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Notice he was 4th umpire for this test. Good to see a local lad making his way up the umpiring ladder.

His father use to own a sports shop down Hartlepool many years ago and opened the batting for Hartlepool first team for years.

Young Michael the now umpire was a more than handy cricketer and footballer himself when he was a youngun anarl
 

He is 34. I get to see Hartlepool CC a fair bit and his dad is usually there. Quite proud he is of his lad.
 
Goughy like a few local lads who played for Durham at the same time was born 10 years to early. He was one of the best batsmen of his age group as a teenager and part of the England u19 side that won the world cup in 1998. Sadly he had to open the batting at the Riverside during the late 90s when to be honest the wickets where not good enough for first class cricket.
 
Aye. Very highly rated by the ECB I think. Won't be long until we see him on the Test Match panel I don't think.

Good luck to him.
 
wayne entwhistle no9 said:
Goughy like a few local lads who played for Durham at the same time was born 10 years to early. He was one of the best batsmen of his age group as a teenager and part of the England u19 side that won the world cup in 1998. Sadly he had to open the batting at the Riverside during the late 90s when to be honest the wickets where not good enough for first class cricket.
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I never actually realised he played first class for Durham tbh.

Pretty sure he played at Horden at under 13 level for a little while but could be wrong
 
Harry Lime said:
He played 67 first class games for Durham between 1998 and 2003.
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Meant he only played one season at Horden for under 13's mate.

redandwhiterob said:
You ever see him on at football, what level did he play at??
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Just in the Hartlepool league that we played at on a Saturday,he played centre forward when I saw him was only young lad then 17/18 something like that.

redandwhiterob said:
Notice he was 4th umpire for this test. Good to see a local lad making his way up the umpiring ladder.

His father use to own a sports shop down Hartlepool many years ago and opened the batting for Hartlepool first team for years.

Young Michael the now umpire was a more than handy cricketer and footballer himself when he was a youngun anarl
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His dad used to own sports shop in Peterlee before the Hartlepool one
 
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You have to wonder how bad poor management, team selections, pitches & captaincy hindered the careers of what were some good young batting prospects at DCCC. Peng, Scott, Gary Pratt & if you go back further, Robin Weston, Blenkiron & Jimmy Daley
 
Mackem DJ said:
You have to wonder how bad poor management, team selections, pitches & captaincy hindered the careers of what were some good young batting prospects at DCCC. Peng, Scott, Gary Pratt & if you go back further, Robin Weston, Blenkiron & Jimmy Daley
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Spot on.The poor quality of the pitches was a massive reason but the management of the young players was poor. The number of times you would look at Durhams batting line up and Gough,Peng, Muchall and Pratt where batting in the top 6 when they where aged between 18yrs to 21yrs was frighteneing. I wonder if they had have brought in a Benkenstein type of player to play in the middle order with a top overseas pro like we had in Love and Katich at that time how different it might have been for some of those young batsmen. Instead they just got battered.
 
It seems we have produced just as much batting talent & allrounders as bowling but apart from Muchall (who should have probably been peddled 5 years ago in all honesty) none of them have made a career out of professional cricket.

Could name at least 10+ bowlers on the other hand who have had lengthy careers at DCCC or other counties after leaving us.
 
Mackem DJ said:
It seems we have produced just as much batting talent & allrounders as bowling but apart from Muchall (who should have probably been peddled 5 years ago in all honesty) none of them have made a career out of professional cricket.

Could name at least 10+ bowlers on the other hand who have had lengthy careers at DCCC or other counties after leaving us.
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The batsmen at that time did not get the opportunities to develop the way say Stoneman and Borthwick have been given as they have played with quality batsmen who scored big runs. The likes of Gough had players like Lewis Speak and that wasted talent Morris to rely on.
Off the top of my head between 1999 and 2002 i can think of the following players who made the England u19 side, Gough, Bridge, Hunter, Symington, Davies, Pratt, Pattinson,Peng, Muchall,Mustard,Scott and Plunkett. Off the batmen Gough Pratt Peng and Muchall all scored at least one U19 test match hundred. They all could not have been good enough to make it as batsmen at county level through lack of talent alone.
 
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