All posts tagged "Leicestershire"
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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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/ 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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/ 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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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Northamptonshire – 2000 Division Two County Champions
By Neil Fissler Darren Cousins admits that it was a dream come true helping Northamptonshire win the first ever Second Division...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Durham – 1992 County Championship debutants
By Neil Fissler David Graveney might have been born in Bristol and played the vast majority of his cricket in the...
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/ 10 years agoGrace Road set to be sponsored
LEICESTERSHIRE are set to have a sponsor for their Grace Road home for the first time in the ground’s 137-year history....
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/ 10 years agoDan Redfern signs for Shropshire
Shropshire have signalled their intent to challenge for honours in the Unicorns Championship next season by signing former Derbyshire and Leicestershire...
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International News
/ 10 years agoMy life in cricket – Jacques Du Toit
It was the England women’s captain, Charlotte Edwards, who pointed me in the direction of Leicestershire. I was playing cricket for...
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Latest News
/ 10 years agoFinal Over – Ben Cotton
ON THE SPOT Date of Birth: 13/9/1993 Marital Status: Single Former Clubs: Porthill Park, Staffordshire THE LAST Bat you bought/used? A...
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/ 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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/ 10 years agoKent’s Darren Stevens targets another vintage season
By Charlie Talbot-Smith Darren Stevens was compared at the PCA dinner earlier this month, to a fine red wine – getting...
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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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/ 10 years agoCounty Championship Division Two – Team of the Year
The Cricket Paper’s experts offer their team of the season from Division Two
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Leicestershire – NatWest Trophy finalists 1992
By Neil Fissler Justin Benson admits that he won’t ever forget Leicestershire’s first Lord’s final for seven years – but for...
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Features and Columns
/ 11 years agoWhere are they now? Leicestershire – County Champions 1996
By Neil Fissler Leicestershire were the rank outsiders to win the County Championship in 1996 with bookmakers offering them at odds...
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Features and Columns
/ 11 years agoWhere are they now? Yorkshire – Gillette Cup winners 1969
By Neil Fissler John Hampshire admits that he did not know it at the time but Yorkshire’s second Gillette Cup win...
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Features and Columns
/ 11 years agoWhere Are They Now? Derbyshire – NatWest Trophy finalists 1998
By Neil Fissler Matt Cassar recalls that Derbyshire were put at a major disadvantage after being asked to bat first in...
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