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Paul Collingwood

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Voice of fair play said:
I think though tbf although them players were very good especially Stuart Wilkinson( probably the fastest amateur bowler seen in this area) Collingwood was a lot higher standard than the rest of them.

So although I take your point, very much think he would have been picked up by other counties even if Durham did not have first class status, as he was a class above!
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Fair point I do wonder whether having a 1st class county on doorstep helped him to develop at a younger age, as I think he is someone who has really worked hard at his game (a quality which makes him stand out for me).

I guess we will never know about players of past, agree about Wilkinson he was scarily fast even towards the end of his career
 

Stattos child said:
Fair point I do wonder whether having a 1st class county on doorstep helped him to develop at a younger age, as I think he is someone who has really worked hard at his game (a quality which makes him stand out for me).

I guess we will never know about players of past, agree about Wilkinson he was scarily fast even towards the end of his career
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The Ebchester Express!
 
Stattos child said:
Having a discussion tonight, and we were thinking that collingwood shows the importance of Durham getting first class status. Because he is not flamboyant I think he would have been ignored by counties like many other local greats of the past such as Wilkinson, Birtwisle,Riddell, Lander , Pierson, and therefore never have got that international chance
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He definitely would have been picked up.
Look at the Northants side of the late 1960s/1970s ..Geoff Cook,Peter Willey,George Sharp,Alan Hodgson,Alan Tait and of course Colin Milburn were all lads from the North East and only the latter could be described as flamboyant and having more natural talent than Colly.

Agree about Wilki..when he played for Phili at Ropery Lane he used to start his run up on the boundary line and God help any batsman foolhardy enough to mention his hairpiece!:eek::eek:
 
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hudson88 said:
Can’t fault him as a player, legend of English cricket.
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Is that a sly dig? :lol: Pringle not a fan?

The weird thing about Collingwood is that I used to get home from school and put Ceefax on and see his name for Durham when checking the scores!

Off on a tangent but on that Perth day 2 video earlier in the thread. Finn - does he still play?
 
Stattos child said:
Fair point I do wonder whether having a 1st class county on doorstep helped him to develop at a younger age, as I think he is someone who has really worked hard at his game (a quality which makes him stand out for me).

I guess we will never know about players of past, agree about Wilkinson he was scarily fast even towards the end of his career
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I remember hearing Phil Neville talking a bit on telly about his cricket.

He was pretty good, good enough for County Cricket and maybe more if Alex Fergusson hadn't made an offer.

Anyway he was talking about him captaining a young England team which included Flintoff and also Colly … he said Colly was a fighter in a cricketing sense, as he was as an adult player. Said Freddy Flintoff was just the same too.

So Colly was known of as a youngster maybe that's because of Durham's first class status but I also know Northants used to sniff around County Durham looking for talent. Millburn, Willey maybe more. I know Peter Birtwistle went down for a trial.
 
Voice of fair play said:
I think though tbf although them players were very good especially Stuart Wilkinson( probably the fastest amateur bowler seen in this area) Collingwood was a lot higher standard than the rest of them.

So although I take your point, very much think he would have been picked up by other counties even if Durham did not have first class status, as he was a class above!
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there's still the possibility a 16-18 year old boy didn't want to leave home, stayed to play with his mates and discovered lager. Must have happened a lot in the past
 
The Red Telephone said:
He definitely would have been picked up.
Look at the Northants side of the late 1960s/1970s ..Geoff Cook,Peter Willey,George Sharp,Alan Hodgson,Alan Tait and of course Colin Milburn were all lads from the North East and only the latter could be described as flamboyant and having more natural talent than Colly.

Agree about Wilki..when he played for Phili at Ropery Lane he used to start his run up on the boundary line and God help any batsman foolhardy enough to mention his hairpiece!:eek::eek:
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Didn't Riddell, Wilkinson, Birtwisle and Lander all have good jobs though. A factor in them not becoming county cricketers. I remember Peter Birtwisle being a teacher at the primary school in the village next door to me.

Same went for Stuart Young.
 
The Red Telephone said:
He definitely would have been picked up.
Look at the Northants side of the late 1960s/1970s ..Geoff Cook,Peter Willey,George Sharp,Alan Hodgson,Alan Tait and of course Colin Milburn were all lads from the North East and only the latter could be described as flamboyant and having more natural talent than Colly.

Agree about Wilki..when he played for Phili at Ropery Lane he used to start his run up on the boundary line and God help any batsman foolhardy enough to mention his hairpiece!:eek::eek:
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Yea. But look at Rushy and Weighell.

Not picked up even by Durham but then they continued to prove themselves in club cricket and Durham came back for them …. this is the type of player that wouldn't have a professional 1st class career.

Mind you, there was Paul Romaines … didn't he go to Glouster as a fairly mature player and had at least a good couple of years.
 
Bri said:
Yea. But look at Rushy and Weighell.

Not picked up even by Durham but then they continued to prove themselves in club cricket and Durham came back for them …. this is the type of player that wouldn't have a professional 1st class career.

Mind you, there was Paul Romaines … didn't he go to Glouster as a fairly mature player and had at least a good couple of years.
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IIRC, Romaines went to Northants then came back up here. Then he had a good 10 years at Gloucestershire. Durham would have been a top side in the 70s!
 
The Red Telephone said:
He definitely would have been picked up.
Look at the Northants side of the late 1960s/1970s ..Geoff Cook,Peter Willey,George Sharp,Alan Hodgson,Alan Tait and of course Colin Milburn were all lads from the North East and only the latter could be described as flamboyant and having more natural talent than Colly.

Agree about Wilki..when he played for Phili at Ropery Lane he used to start his run up on the boundary line and God help any batsman foolhardy enough to mention his hairpiece!:eek::eek:
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Do you think so? We always thought his brother was the better of the two and Paul always said this to be the case as well. I think Peter missed out on the initial academy recruits as he was a year to old.
 
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