As you noticed yesterday, harrowdrive was down for around 24 hours. This was because my hosting company's server blew up and everything needed to be migrated to a new box.

Some stuff seems to have been lost (presumably their backups were a bit out of date) so if you emailed me in the last day you might have to send it again.

Brisbane cricketer, Simon Eggins is back with his view on club cricket from the other side of the world. This time it's all about run outs.

Running between the wickets is undoubtedly a key aspect of the game, yet for most club players it is something that is virtually never practiced. This being true, it's surprisingly easy for even the best of us to forget the basics and to gift the opposition a run out, especially at moments of high pressure. Though not an exhaustive list, here are a few basic errors that can be easily avoided.

Warwickshire cricketer and part time BBC cricket commentator Dougie Brown's insights into the minds of top players can often be very perceptive. During a recent commentary he came up with a gem.

“The player's minds will be ice; their bodies will be on fire.”

It was almost word for word the same as the pitchside report from England during the Rugby World Cup Final, an approach personified by the physical excellence and metronomic boot of Jonny Wilkinson.

Purpose: Practicing pickup and underarm throw under pressure.

Imagine you are sitting down in a lecture hall for your first day of cricket nutrition school. Pretty much the first thing you are going to learn is that calories are key.

You will be told that 99.9% of people are the same from international arena to village green: If calories burned are greater than calories eaten you lose weight. And vice versa.

I should be very angry at Inzamam-ul-Haq.

For nearly 500 international games over 15 years Inzy has been single-handedly proving that you don't need to train hard to score lots of runs. He is the antithesis of the spirit of this blog.

Actually he's the most wonderful exception to the rule to the rule since IT Botham last missed a net session for extra quality time with his bed.

A couple of seasons ago the cricket club I play for were in trouble in the league.

With one game to go the first team needed a win to avoid a fate worse than an England Twenty20 performance: Relegation to the depths of the third division.

We were confident victory could be ours. Home advantage and a weak opposition gave us the upper hand. The first team all turned up for extra training on Thursday. The captain demanded the selected team arrived at 11:30 the morning of the match (start time is 2pm) for practice and warm ups.