The Blog Re-read: Part 8 (and Career Stats Update)

And so, we have reached the end. I have now been back and read through all of the old posts and brought you what I think are the highlights. I hope you've all come across some interesting forgotten things. If not, bad luck (and maybe you should stop wasting your time reading the blog).
So here it is, the final part of The Great Blog Re-read....

The Blog Re-read: Part 7 (and Repetitive Overs)

Random fact: despite being published to the blog in December, this post (along with most others in the "re-read" series) was written a couple of months in advance. I did this so that I could fulfill the promise I made to the team of "a blog on each game-day for the rest of the year", and so that I'd have more time to work on something different for you.
But enough about that... let's continue with the blog re-cap (and some stats about Gareth's over of singles last week).

The Blog Re-read: Part 6

Revisiting events from late 2013 and the first half of 2014, we find two milestones and one big event took place on the blog. Can you remember what they were? Or will you just jump in and read today's post to find out without even trying to think about it...

The Blog Re-read: Part 5

The search for entertaining events and blog posts from the past continues.
As well as leading in to some interesting future activities, this re-reading series is also being used to build up a list of ideas for future blogs. I've added a bunch of new ideas to the blog suggestions page, and I'll keep adding over the next few weeks. Don't forget to keep adding your own ideas there - there more suggestions, the more likely it is that the blogs will continue to be written regularly!

Today, in part five, we are working our way through most of the year 2013, up until the end of our second season at Kaleen.

The Blog Re-read: Part 4 (and Missing Games)

The next in the eight-part re-living of classic times from the past. In case you're wondering, I'm not just doing this bunch of posts because I'm being lazy (although that is part of it too) - there is a couple of interesting things to come at the end of it all. I chose to cover everything in exactly 8 posts for a reason.
Today we look through posts from the second half of 2012, along with the first classic game in 2013.

The Blog Re-read: Part 3

As the blog approaches another milestone, we continue our look back at all the great times it has provided us with in the past. With 2011 being a very lean year for posts, the next 20 (approximately) posts takes us through all of that year, and up to the middle of 2012.

The Blog Re-read: Part 2 (and Third-Dots)

Continuing to reminisce about the Popped Collars past, today I re-examine the next 18 blog posts, taking us to the end of 2010. During this time, the stats started to flow on the blog, and there will undoubtedly be a few good ones that could be re-examined. Rather than do them all in these posts, I will add them to the list on the blog suggestions page. Don't forget, you can add your own suggestions there as well!

The Blog Re-read: Part 1

Welcome everyone to a series of blogs looking back at the past posts here on PoppedStats. Over the next 8 posts I'm going to go back and read all the previous articles here, uncovering some forgotten classics, finding inspiration for future posts, and more. 

Popped Collars Pre-History

In the beginning, there was a team, and the captain said "Let us take this game a bit more seriously". And there was the Popped Collars. And we saw that it was good. And we kept stats, and started a blog. Readers of this blog know much of the story from that point on - mostly because many readers of this blog are the people that have been playing for that team since then.

But what about before the beginning? What was this team that became the Popped Collars?

Popped Collars Version 4.0

Tonight, the Popped Collars return to where they began. After playing at Lyneham, and now Kaleen, we now prepare to return to the Weston Indoor Sports centre.

An old post, and an older scorecard

A few intriguing questions and stats were proposed for the latest blog post. The one I choose to look at today is batting hat-tricks and consecutive wickets lost... if only because it gives me an excuse to share with you an olde indoor cricket memory of mine. Enjoy.

Coming soon: Greatest moments of Indoor

Rian, once again, offers the inspiration for today's post by suggesting something unrelated to statistics. After the infamous organisational skills of the NICC were displayed yet again on Friday night, Rian asked for a list of some of the great stuff-ups of everyone's "favourite" indoor cricket centre.

While such disorganisation has been common, I am struggling to recall any such incidents that would stand out as being "great". In fact, there's been so many minor stuff-ups that I can't really remember any of them specifically.

I'm therefore gunning for something more exciting, and something that all of you, my dedicated readers, can contribute to. A list of the "greatest" moment in indoor cricket... or at least, moments in the history of indoor cricket that we have been involved with.

Post a comment, or send me an email reminding me of (or describing, if for some reason I wasn't around at the time) some of the great indoor cricket tales.

It could be a thrilling match, an epic individual performance, an unlikely turn of events, a humerous off-court anecdote, an extraordinary single moment in time, a classic ongoing gag, a memorable character from the past... or whatever else you feel is appropriate. It could be from Popped Collars, or any of its predecessor teams - or from any other team or time in our, or your, past.

I already have a short list that I am compiling on my own, but I would appreciate anything that others have to say. Having played somewhere in the vicinity of 500 games of indoor in my life, and umpired another couple of hundred, I'm bound to forget plenty of the best parts.

...and more stats shall be coming later in the week, after tonight's Popped Collars game!