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Northumberland County Cricket Club
Northumberland County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Northumberland. The team is currently a member of the Minor Counties Championship Eastern Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Northumberland played List A matches occasionally from 1971 until 2005 but is not classified as a List A team ''per se''. The club is based at Osborne Avenue, Jesmond and also plays matches around the county at Benwell Park and at the South Northumberland CC ground at Gosforth. Honours * Minor Counties Championship (0) - ; shared (0) - * MCCA Knockout Trophy (1) - 2006 Earliest cricket Cricket probably reached Northumberland during the 18th century. According to Bowen, the earliest reference to cricket in the county was in 1766. Origin of club A county organisation existed in 1834. The present Northumberland CCC was founded in December 1895 and joined the Minor Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Townsend (cricketer)
Leslie Fletcher Townsend (8 June 1903 – 17 February 1993) was an English cricketer who played for England between 1929 and 1934, for Derbyshire between 1922 and 1939, and also for Auckland in 1934–35 and 1935–36. He was the leading all-rounder for Derbyshire between the wars and at his peak probably the most deadly bowler on a sticky wicket Derbyshire ever produced, owing to his perfect length and ability to turn the ball back from the off. His pace was almost medium and even the most fleet-footed of batsmen could not hit him easily on a bad pitch; however, his lack of flight and variety made him less effective on good pitches. Townsend was also an enterprising middle order batsman, who set a longstanding record for most centuries for Derbyshire in a season in 1933. Career for Derbyshire Townsend was born at Long Eaton, Derbyshire. He did not play cricket in his youth and was only attracted to the game by watching Nottinghamshire's star batsman George Gunn. Townsend fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playfair Cricket Annual
''Playfair Cricket Annual'' is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. It has been published every year since 1948. Its main purposes are to review the previous English season and to provide detailed career records and potted biographies of current players. It is produced in a "pocket-sized" format, being approximately 5×4 in (i.e., about 13×10 cm), so that it is a convenient size for carrying to cricket matches. The front cover of each edition has featured a photograph of a prominent current cricketer. There is a popular myth that this "honour" has a "hex" or "curse" associated with it, as the player featured then invariably has a poor season. Publications The original publisher was Playfair Books Ltd of London, which had its office at Curzon Street when the first edition was published in April 1948; the company relocated soon afterwards to Haymarket. The name Playfair was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E W Swanton
Ernest William Swanton (11 February 1907 – 22 January 2000) was an English journalist and author, chiefly known for being a cricket writer and commentator under his initials, E. W. Swanton. He worked as a sports journalist for ''The Daily Telegraph'' and as a broadcaster for BBC Radio for 30 years. He was a regular commentator on ''Test Match Special'', easily recognised by his distinctive "fruity" voice. After "retiring" in the 1970s, he continued to write occasional articles and columns until his death in 2000. Early life Swanton was born in Forest Hill in south London, the only son and eldest of three children of William Swanton, a stockbroker, and Lillian Emily, daughter of a German merchant who, on marriage to an Englishwoman, changed his name from Wolters to Walters. He was a large baby and known as Jim, a diminutive of " Jumbo", from his earliest years. His father was treasurer of Forest Hill cricket club, and Swanton claimed that, whilst still a baby in his pram, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
G B Buckley
George Bent Buckley (1885 – 26 April 1962) was an English surgeon and a celebrated cricket historian and an authority on the early days of the game. Buckley was born in Saddleworth, Yorkshire, the son of Arthur and Jane Buckley, his father was a solicitor. A surgeon by profession, he won the Military Cross in 1916 for working under fire when he was serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War. He was a senior surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary and member of the Manchester Medical Society. Photographs of him as a surgeon and soldier (prisoner of war) are held in the University of Manchester Library Image Collections. After he retired, he devoted his time to researching early cricket history and travelled all over England to visit local libraries. He collected a mass of cricket historical material from old newspapers and dutifully noted every reference he could find relating to 18th century cricket. His researches were consolidated in his two classic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland Bowen
Major Rowland Francis Bowen (27 February 1916 – 4 September 1978) was a British Army officer and a cricket researcher, historian and writer. Educated at Westminster School, Bowen received an emergency commission in April 1942 into the Indian Army. He spent many years in Egypt, Sudan and India before returning to England in 1951 and joining the Royal Engineers as a Captain, working at the War Office and ultimately being promoted to the rank of Major. He later worked for the Joint Intelligence Bureau, part of Britain's military intelligence establishment. He became involved in cricket research and history in 1958 and, in 1963, he founded the magazine ''The Cricket Quarterly'' which ran until 1970.''The Cricketer'' 1978 – obituary. He is best known for his book ''Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development throughout the World'' (1970) which has been described as "indispensable" but also as "spikily controversial and vigorously wide-ranging". In John Arlott's rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Northumberland CCC List A Players
