Can't believe I forgot Parry - He was actually the one I meant to include first on the list. I even googled him to make sure I knew how to spell his name correctly. Ffs.
West Indians in local leagues
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Voice of fair play
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Mind remember playing against Azad when he was pro at Sunderland, If I remember rightly he was a hell of a bat and maybe was top runscorer in the league that season.
He was only there the one season though?
If this was at ashbrooke I was there as a bairn with my dad watching. Got my photo took with wasim raja. Don't think azad got many and wouldn't have his photo took with me
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The Voice Of Reason
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If this was at ashbrooke I was there as a bairn with my dad watching. Got my photo took with wasim raja. Don't think azad got many and wouldn't have his photo took with me
Bet he dines out on the photo of you and him
Think he's deed actually
The Voice Of Reason
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Think he's deed actually
Other than that tho .....
toosb
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Remember Kirti Azad, he played Tests I'm sure.
Yeah. Top run scorer that year. Signed a contract to come back the next year but there were issues over the amount and he ended up not coming.
I can remember him having a bet with one of the lads that he could clear the rugby grandstand at Ashbrooke. He hit one that just clipped the apex of the roof and turned to the dressing room with his arms spread, as if to say, "there you go".
"It hit the roof," came the reply.
"Ok," he shouts back, "next ball".
Telling everyone in the ground what he was going to try and do - including, obviously, the bowler.
Didn't matter. The next ball cleared the roof by yards and he won his bet.
Probably gets done regularly with today's bats.
If this was at ashbrooke I was there as a bairn with my dad watching. Got my photo took with wasim raja. Don't think azad got many and wouldn't have his photo took with me
Was at Philly in a pre-season game. The clubs used to play every year for a inter-club trophy - don't know if they still do it. It was my first game after moving up from the Coast League.
Think he's deed actually
Died 11 years ago.
Played about half-a-dozen. Used to show us pictures of him hitting Botham for six in a ODI. Think he went into politics.
smoker
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I liked when they said players booked their holidays to avoid facing him and Gilchrist!
He was arrogant - told us he was the son of a Maharajah, and acted like it.If this was at ashbrooke I was there as a bairn with my dad watching. Got my photo took with wasim raja. Don't think azad got many and wouldn't have his photo took with me
Got into a bust-up with our skipper - a no-nonsense Yorkshireman who was also groundsman. Told him that back home in India he would be digging his gardens.
Skipper replied "Twenty years years ago you'da been digging mine. Now shut thee gob and do your job." Brilliant.
Tale (possibly urban myth) at Whitburn when Hall and Griffiths turned up for Lance Gibbs' testimonial. West Indies select XI vs a Senior League select side
Hall pushes off the sightscreen to start his run-up. Hurls one down that raps the pads off one of the Senior League lads.
Huge appeal - and the batsman turns and starts to walk off.
Umpire shouts, "come back young'un. You're not out."
"I f@@king am," come the reply.
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The lad who had his leg stump taken out in the opening scene of Race and Pace wants a serious look at his technique
pavarotti1980
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Did anyone play against Clayton Lambert at Normanby Hall?
Used to bat with his walkman on and sing to himself
Used to bat with his walkman on and sing to himself
Voice of fair play
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Aye was a awesome bat used to play for Blackhall before them
Another one I forgot.
Played in a testimonial game with him - never seen so many rubber grips on a cricket bat.
Naively asked him where he bought his bats (I was very young at the time).
"Man. I don't pay for no bats", came the reply.
Was he the bloke who was on that ITV show a few years back? Some lass from Seaham tracked him down (or may have been a different West Indian) as her long lost father.
No that was Tony King.
Believe he got the pro's job on the basis he was Collis King's nephew. Sadly he was not quite up to the standard of Collis !
Clem Thompson was quick and had a nasty line in "beamers" if any local batsman got the better of him.
CollingwoodFTM
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As mentioned, we had Walsh and Bishop at Tynedale. But sandwiched in between was Kelvin Williams. He was immense with both bat and ball.
