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The day Dr Bookless took the wicket of the great WG Grace
CROYDON CHRONICLES: A long career in medicine based at Croydon General Hospital and on Harley Street followed for a sporting young man who, when a student at Guy’s Hospital, once enjoyed a cricket moment of a lifetime. DAVID MORGAN explains … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Cricket, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Health, History, Mayday Hospital, Purley Hospital
Tagged British Medical Journal, cricket, Croydon, Croydon General Hospital, Croydon Minster, Croydon Parish Church, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace Park, David Morgan, Dr John Bookless, Guy's Hospital, London, London County Cricket Club, Mayday Hospital, Purley Hospital, WG Grace
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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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New company to rise from ashes of Whitgift Sports Club failure
It’s ‘business as usual’ at Croham Manor Road, where four old boys’ clubs are set to take over following the collapse of their sports ground’s management company. EXCLUSIVE By STEVEN DOWNES A new lease for the Old Whitgiftians’ sports ground … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charity, Cricket, Croham Hurst GC, Hockey, Old Whitgiftians, Sport, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged cricket, Croham Hurst, Croydon, Hockey, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Whitgiftians, rugby union, South Croydon, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School, Whitgift Sports Club, Whitgiftian Association
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Whitgift Sports Club goes into liquidation owing £300,000
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Another small business in the hospitality sector appears to have gone under – with a large charity, private school and old boys’ association carefully distancing themselves from the debt-ridden company. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The Whitgift Sports … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charity, Cricket, Croham Hurst GC, Hockey, Old Whitgiftians, Sport, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged cricket, Croham Hurst, Croydon, Hockey, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Whitgiftians, rugby union, South Croydon, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School, Whitgift Sports Club, Whitgiftian Association
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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
Posted in Cricket, Surrey CCC, Whitgift School
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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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
Posted in Addington, Addington (1743) CC, Addiscombe West, Cricket, New Addington, 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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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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