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Issue no.I9
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duckett
the magazine
for players
past & present
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from the editor
Welcome to Issue 19 of who are forging successful careers and
who are featured in these pages.
Beyond The Boundaries There is career advice on roles in
which reflects on the cricket administration and a profile
of Elliot Wilson which charts his
Beyond the Boundaries is
published by the Professional
season that has just unorthodox route from player with
Cricketers’ Association,
however the views expressed
finished and also looks Warwickshire to Academy coach with
Worcestershire.
in contributed articles are
not necessarily those of ahead to a significant year The success of the first Kia Super
the PCA, its members,
officers, employees or group
companies.
for the Association. League is told by Tammy Beaumont and
her former England team-mate Lydia
Greenway discusses how she has dealt
EDITOR
jason ratcliffe We will celebrate our Golden Jubilee with becoming one of the first centrally-
jratcliffe@thepca.co.uk with a year of fund-raising in 2017 contracted England Women’s players to
art director which will include Big Bike Ride 3, transition out of the game.
sam bowles again in partnership with our good Congratulations to all the winners
sam@stencil-agency.co.uk
friends at the Tom Maynard Trust, at the PCA Awards, especially Ben
features writer and the PCA 50th Anniversary Duckett on his historic scoop of both
paul bolton
pbolton@thepca.co.uk Legacy Appeal. Awards, Young and Players’ Player
As mentioned previously, the Legacy of the Year. The awards night also
pca co-ordinator
ali prosser Appeal will feature pledges of services celebrated highlights of the season and
aprosser@thepca.co.uk from our members. In order to reach remembered members who have hung
PDWP co-ordinator our target of £250,000 for the PCA their bats and boots up and those who
ian thomas
ithomas@thepca.co.uk
Benevolent Fund we need all our have sadly passed away over the year.
members, present and past players, to Among those who have retired are
contributors
nick denning support your charity. Graham Napier, an outstanding PCA
vicky elwick This issue includes a call to action for representative at Essex and staunch
charlie mulraine
luke reynolds the appeal and a feature on David Ford supporter of the Association and the
David Townsend who has just completed ten years as Benevolent Fund, former Personal
lynsey williams
maTT WOOD Chairman of the Benevolent Fund. Development Scholarship Award winner
As always Personal Development Tom Poynton and Dean Cosker, who
photography
Getty images and Welfare is an important part of the was the last member of Glamorgan’s
portraitcollective.com magazine and our interview with James 1997 County Championship-winning
design Taylor is a reminder of how quickly squad still playing. We wish all those
STENCIL-agency.co.uk things can change for players and the who have retired or who are seeking
importance of planning for the future. new challenges in or out of cricket all
Tragically, James’ playing career was the best for the future.
cut short by a serious heart condition. To all of our members we hope you
Happily, the condition was detected in have an enjoyable winter wherever you
time to allow James to be treated and, are spending it and we look forward
PCA LEAD SPONSORS:
with the support of the PCA and many to your support during our 50th
others, he is now developing career anniversary year.
options away from playing.
Stand out examples in this
area, Vishal Tripathi, the former
Northamptonshire batsman who is now
studying for a medicine degree, and
James Ord, the former Warwickshire
batsman who now works for Hawk-Eye
Innovations, are two more past players
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MEMBERS NEWS
pulling pints
Regulars in the Three Crowns pub in the Leicestershire
village of Wymeswold might find England paceman
Stuart Broad and his Nottinghamshire team-mate
Harry Gurney behind the bar this winter.
The pair, along with their friend Dan back from the tour of South Africa we
Cramp, have set up the Cat & Wickets went round to see him.
Pub Company with the Three Crowns, “We knew having Broady on board
which they are renting from Punch would be valuable. We set up the Cat &
Taverns, their first pub venture. Wickets Pub Company and we have just
The pub was closed for a got our first pub. In the long term we are
month while it underwent a major hoping to have a little group of pubs.
refurbishment and has proved popular “Hopefully it will give the pub a new
with locals, including former England lease of life and hopefully provide the
coach Peter Moores, since it re-opened village with a nice local pub that does
in early August. decent, reasonably priced food.”
“I started looking into the possibility Although playing commitments will
of establishing a pub business around restrict the amount of time that Broad
Christmas time. I rang Dan, who runs and Gurney can spend on the premises,
the Larwood & Voce at Trent Bridge, customers at the Three Crowns should
initially just for some advice but it grew not be surprised if they are served by an
from there,” Gurney said. England international cricketer.
“Dan and Broady are also good “We won’t be in on a regular basis
friends and they had already discussed but occasionally we will be seen behind
doing something so when Broady got the bar,” Gurney said.
you’d put of establishing the London-based
firm which specialises in property
company during three winters while he
was playing for Surrey.
yer House
and development finance, asset-based His hopes of joining the company
lending and trade and working capital when his cricket career ended were
facilities for UK businesses. dashed by the economic crash of 2008
on him “There are a lot of similarities between
this and playing professional cricket. I get
to manage my own time and you need to
but he joined Barclays Bank in their
corporate sales division and then
moved on to RBS where he worked
be a self-starter. All the key components with larger companies.
Richard Clinton, the that make up a sportsman are in this role,” Last year he decided to set up his own
former Essex and Surrey Clinton said. company and went into partnership
batsman, is discovering “You need to be very motivated and with his brother whose background is in
that some of the skills very confident and a little bit arrogant as commercial finance.
he developed as a well. You need that arrogance to carry “The two skill sets have married quite
cricketer are serving you through and make you a bit bullet nicely together,” Clinton said. “I deal with
him well in his new proof because you will make some wrong businesses, working capital and facilities
career running a decisions and you will get knock backs and commercial mortgages and he had
commercial finance along the way. a property based background which
advisory firm. “You have got to keep going, knuckle was dealing with developers, individuals
Clinton, 34, down and just get on with it. Being a looking to buy and develop properties.
set up Oakmead batsman, you soon learn those attributes.” “The business was born as a corporate
Finance with Clinton, who went to Loughborough finance offering but across the spectrum
his brother Peter University between his two stints in county of private individuals through to the size
last year and is cricket, gained valuable work experience of businesses I was dealing with at RBS
enjoying the challenge working for a London-based mortgage £50-60 million turnover.”
