Hector Cappelletti
Cricketing flâneur and blogger with 6 demerit points. Part of the problem apparently.
Blogging at yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com
- I've discovered there's a New Zealand pro cricketer called Peter Younghusband. Marvellous name 😎 that's all.
- I see there's 5 penalty runs on the England scorecard. What's happened?
- As he's announced his retirement from international cricket here's some re-gurgitated blogging from a couple of years ago on Usman Khawaja and the quality of persistence: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2023/10/06/s...
- 2025 was another enjoyable year of spectating and blogging. Thanks to everyone who read my blogging etc. Here's my favourite shots of the year:
- Zak Crawley has now played more tests than the late Robin Smith. That tells you everything about England selection in the present day and in the mid 1990's.
- Indeed.
- Robin Smith was my childhood hero and I wanted to square cut the ball like he did. Absolutely gutted.
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- 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/
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/m...
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- The T in T20 now stands for Tardy.
- Just remember: "You've been Metro Bank'd!" #metrobankfever
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- 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: 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.
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- 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: 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/
- This is an account worth following if you enjoy cricket's more quirky aspects. 😀
- Reposted by Hector CappellettiI 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...
- Reposted by Hector CappellettiI 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
- 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...
- Evening. Some new blogging about knock-out cricket and how it's still part of the club game even though the pro game has largely shunned it. Featuring Weybridge, Guildford, Chichester Priory Park and Pagham. yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/j...
- Midsomer Murders cricket episode klaxon! 📢 Just starting on ITV3.
- Evening. Some new blogging after a glorious few weeks of sun on why May is my favourite month of the cricket season courtesy of a match at Arundel Castle between the BBC Bushmen and The Ivy: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/a...
- Spent the afternoon with Mrs C watching some Sunday friendly cricket: 😎
- Evening. Just a somewhat pithy blog piece regarding the lure of the countryside cricket and how its good for the soul from a Border League match between East Tytherley and Paultons earlier this week: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/s...
- Hove doesn't quite look right with the temporary stands at the Cromwell Road End.
- Watched a bit of evening cricket at East Tytherley yesterday evening. Always good for the soul. 😀😎
- Top work in the loo at Goodwood CC today:
- It looks like the Travelodge at Bournemouth Seafront has some sort of cricket facility! 😁
- Watching something of a rarity today: a red ball match between a first class county and a national county. Hants 2's v Berkshire at the Bowl.
- Reposted by Hector CappellettiToday’s beautiful cricket ground is the home of Bramshaw CC in the New Forest #cricket #cricketgrounds #cricketground #villagecricket #clubcricket #beautifulcricketgrounds #cricketuk #cricketuk🇬🇧 🏏
- Was out and about earlier and heard an ice cream van with the Test Match Special theme tune as its siren. Top work!
- Evening, first bit of blogging for about 6 months! This review of the excellent Sticky Dogs and Stardust the Second Innings by Scott Oliver: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/s...
- Afternoon. First bit of blogging for about 6 months! This review of the excellent Sticky Dogs and Stardust the Second Innings by Scott Oliver and published by Fairfield Books and @nightwatchmanxi.bsky.social yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/s...
- Dan Hughes on for a 100 before lunch at the present rate of scoring at Hove.
- Watching a bit of Hants 2's v Notts 2's at the Bowl this afternoon 😎
