Andrew Beaven
@theteesra.com
Cricket - coach a bit, play a bit, watch a bit.
Mostly talking about cricket coaching, sports culture.
Blogging at theteesra.com
Opinions way above my pay grade!
Mostly talking about cricket coaching, sports culture.
Blogging at theteesra.com
Opinions way above my pay grade!
FWIW - the problem with “staying true to ourselves” is that there can be no consequences for repeated failure, no incentive for finding a better way.
No batter ever gets dropped for “staying true…”
If they were, they’d be straight off to “international retirement” & franchise cricket.
No batter ever gets dropped for “staying true…”
If they were, they’d be straight off to “international retirement” & franchise cricket.
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
FWIW - the problem with “staying true to ourselves” is that there can be no consequences for repeated failure, no incentive for finding a better way.
No batter ever gets dropped for “staying true…”
If they were, they’d be straight off to “international retirement” & franchise cricket.
No batter ever gets dropped for “staying true…”
If they were, they’d be straight off to “international retirement” & franchise cricket.
It is odd. It does mean potential readers of Plwer Chords in the US can order from someone other than amzn, though.
I was actually trying to track down a new cricket coaching book by Ian Renshaw - available on amzn UK and bookshop.org in the States
I was actually trying to track down a new cricket coaching book by Ian Renshaw - available on amzn UK and bookshop.org in the States
Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
bookshop.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It is odd. It does mean potential readers of Plwer Chords in the US can order from someone other than amzn, though.
I was actually trying to track down a new cricket coaching book by Ian Renshaw - available on amzn UK and bookshop.org in the States
I was actually trying to track down a new cricket coaching book by Ian Renshaw - available on amzn UK and bookshop.org in the States
I realise this won’t help your blood pressure, but…
Power Chords is listed on bookshop.org _in the States_ but *not* on the corresponding UK site.
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
Power Chords is listed on bookshop.org _in the States_ but *not* on the corresponding UK site.
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
Bookshop.org US
bookshop.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I realise this won’t help your blood pressure, but…
Power Chords is listed on bookshop.org _in the States_ but *not* on the corresponding UK site.
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
Power Chords is listed on bookshop.org _in the States_ but *not* on the corresponding UK site.
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
Oddly, appears to be from Amazon US?
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Oddly, appears to be from Amazon US?
How would one say “run out the non-striker who has left his/her ground early”?
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
How would one say “run out the non-striker who has left his/her ground early”?
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Wasn't Sir Jimmy told he was retiring? If so, he's already qualified.
It's a good team, already, but assumes Botham & Stokes are both in peak bowling form.
Anderson & Alderman for Dilley & one of the all-rounders, and you have an even stronger XI.
It's a good team, already, but assumes Botham & Stokes are both in peak bowling form.
Anderson & Alderman for Dilley & one of the all-rounders, and you have an even stronger XI.
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Wasn't Sir Jimmy told he was retiring? If so, he's already qualified.
It's a good team, already, but assumes Botham & Stokes are both in peak bowling form.
Anderson & Alderman for Dilley & one of the all-rounders, and you have an even stronger XI.
It's a good team, already, but assumes Botham & Stokes are both in peak bowling form.
Anderson & Alderman for Dilley & one of the all-rounders, and you have an even stronger XI.
2/2
Two more quotes from this article.
“The Feedback Loop Is the Lesson.
In a living system, feedback isn’t an event — it’s a conversation.”
“You can’t tend the garden without dirt under your nails…
You become part of the feedback loop — a living, learning organism inside a larger one.”
Two more quotes from this article.
“The Feedback Loop Is the Lesson.
In a living system, feedback isn’t an event — it’s a conversation.”
“You can’t tend the garden without dirt under your nails…
You become part of the feedback loop — a living, learning organism inside a larger one.”
November 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
2/2
Two more quotes from this article.
“The Feedback Loop Is the Lesson.
In a living system, feedback isn’t an event — it’s a conversation.”
“You can’t tend the garden without dirt under your nails…
You become part of the feedback loop — a living, learning organism inside a larger one.”
