St John's Wood is a district in the City of Westminster,London,England,about 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of Charing Cross. Historically the northern part of the ancient parish and Metropolitan Borough of Marylebone,it extends from Regent's Park and Primrose Hill in the east to Edgware Road in the west,with the Swiss Cottage area of Hampstead to the north and Lisson Grove to the south.
Bromley is a large town in Greater London,England,within the London Borough of Bromley. It is 9+1⁄2 miles southeast of Charing Cross,and had an estimated population of 88,000 as of 2023.
Buckhurst Hill is a suburban town in Epping Forest,Essex,within the Greater London Urban Area and adjacent to the northern boundary of the London Borough of Redbridge. The area developed following the opening of a railway line in 1856,originally part of the Eastern Counties Railway and now on the Central line of the London Underground.
Hedley Verity was a professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire and England between 1930 and 1939. A slow left-arm orthodox bowler,he took 1,956 wickets in first-class cricket at an average of 14.90 and 144 wickets in 40 Tests at an average of 24.37.
Clement"Clem" Hill was an Australian cricketer who played 49 Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1896 and 1912. He captained the Australian team in ten Tests,winning five and losing five. A prolific run scorer,Hill scored 3,412 runs in Test cricket—a world record at the time of his retirement—at an average of 39.21 per innings,including seven centuries. In 1902,Hill was the first batsman to make 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year,a feat that would not be repeated for 45 years. His innings of 365*,scored against New South Wales for South Australia in 1900–01,was a Sheffield Shield record for 27 years. The South Australian Cricket Association named a grandstand at the Adelaide Oval in his honour in 2003 and he was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2005. Hill is regarded as one of the best batsman of his era.
The Birmingham &District Premier Cricket League is the oldest club cricket league in the United Kingdom,formed in 1888. It was the first ECB Premier League,being designated such in 1998,and is one of the strongest of the ECB Premier Leagues.
The Cricket Society is a charitable organisation founded in 1945 as the Society of Cricket Statisticians at Great Scotland Yard,London. It has grown steadily to be the largest body of its kind in the cricket world. The Cricket Society now has over 1,500 members in the United Kingdom and the cricket playing countries of the world. Its current President is John Barclay.
Lilac Hill is a cricket ground in Western Australia in the Perth suburb of Caversham,where the Swan River flows around its southern and eastern sides. The ends of the ground are known as the river end and the pavilion end.
The Isle of Man national cricket team is the team that represents the Crown dependency of the Isle of Man in international cricket. They became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2004 and an associate member in 2017. In October 2020,the Isle of Man Cricket Association planned to establish its first ever women's team.
Mark Daniel Stoneman is an English cricketer who plays for Middlesex County Cricket Club and for England. He made his international debut for England in August 2017. He bats left handed and normally plays as an opening batsman.
East Hills Boys High School known until 2011 as East Hills Boys Technology High School,is a boys school in Panania,a suburb in south-western Sydney,New South Wales,Australia,on Lucas Road. It is a single-sex boys' high school operated by the New South Wales Department of Education with students from years 7 to 12. The school was established in 1955.
A benefit is a match or season of activities granted by a sporting body to a loyal sportsman to boost their income before retirement. Often this is in the form of a match for which all the ticket proceeds are given to the player in question. However hosting one of these matches is a risk for the player in question as he/she is responsible for paying any relevant receipts and collects any excess income from the match,therefore income from such matches is more often than not reliant on attendance.
Mount Pleasant Stadium,officially known for sponsorship purposes as Fox's Biscuits Stadium,is a rugby league stadium in Batley,West Yorkshire,England. It is the home of the Batley Bulldogs and amateur club Batley ARLFC.
The 1960 U.S. National Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on outdoor grass courts at two locations in the United States. The men's and women's singles as well as the mixed doubles were played from September 2 through September 17 at the West Side Tennis Club,Forest Hills in New York City,while the men's and women's doubles were held at the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill,Massachusetts from August 21 through August 28,1960. It was the 80th staging of the U.S. National Championships,and the fourth Grand Slam tennis event of 1960. Neale Fraser and Darlene Hard won the singles titles.
North Marine Road Ground,formerly known as Queen's,is a cricket ground in Scarborough,North Yorkshire,England. It is the home of Scarborough Cricket Club which hosts the Scarborough Festival and the Yorkshire County Cricket Club plays a series of fixtures in the second half of the season each year. The current capacity is 9,000,while its record attendance is the 22,946 who watched Yorkshire play Derbyshire in 1947. The two ‘ends’are known as the Peasholm Park End and the Trafalgar Square End.
EA Cricket is a series of cricket video games published by EA Sports from 1996 and 2007 for Microsoft Windows,PlayStation,and PlayStation 2 platforms.
Samuel Luke Dunell is an Australian rules football player who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and then played for Williamstown in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from 2015-2019 where he played 100 games for them,kicking 158 goals. He played for Victoria against SA in 2016 and was twice named in the VFL Team of the Year. He finished 2nd in the VFL Liston trophy in 2015 capping off the season with an all conquering premiership win against Box Hill at Docklands. At one stage he was considered the best player in the VFL. He was Club leading goalkicker in 2015 with 41 majors and 2016 with 37 goals,and was runner-up in the Club best and fairest in 2015 and in third place in 2016. He received life membership in 2019 after his final game for Williamstown in the 2019 grand defeat defeat by Richmond.
Mitchell Lewis is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
