Benalmadena, Malaga etc, August 2017

A few pics from summer holiday at the Hotel Riviera, Benalmadena, Malaga, Andalucia.

Benalmadena Pueblo

Hotel Riviera at dusk

Torremolinos (1)

Torremolinos (2)

Railway station

La Feria, Malaga

Malaga harbour

Malaga bullring

Malaga city (1)

Malaga city (2)

Malaga city (3)

Benalmadena Costa at night

Hotel Riviera at night

Parque in Benalmadena

The view from the hotel terrace

Glamorgan v Hampshire, T20, Cardiff, 07/07/17

Glamorgan's T20 Blast campaign starting in a rather feeble fashion as they suffered a 22 run defeat to Hampshire.

Batting first, the South Coast visitors posted an impressive 167/5 off their 20 overs, probably a little above par on a slow pitch. Lewis McManus top scored with an impressive 59 of 35 balls.

In reply, Glamorgan never really got going, and it was only a 28 ball half century from Graeme Wagg that gave the final total respectability.

Scorecard and report.

A nice day, but cool evening

Glamorgan's star batsman Colin Ingram

The much traveled Shahid 'Boom Boom' Afridi took 4 wickets for 20 runs

Glamorgan v Derbyshire, County Championship Division 2, Cardiff 26-29/06/17

In all honesty, the day-night, pink ball experiment in county cricket was a rather underwhelming affair played out in ordinary weather and in front of poor crowds.

The idea was that people would come in to watch after work, but quite frankly more people were leaving at the 6.40 tea break than coming into the ground.

In the match itself, Derbyshire ran out winners by 39 runs after Glamorgan limply collapsed to 172 chasing 212 with sixteen year old off-spinner Hamidullah Qadri taking 5-60.

Scorecard and report.