Monday, February 22, 2010
“I’ve always enjoyed playing cricket in the UK and have very good memories of Headingley as I got my first World Cup hundred there in 1999. I’m really looking forward to playing over there and I’ll hopefully help to lead the troops towards some sort of success. I hope we’ll have some good weather and we can treat the home spectators to some very entertaining cricket” – Herschelle Gibbs joins Yorkshire for the Friends Provident T20 competition.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
“I would like to give something back to the club because since I joined them at nine years old, they have supported me all the way” – Andrew Flintoff reveals that, following a recent additional knee operation and the end of his IPL hopes, winning silverware for Lancashire will now be his professional focus.
“Ted Arnold was one of the players in our very first first-class game in 1899. There are still several records he holds for Worcester. He was the first player to do the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets. He was also the first player to take 10 wickets in a match, although Imran Khan did beat that in 1979″ – Worcestershire Cricket Heritage Group’s chairman Tim Jones talks about work by cricket enthusiasts to help restore a founding player’s grave.
Anyone who’s been feeling the contrast between sub-zero temperatures in England and the balmy southern-hemisphere climate being enjoyed by cricketers, commentators and travelling fans will enjoy these pictures from Lancashire County Cricket Club.
“It is a sensitive issue in South Africa. Makhaya is an icon, not only as a player of colour – he has been one of our most iconic cricketers full stop in terms of performance over the past decade. When senior players are at a point when people start to question them, it is always a terrible and tough time for the leadership group to manage. We’ve really tried to support Makhaya as much as possible behind the scenes. Let’s hope there is some confidence left around for the future” – Graeme Smith on the future of Makhaya Ntini, which currently appears to be as a Kolpak player at Middlesex.
Friday, November 27, 2009
“It was portrayed that Northants didn’t help me with my England career, but they did. I think for whatever reason things have been written to create a difference between me and Northants. It’s my home club. Northants have done an awful lot for me and have always been really supportive” – New Sussex signing Monty Panesar, speaking to Alison Mitchell, moves to avoid a rift with his former club.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
The England and Wales Cricket Board has announced the fixtures for the 2010 county season due to begin on Saturday April 3 and to end with the new ECB 40 League final on Saturday September 18.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
“Middlesex have signed Australian Adam Gilchrist for next year’s Twenty20 campaign and hope to recruit Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar as well, the English county side said on Thursday” – Superb news for Middlesex fans…
Thursday, November 12, 2009
“Lancashire have submitted their planning application for the next stage of a multi-million-pound redevelopment of Old Trafford and the surrounding area. It is hoped the proposals to Trafford Council – part of a 50-acre project at the ground and its surrounding areas – will include a Tesco store with approximately 100,000 square feet of retail sales floorspace to provide more than 500 jobs, half of which would be guaranteed for the local long-term unemployed” – Any of them handy at the top of the order?
Saturday, October 31, 2009
“Sometimes as a cricketer you just long for it to rain so you don’t have to play. I’m not saying cricketers hate cricket, but when you’re playing a county game and the sky darkens and it starts to piss down, it doesn’t half fill everybody in the dressing room with joie de vivre. When it pissed it down, you knew were not going to fail that day. Lovely thought. With cricket, perhaps more than any other sport, everything you do is measured and analysed for all time – your failures are a matter of enduring public record” – Vic Marks on the pressures faced by elite sportsmen.
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