Middlesex County Cricket League (MCCL)

No unbeaten sides left in the Prem, Richmond looking good in Div 1 whilst Kenton and Indian Gym go three out of three in Div 2. Elsewhere there's a glorious tie in Div 6 and there's news of Merv Hughes turning up in Middlesex later in the week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sal and Dan welcome Kenton's Schopun Jooma on board to talk about chasing 390! Elsewhere, the Bush come unstuck at Twickenham whilst Ealing beat Teddington. Plus, the mysterious case of Ealing 5s and Teddington 4s being prevented from starting by cricketing squatters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Week 1 was a more or less total washout. Week 2 was hardly awash with sunshine, but most sides did still manage to play. Teddington won a thriller, bowlers dominated and low scores were the norm. We had our first tie of the season and Sal and Dan discuss the curious case of a major 'dig in' .... in a limited-overs game of cricket. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoice...

Sal and Dan unpack the pre-season action and look ahead to the games of the day in Week 1. There's also a few MCCL milestones on the horizon, plus the guys talk us through the awarding of the first silverware of the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sahil Kher (Acton), Matt Robinson (Actonians), Sal Ali (North London) and Dan Hough (Twickenham) come together to try and do the impossible; work out who is going to win what and indeed lose plenty in the 2023 MCCL season. Tune in to find out more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gus Fraser joins the guys to chat about working on construction sites, playing for really Middlesex sides plus plenty more. There’s also the draw for both Middlesex Cup and indeed the Middlesex Trophy. Will the guys managed not to cock it up? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s the bleak midwinter but that won’t stop Sal, Dan and Euge chewing the MCCL fat. How do you make some (epically) long overs games shorter? What of the new sides who will be joining the league in 2023? And plenty on how Euge is going to ‘walk the Ashes’ in the summer of 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

That was the season that was. Sal and Dan review their predictions, the highs and lows of the season and review their ‘teams of the year’. Plus, games with 130 extras and a match that’s won when you declare on, erm, 89! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1,242 runs at an average of 82.8. Thrown in three 50s and six (!) centuries and Joel Curtis has had a magnificent 2022. Sal and Dan chew the fat with the Crouch End run machine.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Twickenham win the battle to stay in the Premier League, Bron and Finchley keep their nerve to win promotion from Div 1. Southgate win the shootout to gain promotion from Div 2 and Wycombe House (just about) hang on to claim the Div 3 title. Plus, news on all the other ups ans down from a gripping final league weekend Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The battle at the top of the Prem’s been concluded but the fight to stay up builds up to a crescendo in Week 17. Plus, Div 1 remains as tight as ever, Southgate and Eastcote battling hard in Div 2 and Wycombe House and Kenton still in the box seats in Div 3. Finally, heard the one about the game that couldn’t start because of a music concert taking place on the ground…:? Tune in to hear more. Lear...

North Midd slip up (again) and Teddington take advantage. Top five in Div 1 separated by just nine points, promotion charges of Southgate and Wycombe House wobble. Old Isleworthians beat Kay Plus in the game of the day in Div 4 and have you ever carried your bat for …. 0no? Happened in Middlesex on Saturday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alexandra Park’s Portuguese run machine, Sharn Gomes, joins Sal and Dan to talk shop. On the field North Midd come a cropper at Twickenham, Harrow Town get promoted from Div 2 and Enfield set out on the Great Escape. Plus, news of 8.50pm finishes, players playing in their 80s and will an Actonians side finally - after a decade long drought - get promoted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit po...

Shocks in the Prem and indeed in a few other places, too. Southgate end Harrow Town’s unbeaten streak, Tamil United finally get some points on the board and poor old Stoke Newington come a real cropper against London Tigers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Finchley’s Dave Burton joins Sal and Dan to discuss life with Finchley and indeed all the action in and around the MCCL. Bron and Enfield serve up a thriller whilst Kensington & Chelsea score 300 plus and still lose. Harrow St Mary’s 4s somehow manage to declare after 20 overs …. and still win! Just an ordinary weekend in the MCCL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoice...

More title flip-flopping as leads change in the Prem, Div 3 and Div 5. Plus, low-scoring carnage as Swamibapa play Perivale, and Harrow Town just keep ploughing on…. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All change, please! New leaders in Divisions 1, 3 and 4 as title races tighten up. London Superkings go Superbonkers in Div 6, piling on 400 plus and Sal has an entertaining day umpiring London Tigers’ Sami Haider. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hornsey go run crazy, Osterley & Harrow St Mary’s have a wicket-taking fest plus Willow Leather & Swamibapa provide entertaining fair in Division Five. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Teddington and North Midd plough on but Shay Boo are also purring nicely. Harrow Town lose the only perfect record in 1st XI cricket by approximately three yards. Plus, the tightest division in the MCCL? Div 6, without a shadow of a doubt.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

North Midd bounce back, Teddington take the strain and Hornsey hold on for a draw. Plus, Wembley’s Schopun Jooma joins Sal and Dan to talk through Div 1, and why have number 8s suddenly started smashing hundreds?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sal and Dan welcome Harrow Town’s Aravinth Nagarajan on board to discuss their great start to the season and their phenomenal 2021. Wycombe House power on in Div 3, and goodness only knows what was going on at Lanka Lions in Div 4. Plus, trees in the outfield? Dan reveals the grounds where that’s happened in the first class arena Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The mighty stumble in the Prem as Hampstead spring a surprise on Teddington. Nine teams across the league still have perfect records, news of a 60 point deduction and how many grounds out there have trees in the outfield? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

James Overy is our guest as gazillions more runs are scored and 300 plus threatens to become the new normal. Teddington cruise on, Bron remain top of Div 1 and Harrow Town & Highgate lead the way in Div 2. Plus, more (bonkers) stats on the wides pandemic, news of another dramatic tie and of a ding dong finish between Ealing Hanwellians and Chiswick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...

Ben Frazer (Hampstead) joins Sal and Dan to talk about the Prem, before hearing about Kesrick Williams’s performance at Osterley, mysterious cases of obstructing the field …. and how the plague of wides is getting even worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The runs keep coming as batters continue to dominate in the MCCL. Plus, we’ve had the first tie of the season and let’s not even talk about all those damn extras…. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices