All posts tagged "Essex"
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – ‘Sorry, you will have to write it in office. I can’t cope’
It’s not difficult to conjure up the scene in the Sri Lankan dressing room just before the start of the Headingley...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – Westley has look of future England Test star
Tom Westley has not been selected in England’s squad for the first Test against Sri Lanka, but if he carries on...
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International News
/ 10 years agoFoster’s got a sense of humour and it’s been needed
Peter Hayter talks to Essex wicketkeeper James Foster about the way his England hopes were crushed Seven years have passed since...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Buckinghamshire – Minor Counties champions 1969
By Neil Fissler Tom Hickling admits that Buckinghamshire winning a record eighth Minor Counties Championship was the highlight of his cricket...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – 1,000 runs in May? No just 1,000 Goose pimples!
This has not been the most convenient time for the junior doctors to be kicking up a fuss, just when the...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Middlesex – 2002 County Championship Division Two runners up
By Neil Fissler Paul Weekes has good cause to remember Middlesex winning promotion for the first time because it was his...
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International News
/ 10 years agoWarwickshire job no big deal Gooch tells Essex faithful
Peter Hayter finds England’s former batting coach eager to allay fears at Chelmsford over his consultancy work at Edgbaston Graham Gooch...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – Tykes can make it a triple but Bears are prowling
So here we go again! The County Championship season is finally upon us and for all the global and saturated Test...
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International News
/ 10 years agoTrevor has released the handbrake, just like Eddie
Sam Tobin finds England skipper Alastair Cook in buoyant mood before the challenges of a new season at Test level and...
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Latest News
/ 10 years agoYasir Arafat moves back to Somerset on loan
YASIR Arafat has returned to Somerset having signed a season-long loan from Hampshire as a non-overseas player. Arafat, 34, has a...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoDerek Pringle column – When the panic sets in there is nowhere to hide…
By Derek Pringle It only takes ten balls to dismiss a cricket team yet we still profess shock and bewilderment when...
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Latest News
/ 10 years agoGreg Smith retires from first-class cricket
Former Derbyshire and Essex all-rounder Greg Smith has announced his retirement from all first-class cricket to take up a new role...
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/ 10 years agoAnthony McGrath named Essex assistant coach
ANTHONY McGrath has left Yorkshire to join Essex as assistant coach and admitted it was “strange” to leave the place he...
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/ 10 years agoAdam Milne signs for Essex
ESSEX will have the services of Adam Milne this summer after the New Zealand bowler signed a deal to play in...
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/ 10 years agoJames Foster signs new deal at Essex
JAMES Foster has signed a new two-year contract at Essex, weeks after stepping down as captain. Foster, 35, has made seven...
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/ 10 years agoGraham Napier to retire at end of 2016 season
THE upcoming season will be Graham Napier’s last with the Essex all-rounder retiring from cricket at the end of the 2016...
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/ 10 years agoAshar Zaidi joins Essex
ASHAR Zaidi has joined Essex on a one-year deal following his release from Sussex in September. The 34-year-old was let go...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Essex – NatWest Trophy finalists 1996
By Neil Fissler Paul Grayson admits that Essex thought that they had one hand on the NatWest trophy after restricting Lancashire...
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International News
/ 10 years agoEngland’s Joe Root on his rise to World No.1
Chris Stocks discovers that England’s prolific run-scorer will be losing sleep during the series against South Africa Joe Root admits...
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Latest News
/ 10 years agoCounty Championship Division Two fixtures
Sunday April 10 – Wednesday April 13 Essex v Gloucestershire, County Ground, Chelmsford Northamptonshire v Sussex, County Ground, Northampton Worcestershire v...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Surrey – Benson & Hedges Cup runners-up 1979
By Neil Fissler Alan Butcher admits his abiding memory of Surrey’s Benson & Hedges Cup defeat to Essex was walking when...
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Club Cricket
/ 10 years agoClub spotlight – Harold Wood CC
By Chris Bailey HAROLD Wood is a century-old institution in Essex but the club was forced to, quite literally, rise from...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Nottinghamshire – 2004 Division Two champions
By Neil Fissler Darren Bicknell admits that the signings of Australians Stuart MacGill and David Hussey were just what Notts needed...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Yorkshire – Sunday league winners 1983
By Neil Fissler Raymond Illingworth had a long history in the game of winning trophies, but nobody had expected that the...
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Latest News
/ 10 years agoCounty Championship Division Two – Team of the Year
The Cricket Paper’s experts offer their team of the season from Division Two

