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I know it's not fashionable anymore, but I miss the old 40 over tournament. Rock up to the Racecourse Ground, or Gateshead Fell after Sunday Lunch for a 2pm start and home in time for a late supper. In the days where teh international players would play for their counties. I remember meeting David Gower at Stockton when Durham v Hampshire was rained off. I was awestruck :D
 

Me too.
Some of my favourite DCCC memories are from the old Sunday League...obviously the first win against Lancashire with Deano's ton...being bloody freezing at Gateshead Fell against Leicestershire as Glendenan and Fothers set about the bowling...beating the mighty Essex at Hartlepool for our only win in 96...Carl Hooper hitting sixes out the ground at Darlo...beating Yorkshire at the Racecourse just before the mother of all thunderstorms arrived ..Danny Law being clean bowled against Middlesex to give them victory only for the umpire to call a no ball which resulted in us sneaking home...James Forster hitting Borthwick for what seemed like ten sixes in an over :eek:and generally dreading the arrival of Surrey's Ally Brown to the crease every time we played the Brown Hatters:eek::eek:

Happy days and big crowds.:D
 
Loved a bit of Somerset, Joel Garner seemed to always bowl his 8 overs for 12 runs. Colin Dredge with his delivery stride resembling someone slipping on a banana skin.
 
The Red Telephone said:
Me too.
Some of my favourite DCCC memories are from the old Sunday League...obviously the first win against Lancashire with Deano's ton...being bloody freezing at Gateshead Fell against Leicestershire as Glendenan and Fothers set about the bowling...beating the mighty Essex at Hartlepool for our only win in 96...Carl Hooper hitting sixes out the ground at Darlo...beating Yorkshire at the Racecourse just before the mother of all thunderstorms arrived ..Danny Law being clean bowled against Middlesex to give them victory only for the umpire to call a no ball which resulted in us sneaking home...James Forster hitting Borthwick for what seemed like ten sixes in an over :eek:and generally dreading the arrival of Surrey's Ally Brown to the crease every time we played the Brown Hatters:eek::eek:

Happy days and big crowds.:D
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Remember a slow game at Gateshead v Middlesex. Stewart Hutton hit a low hundred and we won the game with an over or so to spare.
Surrey beating us by about 100 runs at the Racecourse Ground :lol:
Botham refusing to sign an autograph for me because some c*nt in the crowd complained I was spoiling their view (for all of 30 secs) - Took me until I was 34 to finally get to meet him :lol:

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Met Gower, Larkins and Robin Smith that day

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Surrey racked up 330 off 39 overs at the Racecourse (think this was the Botham autograph refusal day)

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Middlesex game, genuinely thought Hutton got a ton. Shows what time does to the memory!
 
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TopCat said:
I know it's not fashionable anymore, but I miss the old 40 over tournament. Rock up to the Racecourse Ground, or Gateshead Fell after Sunday Lunch for a 2pm start and home in time for a late supper. In the days where teh international players would play for their counties. I remember meeting David Gower at Stockton when Durham v Hampshire was rained off. I was awestruck :D
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I'm with you on that, I'm of the belief actually that our County game would be far better if we went back to some sort of structure like Sunday League.

Far too often throughout the season I fear the punters don't have a clue what's going on, what days, what format etc. Atleast if you had an obvious structure of Sunday League, with your Championship games being through the week, it would be easier for fans to follow.
 
I replied to The Cricketer Magazine's survey with much the same view. Either have Friday night or Sunday as the 1-day competition's set day and the CC around it. Every Friday-Sunday should have cricket played on it. The last 5 weeks of the season can be for a 2 division T20 tournament involving all 18 counties, the England players and 4 overseas players per county. Players and spectators like routines.
 
Ageing trundler said:
I replied to The Cricketer Magazine's survey with much the same view. Either have Friday night or Sunday as the 1-day competition's set day and the CC around it. Every Friday-Sunday should have cricket played on it. The last 5 weeks of the season can be for a 2 division T20 tournament involving all 18 counties, the England players and 4 overseas players per county. Players and spectators like routines.
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100% agree with the bit in bold.

Don't quite agree with how you would structure the schedule, but I'm sure we could come to some agreement ;)
 
Hehe. One of the things that put me off football a while ago. I liked my 3 o'clock Saturday kick-offs. Bus at 11.00, boozer from 12.00 until 2.30. Back home for 6.30. Personally, I'd have the 50 over stuff on a Friday at 3.00, make teams bowl their overs in 3 hours. T20 also on a Friday night.
 
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Back when I was a young un I used to love watching Hampshire :oops:on BBC2 John Player League with Barry Richards and Gordon Greenidge opening.

Funny how things change as you get older!:evil:
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And John Arlott never actually saw a game finish!

He used to do the first 20 overs of each innings then do one after his second stint.

The 40 overs had to be bowled in 2 hours and bowlers were limited to 15 yard run ups
 
Rip Van Fish said:
And John Arlott never actually saw a game finish!

He used to do the first 20 overs of each innings then do one after his second stint.

The 40 overs had to be bowled in 2 hours and bowlers were limited to 15 yard run ups
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I remember the crowd hecking the late, great Malcolm Marshall at Stockton about how long he was taking to bowl his overs. He just turned to the crowd and said "you want to bowl man......?"
 
Malcolm Marshall and John Arlott. My 2 favourite cricketing people. Therapeutic reading for this grizzled old cricketer after standing around yesterday, full of hell, watching the rain fall for 2 hours and having to drive 25 miles back home.
 
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Colin Dredge. His elbow was hitting the umpire constantly. :lol:
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One of the great trundlers of all time...always reminded me of Blakey from On The Buses for some reason!

Rip Van Fish said:
And John Arlott never actually saw a game finish!

He used to do the first 20 overs of each innings then do one after his second stint.

The 40 overs had to be bowled in 2 hours and bowlers were limited to 15 yard run ups
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Yeah you would have Peter Walker doing an intro and then over to Arlott who to these young ears would seemingly go about 15 mins without saying a word unless David Shepherd hit a couple of big sixes into the local churchyard before inevitably being stumped next ball by Farouk Engineer and then it was over to Jim Laker for some battin' and bowlin' and his well documented obsession with the diminutive Harry Pilling'

Tea between 4.10 and 4.30 and all over by 6.30 with not a DJ in sight or a hint of One Direction.
 
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One of the great trundlers of all time...always reminded me of Blakey from On The Buses for some reason!



Yeah you would have Peter Walker doing an intro and then over to Arlott who to these young ears would seemingly go about 15 mins without saying a word unless David Shepherd hit a couple of big sixes into the local churchyard before inevitably being stumped next ball by Farouk Engineer and then it was over to Jim Laker for some battin' and bowlin' and his well documented obsession with the diminutive Harry Pilling'

Tea between 4.10 and 4.30 and all over by 6.30 with not a DJ in sight or a hint of One Direction.
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And not to mention the most sixes comp
 
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