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Category Archives: Cricket
Q&A with Dean Headley, Beddington Cricket Club, Jul 12
Posted in Activities, Cricket
Tagged Ashes cricket, Beddington, Beddington Cricket Club, Dean Headley, Huw Tuberville, The Ashes
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Surrey makes new pitch for cricket at Croydon sports grounds
NEIL BENNETT has discovered more hope of a revival for what once seemed a long-lost cricket club in Thornton Heath Last month, we reported on the sad demise of a once proud sports club, with a locally famous cricket club … Continue reading
Glimmers of hope around Thornton Heath’s lost cricket club
Former BBC journalist NEIL BENNETT returned to his Croydon roots to try to track down one of the lost gems of south London – Thornton Heath Cricket Club In August, television news coverage of the tragic gas explosion on Galpins … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Sport, Surrey CCC, Thornton Heath
Tagged Harshil Trivedi, Neil Bennett, THCC, Thornton Heath, Thornton Heath Cricket Club
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Minster’s cricketing cleric had a decent innings at the crease
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The publication of the 2022 season’s fixture list might help distract English cricket supporters from the uncomfortable memories of the latest Ashes defeats. DAVID MORGAN has found some solace in happier cricketing memories from the Croydon Minster archives … Continue reading
New format that offers a way in to cricket for our youngsters
For DAVID MORGAN, his first Hundred cricket match struck a chord I went to a cricket match at The Oval on Thursday. It wasn’t the first time I had been to a game there, but it was the first time … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, David Morgan, Jason Roy, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged David Morgan, Jason Roy, Surrey County Cricket Club, The Hundred, The Oval
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Refugee Week cricket festival, Norbury Park, Jun 20
Posted in Activities, Cricket, Norbury Park, Sport
Tagged Norbury Park, Refugee Week, Surrey County Cricket Club
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Community sports clubs cling on in hope of end to lockdown
MARY LITCHFIELD reports on the coronavirus pandemic struggles faced by some of the rugby and cricket clubs in the borough Non-league football clubs had their season abandoned last week, the second successive league campaign scuttled because of coronavirus. But other … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Rugby Union, Sport, Warlingham RFC
Tagged Addiscombe, Addiscombe CC, coronavirus, Covid-19, cricket, rugby, Warlingham, Warlingham RFC
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Howzat! Geary’s Minster wedding saw Surrey bats raised high
Across the country, cricketers of all standards would normally have been going through their paces, getting their eye in, in their last net before the start of the season. For Surrey CCC, it was to have marked a very special … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Albert Geary, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Surrey County Cricket Club
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Burns’s Ashes century fires up Whitgift’s sporting credentials
When Rory Burns left the field in Birmingham yesterday evening, his bat raised in acknowledgement of the standing ovation from the Edgbaston pavilion, after he had batted all day to remain unbeaten and unbowed on 125, with the crowd chanting … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Elliot Daly, Football, Hockey, Jason Roy, Old Whitgiftians, Rory Burns, Rugby Union, Schools, Sport, Surrey CCC, Whitgift School
Tagged Jason Roy, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Butcher: England should put their ‘batting brute’ Roy in at No3
Surrey’s Jason Roy should be in the England Test team’s top order for the Ashes series and has a hugely important role in tomorrow’s World Cup semi-final against Australia. That’s the view of Mark Butcher, the former Surrey and England … Continue reading
Autographs from Laker’s legends up for sale in Mayday auction
There’s a big summer of cricket coming up, with the World Cup and Ashes series, but before it gets underway in earnest, historians of the game may be drawn to one of the lots at an antiques auction at Fairleigh … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cricket, Selsdon & Ballards, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Catherine Southon, Fairleigh Court
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South Croydon special school bowled over by Taverners’ bus
If you see a shiny new, green mini-bus being driven around South Croydon and beyond in the coming few weeks, it is because a local special school has been bowled over with the kind generosity of the Lord’s and Lady … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Cricket, Schools, South Croydon
Tagged Garwood Foundation, Mark Butcher, Rutherford School
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GLL Foundation seeks applications for 2019 round of funding
Posted in Athletics, Boxing, Charity, Cricket, Cycling, Football, GLL - Better, Golf, Hockey, Netball, Rugby Union, Sport, Swimming
Tagged GLL, GLL Foundation, Greenwich Leisure
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Politicians lead call for 1,000 years more cricket at Mitcham
A community campaign to preserve the fabric of one of the world’s oldest cricket grounds is celebrating today after securing cross-party support to save from development the pavilion at the historic Mitcham Cricket Green, with politicians backing calls for a … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, History, Merton, Siobhain McDonagh MP
Tagged Merton, Mitcham, Mitcham Cricket Green, Siobhain McDonagh MP
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Thornton Heath’s Carberry bats his way back after cancer
Michael Carberry, the Thornton Heath-born Test batsman, could be about to make a comeback in county cricket this summer, less than a year after undergoing urgent surgery to remove a cancerous tumour. Carberry, 36, who started his career at The … Continue reading
Youth Games cricket trials, Thornton Heath, Dec 9-16
Posted in Cricket, Sport, Thornton Heath
Tagged London Youth Games, Thornton Heath Leisure Centre
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Flipping Norah: Batty’s new tricks make a difference, even at 38
HOOK SHOT: Ahead of Surrey’s one-day final showdown at Lord’s tomorrow, MARCUS HOOK interviews the skipper about the season and his recall to the England Test squad Surrey are back at Lord’s tomorrow for the final of the Royal London … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Gareth Batty, Jason Roy, Marcus Hook, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Gareth Batty, Marcus Hook, Surrey CCC, The Oval
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