’s may not be full for the opening day of the Test match with Pakistan tomorrow – and I couldn’t be happier.

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Talking cricket column: Another year of misery

4:30pm Wednesday 18th August 2010

SO here we go yet again, another competition that Lancashire will not be winning this season after the capitulation at Somerset the other night in the CB40.

Talking cricket column: Anwar is a great signing

1:50pm Wednesday 11th August 2010

SUNDAY’S Worsley Cup final proved just what everyone knows already – the quality of the profes-sionals in the Lancashire League are what make the game special.

A fit Fred should spend a year as pro

11:30am Wednesday 4th August 2010

Matt Donlan's Talking Cricket column: So, Andrew Flintoff will not play cricket again this year.

Let’s hope the fans pass the Test

3:19pm Wednesday 28th July 2010

Matt Donlan column: There are few more truly depressing sights than seeing a cricket ground with swathes and swathes of empty seats – especially when those seats are empty for a Test match.

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Talking Cricket: Vintage year is on a winning streak

9:40am Wednesday 21st July 2010

NORMALLY when you hit the latter end of July you are starting to get a good idea of who will be winning cricket leagues.

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Hard to beat Enfield's tea room

3:00pm Wednesday 14th July 2010

Matt Donlan's Talking Cricket column: There are few things better than a cricket tea room with a variety of cakes and sandwiches to die for.

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Faf spot on over Lancashire League star names

8:31am Wednesday 14th July 2010

Matt Donlan's Talking Cricket column: So,e interesting points raised by ex-Ramsbottom professional Francois du Plessis in yesterday’s Lancashire Telegraph as he waved farewell to the Lancashire League.

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Why leagues have to talk to stop cup clashes again

3:10pm Wednesday 7th July 2010

I THINK you can call it Murhpy’s Law...weeks of great weather and then the change and that return to rain – just in time for the Worsley Cup and Rams-bottom Cup semi-finals.

Switch would have boosted the clubs

4:52pm Wednesday 30th June 2010

Talking Cricket column: Sadly the days when thousands of paying spectators crammed into the likes of Seedhill, West End, Bacup Road and the rest are in the past.

Don't take emotion away from cricket

4:50pm Wednesday 30th June 2010

Talking Cricket column: Cricket is a hard game yet there seems to be a growing – and worrying – trend of sensitivity creeping in.

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Talking Cricket: Times don’t really change in sports

2:20pm Wednesday 23rd June 2010

THE chairman of a Yorkshire rugby league club once told me that the administrators of the game had the perfect product. He said that rugby league didn’t need much to make the spectators flock in.

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Test was passed as fans flocked in

1:59pm Wednesday 9th June 2010

Talking Cricket column: So England duly dispatched Bangladesh inside three days at Old Trafford in one of the most one-sided Test series in years.

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Talking Cricket column: Bring on the Flumps

8:40am Thursday 3rd June 2010

CRASH, bang, clatter and wallop...Twenty20 is back – and the tills of bars of the local league clubs should be ringing.

Talking Cricket column: Bangladesh isn't really a test

9:26am Thursday 27th May 2010

SO here we go again, after months of dominating a team that doesn’t count and impressing in one-day Cricket, the England, Wales and the Rest of the World team returns to action in the Test arena today.

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Talking Cricket column: A win's a win but let's not get carried away

8:59am Thursday 20th May 2010

SO there we go, we are now the best thing since the last best thing since sliced bread was invented and we will rule the world for ever and ever...or so you would be forgiven for thinking given the coverage of England, Wales, Ireland and the Rest of the World’s Twenty20 win over Australia at the weekend.