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Category Archives: Cricket
Bravo arrives just as Oval season’s gone pear-shaped
HOOK SHOT: Two defeats in the past week, each by one wicket, have been the latest morale-sapping set-backs for struggling Surrey. MARCUS HOOK asks the county cricket club’s coach, Michael Di Venuto, what it will take to turn around the … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Marcus Hook, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Dwayne Bravo, Michael Di Venuto, Sam Curran, Surrey CCC, Surrey County Cricket Club, The Oval, Tom Curran
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Back-breaking work sees Oval look for teenaged kick-start
HOOK SHOT: Surrey’s four-day County Championship season has got off to a shaky start, so they will welcome the arrival of the T20 tournament and young talent Sam Curran, writes MARCUS HOOK It’s hard to imagine anyone welcoming the start … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Marcus Hook, Surrey CCC
Tagged Jade Dernbach, Marcus Hook, Sam Curran, Surrey CCC, Surrey County Cricket Club
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Cricket’s bowled a Yorker with rare screening of documentary
Money prioritised over all else? In cricket? Surely not… Yet that is the key finding of Death of a Gentleman, an award-winning sports documentary which the country’s television channels have so far found too hot to handle for their scheduling. … Continue reading
Surrey’s Sangakkara sets himself for another long knock
HOOK SHOT: Surrey start their first game at The Oval since their return to the County Championship top tier this weekend. Here, MARCUS HOOK interviews one of the biggest stars in the all-star dressing room When Kumar Sangakkara speaks, you … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Marcus Hook, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Kumar Sangakkara, Surrey CCC, The Oval, Zafar Ansari
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Pietersen could still help Surrey to have a Blast this summer
HOOK SHOT: The World T20 is underway and the county cricket season is just a few weeks away at The Oval. So, we need to talk about Kevin… MARCUS HOOK opens the batting on a new column Even if Kevin … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Kevin Pietersen, Marcus Hook, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged cricket, Kevin Pietersen, Kumar Sangakkara, Marcus Hook, Surrey CCC, The Oval
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Di Venuto will hit ground running as Surrey’s new coach
When Jason Roy, the Old Whitgiftian, returns from England duty in South Africa for pre-season training at The Oval, he’ll walk into a dressing room to discover a new Surrey club coach. Another one. Michael Di Venuto’s arrival in south … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Jason Roy, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Alec Stewart, cricket, Jason Roy, Michael Di Venuto, Surrey CCC
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Youth Games cricket team trials, Thornton Heath, Jan 16
Posted in Cricket, Sport, Thornton Heath
Tagged cricket, London Youth Games, Sport, Thornton Heath
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Pietersen plea could put him in prime position for Surrey
Amid the furore created this week around the publication of Kevin Pietersen’s “autobiography”, which he got someone else to write for him, one twist has been the 34-year-old former England batsman’s realisation that if he really does harbour serious ambitions … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Kevin Pietersen, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Alec Stewart, cricket, Kevin Pietersen, Sport, Surrey CCC
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Howzat! Girls open a new innings at Addington cricket club
One of the country’s oldest cricket clubs is opening a new chapter in its history next week with the start of a two-year project with backing from The Oval, the Lord’s Taverners and Croydon Council to offer free introductory sessions … Continue reading
Posted in Addington, Addington (1743) CC, Addiscombe West, Cricket, New Addington South, Sport
Tagged Addington, Addiscombe West, cricket, New Addington, Sport
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Surrey’s going round in circles over captaincy at The Oval
JASON COURT wraps up the county cricket season by posing the question: who will be Surrey captain in 2015? At the start of the season, I suggested a good run in the T20 would be possible, but promotion first year … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Graeme Smith, Jason Roy, Kevin Pietersen, Surrey CCC
Tagged Alec Stewart, cricket, Jason Roy, Kevin Pietersen, Sport, Surrey CCC, The Oval
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Surrey end summer pot-less, despite Roy’s batting power
So near, yet so far. Surrey’s last, albeit outside, chance of success this summer – promotion back to the first division of the County Championship – somehow slipped through their batting-gloved fingers on Friday at New Road Worcester, when from … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Graeme Smith, Jason Roy, Kevin Pietersen, Sport, Surrey CCC, Whitgift School
Tagged cricket, Jason Roy, Surrey, Surrey CCC, The Oval
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Character beginning to show for back-to-form Surrey
With improving results, Surrey go into a busy period at The Oval with more optimism among the members in the pavilion, reports JASON COURT There is an autograph in the Surrey cricket museum at The Oval. It has a short … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Graeme Smith, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Jason Court, Jason Roy, Surrey, Surrey CCC, The Oval
