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Tag Archives: cricket
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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Under The Flyover, Episode 1: Mark Butcher
On music, Test cricket, and racism Inside Croydon is delighted to launch Under The Flyover, our podcast which over the coming months will be complementing our website reporting with interviews and recordings offered exclusively to our loyal supporters. And first … Continue reading
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Tagged cricket, Music, Podcast, Surrey County Cricket Club, Under The Flyover
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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
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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Shorts and Gremlins on offer at new Stanley’s Film Club
Stanley’s Film Club at Stanley Halls in South Norwood stages its first edition of Shorts in the South next week. Tickets are on sale now for this brand new quarterly short film night, on Wednesday November 4, celebrating local film-making … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, South Norwood, Stanley Halls
Tagged cricket, Screen25, South Norwood, Stanley Halls
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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
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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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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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