Two more quotes from this article.
“The Feedback Loop Is the Lesson.
In a living system, feedback isn’t an event — it’s a conversation.”
“You can’t tend the garden without dirt under your nails…
You become part of the feedback loop — a living, learning organism inside a larger one.”
I do wonder if some of the reported “actions” have got beyond the proposal stage, yet.
I can find next to nothing on the “Cricket City” project, for example. Yes, the new one at Milton Keynes, but no word on any of the others, including Redbridge where my local council aren’t shy of a press release.
I can find next to nothing on the “Cricket City” project, for example. Yes, the new one at Milton Keynes, but no word on any of the others, including Redbridge where my local council aren’t shy of a press release.
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I do wonder if some of the reported “actions” have got beyond the proposal stage, yet.
I can find next to nothing on the “Cricket City” project, for example. Yes, the new one at Milton Keynes, but no word on any of the others, including Redbridge where my local council aren’t shy of a press release.
I can find next to nothing on the “Cricket City” project, for example. Yes, the new one at Milton Keynes, but no word on any of the others, including Redbridge where my local council aren’t shy of a press release.
He bought it, he owns it, he can do what he likes with it. If that means promoting his ideology over other ideas, that’s the way it is.
Property is proprietorial.
Enough from me.
Caught the end of the Ind SA Test (got TNT as legacy from BT broadband). Proper cricket!
Property is proprietorial.
Enough from me.
Caught the end of the Ind SA Test (got TNT as legacy from BT broadband). Proper cricket!
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
He bought it, he owns it, he can do what he likes with it. If that means promoting his ideology over other ideas, that’s the way it is.
Property is proprietorial.
Enough from me.
Caught the end of the Ind SA Test (got TNT as legacy from BT broadband). Proper cricket!
Property is proprietorial.
Enough from me.
Caught the end of the Ind SA Test (got TNT as legacy from BT broadband). Proper cricket!
Or moribund/abandoned/bot accounts as followers?
These all exist here, but are more easily spotted & removed.
Plus with no algorithm, so real people have to find real people to follow.
/Here ends the ad for bsky…/
These all exist here, but are more easily spotted & removed.
Plus with no algorithm, so real people have to find real people to follow.
/Here ends the ad for bsky…/
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Or moribund/abandoned/bot accounts as followers?
These all exist here, but are more easily spotted & removed.
Plus with no algorithm, so real people have to find real people to follow.
/Here ends the ad for bsky…/
These all exist here, but are more easily spotted & removed.
Plus with no algorithm, so real people have to find real people to follow.
/Here ends the ad for bsky…/
5/5
I experienced how difficult it was to convince teachers and teaching assistants in primary schools to take up (free) cricket training offered as part of Chance to Shine programmes. It _might_ be easier to recruit sporty PE teachers in secondary schools…but it might not.
I experienced how difficult it was to convince teachers and teaching assistants in primary schools to take up (free) cricket training offered as part of Chance to Shine programmes. It _might_ be easier to recruit sporty PE teachers in secondary schools…but it might not.
November 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
5/5
I experienced how difficult it was to convince teachers and teaching assistants in primary schools to take up (free) cricket training offered as part of Chance to Shine programmes. It _might_ be easier to recruit sporty PE teachers in secondary schools…but it might not.
I experienced how difficult it was to convince teachers and teaching assistants in primary schools to take up (free) cricket training offered as part of Chance to Shine programmes. It _might_ be easier to recruit sporty PE teachers in secondary schools…but it might not.
4/5
Roll-out of training for teachers seems ambitious, especially in the quoted timeframe…unless 2025-26 actually means “by the end of 2026” and not “in this academic year”.
Even then, hitting targets will need lots of training hours (Coach Development teams?), and structured post-training support.
Roll-out of training for teachers seems ambitious, especially in the quoted timeframe…unless 2025-26 actually means “by the end of 2026” and not “in this academic year”.
Even then, hitting targets will need lots of training hours (Coach Development teams?), and structured post-training support.
November 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
4/5
Roll-out of training for teachers seems ambitious, especially in the quoted timeframe…unless 2025-26 actually means “by the end of 2026” and not “in this academic year”.
