Hector Cappelletti
@hectorcappelletti.bsky.social
Cricketing flâneur and blogger with 6 demerit points. Part of the problem apparently.
Blogging at yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com
Blogging at yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com
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I am old enough to remember hundreds of county players being forced to play with a Kookaburra ball for weeks on end, while the Test side was in action at the same time and not using one.
Maybe it was a fever dream? Must have been.
Imagine Surrey scoring 800+ and a bowler going for 200+?
Bad dream!
Maybe it was a fever dream? Must have been.
Imagine Surrey scoring 800+ and a bowler going for 200+?
Bad dream!
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I am old enough to remember hundreds of county players being forced to play with a Kookaburra ball for weeks on end, while the Test side was in action at the same time and not using one.
Maybe it was a fever dream? Must have been.
Imagine Surrey scoring 800+ and a bowler going for 200+?
Bad dream!
Maybe it was a fever dream? Must have been.
Imagine Surrey scoring 800+ and a bowler going for 200+?
Bad dream!
Reposted by Hector Cappelletti
England to prepare with pink golf balls ahead of day-night Brisbane Test.
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
England to prepare with pink golf balls ahead of day-night Brisbane Test.
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No doubt it's the County Championship's fault again.
November 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
No doubt it's the County Championship's fault again.
New blogging: myself and Mrs C were in Bath a couple of weeks ago so we paid a visit to the Rec for some reminiscing on the ground.
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/in-memoriam-again-bath-recreation-ground/
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/in-memoriam-again-bath-recreation-ground/
In Memoriam Again: Bath Recreation Ground
Undertaking a train journey to a cricket ground whilst fully cognisant that no fixture will be taking place on said ground would seem a bizarre decision. Such a decision was made due to electing to…
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October 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
New blogging: myself and Mrs C were in Bath a couple of weeks ago so we paid a visit to the Rec for some reminiscing on the ground.
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/in-memoriam-again-bath-recreation-ground/
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/in-memoriam-again-bath-recreation-ground/
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New blogging: everyone has their favourite format of cricket. Personally, my favourite is a form rather than a format. A pithy piece on the beauties of evening cricket:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/s...
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/s...
Season’s Reflections: Evening Cricket
Most cricket supporters have a favourite format. Whether it’s the slow burn and developing narrative of a test match, the thrill a minute of T20 cricket or the happy medium of a fifty over eq…
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October 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
New blogging: everyone has their favourite format of cricket. Personally, my favourite is a form rather than a format. A pithy piece on the beauties of evening cricket:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/s...
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/s...
New blogging: everyone has their favourite format of cricket. Personally, my favourite is a form rather than a format. A pithy piece on the beauties of evening cricket:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/s...
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/s...
Season’s Reflections: Evening Cricket
Most cricket supporters have a favourite format. Whether it’s the slow burn and developing narrative of a test match, the thrill a minute of T20 cricket or the happy medium of a fifty over eq…
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
New blogging: everyone has their favourite format of cricket. Personally, my favourite is a form rather than a format. A pithy piece on the beauties of evening cricket:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/s...
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/s...
New blogging: I've decided to not renew my Hampshire membership next year. Because what's the point?! Some musings on memberships and the direction of travel in pro sport.
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/s...
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/s...
Season’s Reflections: Ennui
No two seasons are the same. Every year the cricketing landscape changes in some small manner. Largely the status quo remains untouched though. Every so often there is a seismic shift, often isolat…
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October 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
New blogging: I've decided to not renew my Hampshire membership next year. Because what's the point?! Some musings on memberships and the direction of travel in pro sport.
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/s...
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/s...
Evening all. Now for something, slightly, different: a review of the very interesting cricket book The Faintest of Tickles. Well worth a read:
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The Faintest of Tickles Review
One only discovered The Faintest of Tickles by accident. A careful perusal of social media whilst watching a County Championship livestream brought said tome to one’s attention via the Twitte…
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September 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Evening all. Now for something, slightly, different: a review of the very interesting cricket book The Faintest of Tickles. Well worth a read:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/t...
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/t...
Good news for the England men. If they get whumped again tomorrow the first tee of the golf course next to the Rose Bowl is about a ten minute walk from the dressing room. 👍
September 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Good news for the England men. If they get whumped again tomorrow the first tee of the golf course next to the Rose Bowl is about a ten minute walk from the dressing room. 👍
Never mind the ODI, here's a piece of pithy blogging on a couple of moments that brought delight during the Metro Bank Cup courtesy of Ali Orr and Shan Masood:
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yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/m...
Metro Bank Memories
Memories in sport too often focus on the victory and defeat. An entire contest and one’s recollection of said contest summed up in the most binary of judgements. Sometimes a moment or vignette of b…
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September 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Never mind the ODI, here's a piece of pithy blogging on a couple of moments that brought delight during the Metro Bank Cup courtesy of Ali Orr and Shan Masood:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/m...
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/m...
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A Saturday afternoon in Ikea, only made bearable by introducing my 15-year-old to Ikea cricket. You score a run every time you locate an item you want, but lose a wicket every time you see a family arguing. A respectable 18 for 3 today.
August 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A Saturday afternoon in Ikea, only made bearable by introducing my 15-year-old to Ikea cricket. You score a run every time you locate an item you want, but lose a wicket every time you see a family arguing. A respectable 18 for 3 today.
The T in T20 now stands for Tardy.
The opening game of CPL took 3 hours for 32.1 overs of cricket with no weather interruptions.
Test matches move faster than that.
Test matches move faster than that.
August 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The T in T20 now stands for Tardy.