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Inside this issue
GROOVING AT THE Servants of 50th ANNIVERSARY
GROSVENOR the game LEGACY APPEAL
Page 13 Page 18 Page 24
FORD IN FOCUS FRANCHISES: TAYLOR’S FIELD MILLS AND
Page 28 TOWN and OF DREAMS BOOM
COUNTRY Page 40 Page 51
Page 34
YORKSHIRE CLASS GREENWAY PAVES KHAWAJA takes OFF
OF 2001 REBOOT WAY FOR SUCCESS Page 68
Page 56 Page 62
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The UK’s
biggest cricket
awareness and
fundraising
campaign has
quickly turned “I went around all the
into a huge 18 counties with the PCA
event and gave a talk on mental
health and wellbeing and it’s
just gone from there. The PCA
did fantastic work for me when I
was suffering with depression, so that’s
The Cricket United campaign stepped up London could feel a part of why I’m championing the Benevolent
another gear in 2016 to bring the total something significant. Fund as part of this fabulous campaign.
fundraising figure across the first four All Test Match ground partners of the We encourage people to be open, we
years to well over £400,000 after finishing ECB supported the occasion by turning encourage people to seek help. The PCA
the season with a T20 match at the Kia their boundary boards to blue and really is at the forefront of that.”
Oval in September.. encouraging awareness and donations The 2016 campaign ended with the
The joint appeal between the PCA through on the day. Sky Sports also Yorkshire Tea20 where a Cricket United
Benevolent Fund, Lord’s Taverners and ran a feature on the three charities at XI featuring international stars such as
Chance to Shine saw the three charities lunch where PCA President Andrew Virender Sehwag, Darren Sammy and
work together to change lives through Flintoff interviewed Luke Evans, Darren NatWest PCA Awards double winner
cricket once again during the final Bicknell and Josh Mierkalns who have all Ben Duckett beat the Surrey All-Stars,
Investec Test Match on Cricket United benefitted from support in recent years captained by Kevin Pietersen by one run
Day, the main event of the initiative. from the Benevolent Fund. at the Kia Oval.
The UK’s biggest cricket awareness and Another beneficiary highlighted For the second successive year,
fundraising campaign has quickly turned on the day was PCA’s Mental Health Cricket United also ventured outside
into a huge event in the calendar and seen Ambassador, Graeme Fowler and he of the Kia Oval via the Blue Bails Day
as a great opportunity to promote the explained the importance of the concept campaign which saw clubs in the Surrey
work the Benevolent Fund does in helping which sees the Kia Oval turn blue during Championship and South Wales Premier
PCA members and their dependants. the final Investec Test Match of the League turn their grounds blue whilst
From young fans in blue caps, to summer. “The whole day’s been a great raising funds and awareness for the UK’s
volunteers shaking buckets of cash, to experience. All three initiatives are such three largest charities. The fundraiser will
policemen playing impromptu games on important charities, three great causes, be rolled out to more counties in 2017
the concourse and ex-England captains and to see the about 90 percent of the and if your club is interested in hosting
auctioning their own signed ties for people dressed in the blue of Cricket a Blue Bails Day then visit cricketunited.
£500 a pop - as Alec Stewart did to great United for these serious causes is very co.uk and take part as Cricket United
uproar, all of those present in south important for cricket itself. enters its fifth year.
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Alleyne
Awards and at times like this you realise how
Launches good the PCA is at supporting you.
academy “Lynsey has been there through the whole
process and she has helped massively. Charlie
did a mock interview with me to help prepare
David Alleyne, the former Middlesex me for the ECB interview. The support has
and Nottinghamshire wicketkeeper, been absolutely brilliant, you are not just left
has launched his own cricket on your own to get on with it.”
academy, Future Stars, in Australia. Webb, 24, was released by Warwickshire
The academy is based in Victoria, in May and had trials with Derbyshire and
where Alleyne is still playing
club cricket, and aims to provide Webb lands Gloucestershire before he decided to apply
for the ECB role having gained valuable
role with ECB experience working in Warwickshire’s
elite level coaching through
workshops, camps and clinics marketing department and for the agency who
with programmes appropriate for rebranded the Birmingham Bears this year.
county and academy cricketers. “I think not playing will probably hit me
Alleyne has enlisted Richard next February-March time. My body clock
Johnson, the former Warwickshire Former Warwickshire batsman Jon Webb has is used to that. But I didn’t want to be in the
and Derbyshire wicketkeeper, as an landed a job as a marketing executive with same position two or three years down the
Assistant Coach and has arranged the England and Wales Cricket Board with the line and the ECB job was almost too good an
matches for the Future Stars help of the PCA. opportunity to turn down.” Webb said.
including a tour to New Zealand Webb won a PCA Personal Development “All I wanted to do was play cricket and I
this winter. Scholarship Award earlier this year and the had some great experiences and opportunities
“During my career I was fortunate interview experience he gained from that in the four years I was with Warwickshire.
to be surrounded by and supported selection process and the support of Lynsey “I have had a lot of great memories. Being
by fellow lovers of the game Williams and Charlie Mulraine, two of the part of the NatWest T20 Blast winning side
from various, faiths, genders PCA’s team of Personal Development and is something that I will always cherish. Some
and economic backgrounds and Welfare Managers, helped him to secure the people go a whole career without getting a
certainly feel these people and their Lord’s-based post. trophy or having a day like that.
emotional connection to the game “As it turned out the job interview with the “So that has made it a bit easier. I think if I
and life was significant in helping ECB was less scary than presenting in front hadn’t played in the first team it would have
shape my personal views of the best if four people in a board room for the PCA been a harder decision. But it’s almost a relief.
game in the world,” Alleyne said. Scholarship Awards,” Webb said. I have got something new to go into and I am
For more information: “I’m so glad that I entered the Scholarship really excited about it.”
https://dafuturestars.com.au/
Chippy sakeR Benefits
from pca funding
Neil Saker, the former Surrey and Kent pace bowler, has
added to his carpentry skills thanks to the support of the PCA.
N
eil Saker, 31, has just completed knees in 2009 and to the support they have renovating a house.
a year-long part-time Level Two given to allow me to continue my education I was enjoying the
Site Carpentry course at East post-cricket has been second-to-none. work I was doing in the evenings and
Surrey College. “I can’t thank the guys at the PCA weekends more than the day job,” he said.
