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Post by Admin on Oct 6, 2020 14:44:55 GMT
This again as it says on the tin, winter cricket news
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Post by apm51054 on Oct 15, 2020 20:07:57 GMT
ECB received an invitation to tour Pakistan fantastic news should be accepted
Sussex deducted 24 points from last season’s BWT due to Claydon putting sanitizer on the ball, nine game ban odd really we had to do it every 6 overs in Palace Shield games
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Post by Admin on Oct 18, 2020 9:37:43 GMT
John Reid, the former New Zealand captain, selector of the national team, ICC match referee and the 1959 Wisden Cricketer of the Year, has died in Auckland at the age of 92 years and 133 days. Before his passing, he was the fifth oldest living Test cricketer, and the oldest from New Zealand.
Reid made his debut for New Zealand against England in Manchester in 1949. He played 58 Test matches and scored 3,428 runs before retiring in 1965. One of his six hundreds came in the second innings of the Christchurch Test against England in 1963, where he scored 100 out of New Zealand's innings total of 159. That total still stands as a record for the lowest innings score to feature a hundred.
An allrounder who bowled fast-medium, Reid took 85 Test wickets and also was a handy wicketkeeper, standing behind the stumps in the final Test of his debut 1949 series against England.
Reid, who gave up on dreams of being a rugby player due to a heart condition, was New Zealand's captain in their first-ever Test win, against West Indies in 1956, which came in the country's 45th game, 26 years after their first. Three years later, he touched glory on tour in South Africa in the 1961-62 season, scoring 1915 runs with seven centuries, which also included New Zealand's first away Test win, coming under his captaincy.
He was also involved in the lowest innings total in Tests, when New Zealand were dispatched for 26 by England at Eden Park in 1955. "You can't really explain it," he told ESPNcricinfo in 2009. "In the first innings I got 73, and we got them out for 246. And then we score 26."
His success as New Zealand captain - who he led 34 times - eventually saw him captain the Rest of the World XI that toured England in 1965 with Sir Garfield Sobers as vice-captain and Charlie Griffith, Wes Hall, Hanif Mohammad and Rohan Kanhai playing under him. Overall, he scored 16,128 first-class runs at an average of 41.35 and 39 hundreds with the bat, and with the ball took 466 first-class wickets at an average of 22.20. He also had seven stumpings.
His career-best 296 - with 35 fours and 15 sixes - for Northern Districts held the record for most sixes in a first-class innings for more than three decades until Andrew Symonds broke it with his 16 sixes for Gloucestershire.
While Reid was Test captain, he was also New Zealand's selector. After his retirement, he briefly coached in South Africa but returned to New Zealand and became an ICC match referee between 1993 and 2002, officiating in 50 Tests and 98 ODIs. After that he was appointed president of New Zealand Cricket in 2003.
For his contributions to the sport in New Zealand, a gate at the Basin Reserve cricket ground in Wellington bears his name. Reid's son Richard played nine ODIs between 1988 and 1991. Reid's health was in decline after being diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2013. After Reid's death, the oldest living Test cricketer from New Zealand is Trevor McMahon (aged 90 and 341 days). McMahon played five Tests in 1955-56, and Reid, too, featured in all those games.
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Post by apm51054 on Oct 19, 2020 18:42:33 GMT
England off to South Africa
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Post by Admin on Oct 21, 2020 18:36:06 GMT
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Post by lancsdes on Oct 22, 2020 19:48:36 GMT
As Marina Hyde said in the Guardian a couple of years back, why do the governing bodies of cricket, rugby union, and football all hate their sport?
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Post by Admin on Oct 22, 2020 20:49:29 GMT
As Marina Hyde said in the Guardian a couple of years back, why do the governing bodies of cricket, rugby union, and football all hate their sport? Money men not interested |
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Post by Admin on Nov 1, 2020 10:14:02 GMT
Marcus Harris and Will Pucovski broke the 30-year record held by Mark Waugh and Steve Waugh for the highest partnership in Sheffield Shield history as their monumental opening stand extended to 486 on the third day against South Australia.
The pair resumed on 0 for 418 with Pucovski on 199. He reached his second double century off the first ball of the day as he and Harris moved briskly up the records charts
Harris was dropped at slip by Callum Ferguson with the score on 436 and it was his cover drive which took the stand to 465, surpassing the Waugh-Waugh landmark which was made against Western Australia at the WACA in 1990-91.
As attention turned to the all-time first-class partnership lists and a 500-stand loomed, South Australia finally ended the stand when Harris gloved a short ball to the keeper.
Pucovski, opening for the first time in first-class cricket, finished unbeaten on a career-best 255 when Victoria declared on 3 for 569.
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Post by Admin on Nov 4, 2020 14:56:17 GMT
Shane Watson the man who basically ended Kerrigan’s career has retired
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Post by Admin on Nov 6, 2020 17:29:32 GMT
 Taunton in the early morning mist |
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Post by chris on Nov 8, 2020 9:17:06 GMT
Shane Watson the man who basically ended Kerrigan’s career has retired |
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Post by Admin on Nov 8, 2020 12:22:18 GMT
Shane Watson the man who basically ended Kerrigan’s career has retired Set it back a bit |
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Post by Admin on Nov 11, 2020 14:30:38 GMT
Graham Cowdrey has sadly died aged 56
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Post by Admin on Nov 16, 2020 17:02:33 GMT
England tour of Pakistan postponed until late 2021
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Post by Admin on Nov 23, 2020 18:17:44 GMT
Graham Cowdrey has sadly died aged 56 Cowdrey’s obituary in paper today seemed to have struggled in later life, sleeping on his sisters couch and working as an Amazon delivery driver sad really |
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