Northumberland County Cricket Club played 18 List A cricket, List A cricket matches between 1971 and 2005. This is a list of the players who appeared in those matches that were played. A further List A match was abandoned without a ball being bowled. *Timothy Adcock, 1 match, 1994 *Michael Anderson (cricketer, born 1960), Michael Anderson, 1 match, 1984 *Graeme Angus, 7 matches, 1994–2002 *Peter Atkinson (cricketer), Peter Atkinson, 1 match, 1971 *Jonathon Benn, 1 match, 1992 *David Borthwick (cricketer), David Borthwick, 1 match, 1994 *Alan Brown (cricketer, born 1933), Alan Brown, 3 matches, 1971–1977 *Alexander Brown (cricketer), Alexander Brown, 1 match, 2003 *Paul Burn, 1 match, 1992 *Ian Callen, 2 matches, 1977 *Steven Chapman (cricketer), Steven Chapman, 4 matches, 2001–2003 *Ian Conn, 2 matches, 1992–1994 *Kevin Corby (cricketer), Kevin Corby, 4 matches, 1984–1989 *Paul Cormack, 3 matches, 1986–1989 *Mike Crawhall, 3 matches, 1971–1977 *Lee Crozier, 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List A Cricket
List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the number of overs in an innings per team ranges from forty to sixty, as well as some international matches involving nations who have not achieved official ODI status. Together with first-class and Twenty20 cricket, List A is one of the three major forms of cricket recognised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). In November 2021, the ICC retrospectively applied List A status to women's cricket, aligning it with the men's game. Status Most Test cricketing nations have some form of domestic List A competition. The scheduled number of overs in List A cricket ranges from forty to sixty overs per side, mostly fifty overs. The categorisation of cricket matches as "List A" was not officially endorsed by the International Cricket Council unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Wood (cricketer)
Mark Andrew Wood (born 11 January 1990) is an English cricketer who plays internationally for England in all formats. In domestic cricket, he represents Durham, and has played for Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League. Wood made his Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) debuts in 2015. He was part of the England teams that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup and 2022 T20 World Cup. Wood plays as a right-handed fast bowler, and is currently one of the fastest bowlers in the world, with an average Test pace of 89 mph since 2020. Domestic career Minor counties Wood made his debut in county cricket for Northumberland in 2008 against Norfolk in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. He played Minor counties cricket for Northumberland from 2008 to 2010, making 3 Minor Counties Championship appearances and 3 MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances. Durham In the 2011 season, he made his debut for Durham in a first-class match against Durham MCCU. He follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Harmison
Ben William Harmison (born 9 January 1986) is an English former professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Durham and Kent. The former England Under-19 left-handed batsman scored a century on his first-class debut in 2006 while playing for Durham against Oxford UCCE. He finished the season with 563 runs at an average of 37.53 with two hundreds, though both hundreds came in games outside the County Championship. He hit his maiden Championship century, 101 against Warwickshire in 2007. On 19 December 2011, Harmison signed for Kent after being released by Durham in September. He played for Kent until the end of the 2015 season before leaving the county in February 2016 after four seasons.Ben Harmison leaves Kent Kent County Cricket Club, 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2016-02-25. He played in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Graham
John Norman Graham (born 8 May 1943) is a former English professional cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club during the 1960s and 1970s. He was born at Hexham in Northumberland. Graham was a very tall medium-fast right-arm seam bowler.Coney S (2014Where Are They Now? Kent’s 1970 Champions ''The Cricket Paper'', 2014-04-09. Retrieved 2017-10-15. He made his first-class cricket debut for Kent in 1964. Having played a few matches for Kent in each season from 1964, he took 104 first-class wickets in the 1967 season at an average of 13.90, including dismissing England opening batsman Geoffrey Boycott for the only pair of his career.Lynch S (2011Century stands in low totals, and Boycs' golden pair CricInfo, 2011-08-02. Retrieved 2017-10-15. Kent finished as runners-up in the County Championship and won the 1967 Gillette Cup.Williamson MNorm Graham CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-10-15. Although technically a medium pace bowler, Graham was able to use his height – – to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Van Geloven
Jack van Geloven (4 January 1934 – 21 August 2003) was an English first-class cricketer, who played three matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1955, and then joined Leicestershire on special registration for the 1956 season. He was a regular in the Leicestershire side for ten seasons and won his county cap in 1959. He was born in Guiseley in Leeds where his name was registered as Jack Geloven. Career Van Geloven was the son of a Dutch professional footballer, and played football in his youth before deciding to pursue a cricket career. A right-handed middle-order batsman and medium-paced bowler, he played 247 first-class matches, scoring 7,522 runs at a batting average of 19.43 runs per innings, taking 486 wickets at a bowling average of 28.62 runs per wicket and holding 137 catches. Throughout his time with Leicestershire the side was among the weakest in the County Championship, finishing last or second-last seven times between 1956 and 1965,''Wisden'' 2004, p. 494. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