Saker works for Prism Lofts, enough for the support they have given me “The course the PCA helped to fund
who specialise in loft conversions, in south and all the other players.” was two evenings a week, one session
London and gained the qualification with the Saker had a spell working as a project was practical and the other in the
help of educational funding from the PCA manager for a mobile gaming apps classroom. It was nice to spend a bit
who part-funded the course. company but opted for a more practical more time and in a bit more detail on
“It would have been a stretch to pay for career when he took up carpentry three the things that you do when you are at
it without PCA funding,” Saker said. years ago. work but when you are not being rushed
“The PCA been brilliant to me over the “Becoming a carpenter and working off your feet. That helped with the
years. They helped with operations on my on site coincided with me buying and process of learning.”
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Bishop in
the kitchen
Ian Bishop, the former
Somerset and Surrey seamer,
spent his playing career
trying to knock over pieces of
wood but he now makes more
imaginative use of timber.
The 39 year old, who played
for Somerset in 1996 and for
Surrey from 1999 to 2000,
works as a kitchen designer
for Howdens Joinery in
Ilminster in Somerset.
Bishop worked as a telephone
Siddique
engineer after his county career
but retrained as a kitchen
designer after he spotted an
lands first advert in a local newspaper.
“There was a lot of travelling
TV part
as a telephone engineer and I
was looking for something a bit
closer to home,” Bishop said.
“I spotted an advert in the
paper, went for it and ended up
Former Derbyshire batsman-turned actor “I landed the role through an auditioning falling into it. It was literally on a
Hamza Siddique has landed his first part process done at the BBC Elstree Studios. wing and a prayer.
on television. Filming took place over a couple of weeks “The training was done
Siddique, who had two years on in and around Birmingham which is where in-house. We are a massive
Derbyshire’s staff, graduated from the BBC Doctors headquarters is based,” company with over 600 branches
Central School of Speech and Drama in Siddique said. across the country with a big
London last year with a Masters degree in “Although it’s nothing major, it’s certainly turnover so it’s very busy.”
acting which was part-funded by the PCA. a start and the BBC credit always looks Bishop, who also played Minor
London-based Siddique appeared in three good on a CV. In and around Doctors I’ve Counties cricket, still captains
episodes of the BBC series ‘Doctors’ as also done several short films and a few small his local club Staplegrove who
Zaroon Hanif, the brother-in-law of Rhuma theatre pieces which is building up my CV have two more former Somerset
Hanif, who is one of the main characters in and experience nicely. Hopefully it will lead players, Steffan Jones and Matt
the long-running programme. to more and more opportunities.” Dimond, in their side.
Thanks to the help of PCA members Bulldogs AFL team.
and other player associations overseas Among those who were on county
we have managed to reduce the lengthy staffs but never played a first team
list of players we had missing or match, Steve Taylor, the former
incomplete contact details for. Warwickshire pace bowler, is now
This detective work has enabled us working as a fireman in Shropshire,
Detective work
to renew contact with Tony Cordle, former Northamptonshire seamer
the former Glamorgan seamer, who is Dale Iniff is working as a policeman
now working at a school in Canada, and Martyn Dobson, another ex-
continued Paul Dunkels, the former Warwickshire
and Sussex pace bowler, who is now
a QC in Devon, Charles Williams, the
Northamptonshire player, is now
Head of Community Development
at the Leicestershire & Rutland
Our on-going attempt to track former Essex middle order batsman, Cricket Board.
who is now sits in the House of Lords Hundreds more former county
down as many former players as Baron Williams of Elvel and Mathew cricketers are now back in contact with
as possible ahead of our Inness, the former Northamptonshire the PCA, receiving their twice-yearly
seamer, who now works as Physical issues of Beyond The Boundaries and
Golden Jubilee year. Performance Manager of the Western accessing Member Benefits.
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Headline act
Former Gloucestershire batsman Steve
Middlebrook retires
to focus on umpiring
Windaybank may be a familiar face to regular Former Essex, Northamptonshire
and Yorkshire off-spinner James
team debut in 1998.
He was part of the side that won
attenders of the Glastonbury Festival. Middlebrook has announced the County Championship under
his formal retirement from David Byas’s captaincy in 2001 but
professional cricket at the age joined Essex the following year.
Windaybank, who played county Windaybank was recruited of 39 to focus on his new career During eight seasons with
cricket from 1979 to 1982, has by a friend, a former policeman, as umpire. Essex, Middlebrook helped them
worked as Confiscations Manager who was appointed head of Middlebrook started and win the Totesport League in 2005.
at the popular festival for the last security at Glastonbury and ended his career with his native He left Essex joined
six years heading a team of three takes a week off from his main Yorkshire which he crowned by Northamptonshire in 2010 and
who ensure that festival goers do job, selling health insurance helping them retain the County was part of the side that won the
not bring offensive weapons or for WPA based in Taunton, to Championship last year. Friends Life T20 and secured
drugs onto the site. attend the festival. Middlebrook had intended to County Championship promotion
“We collect various pieces “I sleep in a tent in the police play the 2015 season with New in 2013.
of contraband at the five compound for a week and you Farnley in the Bradford League During his first-class career
pedestrian gates - knives, see what are nine fields for most and for Bedfordshire in Minor Middlebrook scored 7,873 runs
sharps, hammers, bottles, of the year turn into the biggest Counties cricket but he was and took 475 wickets in 226
glasses and illegal substances town in Somerset for five or six recalled by Yorkshire to provide matches with more than 200
which they are not allowed to days,” he said. cover for Adil Rashid and took wickets in white ball cricket.
take in,” Windaybank said. “It’s a fascinating process and 17 wickets in six matches in Middlebrook began umpiring
“We collect them up then take great fun. I had always wanted to their championship-winning county Second XI matches
them to a lock-up and tell the go to Glastonbury. I see it from a campaign. in 2015 and joined the Minor
chief security officer what we slightly different angle but it’s a Middlebrook played for Counties umpires’ panel this
have done. The items are later great place to be if you like music Yorkshire at every level from year while still playing club
disposed of.” or just to watch the world go by.” Under-11 and made his first cricket for New Farnley.
Aggers and Tuffers
hit the road again
Jonathan Agnew and Phil Tufnell will again
be raising funds for the PCA Benevolent Fund
with four shows across the country in the
New Year.
The former England Test players turned
broadcasters with BBC’s Test Match Special
have been outstanding supporters of the PCA
Benevolent Fund and raised £7,500 from
collections during their recent tour dates.
The Aggers and Tuffers shows offer
fascinating no-holds-barred entertainment
for cricket fans and non-lovers of the game
and an opportunity for the audience to tweet
Aggers with their own questions.
