All posts tagged "Leicestershire"
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Old game springs to life just as T20 moves in for kill
Scientists have made a couple of important discoveries in the past week, but exciting though it is to think that there...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Work to be done for Essex to shake off yo-yo tag
The biggest challenge of promotion it seems, for those teams which manage it like my old county Essex, is adapting to...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoOutgrounds – Surrey
Tree-lined Guildford still able to deliver the festival fun for Surrey Dan Whiting’s journey through cricket’s more unlikely venues takes him...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoWelch named as Leicestershire assistant coach
Graeme Welch will work alongside new Leicestershire head coach Pierre de Bruyn after the former Derbyshire elite performance director was named...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – I’d love to go for the hat-trick with Tallawahs and build up my coaching CV
What a couple of weeks it’s been! Caribbean Premier League winners for the second time then a wonderful family holiday in...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – I’m missing fast show but Agnew and Lloyd won’t be…
There is no finer sight in cricket than a genuinely fast bowler in full cry, mixing up the 100mph inswinging toe-crushers...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoOutgrounds – Middlesex
Dan Whiting looks at the stories behind some of the venues that Middlesex have used over the years Middlesex might be...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoOutgrounds – Leicestershire
When Gower rescued Taylor from a battering by snarling Sylvester Dan Whiting unearths some intriguing tales from Leicestershire’s forays into the...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoRoderick out for six weeks
Gloucestershire Championship captain Gareth Roderick will miss up to six weeks of cricket after breaking his finger on Sunday. Wicket keeper...
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International News
/ 9 years agoMark Wood added to England Lions squad
Mark Wood has been added to the England Lions squad for the Tri-Series against the A-teams of Sri Lanka and Pakistan....
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoCosgrove to stay at Leicestershire until 2018
Leicestershire captain Mark Cosgrove will stay at the county until at least the end of the 2018 season after signing a...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Try Yeovil as there’d never be a ‘murder’ at Lord’s!
Some cricket grounds have more of an aura about them than others, and when a friend phoned the other day to...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – All counties need equal TV exposure
With the One-Day Cup and T20 Blast now in full flow, there is plenty of county action on our TV screens...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Warwickshire – John Player Sunday League Champions 1980
By Neil Fissler Andy Lloyd remembers well Bob Willis’ first season in charge of Warwickshire as it brought about a change...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoNiall O’Brien set to be out until end of July
Leicestershire could be without wicketkeeper Niall O’Brien until the end of July with the Irishman suffering a calf muscle tear. O’Brien,...
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Latest News
/ 10 years agoICP Young Gun – Michael Burgess
‘I was gutted to fall for 98 on county debut’ Scoring 98 against Sri Lanka on county debut is hardly the...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Leicestershire – 2001 runners up Sunday League and C&G Trophy
By Neil Fissler Neil Burns admits that Leicestershire were disappointed not to have ended the 2001 season with at least one...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – There’d be no fun if Geoffrey’s mum was at No.11
There are one or two instances in which Wisden’s claim to be cricket’s unimpeachable bible fails to stand up to serious...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – Batters beware: A team can fold any time
It’s been nice to see wickets falling in the County Championship now after batsmen dominated the opening few weeks, but there...
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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 – Thank God… it’s not like Nineties anymore
It wasn’t just in the international set-up that there were ups and downs in the 1990s. The Nineties era was almost...
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Latest News
/ 10 years agoNortheast sees light through the Key-hole
By Jack Miller THE sight of Rob Key striding to the crease will be sorely missed by the patrons at Canterbury,...
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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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Club Cricket
/ 10 years agoRain Card is always a big gamble…
Dan Whiting reveals how the weather forecast is at the centre of one of the game’s greatest, and most long-lasting, conundrums...
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Latest News
/ 10 years agoWhy Leicester fairytale can’t be repeated by cricket cousins
Tim Wigmore reveals how county cricket’s finances mean the underdog has had his day in the Championship Fans of the County...
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