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Category Archives: Surrey CCC
Surrey’s September title heartbreak has been a real motivator
HOOK’S SHOT: The wickets have been rolled, the stumps varnished and bats oiled with linseed. From his seat in The Oval Long Room, MARCUS HOOK, pictured right, looks ahead to the cricket season Good Friday sees the start of the … Continue reading
View from the boundary looking good for our local cricket clubs
The Test summer may have finished prematurely early, making way for the crash and bash of franchise cricket, but as NEIL BENNETT, right, the former BBC Television News sports correspondent, found at the grassroots in south London, the game is … Continue reading
Croydon Tapeball Cricket Festival, Green Lane, July 27
Posted in Activities, Charity, Cricket, Norbury, Norbury Park, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged cricket, Green Lane, Norbury, Norbury Park, Surrey CCC, Tapeball cricket
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Croydon cricketer who helped establish game in Melbourne
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: In the baptismal records in Croydon Minster’s archives, DAVID MORGAN has discovered another cricketer who was influential in the early years of the international game – except that Sam Cosstick was playing for the Australians The entry in … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Jamie Smith, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Minster, Croydon Parish Church, David Morgan, Melbourne, Melbourne Cricket Club, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Sam Cosstick, Surrey County Cricket Club, Test cricket, Tom Lockyer, WG Grace
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Anderson’s art captured Surrey greats and church monuments
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Surrey’s first home match in their 180th county cricket season got underway at The Oval on Friday, and DAVID MORGAN was there for the opening over. Here, he recounts the career of an historian and artist who put … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cricket, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Jamie Smith, Rory Burns, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Archbishop Grindal, Croydon, Croydon Minster, Croydon Minster Fire 1857, Croydon Parish Church, David Morgan, John Corbet Anderson, Julius Caesar, Rory Burns, Surrey, Surrey CCC, Surrey County Cricket Club, The Oval, Tom Lockyer, Tom Sherman, William Caffyn
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Whitgift’s latest England Test cricketer could be the best yet
It was easy to overlook, in the week following a General Election, when he made his cricket debut at a Lord’s Test in which James Anderson bowed out of the international game and his Surrey teammate Gus Atkinson took 12 … Continue reading
Burn Bullock pub fire: ‘Mitcham’s history was lost tonight’
There are well-placed fears that one of the area’s most historic pubs, the Burn Bullock at Mitcham, has been lost forever after a large fire took hold in the long-abandoned building last night. The site has been targeted for a … Continue reading
Raman Subba Row: OW who saved Surrey and changed cricket
There will be a strange, sad, empty space on a bench near the boundary of the Old Whitgiftians’ Croham Road cricket ground in South Croydon this summer. It is a spot where Raman Subba Row used to sit in the … Continue reading
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Tagged cricket, Croham Road, ECB, Jim Laker, Lord's, MCC, Old Whitgiftians, OWs, Peter May, Raman Subba Row, South Croydon, Streatham, Surrey, Surrey CCC, Surrey County Cricket Club, TCCB, Test and County Cricket Board, The Oval, Whitgift School
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Surrey cricket great Stewart announces retirement at The Oval
Alec Stewart, a Surrey cricket great, has announced this morning that he is to step down from his job as the county club’s director of cricket at the end of the year, after 11 years in the role. “Family comes … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Sport, Surrey, Surrey CCC
Tagged Alec Stewart, England, Surrey, Surrey County Cricket Club, Surrey cricket, The Oval
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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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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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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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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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Surrey’s survival guide for the last eight weeks of the season
HOOK SHOT: Victory over Hampshire in their last game lifted Surrey out of the Championship relegation zone for the first time since the start of the season. MARCUS HOOK outlines what they need to do over the next two months … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Jason Roy, Marcus Hook, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Gareth Batty, Jason Roy, Marcus Hook, Surrey CCC, Surrey County Cricket Club, The Oval
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Batty looking to his batsmen to keep Surrey in the running
HOOK SHOT: Surrey’s struggles in the County Championship continue, but their skipper tells MARCUS HOOK that a win over Nottinghamshire shows a change in form With the cricket season now at its halfway stage, Gareth Batty is the first to … Continue reading
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Tagged Gareth Batty, Marcus Hook, Surrey CCC, Surrey County Cricket Club
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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
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Tagged Jade Dernbach, Marcus Hook, Sam Curran, Surrey CCC, Surrey County Cricket Club
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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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