Tag Archives: Surrey County Cricket Club
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 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
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
Mark Butcher album launch, Kennington Oval, Sep 27
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
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
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
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
Refugee Week cricket festival, Norbury Park, Jun 20
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
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
Under The Flyover: Mark Butcher on music, Tests and racism
Inside Croydon is delighted today 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 to go Under The Flyover … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
