I know how you lot love cricket............

Sapper, I must agree with you about today's team. Since Strauss re-took the reigns we have become a very tough team to beat. The way we came back in this recent test was very very impressive.

We still have our work cut out if we are to retain that little urn though.

My boyhood heroes were Boycott, Brearley, Underwood and ofcourse Beefy!

Middlesex man myself.

 

Oh I would give anything to go to watch the cricket down under. Sadly there is no way that is impossible. I cannot travel.

But the yearning remains, I would love to join the "Barmy Army"

 

Do England, have any fine Welshmen in the side for this Ashes series otherwise I fear you are doomed,
There's an Irishman called Morgan: will he do?

 

Sapper, I must agree with you about today's team. Since Strauss re-took the reigns we have become a very tough team to beat. The way we came back in this recent test was very very impressive.

To say the least!

 

Sapper, I must agree with you about today's team. Since Strauss re-took the reigns we have become a very tough team to beat. The way we came back in this recent test was very very impressive.

We still have our work cut out if we are to retain that little urn though.

My boyhood heroes were Boycott, Brearley, Underwood and ofcourse Beefy!

Middlesex man myself.
I was very impressed by the way "South Africa" came back in the second innings

 

Its a United Nations type of thing we are embracing here!!

 

There's an Irishman called Morgan: will he do?
Well my Mums, Dad was a Paddy so..........

 

It all started with the Nawab of Pataudi you know!

Why do I sense a cricket history coming my way?

 

Geoff
You say Fizzer wore boots Ammo style I presume! thanks for the heads up I recall reading about the game years ago.
If you like humour and cricket go one abebooks and select Tales from the Long Room or the Brigadier stories by the late Peter Tinniswood.

Brian
Going to Headingley to watch test cricket has been part of my life for years Grandfather taking me to see Fred Trueman and Colin Cowdrey era then on my own
to watch the Illingworth era and bloody Boycott! then good old Beefy Botham.
Latterly with my own sons to watch the tests on a saturday in the dreaded west stand the banter and appreciation of the game amongst the laughter and farcical is great.

Happy Days

Ps I bowled slow right arm

 

Well, I am from a country which is a cricketing dwarf. But I am trying to follow the game as much as I can.

I play at a local club, called Excelsior '20. We're one of the few clubs with a turfsquare. Last summer Holland played two of the CB40 games on our ground, against Yorkshire and Derbyshire.
We have had a few players you might know in England. Andre van Troost, the Somerset fast bowler who broke Jimmy Adams cheeckbone, came from Excelsior. We have also had Murray Goodwin (Sussex, Western Australia), Michael Dighton (played for Derbyshire and Hampshire and Tasmania) and Mark Cleary (played for Leicestershire, Yorkshire, South Australia and now Victoria) as overseas players. Last summer our overseas player was Ed Cowan from Tasmania. He played in the warm up match Australia A / England.
We also regularly provide players for the national side. Our moment of fame was off course 1,5 years ago, when we beat England at Lord´s. I was one of the fortunate Dutchies to witness it.

 

There used to be a humorous programme about cricket years ago I forget its title ..It was great. I just love it spend many hours watching. Sheila used to take down the scores fro me for when I came home at night Daft? Of course I am

 

Geoff
You say Fizzer wore boots Ammo style I presume! thanks for the heads up I recall reading about the game years ago.
If you like humour and cricket go one abebooks and select Tales from the Long Room or the Brigadier stories by the late Peter Tinniswood.



Hi Oldman,

Ammo style? What is Ammo style? Not heard that.

Cheers

Geoff

 

Ammo boot is just another name for the standard British Army boot

 

If you like humour and cricket go one abebooks and select Tales from the Long Room or the Brigadier stories by the late Peter Tinniswood.

His story about Himmelweit is possibly the greatest fictional creation in the history of cricket. There are very few stories which make me laugh out loud, but that's one of them! And I can never see a Bedlington terrier without thinking of the Brigadier, safely retired in Witney Scrotum.

I do hope the videotapes are still somewhere in the archives of C4. They deserve to be seen again.

 

Here are copies of entries in the “Red Cross Wartime Log” of W/O A.J. Fuge a navigator on 158 Squadron (Halifaxes.) He was shot down 17th April 1943.

They consist of the score cards and write up of a cricket game played between Australia and England at Fallingbostel in August of 1944. There is a summary of the game from a chap called Kaplan who umpired the game and I believe played Test Cricket for South Africa before the war.











Thanks for posting David.

Very interesting.

Cheers

Geoff

 

Glad you appreciated it Spidge.

 

Glad you appreciated it Spidge.

We have truly become a global village when a piece of Cricket history comes to you from Alabama.

Don't get stumped, y'all.

 

We have truly become a global village when a piece of Cricket history comes to you from Alabama.

Don't get stumped, y'all.

Canuck - A keeper of the wicket!

 

Canuck - A keeper of the wicket!

Is that a good thing?

 

Is that a good thing?

Yes. You don't usually have to run too far.