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Richard Clarke: When you lose, we win! The County Championship relegation battles that keep us watching
Richard Clarke revels in the drama of the County Championship relegation battle, recalling the remarkable finishes and fine margins of the past that have made the...
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/ 1 month agoRichard Clarke: Whose title is it anyway? The County Championship story nears its conclusion
The County Championship enters its final act with the title race still wide open, relegation battles taking shape and September rain...
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/ 2 months agoRichard Clarke: Joe Denly is one of a dying breed
With his arms folded, a matter-of-fact manner and sporting a physique much younger than his four decades, Joe Denly did not...
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/ 2 months agoRichard Clarke: Up for the cup
Richard Clarke on the charm of the One-Day Cup and the healthy number of county cricket purists watching on.
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/ 3 months agoRichard Clarke: So, we’re friends, right?
Richard Clarke reveals his connection with the Utilita Bowl, home of Hampshire Cricket, a venue at the centre of an ownership...
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/ 3 months agoRichard Clarke: It’s time to come out of retirement
Richard Clarke reflects on his father's avid club career, memories of his own playing days and the prospect of donning the...
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/ 4 months agoRichard Clarke: Adam Hollioake sees the whole picture as Kent take a stand
Richard Clarke examines Adam Hollioake’s decision to disable social media comments at Kent, exploring the coach’s views on mental health, online...
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/ 5 months agoRichard Clarke: Married life in the slow lane
The Grumbler takes his missus to the cricket.
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/ 5 months agoRichard Clarke: Stories can be told in many different ways
Richard Clarke on a comically brilliant start to the season...
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/ 6 months agoRichard Clarke: The start of summer! Get ready for a spectacular season of county red-ball cricket
The start of every county season is a process of reacquaintance. There are familiar friends and foes, customs and traditions, sights...
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/ 1 year agoRichard Clarke: It’s The Grumbler’s 2025 County Awards!
Well, ladies and gentlemen, here we are again. While self-praise is no praise, we like to think the Grumbler’s End of...
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/ 1 year agoRichard Clarke: The one where we don’t know who wins
Famously, episodes of Friends were always named the same way. The convention began with “The One”. For example, ‘The One with...
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/ 1 year agoRichard Clarke: Evolution not revolution – What cricket can learn from baseball
For a sport that cherishes its history with such devotion, it seems surprising that there is no official commemoration on the...
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/ 1 year agoRichard Clarke AKA ‘The Grumbler’: You are not alone at the cricket
Richard Clarke says county grounds are the perfect place for conversation One of the most arresting and widely-praised football videos of...
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/ 1 year agoRichard Clarke: Let’s bin the Kookaburra experiment, and fast
The first principle of experimentation is that you must not fool yourself,” said the eminent scientist, Richard Feynman. “And you are...
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/ 1 year agoRichard Clarke: Jack Bond, Jacob Bethell and the catching revolution
Richard Clarke on how our understanding of fielding has changed If you want to make an old Lancastrian go misty-eyed for...
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/ 1 year agoRichard Clarke: Let style triumph over substance
It is the go-to hack for the lazy stylist. If you want to invoke an air of old-fashioned class, elegance and...
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/ 1 year agoRichard Clarke: Let’s get creative
The wagons are circling around the County Championship ahead of another review.
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/ 1 year agoRichard Clarke: What lessons can the Women’s game learn from football
Regular readers of this column will know my grave concerns for the future of county cricket are partly informed by my...
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/ 1 year agoRichard Clarke: Let’s not hear it for the County Championship
By Richard Clarke, AKA The Grumbler Far be it from me to disagree with heavy metal gods AC/ DC, but rock’n’roll...
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/ 1 year agoRichard Clarke: Now is not the time for us to tune out
By now, every county member, bar the doughty devotees of New Road, will have had a chance to see their side...
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Club Cricket
/ 2 years agoRichard Clarke: Luke Fletcher, Joe Leach a dying breed
There was a time when Luke Fletcher’s preparation for a cricket match consisted of two paracetamols plus a double sausage and...
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Club Cricket
/ 2 years agoRichard Clarke: T20 Blast finals day is magical, unique
It is 10am on September 4, 1993 and I am shouting at cricket fans as they shuffle into Lord’s. To a...
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/ 2 years agoANYONE FOR TENNIS?
Richard Clarke Richard Clarke wonders, with Test cricket likely to be played in a window in future, what the sport could...
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/ 2 years agoACCESS ALL AREAS
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler RICHARD CLARKE SAYS ENGLISH CRICKET NEEDS TO GET ENGAGED Everything we’ve done up until now isn’t...
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