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Category Archives: Cricket
Whitgift loses out on staging Surrey cricket in 2013
Croydon may have staged its last county cricket festival, after Whitgift School confirmed to Inside Croydon that they would not be holding any Surrey matches in 2013. This will be the second year that Surrey County Cricket Club has failed … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Activities, Cricket, Schools, Sport, Surrey CCC, Whitgift School
Tagged County cricket, Croydon, David Lean Cinema, Oval, Surrey, Surrey County Cricket Club, Whitgift School
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Grassroots sports clubs are facing an Olympic task
What lasting impact will the Olympics have on sport in Croydon? Not much, says STEVEN DOWNES It’s less than 50 days now until the Olympic Games begin in our city. But here, in Croydon, we seem almost untouched by the … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Activities, Athletics, Cricket, Croydon Harriers, Health, Leisure services, Purley, Purley Pool, Rugby Union, Schools, Shirley North, Sport, Streatham-Croydon RFC, Swimming
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Harriers, England, Hugh Robertson, London, Olympic, Olympic Games, Sport England
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Croydon’s list of great residents omits David Lean. Why?
The saddening/maddening thing about Croydon Council is that, when given some of the simplest of tasks in their attempt to promote the borough, they still manage to balls it up. Take, for example, this week’s half-cocked announcement on the council … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Athletics, Chris Robshaw, Cinema, Cricket, Croydon Council, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace FC, Danny Brierley, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Education, Environment, Football, History, Libraries, Music, Roy Hodgson, Rugby Union, Sport, Surrey CCC, Theatre, Waddon, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Arthur Conan-Doyle, Croydon, Croydon Council, Donna Fraser, London Borough of Croydon, Oscar, Ralph McTell, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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Steve O’Connell took gift from cricket fixer Majeed
Steve O’Connell, Britain’s most overpaid local councillor, in 2008 accepted a gift from Mazhar Majeed, the sports agent who last November was sentenced to 20 months in prison for his part in the Pakistan Test cricket spot-fixing scandal. O’Connell, ward … Continue reading
Court out? Croydon’s cricket fixer undone by a tabloid
The trial of the three Pakistan cricketers accused of spot fixing at last year’s Lord’s Test match concluded yesterday at Southwark Crown Court with prison sentences for them and their Croydon-based agent who orchestrated the fix, Mazhar Majeed. Majeed had … Continue reading
David Lomas: a Croydon “gadfly” who did much for local kids
ANDREW PELLING joins the tributes from football and cricket to a hard-working Croydon volunteer Croydon has said goodbye to a notable character, eccentric and former teacher at a funeral service festooned with cricket and Football Association blazers and the white … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Cricket, Crystal Palace FC, Football, Sport
Tagged Arundel Castle, Croydon, Kieran Gibbs, Lee Hills, Michael Carberry, Nigel Reo-Coker, Sean Scannell
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Croydon cricket fans face 40% price hike for T20 match
Cricket fans in Croydon are outraged at being charged up to 40 per cent more than standard prices for Surrey’s Twenty20 fixture to be staged at Whitgift School next month. The match between Surrey and Sussex on the evening of … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Sport, Whitgift School
Tagged Brighton Road, Croydon, Essex, Oval, Sky Sports, Surrey, Sussex, Whitgift School
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Praise for sporty Whitgift School – from the Daily Mail
Interesting. South Croydon‘s Whitgift School is being held up as a paragon of sporting, and educational, excellence in the Daily Mail. The reporter is Martin Samuel, four times the Sports Writer of the Year, who the Mail indulges once a … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Education, Schools, Sport, Surrey CCC, Whitgift School
Tagged Croydon, Danny Cipriani, England, London Borough of Croydon, Martin Samuel, Melbourne Rebels, Surrey, Whitgift School
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Croydon businessman in court over Pakistan cricket scam
Croydon businessman Mazhar Majeed will appear before City of Westminster magistrates today in connection with the cricket spot-fixing inquiry, along with the three Pakistani Test players under suspicion, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir. As well as working as … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cricket, Crime, Football
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Kevin Pietersen could play for Surrey at The Oval tomorrow
Kevin Pietersen, the former England captain and one of the highest paid cricketers in the world, is to join Surrey. Pietersen Tweeted the move this afternoon, in a soon-deleted message that revealed that he has been dropped from the England … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Sport, Whitgift School
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Croydon Athletic FC owner is named in Pakistan cricket sting
The man at the centre of allegations of the latest spot betting scandal to shock international cricket is Mazhar Majeed, the millionaire owner of Croydon Athletic Football Club. The newspaper’s investigation will have ramifications for football, since Majeed boasted to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cricket, Crime, Croydon South, Football, Property, Sport
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Croydon-born Carberry speeds up his Ashes hopes
Ahead of this week’s final Test match of the summer, there’s much speculation about England’s touring party for the winter’s Ashes tour to Australia. One prime candidate is the Thornton Heath-born Michael Carberry, who tells us how winter running training … Continue reading
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