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February 28, 2008
Lancashire put Twenty20 tickets on sale
Posted on 02/28/2008 in Lancashire
Tickets for Lancashire’s five Twenty20 matches at Old Trafford this June go on sale on Monday Match 3. Old Trafford will host five games in ten days, as the group stages of the competition are re-gigged to ensure that all counties in each group play each other both home and away.
Lancashire have also produced a video to go with their ticket push. Click here to have a look.
February 27, 2008
Worcestershire poised to sign Magoffin
Posted on 02/27/2008 in Worcestershire
Worcestershire are poised to sign Australian fast bowler Steve Magoffin as their second overseas player for the coming season. Magoffin, who had a brief spell at Surrey in 2007, will play for Worcestershire until Fidel Edwards becomes available in July.
February 26, 2008
Cranleigh host spirit of cricket debate
Posted on 02/26/2008 in MCC
Cranleigh School in Surrey will host an MCC spirit of cricket evening involving current and former England cricketers.
Chris Cowdrey, the former England captain, will host the event and will be joined by Monty Panesar, Middlesex captain Ed Smith and the national selector, Geoff Miller, in discussing the spirit of cricket and issues affecting the game.
The evening at Cranleigh is a spin-off of the annual Cowdrey Lecture, which was first delivered by Richie Benaud in 2001.
"I'm proud of my father's achievement, along with Ted Dexter, of setting out a vision for the spirit of cricket,” said Cowdrey. “It was terrific for this to become part of the Laws of cricket but the challenge now is to make this relevant to cricketers of the future. Cranleigh School has set us the challenge of having a fun evening which also gets to grips with some of the big questions facing the game today.”
February 25, 2008
Yorkshire name change
Posted on 02/25/2008 in Yorkshire
Yorkshire will know be known as Yorkshire Carnegie during one-day cricket this season.
They have previously been called Yorkshire Phoenix and the change has come around after "significant investment" from Leeds Metropolitan University.
They will first use the new name during the pre-season tour of Abu Dhabi next month.
February 20, 2008
Footitt injury blow
Posted on 02/20/2008 in Nottinghamshire
Mark Footitt, the Nottinghamshire left-arm quick bowler, will miss the start of the season with a back injury.
He had been suffered with a bulging disc for some time and it had been hoped that rest and injections would solve the problem, but it was eventually decided that surgery was required.
"He's on the mend and is swimming and starting gentle exercises, but won't be available until May," said director of cricket Mick Newell.
Footitt's career has been hit by injuries and he has been limited to eight first-class matches.
February 19, 2008
Johnson joins Berkshire
Posted on 02/19/2008 in Middlesex
Richard Johnson, the former Middlesex fast bowler, has joined Berkshire to play in the Minor County Championship.
"He's a quick bowler which is what we've been looking for," Berkshire manager David Morris said.
"He's also a more than useful batsman in the middle to lower order, so just the man we want."
Former Hampshire and England spinner Shaun Udal had agreed to play for Berkshire, but was forced to pull out when offered a contract with first-class side Middlesex.
Morris added: "We're obviously disappointed that Shaun ultimately didn't sign for us because Middlesex made him such a good offer, but Richard really ticks many of our boxes."
Read the full story at the BBC.
February 11, 2008
Hampshire's Barbados tour cancelled
Posted on 02/11/2008 in Hampshire
Hampshire's pre-season tour to Barbados has been cancelled because of a lack of sponsorship, according to the BBC.
The squad were to play in a tournament in memory of the fast-bowling great Malcolm Marshall at the end of March.
Marshall played for Hampshire for 15 seasons before dying of colon cancer in 1999 at the age of 41. Manager Paul Terry told BBC Radio Solent: "A lack of sponsorship, mainly at their end, means we have had to alter our plans."
February 7, 2008
Tony Brown elected president
Posted on 02/07/2008 in Gloucestershire
Tony Brown, the former Gloucestershire allrounder, has been elected as the club’s new president.
Brown was appointed at the AGM on Wednesday while Mike Smith, the former left-arm seamer with one England cap, will follow Brown as chairman of cricket.
Brown played 496 first-class matches between 1953 and 1976 and was captain when they won the Gillette Cup in 1973.
Smith was a key member of the attack from 1991 to 2004, playing a key role when Gloucestershire became a force in one-day cricket. His one England appearance came against Australia, at Headingley, in 2001 but he went wicketless.
More alcohol-free seats at Old Trafford
Posted on 02/07/2008 in Lancashire
Lancashire have announced that an extra 2,755 alcohol-free seats will be available at Old Trafford for internationals and domestic Twenty20's in 2008.
de Wet signs for Middlesex
Posted on 02/07/2008 in Middlesex
Middlesex have confirmed South African fast bowler Friedel de Wet as a Kolpak player for 2008 after contracts were signed and work permits received. He is touring India this winter with the South Africa A side and has played domestic cricket in South Africa for the Lions and the Titans.
Gloucestershire's cricketers trek through the Beacons
Posted on 02/07/2008 in Gloucestershire
The Brecon Beacons in Wales are as bleak and lonely a landscape as Britain has, where the Royal Marines test their physical endurance and where the SAS trek 40 gruelling miles to whittle out the weaklings in their infamous Long Drag. Not a place for cricketers, then - or is it? Tom Davies and a group of Gloucestershire's academy players have been spotted up there with guttering pipe, bamboo and rope:
The first station was quite simple to find, the piece of equipment was a piece of guttering pipe. Then all of the other stations were hard but a good challenge of your map reading skills. We ended up on the top of Sugarloaf Mountain with a piece of guttering pipe, piece of rope, big bottle of water and 2 pieces of bamboo canes.
In my eyes this was a very good challenge as it showed how we could work as a team i.e. following maps, listening to what the team members have to say. Even though my team came last I thought that we worked well together but we failed to read instructions properly as did other teams which cost us a couple of time penalties.
We then were given a challenge at the top of the mountain. In our teams we had to try and get a table tennis ball out from a pipe and place it in a small circle within the big circle however there were a few ground rules, there was the big circle I would say it was about three meters to the middle all the way round, we were not allowed to step inside this circle, the tube was situated in the middle of the circle. We had to think things through as a team. Our plan was to rest the piece of guttering pipe on the tube and run the water down into the tube so the table tennis ball would float up to the top. Unfortunately we ran out of water so we had to send two team members for some more supplies, luckily I found three orange juice cartons in my bag and we used those however it was still not enough. Eventually they returned and we got the ball to the top of the tube. Our task then was to get the ball without touching the ground into the small circle. Our plan was to get it in the guttering pipe and then control it into the small circle unfortunately this did not happen and we failed the task.
Find out how they got on at Gloucestershire's website.
Worcestershire interested in Bond?
Posted on 02/07/2008 in Worcestershire
Worcestershire are understood to be keen to secure Shane Bond's signature for next season now he's out of contract with New Zealand. The county failed in their bid for Ashley Noffke but it's believed that their chief executive Mark Newton will arrange a meeting in a month or so when he comes to New Zealand for the England tour.
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