You can see Aggers and Tuffers on stage at
the Burgess Hall, St Ives in Cambridgeshire
(January 19), Bournemouth Pavilion (January
21), Victoria Theatre, Halifax (February 7) and
Hull City Hall (February 8).
Picture shows Simon Fielder of Simon
Fielder Productions presenting cheque to
David Leatherdale, PCA Chief Executive
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catch
Lincolnshire where he combined playing in the county’s pathway programme and
Minor Counties cricket and for Walsall and established his own coaching business
Knowle & Dorridge in the Birmingham which suffered a major setback when he
up with:
League, with running pubs for a friend. was struck in the face by a ball during a
Lincolnshire also gave him a start in net session.
coaching by putting him through his Level “I took a cricket ball to my right eye and
Elliot
Three qualifications and employing him as a made a real mess of myself. My cheekbone
part-time coach in their age group system.” was broken into 14 pieces and I had three
He also picked up coaching work at plates and nine screws inserted. It meant
Wilson
Stamford School and somehow found time that I couldn’t coach during the peak
in a packed schedule to complete a degree months of the summer,” he said.
in Applied Sports Science at De Montfort So Wilson moved to the Isle of Wight
University in Bedford which he put on hold where he made his mark in an 18
when he joined Warwickshire. months’ stint and was head-hunted by
“It was a bit of challenge because I had Worcestershire’s Cricket Board to fill a
to do a full time final year of my degree similar role with them.
in Bedford which was a 40 minutes’ drive Wilson stepped up to acting Academy
away. I also had a full time agreement to run Coach in 2014 when Damian D’Oliveira
the pub, hours coaching at the school and was diagnosed with cancer and he took
lliot Wilson has taken a I was still playing Minor Counties cricket,” over the role on a permanent basis later
circuitous and eventful route Wilson said. that year following D’Oliveira’s death at
from a playing career with Wilson’s career continued its switchback the age of 53.
Warwickshire to heading up course when he was asked to oversee the “I enjoy working with talented athletes. I
Worcestershire’s Academy. conversion of a warehouse near York into get to work with kids who are eight or nine
Since he was released by Warwickshire a cricket centre but severe smoke damage years of age and I get to work with Moeen
at the end of the 2002 season Wilson from a fire in adjoining premises meant it Ali all within 48 hours. It’s a great variety
has played Minor Counties cricket for proved shortlived. which keeps me interested and the guys are
Lincolnshire, worked in a pub, coached in He returned to Lincolnshire, coached good as well,” he said.
an independent school, managed an indoor
cricket centre in York, run his own coaching
business and worked as Performance Officer
of the Isle of Wight Cricket Board.
It is a career path that has been unplanned
but it has given Wilson, 39, a breadth of
experience of the world outside of county
cricket that few coaches can match.
“I am genuinely interested in Personal
Development because I know that cricket
will pick you up and throw you away very
quickly” Wilson said.
“Yes, there is better support for players “Like all
these days but players have to be a bit more
worldly and think about the contacts they
players who
can make to ensure that when they finish are released
playing they can set themselves up for the there’s a sense
future a bit better than I did. of panic and
“It’s been a long and colourful journey
to get from 2002 to here. It’s been a hell of
shock that
journey but an enjoyable one.” goes through
Wilson spent three years with your system.
Warwickshire under coach Bob Woolmer You try to
but he was released without making a first
team appearance.
work out what
“Like all players who are released there’s you are going
a sense of panic and shock that goes to do next”
through your system. You try to work out
what you are going to do next and how you
are going to pay the bills and mortgage,”
Wilson said.
Wilson returned to Stamford and
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AFFORD’S
STENCIL-MANIA
Andy Afford, the ex-Nottinghamshire
player and a former MD of The
Cricketer, has taken the lead role
at creative agency STENCIL – in his
adopted home of Nottingham.
”In an odd way I occasionally miss
catching the ‘rattler’ to St Pancras. But
never the 06.30 starts that went with it”,
states Afford. “Nottingham’s a great city
with a great tradition of innovation and
creativity”, offers the former England A
left-arm spin bowler.
“As a business we’ve core clients in
sport, music and food & drink; we’re
in the process of moving in to a vibrant
studio space as part of the Creative
Quarter development and I couldn’t be
more excited about what the future holds.
“I’d describe the job as offering all the
fun of cricket, but without the permanently
Hornsby Trust
aching body and motorway services.”
For more visit STENCIL-agency.co.uk
Wood runs continues support
for charity
Matthew Wood, one of the PCA’s team of
Personal Development Managers, ran
for players
the Great North Run to raise money for The Hornsby Trust may not have the Among those who have benefited from the
the Anthony Nolan blood cancer charity. profile of the PCA Benevolent Fund but Hornsby’s support in recent times are two
The former Yorkshire and Glamorgan this cricketing charity has been helping former Surrey players, Duncan Pauline and
batsman ran the 13 mile route from professional cricketers for 88 years. David Thomas.
Newcastle to South The Trust was set up by John Hornsby, a Pauline became General Manager of Esher
Shields in two slow left-arm bowler and right-hand batsman CC, but suffered a devastating blow when
hours and 15 who played for Middlesex, MCC and the he lost a leg following a serious illness and
minutes in Gentlemen of England as an amateur. infection. The Hornsby Trust, in partnership
partnership Hornsby was constantly impressed by the with the PCA and Surrey, provided a quad
with his skills and ways of the professionals who bike which enabled him to retain his mobility
sister played alongside him and gave a substantial and continue his job.
Caroline part of his estate to setting up the trust that A walking aid was provided for Thomas
and friends carries name. as he battled so gamely with Multiple
Jon Lee The Hornsby Trust was established in Sclerosis which enabled him to exercise his
and James 1928 to offer support to former professional muscles passively.
Teale from cricketers or their dependants deemed to Sir Alec Bedser and his twin brother Eric
Huddersfield. be “in necessitous circumstances” and it left a generous bequest to the Trust. Recently
“I’d never run that has continued to do so ever since, working the Walter Hammond Memorial Fund, a
sort of distance before,” Wood said. “The closely with the PCA. charity with similar aims to the Hornsby,
longest I had run previously was playing Support may be offered through regular or merged with the Trust.
football when we had extra-time.” one-off financial contributions, or by assistance Donations to the Hornsby Trust can
Wood, who undertook the challenge with winter heating bills; by the provision of be made to the Trust Secretary, the Rev’d
because he has a friend who is being essential equipment to allow a former pro to Prebendary Mike Vockins at Birchwood
treated for blood cancer, and his team live more conveniently or comfortably; or by Lodge, Birchwood, Storridge, Malvern WR13
raised more than £1,000 for the charity. assistance with medical treatment. 5EZ or mdvockins@btinternet.com.
