Hector Cappelletti 🏏
@hectorcappelletti.bsky.social
I like writing about cricket. Flâneur and blogger with 6 demerit points. Part of the problem apparently. Blogging at yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com
One last plug for this piece on the National Counties Championship and how it is a great alternative to the lack of red ball cricket at this time of the summer: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/alternative-part-two/
Alternative Part Two
The north Barcelona district of Sant Andreu would seem an odd place to begin a blog post about cricket. But there is resonance with the sport and the area of one of Europe’s most visited destinatio…
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ICYMI: a blog piece from last week's round of National Counties Championship matches and how it is a viable alternative for the lack of red ball cricket at this time of year: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/a...
Alternative Part Two
The north Barcelona district of Sant Andreu would seem an odd place to begin a blog post about cricket. But there is resonance with the sport and the area of one of Europe’s most visited destinatio…
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New blogging: I ventured down to Wimborne this week to watch the National Counties Championship match between Dorset and Cheshire. At a time when many long for red ball cricket the NC's Champo really does provide a great alternative: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/a...
Alternative Part Two
The north Barcelona district of Sant Andreu would seem an odd place to begin a blog post about cricket. But there is resonance with the sport and the area of one of Europe’s most visited destinatio…
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com
New blogging: last winter I joined the Cricket Society. . So last Saturday I popped up to Warnford in east Hampshire to watch the Society XI play: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/p...
Part of the Whole
Some people are joiners. Provide an opportunity to become part of a club, an organisation, a society or an equivalent and there is a stirring of the internal waters to become part of something that…
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New blogging: last winter I joined the Cricket Society. . So last Saturday I popped up to Warnford in east Hampshire to watch the Society XI play: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/p...
Part of the Whole
Some people are joiners. Provide an opportunity to become part of a club, an organisation, a society or an equivalent and there is a stirring of the internal waters to become part of something that…
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com
One last plug for this blog piece from last Saturday when i went to watch Chawton play, a club with just one team that are making great shakes in the Hampshire League: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/c...
Club Cricket Quirks: One Team Clubs
Single team clubs fascinate this blogger. Quite why is not easy to explain. Perhaps it is the precarious, somewhat vulnerable nature of a club existing with potentially a small pool of players. Per…
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Evening. Some new blogging. Last Saturday i went to watch Chawton play, a club with just one team that are making great shakes in the Hampshire League: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/c...
Club Cricket Quirks: One Team Clubs
Single team clubs fascinate this blogger. Quite why is not easy to explain. Perhaps it is the precarious, somewhat vulnerable nature of a club existing with potentially a small pool of players. Per…
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com
Evening. Some new blogging. Last Saturday i went to watch Chawton play, a club with just one team that are making great shakes in the Hampshire League: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/c...
Club Cricket Quirks: One Team Clubs
Single team clubs fascinate this blogger. Quite why is not easy to explain. Perhaps it is the precarious, somewhat vulnerable nature of a club existing with potentially a small pool of players. Per…
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com
Maybe the IPL is not as good as the clever people tell us it is.
To paraphrase some old Hirling commentary: There won't be a cow milked on the island of Ireland tonight! What a few days for Irish cricket!
Evening. Sometimes the constant controversies of cricket can say the joy out of the game. Here's some blogging on escaping all the noise with by watching a match in the countryside for the simple joybthat the sport can bring. yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/d...
Detox
Doomscrolling. One of those terms that seems to appear from nowhere due to a particular phenomenon, accepted norm or change in lifestyle of society at large. The sort of term that is often deemed ‘…
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Ireland (population 7 million, cricketing budget the loose change down the back of the sofa) beating India (population one and a half billion, annual cricketing budget all the money in the world) is both brilliant and hilarious. #TheCricket
Evening. Sometimes the constant controversies of cricket can say the joy out of the game. Here's some blogging on escaping all the noise with by watching a match in the countryside for the simple joybthat the sport can bring. yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/d...
Detox
Doomscrolling. One of those terms that seems to appear from nowhere due to a particular phenomenon, accepted norm or change in lifestyle of society at large. The sort of term that is often deemed ‘…
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com
Evening. I recently received my copy of Vinciness: the unbearable sadness of batting by Jon Hotten. Here's a review of a fabulous read: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/06/22/v...
Vinciness: The Unbearable Sadness of Batting Review
In a lunchtime interview with Jon Hotten on the Surrey livestream during the County Championship match against Sussex, interviewer Dan Norcross described the book as the ‘best two hours of your rea…
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Evening. I recently received my copy of Vinciness: the unbearable sadness of batting by Jon Hotten. Here's a review of a fabulous read: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/06/22/v...
Vinciness: The Unbearable Sadness of Batting Review
In a lunchtime interview with Jon Hotten on the Surrey livestream during the County Championship match against Sussex, interviewer Dan Norcross described the book as the ‘best two hours of your rea…
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Ah yes, Matt Henry: 11 cheap wickets and the man of the match award at the sort of medium-fast pace that some in the England heirarchy will tell you has no place in Test cricket. 😤
Evening. Some more blogging from travels earlier in the week. This time watching a match in the Gordon Grace League: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/e...
Evening Escapades: Gordon Grace League
In the majority of cases, evening cricket leagues are based on geography. Be it a specific area or a radius from a particular point, the boundaries of a league are often instigated so as to keep tr…
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ICYMI: Last Sunday I watched a league match between two teams from the same club. Some thoughts and observations from the afternoon: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/c...
Club Cricket Quirks: Crossed Paths
The lower divisions of a cricket league often throw up a range of quirks and anomalies. Usually an eclectic mix of third, fourth and fifth XI’s with the occasional one team club thrown in for the h…
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Evening. Some more blogging from travels earlier in the week. This time watching a match in the Gordon Grace League: yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/e...
Evening Escapades: Gordon Grace League
In the majority of cases, evening cricket leagues are based on geography. Be it a specific area or a radius from a particular point, the boundaries of a league are often instigated so as to keep tr…
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