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1969 Gillette Cup
The 1969 Gillette Cup was the seventh Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 10 May and 6 September 1969. The tournament was won by Yorkshire County Cricket Club who defeated Derbyshire County Cricket Club by 69 runs in the final at Lord's. Format The seventeen first-class counties were joined by five Minor Counties: Buckinghamshire, Devon, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Wiltshire. Teams who won in the first round progressed to the second round. The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage. Winners from the quarter-finals then progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at Lord's Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and ... which was held on 6 September 1969. First r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Test And County Cricket Board
The Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB) was the governing body for Test and county cricket in Great Britain between 1968 and 1996. The TCCB was established in 1968 to replace the functions of the Board of Control for Test Matches (established in 1898) and the Advisory County Cricket Committee (1904) which had been set up by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) to administer Test cricket in England and the County Championship respectively. In order to be eligible for government funding through the Sports Council, cricket needed an independent governing body and the representatives from the TCCB, together with representatives from MCC and the National Cricket Association (NCA), formed a new Cricket Council, initially known as the MCC Council. The TCCB assumed responsibility for all county cricket and the England team at home and abroad, although England touring teams continued under the name MCC until the 1976–77 season. In 1992 Scotland severed their ties with the TCCB and Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiltshire County Cricket Club
Wiltshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. Founded in 1893, it represents the historic county of Wiltshire. The team is a member of the Minor Counties Championship Western Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Wiltshire played List A matches occasionally from 1964 until 2005 but is not classified as a List A team ''per se''. The club is a member of Wiltshire Cricket Limited, the governing body for cricket in the county. Venues The club is peripatetic, playing its matches around the county at:CricketArchive – Wiltshire matches and venues Retrieved on 30 May 2010. * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Collins (cricketer)
Brian George Collins (born 11 August 1941) is a former English cricketer. Collins was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium, with bowling being his main playing role. He was born at Enfield, Middlesex. Collins made his debut for Hertfordshire in the 1966 Minor Counties Championship against Bedfordshire. He played Minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire from 1966 to 1987, making 102 Minor Counties Championship and three MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances. His List A debut came when Hertfordshire played Devon in the 1969 Gillette Cup. He made nine further List A appearances for the county, the last of which came against Surrey in the 1987 NatWest Trophy. In his ten List A appearances for Hertfordshire, he took 16 wickets at an average of 19.06, with best figures of 5/20. He also played for a variety of combined Minor Counties teams. He made his debut for Minor Counties South in the 1973 Benson & Hedges Cup against Gloucestershire. He made ten further appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Greetham
Christopher Herbert Millington Greetham (28 August 1936 – 13 March 2017) played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club from 1957 to 1966 as a middle-order batsman and a medium-pace bowler. Greetham was a tall, fair-haired right-handed batsman usually used in Somerset's late middle order and a right-arm seam bowler who, for a couple of seasons in the early 1960s, took enough wickets to be classed as an all-rounder. He was considered a good cover fielder, with a strong and accurate throw. Career He first played for Somerset in 1957 and became a regular player in 1959, when he hit 881 runs in the season and made his highest first-class score, an unbeaten 151 in the match against the Combined Services. One week after this innings, he made a second century, 104, including three sixes and 12 fours, against somewhat more demanding opposition in the match against Derbyshire. The innings, said ''Wisden'', "revealed he could be relied upon when quick scoring was needed". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Healey (cricketer)
Robert Dennis Healey (born 10 February 1934) is a former English cricketer. Healey was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. Healey made his debut for Devon in the 1953 Minor Counties Championship against Cornwall. From 1953 to 1969, he represented the county in 39 Championship matches, the last of which came against Dorset. He played a single List A match for the county against Hertfordshire in the 1969 Gillette Cup. In this match he scored a 3 runs before being dismissed by Brian Collins. It was with the ball that he starred, taking 6/14 and earning himself the man-of-the-match award. Healey served in the Royal Navy, which accounted for his infrequent appearances for Devon. It was in 1964 that he made his first-class debut for a Combined Services cricket team against Cambridge University. He played his second and final first-class match in the same season against Oxford University. In his 2 first-class matches he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Day
Alan Richard Day (born 12 November 1938) is a former English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman. Day was born in Muswell Hill in North London, and attended Aldenham School in Hertfordshire. He made his Minor Counties Championship debut in 1957 for Middlesex Second XI, playing two matches. He didn't play another match in the competition until 1962, when he joined Hertfordshire. He played regularly for Hertfordshire until 1975, and then for Berkshire from 1977 to 1980. He made his one-day debut in the 1966 Gillette Cup for Hertfordshire against Berkshire, and played five matches in total between 1966 and 1974. He top-scored with 53 when Hertfordshire beat Devon in the first round of the Gillette Cup in 1969. Day's only first-class appearance came for Marylebone Cricket Club in 1968, against Ireland. He scored 5 runs in the match, which finished in a draw. He appeared frequently for MCC in minor matches. In club cricket for Hornsey Cricket Club and other cricket matches he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Oakman