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OLD SkOOL
Westwood
takes up
Umpiring
Almost 90 former county cricketers, including 20 on such a fantastic day for all us old blokes to
who played international cricket, enjoyed the fifth come along and enjoy, reminisce and remember Warwickshire opening batsman Ian
annual Professional Cricketers’ Association Past the old days.” Westwood has started planning for
Players’ Day at Cheltenham College. Although Past Players’ Day is a highlight of a possible future career as a county
The event, which took place during the second the PCA’s social calendar it is also an opportunity umpire by standing in Birmingham
day of Gloucestershire’s Specsavers County for PCA staff to remind former players about the & District Premier League matches
Championship match against Essex, again brought services that the Association provides and to make during the summer.
together players from across the generations. them aware of some of the pioneering health The 34 year-old left-hander made
Roy Booth, the former Yorkshire and initiatives available to them. good use of an unwanted three
Worcestershire wicketkeeper, was the oldest Former Lancashire, Durham and England months absence from the first team to
player present at 89 and Steve Adshead, another batsman Graeme Fowler has recently been gain his first experience of umpiring
wicketkeeper who played for Leicestershire, appointed a PCA Mental Health Ambassador which may help to keep him in the
Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, was the and he spoke at Past Players’ Day about the game when his playing days are over.
youngest at 36. work he is doing in helping to raise awareness of Westwood started by umpiring
Among the first time visitors was Alan Butcher, mental wellbeing. Mike Soper, the former Surrey second team matches at Moseley,
the former Surrey, Glamorgan and England chairman, spoke his battle against prostate cancer his first club, but then progressed
opening batsman, who enjoyed the opportunity to and stressed the importance of regular check-ups to first team cricket. He was
catch up with former team-mates and opponents. against the disease. assessed by Alan Seville, a former
“I have had a fantastic day. It’s a great setting “In view of what we heard about the work top Football League referee, and
to begin with, I always enjoyed playing at that the PCA are doing on mental health within intends to follow up by going on
Cheltenham and it’s fantastic to come and meet the membership this day is very important,” umpiring courses this winter.
lots of cricketers from lots of different eras,” said Butcher said. “I tend to chat to umpires when
Butcher, who coached Surrey and Zimbabwe after “A vital part of the mental health process is I am fielding at square leg and
he retired from playing. feeling connected to people and feeling that you umpiring is something that I have
“There were people that I haven’t seen for are still part of a community. been considering for a while,”
ages, some whom were difficult to recognise at “You might spend 20 years in a dressing room Westwood said.
first glance but I’m sure they thought the same which is like being in a family. It means that you “When I play in the first team it
about me. I have got to thank the PCA for putting have a support group around you but when you tends to be only red ball cricket which
have to walk away from that it can prove very leaves a bit of a gap. With not playing
difficult to re-create that situation. white ball cricket I have got more time
The pca past players’ “Days like this re-create it, to relive their careers than others to do other stuff.
day helps former and remember that they are still part of a special “I spoke to Lynsey Williams, our
cricketers to community and that they are not on their own.” PCA Personal Development and
remember that they The PCA Past Players’ Day was hosted
by former Kent captain David Fulton who
Welfare Manager, and she put me
in touch with Chris Kelly, the ECB’s
are still part of a interviewed Cumbes, Fowler and PCA founder Umpires’ Manager.
special community member Fred Rumsey. “He came to see me and suggested
that I get as much experience as I
could while I was still playing which is
what I have done.
“There’s more to it from a
technical aspect than I thought,
things like how you signal fours and
things like that which I hadn’t really
considered. But I am being assessed
by Alan Seville so you receive some
constructive feedback.
“I have had no major issues in the
games I have done so far and the
players seem to have responded well
to having a current player standing.
“At the moment I haven’t done any
exams so I have been given special
dispensation to get involved. There
are various levels and courses you
can take so I will look at doing some
of those this winter.”
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Double vision
Historic double for Northamptonshire opener who
won the Reg Hayter Cup and John Arlott Cup.
T
he annual NatWest
PCA Awards
became the Ben
Duckett show as the
Northamptonshire
batsman and new England recruit
made history by becoming the
first man to win the two headline
trophies in the same season.
Duckett, 21, won both the Reg
Hayter Cup for NatWest PCA
Players’ Player of the Year and the
John Arlott Cup for NatWest PCA
Young Player of the Year, both of
which were voted for by all current
professional cricketers in England
and Wales.
The awards crowned a summer
of records and landmarks
for Duckett and followed his
selection by England for the One
Day International and Test squads
in Bangladesh.
“It seems to have been good news
each week. I keep saying every week:
‘that has topped off my summer’
and then something else happens,” “What makes the PCA
Duckett said.
“Winning these two NatWest awards so special is
PCA Awards is probably the that you are voted
highlight of my summer. I got my
England call-ups and so many for by your peers.
other things have happened. If People who you play
someone had said at the start of the
season that all this would happen I against vote for you
wouldn’t have believed it. and that means a
“What makes the PCA awards
so special is that you are voted for lot to me”
by your peers. People who you play
against vote for you and that means for England or in international
a lot to me.” cricket so to follow them is a very
“I can’t keep the smile off my great honour.”
face. I wasn’t expecting this. To be Duckett was also voted
nominated for both awards was an Northamptonshire’s Players’ Player
honour in itself so to win them both of the Year and he collected the
is something very special. prestigious Cricket Writers’ Club
“Most of the guys who have won Young Cricketer of the Year Award
the awards in the past have played the day before his PCA double.
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THERE WERE SOME BIG
NAMES TAKING THE MAJOR
PRIZES AT THIS YEAR’S
NATWEST PCA AWARDS. HERE
IS THE FULL LIST OF WINNERS
Reg Hayter Cup for Harold Goldblatt
the NatWest Players’ Award for the PCA
Player of the Year Umpire of the Year
Ben Duckett Michael Gough
Northamptonshire
Greene King PCA
John Arlott Cup for England Masters MVP
the NatWest Young Mal Loye
Player of the Year
Ben Duckett Greene King Team of
What a year!
