By Richard Edwards
Happy returns: The Newclose ground hosts county cricket on the Isle of Wight for the first time in 57 years
IT has taken 57 years but now County Championship cricket is about to return to one of domestic cricket’s final frontiers.
And although the average county cricketer will travel thousands of miles during the course of the season, Nottinghamshire’s players will be only ones to be able to boast of travelling to an away fixture on a ferry.
It was 1962 when Hampshire last island-hopped over to the Isle of Wight, with the then reigning County Champions havi...