August 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Test cricket season segueing into The Hundred
August 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Test cricket season segueing into The Hundred
Think I'm coming down with a fever. Likely to manifest itself on Thursday morning at about 11am! 🤒
August 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Think I'm coming down with a fever. Likely to manifest itself on Thursday morning at about 11am! 🤒
Evening. Some slightly different blogging. This from a trip to the Senior Open golf last weekend about nostalgia and reminiscing in sports:
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Further Reminiscence
Reminiscing is an important activity amongst sports fans. Chatting, mulling over and mentally indulging in players and performances of yesteryear are part and parcel of the rich heritage of sports …
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July 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Evening. Some slightly different blogging. This from a trip to the Senior Open golf last weekend about nostalgia and reminiscing in sports:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/f...
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/f...
Love a bit of evening cricket. Great for de-stressing, especially when the sun shines. I watch a few games each season. This pic is from a few weeks back at East Tytherley in Hampshire.
July 19, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Love a bit of evening cricket. Great for de-stressing, especially when the sun shines. I watch a few games each season. This pic is from a few weeks back at East Tytherley in Hampshire.
Reposted by Hector Cappelletti
If using the Kookaburra in county cricket is important Ashes practice for bowlers why are England picking a Test squad of 16 and allowing an excess number of pace bowlers to sit around at the Test in the interest of team spirit? Unwatchable & an arrogant destruction of England’s professional circuit
July 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If using the Kookaburra in county cricket is important Ashes practice for bowlers why are England picking a Test squad of 16 and allowing an excess number of pace bowlers to sit around at the Test in the interest of team spirit? Unwatchable & an arrogant destruction of England’s professional circuit
Evening cricket. Nice 😎
July 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Evening cricket. Nice 😎
Evening. 20 years after fans formed FCUM in protest at what Man Utd had become here's some blogging on whether cricket could do similar with club cricket via the Southern Premier League Burridge and Bournemouth:
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yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/a...
Alternative Part One
Twenty years ago, the Glazer family famously purchased Manchester United football club in a landmark and significant moment for the sport. Frustrated and disillusioned with the gradual erosion of t…
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July 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Evening. 20 years after fans formed FCUM in protest at what Man Utd had become here's some blogging on whether cricket could do similar with club cricket via the Southern Premier League Burridge and Bournemouth:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/a...
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/a...
Evening. Some new blogging from last weekend's visit to Longparish as its almost 5 years since I went there for the first match after COVID in the truncated summer of 2020. So, something of a celebratory return:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/reprise/
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/reprise/
Reprise
Moments and places. Arguably two of the main aspects that provide definition to one’s life. Some are controllable, others occur by happenstance; dictated by events and manifestations beyond one’s s…
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June 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Evening. Some new blogging from last weekend's visit to Longparish as its almost 5 years since I went there for the first match after COVID in the truncated summer of 2020. So, something of a celebratory return:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/reprise/
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/reprise/
This is an account worth following if you enjoy cricket's more quirky aspects. 😀
All 10 batters out 'caught' in a Women's ODI innings:
AUS 🇦🇺 v NZL 🇳🇿 , Mount Maunganui, 2015-16
WIN 🏝️ v RSA 🇿🇦 , Cave Hill, 2025
Also the 10th time in all Women's List A matches
#cricket 🏏
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AUS 🇦🇺 v NZL 🇳🇿 , Mount Maunganui, 2015-16
WIN 🏝️ v RSA 🇿🇦 , Cave Hill, 2025
Also the 10th time in all Women's List A matches
#cricket 🏏
www.espncricinfo.com/series/south...
WI-W vs SA-W Cricket Scorecard, 2nd ODI at Cave Hill, June 14, 2025
Get cricket scorecard of 2nd ODI, WI-W vs SA-W, South Africa Women in West Indies 2025 at Three Ws Oval, Cave Hill, Barbados dated June 14, 2025.
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June 15, 2025 at 5:32 AM
This is an account worth following if you enjoy cricket's more quirky aspects. 😀
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I actually like the WTC - I 100% get the criticism of the format, but people have short memories & seem to forget what came before. It's a start to fix & grow; It's better than teams unilaterally declaring themselves champions after a couple of undefeated series.
www.espncricinfo.com/story/wtc-fi...
www.espncricinfo.com/story/wtc-fi...
Imperfect World Test Championship still manages to stoke five-day fires
Gripes about South Africa's qualification path fall away as ICC showpiece descends on Lord's
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June 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I actually like the WTC - I 100% get the criticism of the format, but people have short memories & seem to forget what came before. It's a start to fix & grow; It's better than teams unilaterally declaring themselves champions after a couple of undefeated series.
www.espncricinfo.com/story/wtc-fi...
www.espncricinfo.com/story/wtc-fi...
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I always enjoy seeing a cricket ground with a fully grown tree within the boundary ropes - the game just fitting around the landscape (and providing a few fielding challenges!). Here's a fine example from the ground I visited today at Sulhamstead & Ufton CC.
#cricket #cricketground #trees
#cricket #cricketground #trees
June 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I always enjoy seeing a cricket ground with a fully grown tree within the boundary ropes - the game just fitting around the landscape (and providing a few fielding challenges!). Here's a fine example from the ground I visited today at Sulhamstead & Ufton CC.
#cricket #cricketground #trees
#cricket #cricketground #trees
Evening. A bit of blogging featuring Sunday friendly cricket, how it is a form that is cherished by many and how the Meon Valley in east Hants is a bit of a hotspot:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/f...
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/f...
For the Love of the Game Reprised
When the general state of the health of cricket in this country is debated one of the most emotive and cherished aspects of the game that is often highlighted is that of Sunday / village cricket an…
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May 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Evening. A bit of blogging featuring Sunday friendly cricket, how it is a form that is cherished by many and how the Meon Valley in east Hants is a bit of a hotspot:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/f...
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/f...