Alan Stanley Myles Oakman (20 April 1930 – 6 September 2018) was an English first-class cricketer. He had a long career for Sussex, playing 538 first-class matches over a 21-year period, and played two Test matches for England. He also umpired one One Day International after his retirement as a player. Life and career A former Welsh Guardsman, and a more than dependable county all-rounder, Oakman used his unusual height () to gain bounce for his off-spinners, and got well forward to drive while at the batting crease. He passed a thousand runs in a season on nine occasions, took 99 wickets in 1954 and his telescopic skill as a close fielder snared him five catches in Jim Laker's famous 19 wicket haul at Old Trafford, and totalled 594 catches in his career. Although both his Test appearances in the home Ashes series of 1956 ended in victories, he was called upon for just eight overs at Old Trafford, whilst Tony Lock and Laker bowled over 130 between them. He played a key ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Gray
Lawrence Herbert Gray (1915–1983) was an English first-class cricketer and Test match umpire. Born in Tottenham in 1915, he played 219 matches for Middlesex as a right arm fast medium bowler between 1934 and 1951. He took 637 wickets at 25.13 with a best of 8 for 59. He took 5 wickets in an innings 26 times and 10 wickets in a match on 3 occasions. He then turned to umpiring, standing in the England v South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ... test at Lord's in 1955 and the England v West Indies match at Birmingham in 1963. He died in Essex in 1983. References 1915 births English cricketers Middlesex cricketers English Test cricket umpires 1983 deaths Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Players cricketers North v South cricketers East of England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelmsford
Chelmsford () is a city in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England. It is the county town of Essex and one of three cities in the county, along with Southend-on-Sea and Colchester. It is located north-east of London at Charing Cross and south-west of Colchester. The population of the urban area was 111,511 in the 2011 Census, while the wider district has 168,310. The demonym for a Chelmsford resident is "Chelmsfordian". The main conurbation of Chelmsford incorporates all or part of the former parishes of Broomfield, Newland Spring, Great Leighs, The Walthams, Great Baddow, Little Baddow, Galleywood, Howe Green, Margaretting, Pleshey, Stock, Roxwell, Danbury, Bicknacre, Writtle, Moulsham, Rettendon, The Hanningfields, The Chignals, Widford and Springfield, including Springfield Barnes, now known as Chelmer Village. The communities of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Chelmsford, Ontario and Chelmsford, New Brunswick are named after the city. Chelmsf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Ground, Chelmsford
The Essex County Ground (ECG) is a cricket venue in Chelmsford, Essex, England. It has been used by Essex County Cricket Club for first-class cricket since 1925 and List A matches since 1969, and has been the county's official home ground since 1967. The ground has a capacity of 6,500, mostly in single-tier seating with a single double-tiered stand. Its pavilion was completed in the 1970s. History Essex's first match at the ground took place in June 1925 against Oxford University. and their first County Championship game at Chelmsford was against Somerset in 1926. When the club left its headquarters at Leyton Cricket Ground at the end of the 1933 season they began a period of playing games at various venues around the county, with a week allocated to each. Chelmsford was given two weeks a season but poor attendances led to Essex ceasing to play at the ground after 1956. In 1966 the club purchased the Chelmsford ground for £15,000, with some financial assistance from Warwickshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Hobbs
Robin Nicholas Stuart Hobbs (born 8 May 1942) is a former English cricketer, who played in seven Tests for England from 1967 to 1971. He played first-class cricket for both Essex and Glamorgan. Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, remarked, "Hobbs was the last specialist leg-spinner to play for England before Ian Salisbury revived the art in 1992. A good spinner of the ball although he lacked the googly, an inventive batsman and great character, he was an immensely popular cricketer". Life and career Leg spinners have proved a rarity in post-war English cricket, thanks in part to the rise of one day cricket, and Hobbs was the last specialist to play for England before the emergence of Ian Salisbury. Hobbs was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire but after moving to Scotland for a period during the war he grew up in Dagenham in East London. A keen ornithologist, Robin collected tropical birds in an aviary that he built behind his father's shop. This notably included a toucan which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Lomax
Ian Raymond Lomax (30 July 1931 – 31 July 1996) played cricket for more than 20 years for Wiltshire in the Minor Counties and latterly in List A cricket, and also played in first-class matches for a variety of amateur sides, including the Free Foresters and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). In 1962, he played in half a dozen first-class games for Somerset, but the life of a day-to-day county cricketer was not for him. He was born in Fulham, London and died at Deane, Hampshire. Cricket career Educated at Ludgrove and Eton, Lomax had, according to his obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, "an Edwardian sense of style and 18th century zest". A middle-order right-handed batsman and an enthusiastic though irregular fast-medium bowler, Lomax was termed "a grand stroke-player" as a schoolboy cricketer in 1949 and did not change his hard-hitting methods much over the years. He started playing for Wiltshire in the Minor Counties in 1950 and made his first-class cricket debut in 1952 fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