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Surrey blame ‘struggling facilities’ for Whitgift cricket decision
Doubts over whether county cricket will return to Croydon were renewed this week when the annual meeting of Surrey members was told that “struggling facilities” were the reason for the county club’s continued absence from Whitgift School. The cricket festival … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Sport, Surrey CCC, Whitgift School
Tagged cricket, South Croydon, Surrey CCC, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Surrey’s members ready to go nuts for Ford-inspired KP
JASON COURT says that there’s more optimism in the members’ pavilion at The Oval ahead of the County Championship, which begins on Sunday On Sunday I will be joining the masses of cabbies, retirees, students, the unemployed and other 40- … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Graeme Smith, Kevin Pietersen, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Alec Stewart, cricket, Graeme Smith, Graham Ford, Kevin Pietersen, Sport, Surrey, Surrey CCC
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England batsman Butcher wants to bowl out incinerator
Mark Butcher, the former Surrey and England cricketer, is the latest Croydon celebrity to voice concerns about plans to build an incinerator on the border with Sutton. “When I heard about the incinerator I couldn’t quite believe what I was … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Croydon Greens, Environment, Planning, Surrey CCC, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane, cricket, incinerator, Mark Butcher, Sutton, Viridor
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ECB demands rule out Whitgift cricket festival for 2014
Hopes that county cricket would return to Croydon in 2014 after a three-year hiatus will be dashed tonight when the England and Wales Cricket Board publishes its fixtures list for next summer. Surrey will not be listed as playing any … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Sport, Surrey CCC, Whitgift School
Tagged Croydon, England, Guildford, Oval, South Croydon, Surrey, Surrey County Cricket Club, Whitgift School
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Ashes call-up has Thornton Heath’s Carberry on right track
England batsmen on this winter’s Ashes cricket tour to Australia had better take their quick singles very quickly, as the inclusion in the 17-man squad of Thornton Heath-born Michael Carberry is certain to put some speed into their running between … Continue reading
Surrey in desperate late struggle to avoid relegation
Surrey cricket is in crisis. Again. For all the positive news and changes that have emerged from The Oval in recent months, today’s home Championship game of the season, against Derbyshire, is crucial for Surrey as they seek an unlikely … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Graeme Smith, Kevin Pietersen, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Chris Tremlett, England, Hashim Amla, Jade Dernbach, Kevin Pietersen, Oval, Surrey, Zander de Bruyn
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Surrey cricket looks to revive Croydon festival in 2014
First-class cricket could make a return to Croydon next summer, Inside Croydon can reveal. As the fifth and final Ashes Test between England and Australia gets underway at The Oval, today, Inside Croydon has learned of moves behind the scenes … Continue reading
Surrey starting to come together as storm clouds clear
The death of a promising young batsman, the departure of his friend and club captain, the sacking of the county coach, and the arrival of two legends of Test cricket… It has been a year of trauma for Surrey cricket. … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Graeme Smith, Kevin Pietersen, Sport, Surrey CCC, Whitgift School
Tagged Adam Hollioake, England, Kevin Pietersen, Oval, Ricky Ponting, Stuart Meaker, Surrey, Whitgift School
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Selhurst sponsors have Palace as outsiders for first game
Crystal Palace appear close to announcing a stadium naming deal for Selhurst Park with an Asian-based online bookmaker – one of the many betting firms who are offering the Eagles at odds on that they will be relegated straight back … Continue reading
Festival fortnight offers food, football and fun
BERNARD WINCHESTER highlights the many varied activities to be found on the opening weekend of the South Norwood Arts Festival, from Olympic torches to WG Grace After missing out in 2012 (perhaps the Olympic organisers felt that the competition from … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Athletics, Cricket, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace FC, Dance, Football, Music, South Norwood, Sport, Woodside
Tagged Croydon, London, Olympic, Olympic Flame, Olympic Games, South Norwood, Thomas Crapper, Woodside Green
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Smith and Ponting try to transform sorry Surrey after trauma
Remember that white, cold stuff falling from the sky last week? Snow. So clearly, the time has come for the start of the cricket season. The county season begins today – earlier in the year than usual, for a combination … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Graeme Smith, Kevin Pietersen, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Graeme Smith, London, Mark Ramprakash, Oval, Ricky Ponting, Rory Hamilton-Brown, Surrey, Tom Maynard
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