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Post by karma on Nov 23, 2023 9:49:08 GMT
Are we nearly there?
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Post by newby on Nov 23, 2023 10:46:10 GMT
At first glance it looks very much like last season in terms of the competitions.
UCCE game looks as bit early 26 March, a bit optimistic.
CC games initially start on Fridays first game at Headingley 5th of April v Leicestershire. Then another 6 games with just one break until the end of May.
T20 starts Thursday 30 May at Headingley then pretty thick and fast.
Two CC games slung in the middle incl 23 June at Scarborough and 30 June at Chesterfield.
ODC starts on the 25 Jul at the Oval, Sussex at York 31st and Glos at York 2nd August. Essex at Scar 6th Aug and Leic at Scar on the 8th.
CC completes from Thur 22 Aug with Sussex at Scar, with Midd at Headingley 29 Aug and final game Northants at Head 26 Sep.
A couple of different teams obviously but looks a familiar format.
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Post by karma on Nov 23, 2023 10:46:51 GMT
Rush rush rush. Phew. Got my unmovable dates booked for the two four-day-scarborough games, thank goodness people made suggestions for places to stay and I did some research, ready for the off.
I'll have to study the detail later. 🚶♀️ and coffee ⏲️ now.
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Post by newby on Nov 23, 2023 15:57:35 GMT
We do have one game in the One Day Cup, on Sunday the 11th of August against Warwickshire which as yet doesn't have a venue.
Warwickshire don't seem to have any out grounds. Last season I think they played one game at New Road, but Worcestershire are using it on the 11th.
Perhaps the hundred fixtures haven't been sorted out yet and it may well end up being played at Edgbaston.
Middlesex, due to a mixture of circumstances have to play 2 of their T20 blast games at Chelmsford. That's not going to help their financial problems.
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Post by davemorton on Nov 23, 2023 20:37:30 GMT
That's been a fun day. Scarborough booked - three separate stays of 11 nights in total, at the best B&B in the world (though they may not do vegan).
Cheap hotel in Sussex booked, in Portslade, on bus route to Hove.
Decisions made. I won't be going to Bristol, definitely now, as it clashes with the Augusta Masters and with a home Sedgley Park match. I was never going to Lord's, and I will travel to York daily for the two 50 overs matches there. Likewise to Chesterfield, for the Champo. The late season games, I can play by ear.
Tomorrow or Saturday, I will sort out a trip to Croatia, perhaps, during the T20 blast; and also Devon and Dorset in July. I also fancy a few days in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, which is a gap in my experience, but looks a great photo-venue.
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Post by hawke on Nov 25, 2023 20:15:39 GMT
A brief look at the fixtures shows that the T20 is on Thursdays to Sundays which is positive though there are home and away matches on consecutive nights. Hope that is not too much. The PCA are not impressed. And hope Matthew Fisher's body can cope with that. We start and finish the CC at Leeds. Hope the weather holds up. I would rather we were at, say, Lord's and Northampton then. It's good that weekends are being used.
Not sure about 2 CC matches in the middle of the T20. I suppose someone has worked out they cant be fitted anywhere else....and then the T20 Finals Day is sometime later.
Lancs are back at Blackpool and an 'advantage' of the Hundred, if we can think like that, is use of outgrounds. Middlesex seem to have financial problems and lots of internal wranglings. They are not hosting any T20s in their Historic County but have 2 'home' fixtures at Chelmsford, for money reasons they say......
The 50 over job is at York and Scarborough as before. Shame we can't or won't also use Sheffield, Middlesbrough or Sedbergh!!! to take matches round the proper county.
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Post by newby on Nov 25, 2023 22:10:07 GMT
Sedbergh, your old bugbear hawke. Lancashire are playing their first 50 overs game there in July, it's against Durham so I suppose it's semi-appropriate.
I did read somewhere that Lancashire are creating, with the help of the ECB, a new 5,000 capacity ground near Preston which they hope will act as the second ground to Old Trafford within the next couple of years.
As Sedbergh isn't universally popular with the red rose membership that might see the end of their trespassing and Sedbergh's association with Lancashire.
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Post by karma on Nov 26, 2023 7:50:07 GMT
The only things I've got to say about the fixture list is first of all myself I have booked have booked accommodation for our favourite venue , Scarborough, for both 4 day games ( myself for cricket, my wife for walking the beautiful North Yorkshire Coast). Secondly I won't be able to attend the Warwickshire One-Day-Cup game on 11th August or T20 finals day on 14th September as those dates are respectively my wife's birthday and our 50th wedding anniversary! I think I would be pushing it a bit to even try. Still.......
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Post by byased on Nov 26, 2023 8:48:46 GMT
I saw that the T20 finals day is already sold out. How does that work when no one knows who is playing? I will aim to get to Scarborough at least once. I might also head to Brighton for a couple of days, and have a few hours at Hove. Brighton is excellent for vegetarian restaurants and interesting vintage shops. A lot of music history linked to the area as well. Congratulations on the 50th anniversary for September, Karma. It is our 47th tomorrow, so not far behind you.
