Finally, if you are the sort of person who cannot bear to read a match report without a scorecard, here’s a link to the scorecard. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. Then sometimes she would state on the MTWD board that she knew something about a player but “couldn’t say” what it was. Author Ian Louis Harris Posted on June 4, 2010 November 27, 2017 Categories Cricket Tags Comebackgatt, County Championship, Jez Horne, Lord's, Middlesex, Middlesex Till We Die, Monique Gore, Northamptonshire, Peter Sheldrake, Richard Leeds Leave a comment on Middlesex v Sussex T20, Lord’s, 3 June 2010, Then Middlesex v Northamptonshire Day One, Lord’s, 4 June 2010 MTWD Glossary 2. Post tea AC opens the bowling and we move out of the Allen upper into the Tavern stand as the sun has finally got his hat on ,hip ,hip,hip,hip horrray!

However, I thought it would have been a more appropriate gesture to have his picture on front cover rather a random picture based on the Ashes. In the topsy-turvy days when England cricket went through the ups of winning the Ashes and the downs of being whitewashed by West Indies, there was in Middlesex a batsman from St. A statement released by the ECB said Middlesex "have accepted non-compliance of their CPA with ECB, and that the Club has been financially mismanaged over a number of years and is in breach of the ECB financial regulations.Post-mortem reports eventually revealed a damaged artery — something that had gone unnoticed over the years. Philip may not have been with us very long but what an impression he made on everyone on and off the field. I should have added that there will be a memorial service at a larger venue in New South Wales at a later unconfirmed date, and ECB have said they plan to be represented on that occasion. Sometimes she would report a false rumour – no doubt in good faith – but the result might be problematic for the site administrators and the site. I managed to arrange my day sensibly for this one, with a game of real tennis scheduled at 16:00 ahead of the AGM which was due to start 18:00/18:30.

Law was certainly responsible for demoting the established off spinner, Ollie Rayner, whom he had already identified at the March pre season lunch of his first season as someone who "had allocated himself the role of court jester", and favouring Sowter early on in his tenure, but that was because he had the last word on team selection. He had four quiet matches, where his best performance came against a strong Barbados line-up at Kensington Oval: set to chase 241 in the fourth innings against Wayne Daniel, Ezra Moseley, and Albert Padmore, Slack top-scored with 68 not out, and with a 48-run partnership with Lockhart Sebastien and 113 more with Norbert Phillip, he saw the tourists home. After the hosts piled up 229 for 3 in 37 overs, England lost Botham early, but Slack provided Graham Gooch with the support he needed. Simon Hughes wrote of him in A Lot of Hard Yakka: “ Wilf Slack, a reserved Windward Islander who never betrayed any nerves despite the daily task of standing up to some of the fastest bowlers in the world, rarely said anything when he came back into the dressing-room.I decided not to go to a local Grade team get together today (all Grade cricket here in Stdney was cancelled today); just too much, and played golf instead in my club's monthly medal. But the actual winner is "When the bet was offered, the loyal Middle fan had expected a longer honours board from the season. Author Ian Louis Harris Posted on October 22, 2009 October 1, 2018 Categories Cricket, Other Sports (fives, football, hockey, etc. Brian Carpenter wrote in Cricket Lore: “To those who watched him play for Middlesex as the eighties unfolded, he became the byword for a particular brand of batting as Brearley and later Barlow faded from the scene.

Micheal Clark in his eulogy mentioned taking strength from all the shows of support from around the world. He’d sit down, quietly unbuckle his pads, and carefully lay them to rest in his case, then stare glumly into space for a while. With Ollie injured we had Patel, Stirling and a bit of Malan against Leach, Bess and van der Merwe, not much of a contest. Slack grafted and grafted and grafted; there were fifties from Roland Butcher and Keith Tomlins, and a cameo from Edmonds, the stand-in skipper. The Daily Telegraph and Cricinfo have published galleries of the tributes for Hughes at the Test match.In truth, not really my kind of entertainment; personally I would have preferred more time to socialise. I really cannot add much to Barmy Kev’s piece, other than to say what a fun evening it was and what a shame it (or something similar) hasn’t been repeated. The Daily Telegraph article on this says that Compo used to share a flat with Hughes, which I wasn't aware of, and that Robbo played with Hughes at junior level for New South Wales and Australia (I know they played together for Australia U-19s). Unlike the other nine under the cosh we don't have a ground to hire out for pop concerts to fill the gaps. I thought that at least 12 counties had to vote in favour of any reduction scheme so it would be a bit turkeys voting for Christmas.