Northamptonshire the Year
Adam Lyth
Waitrose Women’s Yorkshire
Player of the Summer
Tammy Keaton
Beaumont and Beaumont also enjoyed success at
Jennings
county level, where she helped Kent Beaumont
Woakes take completed a County Championship
Durham
England honours and NatWest T20 double, having Investec Test Player
of the Summer
Ben Duckett
scored 342 runs, a record for a Northamptonshire
at glittering three-match series, in the ODIs Chris Woakes
awards ceremony against Pakistan.
Joe Root ©
Sky Sports Sixes Award Yorkshire & England
“It’s been a bit of a breakthrough
in Mayfair. summer for me. I hadn’t really Colin Ingram Jonny Bairstow
cemented my place before so to have Glamorgan Yorkshire & England
England internationals Tammy a season like that was unbelievable,”
Beaumont and Chris Woakes shared Beaumont said. Royal London One-Day Liam Dawson
Cup Player of the Year Hampshire & England
top-billing with Ben Duckett at “The fact that the squad votes
the NatWest PCA Awards which for this award makes it even more Graeme White Tim Bresnan
this year returned to London’s special. You want to contribute to a Northamptonshire Yorkshire
Grosvenor House Hotel. successful international summer and
Beaumont was voted Waitrose for the girls to recognise that is the
NatWest T20 Blast Chris Woakes
Player of the Year Warwickshire &
Women’s Player of the Summer by best part about winning.”
her fellow England players after Glamorgan all-rounder Colin Colin Ingram England
Glamorgan
a breakthrough season in which Ingram also won two trophies, the Keith Barker
she followed up a maiden One NatWest T20 Blast Player of the Warwickshire
PCA Special
Day International half century in Year and the Sky Sports Sixes prize.
the Royal London series against Duckett was not the only
Merit Award Toby
Pakistan with successive centuries Northamptonshire prize winner as
Marcus Roland-Jones
against the same opponents. slow left-armer Graeme White was Trescothick Middlesex
Woakes also made his awarded the Royal London One-Day
ECB Special Award
Jeetan Patel
breakthrough into England’s Test Cup Player of the Year after finishing Warwickshire
team and he won the Investec on top of the MVP rankings. Mike Selvey
Test Player of the Summer prize Former Durham batsman
after he topped the England MVP Michael Gough retained the Harold Overall PCA County MVP
rankings ahead of Joe Root and Goldblatt Award for the PCA Jeetan Patel
Jonny Bairstow. Umpire of the Year. Warwickshire
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c’est tres bon
Marcus Trescothick has enjoyed many the lives of many people, some of whom
standing ovations during his playing have only a passing interest in cricket.
career but few to match the one he “I guess the mental health awareness
received for an off-field achievement will be my legacy,” he said. “I have
which was recognised at the NatWest enjoyed my time playing cricket and want
PCA Awards.
Trescothick’s outstanding contribution
to the PCA’s pioneering work on mental “you get used to
health awareness was recognised by standing ovations
the presentation of the PCA Special for scoring runs
Merit Award which he received from the
Association’s President Andrew Flintoff
or taking wickets
after the audience had risen to salute him. but to get one for
“As a cricketer you get used to standing mental health
ovations for scoring runs or taking awareness was
wickets but to get one for mental health
awareness was very different and very
very different
special. It shows that we, as the PCA, are and very special”
doing greater things than just cricket,”
Trescothick said. to continue for a number of years yet.
Trescothick has no immediate plans to But, at the end of the day, the Mental
retire from playing but accepts that his Health Charter, working as a PCA Mental
legacy will not be how many runs he has Health Ambassador and helping people
scored but the impact he has made on will be nice things to look back on.”
Chart topper
New Zealand off-spinner tops PCA MVP Rankings
for second time in three years.
Warwickshire off-spinner Jeetan Patel for their tour of India after a three year
had cause for double celebration when absence from the national side.
he followed up being recalled to New “To walk away with the PCA MVP
Zealand’s Test squad with winning the and take 69 championship wickets
Professional Cricketers’ Association which is ten more than I did last
Most Valuable Player Rankings for the year is pretty special. It means I have
second time in three years. worked hard, got my rewards and the
Patel, 36, received a cheque for Warwickshire guys have really helped
£10,000 for topping the overall PCA me out,” Patel said.
MVP which was presented by PCA “Winning the MVP for the second
Assistant Chief Executive Jason time in three years is really big. The
Ratcliffe at the Belfry Golf Centre first time it was about the pat on the
near Birmingham. back that I never really gave myself.
Patel fitted in the presentation “I’m a big believer in rocking up
between sorting out a visa at to work, doing your job, going home
the Indian High Commission in and doing it again the next day. I
Birmingham and flying to Kolkata never really stopped to think I did it
having been called up by New Zealand well enough.”
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big names confirmed for
NORTH v South SERIES
Man of the moment Ben Duckett, of banter about in the against Essex and Sussex.
England internationals Tim Bresnan, dressing room since “It’s brilliant how
Harry Gurney and Liam Dawson, and the start of the “It’s the system has
the Somerset pair of Lewis Gregory and
Tim Groenewald are among the eight
competition and as
we got close to the
brilliant worked giving
an incentive for
players who will be invited to play in the end of the group how the system guys outside
new North v South series in the United
Arab Emirates next March.
stage I knew
that I was there
has worked giving the England
set up to work
They along with Northamptonshire or thereabouts,” an incentive for,” he said.
slow left-armer Graeme White and said Gurney, for guys outside “When I came
Kent all-rounder Matt Coles earned who made his over I was 20
selection for the three-match North v last international the England and I had a whole
South series as the top four England- appearance in set up” career ahead of
qualified players in each region in last December 2014. me and playing for
season’s PCA Most Valuable Player “It’s a good England was definitely in
Rankings. The remaining players for opportunity for someone like my thoughts. I am 32 now
the North v South series will be chosen me just to remind the selectors that and while it’s unlikely that I will
by the England selectors. I can still do it and that I believe that I play for England, especially with all the
Hampshire all-rounder Dawson have still got an awful lot to offer the young talent around, this is probably the
topped the RLODC Rankings after the international game. It’s up to me now to next best thing to playing for England.”
group stage with 128 points, two ahead persuade them that’s still the case.” “I am sure there will be some
of White. Dawson and White were the Groenewald, who was born and really good players out there,
leading spinners in each group. raised in South Africa but who has lived players who will be playing in the
“The North v South series is in England for 12 years, had two match next World Cup so it’s brilliant to be
something that there has been a lot hauls of 20 or more PCA MVP points involved in this tournament.”