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Post by newby on Nov 26, 2023 9:51:21 GMT
Yes congratulations on your 50th next September. One year behind you almost to the day.
It's a bit early but I like a trip to London, so if I can incorporate pottering about London with a day at Lords to watch Yorkshire that would be great. I quite like some of the little villages in the Northampton area too so I'm thinking of targeting a late May break down there.
Day trips for the others but very much dependant on how 'life' turns out to how much cricket I see. Hopefully more bum on actual seat than watching the streaming next season.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Nov 27, 2023 7:45:51 GMT
How can you have never been to Saltburn Mr Morton?!
Home of the most northernmost pier on the English east coast (discounting the vertical monstrosity a few miles up the coast in Redcar). One of the best fish and chip shops in the North of England, Seaview at the end of the peer and the foot of the cliff lift (or fenicular if you want to be fancy).
I think the Ship Inn pub is now under new ownership and much improved but there are some better real ale alternatives in the town nearer to the railway station.
However, a few warnings - parking can be horrendous, the walk back up to the top road from the sea front can be hard work and if you venture inland to the cricket club be very careful as they have imposed parking charges in the car park which is owned by the cricket club apparently but they got hacked off at parents on the school run and others parking there leaving no room for cricket club members. However, the cricket club bar has featured in the CAMRA real ale guide in the past.
I spent many a happy childhood Sunday in Saltburn as my grandparents lived there - Grandad drove the trains out of Saltburn station before he retired and then he seemed to have 3 allotments where most of my recollection is of him sitting chatting to others at the allotments smoking his pipe and not doing much to grow vegetables!
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Post by davemorton on Nov 27, 2023 14:53:37 GMT
I have actually 'been' to Saltburn, but only for about half an hour. Following a game at Scarborough, my late friend Murf and I were touring some of my favourite haunts on the coast, and we went the extra mile or two and ended up there. I was amazed. I had never really heard of the place, though I had been to both Redcar and Marske, and had walked part of the Cleveland Way, in my younger days.
We vowed to go back some time, but then Murf died of cancer. It didn't, and doesn't, fit in well with cricket schedules, and we already had our regular Scarborough B&B. We never went anywhere together except for cricket. We were friends and teammates, not an item! But mow I just fancy a day or two up there with camera and time and no cricket. Like during the T20.
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Post by newby on Nov 27, 2023 16:00:26 GMT
We have what's become an annual pilgrimage to Saltburn on the first bank holiday of the year. My eldest son and his family come over and we meet at Roseberry topping. I help with getting the youngsters to the top, though last year I think they were helping me. My wife doesn't do that kind of thing so as she is waiting in the car I rush back down while they take their time, depending on how cold it is.
We then take a slow drive to Saltburn, seek out a parking space and get in the queue for fish and chips. Occasionally we are lucky enough to find a table before they arrive but more usually it's a take away job. Fish and Chips are o.k, but appreciated more by those on a trip to the seaside. It's something to do with the sea air.
It's always very busy, as is the carpark at Newton under Roseberry, as is everywhere on a bank holiday.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Nov 28, 2023 11:49:50 GMT
The Cleveland Way does of course go through Saltburn. When i did it we approached from the south (Whitby side) and it is of course where the CW moves inland from the coast and heads across the North Yorkshire Moors including a climb to the summit of Roseberry Topping. The one problem with this is that the view as you head towards Saltburn looks further up the coast towards Redcar, Smogland, Wind turbines in the sea and perhaps a good reason why the path then veers in land (I can say this as someone who lived my first 11 years in Redcar!).
So if doing the CW it has to be better to approach it from the other way around, coming towards the coast from Osmotherley and then when you hit Saltburn you will head south with far more scenic views ahead of you.
Either that or do it backwards....
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Post by karma on Nov 28, 2023 12:18:42 GMT
Same for the Lyke Wake Walk: although you can do it finishing at Osmotherly, it's much better finishing on the coast so that you have a better view, can finish by bathing your poor aching, blistered feet in salty water, have a celebratory pint and superb fish and chips.
I've mentioned more than once that Mrs. karma walks several stretches of the CW while I'm at the Scarborough cricket each year. I have already booked accommodation for the 2 x four-day games at Scarborough but yesterday evening during a period of 'reflection' booked extra nights encompassing the two One-Day Cup Scarborough games there and with a 'free' day in between. I should be able to accompany my wife on at least one day and possibly more, particularly if, like this year, Scarborough weather disappoints (but hopefully not too much)
I'm optimistic about being able to get to all these games, booking accommodation commits us to giving it our best shot and something on which to hang parts of the new season. Can't wait. 🏃♀️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♀️
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