All posts tagged "Leicestershire"
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoEssex lead way but Duckett catches eye
The Cricket Paper’s experts offer their team of the season from Division Two Essex earned the only promotion spot available in...
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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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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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