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• 980418 The start of the cricket season The new cricket season crept in almost unnoticed last week. The first two matches, at the Parks in Oxford and Fenners in
• 990508 World Cup cricket in England The last time the cricket world cup was held in England was in 1999, and I was horrified when I learnt that the first matches were
• 990605 Derby Day weather Summer sporting events are often at the mercy of the weather. A wet June can lay waste Wimbledon, Ascot, a couple of Test Matches, Henley,
• 000701 Wimbledon weather Cliff Richard’s services may not be required in the future if the Wimbledon authorities go ahead with plans to cover the main courts, but the rain
• 001111 Cricket weather in Pakistan When the England cricket team tour Pakistan, the Test Match venues are normally Lahore, Faisalabad, and Karachi. The weather is rarely
• 020525 Football World Cup 2002 The England football squad's "acclimatisation trip" to Dubai certainly raised some eyebrows in meteorological circles. The searing heat,
• 020622 More on Wimbledon weather We in Britain are not alone in having our sporting activities disrupted by the weather. In the last two weeks alone rain has
• 021109 The Ashes tour of Australia The England cricket team, under the cosh again in Australia, may be hoping that the weather will intervene to save them – as it did on
• 040306 Cricket in the West Indies In less hectic times, the England cricket team used to tour the West Indies from January until March, but this year’s visit has only just begun
• 991128 Cricket in South Africa When England toured South Africa during the winter of 1999-2000 they encountered one of the wettest seasons on record in the republic, and
• 000514 The first mid-May Test Match When England met Zimbabwe in the First Test Match of the 2000 season at Lord’s on May 18, it was by almost a fortnight the earliest
• 010521 The coldest Test Match day in history Rain prevented any play on the first day of the First Test Match between England and Pakistan on 17th May 2001. It is an easy thing
• 020623 Whirlwind at Royal Ascot The rather sedate proceedings at Royal Ascot were enlivened on Thursday afternoon when a small whirlwind caused havoc among the race-goers
• 9805xx Derby Day 1911 What would Gilbert and Sullivan have made of it? The SS Titanic was launched in Belfast, a horse called Sunstar won the Derby on a day of enervating heat and
• 9605yy Snow on the cricket ground at Buxton The cold north wind set in during the closing days of May, but cold as it was, everyone was astonished when snow showers turned up on