As a postcript to what I wrote yesterday, it turns out that Now Broadband’s cricket channel actually wasn’t showing England vs. Australia.  If I were a subscriber I think I might just be complaining about that baffling decision.

I’m afraid that I refuse to pay whatever it is that they charge for the cricket channel that is available in Hong Kong, but if someone had offered me a pay-per-view deal for the England vs Australia test match I think it would have been worth whatever they wanted to charge. As it was, I…

I think it is time for my annual "cricket isn’t really boring" post.  Yesterday England beat South Africa in the fifth test match of a series that has been very competitive. In this match, England started well in their first innings, faltered but then recovered and seemed to be in a strong position.    In…

Well, the Olympics seem to have finished. It wasn’t easy, but I managed to avoid most of it. I wasn’t really paying attention, but it seems that the thing was actually quite successful in spite of all the gloom and doom that we heard for the months and years leading up to it. Construction may…

I couldn’t quite believe this, but today is not April Fools Day, and this news is from the BBC, so I guess it must be true.  It seems that there is a serious plan to run a Formula One Grand Prix on the streets of London!! Apparently they set up a demonstration circuit as a…

Surrey haven’t made the best of starts to the cricket season. In fact, until a week ago they hadn’t won a single game in any competition, and had been beaten by Ireland in the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy (if you don’t follow the game it might seem odd that an English county should play a…

The Sunday Morning Post reported that Cable TV has won the exclusive rights to show the English Premier League (EPL) in Hong Kong for the next three years. On the face of it, this means (as the SMP pointed out) the end of the intelligent pre-match coverage on ESPN and the return of hysterical fast-talking…

[Thanks to Martyn for sending it to me]

Being English, I get quite used to sporting disappointments. So when England started beating the southern hemisphere nations in the lead up to the Rugby World Cup, I fully expected that they were peaking too soon, and would contrive to lose in the quarter-finals. The game against South Africa seemed to confirm my worst fears…