ANNIE CHAVE
Annie Chave finds community and clouds on County Cricket Day
Cricket as it should be: the joys of watching at Beckenham
PICTURE: Alamy
At first, I was bemused when a group of my cricketing friends started to spend long hours of the summer making plans to travel to obscure non-league football games in the coming winter. Watching a team of amateur footballers hoofing the ball up and down a field in the middle of nowhere doesn’t hold much interest for me. Its support has grown across the country and across the generations; and I find this somehow strangely reassu...
