Rod Lyall - Page 34

Retired academic, now a journalist and commentator, mainly covering Dutch international and domestic cricket.
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Curtailed Dutch Pro Series finishes under cloudy skies with two more Seafarers wins

The 2020 Pro Series ended on a somewhat anticlimactic note on Thursday, with the Seafarers winning their second T20 against the Hurricanes in as many...

Cooper, Braat star in Dutch Pro Series’ first week

Back when I was taking part in my school’s cross-country running programme, sixty years ago, the master in charge used to claim that his goal...

The slope of the playing field – FM v AM ODI matches

‘All we’re really sayin’,’ sing the wonderful Irish duo the Duckworth Lewis Method, ‘is it doesn’t really feel / Like we’re all playin’ on a...

Dutch Pro Series: First Week Preview

With the abandonment of the projected international series against Denmark and Scotland the KNCB has opted for an expanded Pro Series of eight matches, split...

The World Cup Super League: Only the ignorant can be surprised

On the face of it, the fact that well-established cricket commentators should apparently be shocked by the qualifying system for the 2023 World Cup is...

Are Irish pastures calling?

Sometimes, as Fred Klokker said when he floated the idea on Emerging Cricket’s recent podcast, inspiration comes from nowhere in the middle of a conversation. And...

Book review: Tim Brooks, ‘A Corner of Every Foreign Field: Cricket’s Journey from English Game to Global Sport’

Tim Brooks, A Corner of Every Foreign Field: Cricket’s Journey from English Game to Global Sport. Worthing, Sussex: Pitch Publishing, 2020. Available on Amazon. Some books...

KNCB hoping to resume Dutch national competitions July 4

Following the Dutch government’s further softening of its lockdown restrictions this week the KNCB is now looking at a possible resumption of national competition as...

Loaded dice in the zero-sum game

Back in 2013 I had a lively argument with Tim Anderson, who was at the time the ICC’s Global Development Manager. He was visiting the Netherlands,...

The germs of change?

Increasingly, economic and social commentators are observing that the world on the other side of the Covid-19 pandemic will be very different from that which...

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