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other shades of green writings about cricket and life other shades of green writings about cricket and life menu skip to content home cricket people graham thorpe 1969 2024 coolness under fire pausing to remember the abrupt death of hope runs and trust a serious player standing out stranger to failure starting out when an old cricketer leaves the crease marcus cricket places taunton early season local boy made good at southport sedbergh cricket times a moment in indian time the man on the train the wisden experience it makes you think a day at the cricket the oval monday 12th september 2005 learning to fly the inevitability of genius the language of batting wisden wisden and me south african time cricket and blogs 2014 cricket and blogs 2015 cricket and blogs 2016 cricket and blogs 2017 cricket and blogs 2018 cricket and blogs 2019 cricket and blogs 2020 cricket and blogs 2021 cricket and blogs 2022 cricket and blogs 2023 other writings other writings travels banca going back severiano ballesteros 1957 2011 something extraordinary waiting contact contact search search for other shades of green i was born and brought up in london and i have lived in devon since 1991 i have spent a large part of my life watching sport at places such as lord s twickenham cardiff arms park the principality stadium parc des princes the stade de france fenway park lansdowne road murrayfield kingsholm the melbourne cricket ground the san siro newlands wimbledon and wembley these days depending on the time of year i can usually be found at the fortfield at sidmouth at the county ground in taunton at lord s or at sandy park home of the exeter chiefs my cricket writing has appeared in the cricket statistician the journal of the cricket society the cricketer international cricket lore the nightwatchman county cricket matters and a range of specialist historical journals as well as on espn cricinfo in 2013 i was the inaugural winner of the wisden cricketers almanack cricket writing competition and my winning piece south african time appeared in that year s edition of the almanack between 2015 and 2024 i wrote the annual review of cricket blogs for wisden since 2006 i have been writing the cricket blog different shades of green my favourite pieces from it are reproduced here along with some other writings from a range of periods in my life for their encouragement assistance friendship and inspiration over the years my thanks are due to lawrence booth annie chave the late katharine farrell richard hill peter hoare jon hotten gerry hunt paul katte patrick kidd bill le breton will luke scott oliver the late alan price andrew riley nick slough chris smith and martin weiler brian carpenter share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook blog at wordpress com privacy other shades of green sign up log in copy shortlink report this content manage subscriptions