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Chris Armishaw Brian Disbury Bill Holdsworth Jackie Fox
Chris Armishaw, a pace bowler Brian Disbury, the former Kent Former Yorkshire fast bowler Bill Jackie Fox, the former Warwickshire
who played five List A matches for middle order batsman, has died in the Holdsworth, who made 27 first-class wicketkeeper, has died aged 87.
Derbyshire in 1973, has died aged 63. United States aged 86. appearances between 1952 and 1953, Fox, christened John but known
Armishaw made his second team Disbury, a prolific batsman at has died aged 87. as Jackie, played regular Minor
debut for Derbyshire in 1970 and made Bedford School, played Minor He took 35 wickets in his short Counties cricket for Durham
an impression on his senior debut by Counties cricket for Bedfordshire career but was not called on between 1950 and 1958.
taking four for 31, including a wicket between 1946 and 1953, during by Yorkshire again and instead He was signed by Warwickshire and
with his first ball, which set up a which time he made four centuries enjoyed and successful career as made his first-class debut in May 1959.
narrow victory over Middlesex in a John and 23 fifties. a professional in league cricket He succeeded Dick Spooner as
Player League match at Chesterfield. His Bedfordshire form brought him playing for Lidget Green, Stalybridge, Warwickshire’s regular wicketkeeper
He made four more appearances that to Kent’s attention and Disbury made Chester-Le-Street and Farsley. in 1960 but lost his place to AC Smith
season without being able to repeat 14 first-class appearances between Holdsworth’s career best figures of during the 1961 season with his
that form although he continued to his debut against Sussex in 1954 and six for 58 helped to set up a victory appearance in a draw with Yorkshire at
make occasional appearances for the final appearance against Somerset against Derbyshire at Scarborough in the end of that season being his last in
second team until 1976. in 1957. August 1953. first-class cricket.
Ken Higgs Although Ken Higgs was a late starter in cricket - he played
football to a decent level in his native Staffordshire - he
made up for lost time by taking more than 1,500 wickets in
511 first-class matches, including 71 in 15 Tests.
Jim
Pressdee
Ken Higgs, the former Higgs played cricket for the Army while on National
Lancashire, Leicestershire and Service and he began playing club cricket when he returned
to Civvy Street, soon progressing to Minor Counties cricket
Jim Pressdee, the former Glamorgan
all-rounder, has died at his home in
England pace bowler, has died with Staffordshire where he was spotted by Lancashire. South Africa aged 83.
aged 79 after a lengthy illness. He made his first-class debut against Cambridge
University in May 1958 and his County Championship bow
Pressdee was Glamorgan’s
youngest post-war player when
a week later against Hampshire. Higgs took seven for 38 he made his debut against
in Hampshire’s second innings and became a mainstay on Nottinghamshire at Cardiff’s Arms
Lancashire’s attack for the next 12 seasons. Park in 1949 and he went on to
It was period of on-field struggles and off-field politicking at become one of the Welsh county’s
Old Trafford but Higgs gave the county outstanding service. most successful all-rounders.
He made his Test debut against South Africa at The Oval in In a 17-season career with
1965 in what proved to be the final England appearance for Glamorgan Pressdee played 322
Brian Statham, Higgs’s county new ball partner. first-class matches and scored almost
Higgs was picked for the Ashes tour the following winter 13,500 runs with 12 centuries. He took
but played in only the first Test. The next summer Higgs 405 wickets with his left arm spin for
was England’s leading wicket-taker against the West Indies Glamorgan at an average of 22.19 with
which included his Test-best figures of six for 91 at Lord’s. 19 five wicket hauls and ten wickets in
Higgs also contributed 63, his highest Test score, to a last a match on five occasions.
wicket stand of 128 with John Snow at The Oval. After his debut against
Higgs retired in 1969 and spent two seasons tormenting Nottinghamshire Pressdee had to
batsmen in the Lancashire League with Rishton before wait another three years for his next
Leicestershire persuaded him to resume his county career. county appearance because of National
Higgs contributed to Leicestershire’s success under Service with the RAF.
Ray Illingworth and helped the, win their first County Pressdee took 72 wickets in 1955
Championship in 1975 and the Benson and Hedges Cup in and 31 the following season but only
1972 and 1975. He took a hat-trick in the 1974 but finished 23 between 1957 and 1961 as he lost
on the losing side. form and confidence with the ball.
Higgs retired from playing for a second time in 1982 and He bounced back in 1963 when he
took up a coaching role with Leicestershire where he proved took 106 wickets and followed up
an influential figure in the development of future England with 105 in 1964. His best figures
all-rounders Phil DeFreitas and Chris Lewis. of nine for 43 were taken against
He was summoned from retirement to play two Yorkshire at Swansea in his final
championship matches in August 1986 and showed that he season of county cricket.
had lost none of his skills when he took five for 22 in the He did the double in 1963 and 1964
first innings of his comeback match against Yorkshire. and also topped 1,000 runs in 1965.
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Treffor Davies
Donald
Carr
Treffor Davies, who made 20
first-class appearances for
Worcestershire between 1955
and 1961 as a middle order
batsman, has died in the
Bahamas aged 75. Donald Carr, the former
Davies signed his first professional
contract as a 16 year-old after he had
Derbyshire and England all
left Halesowen College and made his rounder and former secretary
first-class debut at 17 against Oxford
University in The Parks in 1955.
of the Test and County Cricket
He also played against Cambridge Board, has died aged 89.
University at New Road and
made his County Championship Donald Carr was born in Germany where his father was
debut in a nine wickets defeat by serving in the Army and developed into an outstanding
Somerset at Taunton in July 1955 schoolboy cricketer during his time at Repton.
but National Service in the Army Carr joined the Army in 1945 which limited his
meant it was five years before availability for cricket over the next three years.
Davies made another first-class But he made his first-class debut for England in the
appearance. third Victory Test against Australian Services at Lord’s
Davies first worked in the Bahamas in 1945 and made his Derbyshire debut against Kent the
in 1958 when he was in charge following year.
of combat training and physical Carr went to Oxford University after he left the Army in
education at a centre in Nassau. 1948 and win Blues in 1949 and 1950, captaining the side
While there he met his wife Marina in the second match.
whom he married in 1959. He later After University Carr worked for a brewery and played
taught and coached in the Bahamas. for Derbyshire as an amateur. He was selected to
tour India, Pakistan and Ceylon with the MCC in 1951/52 against Lancashire at Chesterfield in 1955.
where he was vice-captain to Nigel Howard. He made 1,000 runs in a season 11 times with a best of
Denis Foreman Carr made his Test debut in Delhi and shared a match- 2,292 in 1959 for which he was a Wisden Cricketer of the
saving fourth wicket stand with Allan Watkins in five Year in 1960.
