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County Cricket 2023


wayne entwhistle no9 said:
Yes and won it with Illingworth as skipper in the 70s an he would have been desperate to win at Headingley.
Always up the top of the table in the 80s ad well.
They had a knack of having a team full of good pros who where never quite good enough for England.
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Or,perhaps, were good enough for England but weren't selected because Leics were still regarded as an unfashionable county despite their success
 
Parkside said:
Or,perhaps, were good enough for England but weren't selected because Leics were still regarded as an unfashionable county despite their success
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Can you think of many? Tolchard is always the one i thought was unlucky although he was up against Knott and Taylor for the gloves but was a bettet bat.
The likes of Agnew and probaly Les Taylor would possibly have got a chance earlier if they had played for a bigger county.
They where a very crafty club under that chairman Turner i think his name was.
The Red Telephone said:
Leics won the title in 1996 and beat Yorkshire away but it was played at Bradford.
Leics 681-7 Dec
Yorks 342 and 188.

That was the sort of thumping they used to dish out to us most of the times we played them in the 90s.
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I think they nearly made Harmy chuck it before his career had even got started.
 
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wayne entwhistle no9 said:
Can you think of many? Tolchard is always the one i thought was unlucky although he was up against Knott and Taylor for the gloves but was a bettet bat.
The likes of Agnew and probaly Les Taylor would possibly have got a chance earlier if they had played for a bigger county.
They where a very crafty club under that chairman Turner i think his name was.
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The side that won two titles in the 90s were a collection of really good county players who always seemed to play as a team ie the likes of Whittaker, Maddy, Vince Wells, Ben Smith, Nixon, Parsons, Mills, Mullally plus Phil Simmons.

Same solid pros in the 70s plus the Rhodesian Brian Davison, the brilliant young Gower and the brilliant skipper Illingworth.
 
The Red Telephone said:
The side that won two titles in the 90s were a collection of really good county players who always seemed to play as a team ie the likes of Whittaker, Maddy, Vince Wells, Ben Smith, Nixon, Parsons, Mills, Mullally plus Phil Simmons.

Same solid pros in the 70s plus the Rhodesian Brian Davison, the brilliant young Gower and the brilliant skipper Illingworth.
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Yeah they loved a Rhodesian Paddy Clift as well. They had Kolpacks before it was even invented.
 
wayne entwhistle no9 said:
I think they nearly made Harmy chuck it before his career had even got started.
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The infamous game when the journalist Tim Rich left the ground to collect his dry cleaned suit at 12.30 pm with Durham one wicket down and returned to find them all out at lunch.:eek:
wayne entwhistle no9 said:
Yeah they loved a Rhodesian Paddy Clift as well. They had Kolpacks before it was even invented.
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Paddy Clift... now there's a name from the old John Player League games on BBC2 in the 70s.
Let's have more mentions for the likes of Fred Swarbrook, Dasher Denning, Rocker Robinson and Lonsdale Skinner on here!!
 
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The Red Telephone said:
Leics won the title in 1996 and beat Yorkshire away but it was played at Bradford.
Leics 681-7 Dec
Yorks 342 and 188.

That was the sort of thumping they used to dish out to us most of the times we played them in the 90s.
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Yes,that explains the anomaly of no wins at Headingley. Yorkshire played home games at a number of venues until fairly recently.
 
The Red Telephone said:
The infamous game when the journalist Tim Rich left the ground to collect his dry cleaned suit at 12.30 pm with Durham one wicket down and returned to find them all out at lunch.:eek:


Paddy Clift... now there's a name from the old John Player League games on BBC2 in the 70s.
Let's have more mentions for the likes of Fred Swarbrook, Dasher Denning, Rocker Robinson and Lonsdale Skinner on here!!
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Stuart Turner at Essex bowled stump to stump at 65mph. With Norbert Phillip at the other end bowling jaffas or beamers.
 
wayne entwhistle no9 said:
Stuart Turner at Essex bowled stump to stump at 65mph. With Norbert Phillip at the other end bowling jaffas or beamers.
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The Trundler's Trundler Colin Dredge aka 'The Demon of Frome', Basharat Hassan's funny batting stance and Alan Hill the Derbyshire opener usually on 3no after 10 overs - a batsman so bereft of scoring strokes that he made Brian Hardie of Essex look like a cross between Garry Sobers and Barry Richards...oh and John Arlott having a snooze while on air.
 
The Red Telephone said:
The Trundler's Trundler Colin Dredge aka 'The Demon of Frome', Basharat Hassan's funny batting stance and Alan Hill the Derbyshire opener usually on 3no after 10 overs - a batsman so bereft of scoring strokes that he made Brian Hardie of Essex look like a cross between Garry Sobers and Barry Richards...oh and John Arlott having a snooze while on air.
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I think Brian Hardie made the Essex sunday league XI because he was a good fielder.
 
The Red Telephone said:
The side that won two titles in the 90s were a collection of really good county players who always seemed to play as a team ie the likes of Whittaker, Maddy, Vince Wells, Ben Smith, Nixon, Parsons, Mills, Mullally plus Phil Simmons.

Same solid pros in the 70s plus the Rhodesian Brian Davison, the brilliant young Gower and the brilliant skipper Illingworth.
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Not forgetting Esh Winning lad Dominic Williamson who played in the 1998 Benson and Hedges final defeat by Essex.Also the owner of the most durable cricket sweater in DSL history
 
Steak Pie said:
Continues to throw up fantastic games. :cool:
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It did, really hopeful the brilliant philosophy and mentality of this extremely positive England set up rubs of on the county championship and some of the tedious games that happened last season are a thing of the past.

And the change in the points system and players knowing how to play to force their way into the England side makes the county championship a more entertaining and better watch going forward.

Which can only be good for all concerned
A good entertaining positive cricket games in the county championship should suit all
 
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