Even then, hitting targets will need lots of training hours (Coach Development teams?), and structured post-training support.
Roll-out of training for teachers seems ambitious, especially in the quoted timeframe…unless 2025-26 actually means “by the end of 2026” and not “in this academic year”.
Even then, hitting targets will need lots of training hours (Coach Development teams?), and structured post-training support.
3/5
…But this development seems to have slipped under the radar. Even the local council, never shy of publicity, haven’t picked up on the new Cricket City status.
Are other new Cricket Cities really also “coming soon”?
…But this development seems to have slipped under the radar. Even the local council, never shy of publicity, haven’t picked up on the new Cricket City status.
Are other new Cricket Cities really also “coming soon”?
November 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
3/5
…But this development seems to have slipped under the radar. Even the local council, never shy of publicity, haven’t picked up on the new Cricket City status.
Are other new Cricket Cities really also “coming soon”?
…But this development seems to have slipped under the radar. Even the local council, never shy of publicity, haven’t picked up on the new Cricket City status.
Are other new Cricket Cities really also “coming soon”?
2/5
The London Borough of Redbridge, where I have lived and played cricket for most of my life, is listed as an ECB “Cricket City”.
Redbridge *is* a cricket hotbed (many established clubs, rapidly expanding communities of South Asian origin), existing facilities for winter training…
The London Borough of Redbridge, where I have lived and played cricket for most of my life, is listed as an ECB “Cricket City”.
Redbridge *is* a cricket hotbed (many established clubs, rapidly expanding communities of South Asian origin), existing facilities for winter training…
November 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
2/5
The London Borough of Redbridge, where I have lived and played cricket for most of my life, is listed as an ECB “Cricket City”.
Redbridge *is* a cricket hotbed (many established clubs, rapidly expanding communities of South Asian origin), existing facilities for winter training…
The London Borough of Redbridge, where I have lived and played cricket for most of my life, is listed as an ECB “Cricket City”.
Redbridge *is* a cricket hotbed (many established clubs, rapidly expanding communities of South Asian origin), existing facilities for winter training…
It is good to see what the ECB has been doing to enhance the “state of equity” in the gameof #cricket in England & Wales, but I do wonder about some of the detail — has there been some padding of claims (or judicious selection of tenses (“is” or “will be”) & timeframes.
1/5
1/5
November 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It is good to see what the ECB has been doing to enhance the “state of equity” in the gameof #cricket in England & Wales, but I do wonder about some of the detail — has there been some padding of claims (or judicious selection of tenses (“is” or “will be”) & timeframes.
1/5
1/5
BenFleet (or Pur)Fleet) Foxes
IngateStone (or LeytonStone) Roses
IngateStone (or LeytonStone) Roses
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
BenFleet (or Pur)Fleet) Foxes
IngateStone (or LeytonStone) Roses
IngateStone (or LeytonStone) Roses
Some more suggestions (these all from my wife)
Stee-Leigh(-on-Sea) Dan
The Beautiful Southend
Travelling Tilburys
And some solo artists
Eric Clacton
Gene Pitsea
Nat King Colchester
Stee-Leigh(-on-Sea) Dan
The Beautiful Southend
Travelling Tilburys
And some solo artists
Eric Clacton
Gene Pitsea
Nat King Colchester
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Some more suggestions (these all from my wife)
Stee-Leigh(-on-Sea) Dan
The Beautiful Southend
Travelling Tilburys
And some solo artists
Eric Clacton
Gene Pitsea
Nat King Colchester
Stee-Leigh(-on-Sea) Dan
The Beautiful Southend
Travelling Tilburys
And some solo artists
Eric Clacton
Gene Pitsea
Nat King Colchester
Pre-ordered from @newhambookshop.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Pre-ordered from @newhambookshop.bsky.social
Seax Pistols
Debden Mode
The Tiptree Jam
Debden Mode
The Tiptree Jam
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Seax Pistols
Debden Mode
The Tiptree Jam
Debden Mode
The Tiptree Jam