Denis Foreman, the former Sussex hours. Carr made 76. Carr captained Derbyshire between 1955 and 1962
batsman and Brighton and Hove Albion He captained England in the fifth Test of the series in and cut his teeth as an administrator by working as
footballer, has died in his adopted Madras but India won by an innings inside four days to secretary of the county between 1959 and 1962. He
county aged 83 after a lengthy illness. secure their first victory over England. then spent 12 years as assistant secretary to the MCC
Foreman became the first non-white In first-class cricket Carr played 446 first-class matches before becoming secretary of the Cricket Council and
South African to play county cricket and scored 19,257 runs with 24 centuries and a highest TCCB for 13 years.
when he joined Sussex in 1952 having score of 170 for Oxford against Leicestershire in 1949. He He was awarded an OBE for services to cricket in 1985.
played three first-class matches for also took 328 wickets with his left arm spin including five Carr was also a talented footballer who a Blue at Oxford
Western Province in the days before five wicket hauls and a best of seven for 53 for Derbyshire and played in two FA Amateur Cup finals for Pegasus.
apartheid prevented Cape coloureds
from playing in recognised cricket.
He played football for the Hibernian
club in Cape Town where he was Paddy Phelan Alan Wilson
spotted by a Brighton scout who
brought him to England. Paddy Phelan, the former Essex off-spinner, who made Alan Wilson, the former Lancashire wicketkeeper,
For the next ten years Foreman 160 first-class appearances between 1958 and 1965, has has died in Warrington aged 94.
combined his cricket and football died aged 78. Wilson played 171 first-class matches for
commitments on the South Coast, He was in the Combined Services side in 1959 when Lancashire over 15 seasons but faced competition for
playing for Sussex as a middle order Warwickshire’s Jack Bannister took 10-41, the best a place from other wicketkeepers who were regarded
batsman and 219 for the football club. bowling figures in the county’s history, at Portland Road as better batsmen, among them Alfred Barlow, Frank
He helped Brighton win the Third in Birmingham. Parr and John Jordan.
Division (South) title in 1957/58 and Phelan’s own best figures were eight for 109 which set He was eventually succeeded by Geoff Clayton in
he continued his football career with up an innings win over Kent at Blackheath in 1964. 1959 but he continued to play for Lancashire’s Second
Hastings after he left Brighton in 1962. He twice took ten wickets in a match, against Australia XI after that and he returned to make a final first team
After retiring from county cricket at Southend in 1964, when Essex won by six wickets, and appearance against Hampshire at Old Trafford in 1952
Foreman became sports master at against Worcestershire at Brentwood the following year in his benefit match.
Shoreham College. when he took seven for 80 in the second innings.
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David Green
David Green, the former Lancashire secured selection as one of the
and Gloucestershire batsman, has Wisden Cricketers of the Year.
died aged 76 in hospital in Devon Green, on his own admission,
after a short illness. lacked the consistency to become
Green was also a talented rugby a Test player but his natural sharp
player who played for Sale, Bristol wit made him a popular figure with
and Cheshire and who wrote on both team mates and opponents during
cricket and rugby for more than 30 a period when county cricket was a
years for the Daily Telegraph. very sociable game.
Green, a product of Manchester He also fell foul of internal
Grammar School, made his first- Lancashire politics while he was
class debut for Oxford University vice captain of the Red Rose county
against Gloucestershire in May so he joined Gloucestershire for the
1959 and his Lancashire debut two 1968 season.
months later. Green enjoyed a brief but
Green, who won three successful spell with his second
cricket Blues, did not play any county forging close friendships with
county cricket in 1963 while he tried, Arthur Milton and Mike Proctor.
unsuccessfully, to forge a career He retired to join the contract
outside the game but he re-joined catering business run by former
Lancashire in 1964 and became a Gloucestershire captain Ken
mainstay of their batting through Graveney but continued to play
the 1960s. occasional one day matches in 1972
In 1965 he achieved the unique and 1973.
feat of scoring 2,000 first-class runs He took up cricket writing with the
without making a century. Green support of Tony Lewis, the former
reached 50 on 14 occasions in 63 England captain, and was a regular
innings but his highest score was 85. county correspondent for the Daily
He topped 2,000 runs again Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
in 1968 when he had moved to until 2008. He became a respected
Gloucestershire and his aggregate of and much-liked member of the
2,137, which included four centuries, county press corps.
Michael Frederick Arthur John
Earls-Davis Moore Underwood Minney
Michael Earls-Davis, the former Frederick Moore, a seamer who Arthur Underwood, the former John Minney, who played five
Somerset and Cambridge played 24 first-class matches for Nottinghamshire left arm seamer, has matches for Northamptonshire in
University seam bowler, has died Lancashire between 1954 and 1948, died in Worksop aged 88. two stints six years apart, has died
aged 95. has died aged 85. Underwood first played for aged 76.
Earls-Davis was ducated at Moore’s second team career with Nottinghamshire in 1949 when he made Minney, a prolific schoolboy
Sherborne School, where he later Lancashire stretched further, from his County Championship debut against batsman at Oundle, played 14
taught, and was wounded whilst 1949 to 1959 and also played as Lancashire at Trent Bridge but service first-class matches for Cambridge
serving in action with the Irish a professional in league cricket commitments with the Army restricted University without winning a Blue
Guards in World War II. including stints with East Lancashire his availability for county cricket. and made his county debut in 1961.
He made his first-class debut for and Lowerhouse. He played for the Combined Services He returned in 1967 and made 42
Cambridge University in 1947 and His haul of 54 first-class wickets against Glamorgan in 1950 and against in the first innings of a draw against
took a career-best four for 87 in included a hat-trick and 11 in the the touring South Africans at Portsmouth Nottinghamshire on a difficult pitch
his second match Gloucestershire. match against Essex at Chelmsford in the following summer. Underwood at Worksop and then set up a win
His only appearance for Somerset 1956 when Moore followed up five for resumed his Nottinghamshire career over Middlesex by top scoring with
came at Worcester in 1950. 36 in the first innings with a career- in 1951 but played only five matches 58 in what proved to be his final
best six for 45 in the second. between 1952 and 1954. innings in county cricket.
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