My two cents

Musings on my 40 years in schools and newspapers scratching the surfaces of the world of work and the educational role of sport in school

Monday, 5 September 2022

The time cricket festival is done, but the lessons will live on

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  The St David’s Fasken Time Cricket Festival ended on Sunday and it was a run fest. There were no fewer that 18 centuries scored in the f...
Saturday, 3 September 2022

Appreciating your opponents is part of the great game

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  Someone told me that as we get older, the time we have spent watching cricket is subtracted from our age. He’d read it somewhere, he said....
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Friday, 2 September 2022

It's about sitting together in the shade, as much as anything else

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  The idea of playing two-day cricket matches is something new to the 180-odd boys who are at St David’s Marist for the Fasken Time cricket ...
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Wednesday, 31 August 2022

There are lessons to be taught and learned

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  The Fasken Time cricket festival at St David’s Marist was last held in 2019 and the results of the, then, 10 two-day games broke more or l...
Wednesday, 24 August 2022

Why 2-day cricket games are good for schoolboys

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  The Fasken St David’s Time Cricket Festival is back after a two-year Covid-induced break, and it has been increased to 12 teams – 11 schoo...
Thursday, 18 August 2022

Danone is still on board and one day, hopefully, its Nations Cup will be back

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  I was at the St David’s Challenge Cup schools football tournament a few weeks ago and reflected on the all-round excellence of the event w...
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Sunday, 3 July 2022

Happy birthday to an old soul - Lucky Stylinaou

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  I saw on Facebook that it’s Lucky Stylianou’s birthday today. I remember Lucky from my days at Wits University, and he had clearly been ...
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