Related Research Articles
Ashley Fraser Giles is a former English first-class cricketer,who played 54 Test matches and 62 One Day Internationals for England before being forced to retire due to a recurring hip injury. Giles played the entirety of his 14-year first-class career at Warwickshire County Cricket Club.
Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Worcestershire. Its Vitality Blast T20 team has been rebranded the Worcestershire Rapids,but the county is known by most fans as 'the Pears'. The club is based at New Road,Worcester. Founded in 1865,Worcestershire held minor status at first and was a prominent member of the early Minor Counties Championship in the 1890s,winning the competition three times. In 1899,the club joined the County Championship and the team was elevated to first-class status. Since then,Worcestershire have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England.
Reginald Erskine Foster,nicknamed Tip Foster,commonly designated R. E. Foster in sporting literature,was an English first-class cricketer and footballer. He is the only man to have captained England at both sports.
Leicestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Leicestershire. It has also been representative of the county of Rutland. The club's limited overs team is called the Leicestershire Foxes. Founded in 1879,the club had minor county status until 1894,when it was promoted to first-class status pending its entry into the County Championship in 1895. Since then,Leicestershire have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England.
Alan Richardson is a retired English cricketer who is the head coach for Worcestershire.
Paul Andrew Nixon is an English cricket coach and former professional cricketer who played for Leicestershire,England,England A,Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Kent. He is a wicket-keeper and left-handed batsman. Nixon played in twenty international matches for the England cricket team,all within a four-month spell in 2007.
The 2006 English cricket season was the 107th in which the County Championship had been an official competition. It included home international series for England against Sri Lanka and Pakistan. England came off a winter with more Test losses than wins,for the first time since 2002-03,but still attained their best series result in India since 1985. The One Day International series against Pakistan and India both ended in losses.
Cricket is one of the most popular sports in England,and has been played since the 16th century. Marylebone Cricket Club,based at Lord's,developed the modern rules of play and conduct. The sport is administered by the England and Wales Cricket Board and represented at an international level by the England men's team and England women's team. At a domestic level,teams are organised by county,competing in tournaments such as the County Championship,Royal London One-Day Cup,T20 Blast and the Women's Twenty20 Cup. Recent developments include the introduction of a regional structure for women's cricket and the establishment of The Hundred for both men's and women's cricket. Recreational matches are organised on a regional basis,with the top level being the ECB Premier Leagues.
The West Indian cricket team toured England in 1980,spending virtually the whole of the 1980 English cricket season in England. West Indies also played two matches in Ireland and two in Scotland.
Michael Burns is an English first-class list cricket umpire and former first-class cricketer who played county cricket for Warwickshire and Somerset in a first-class career which spanned from 1992 until 2005. He also played Minor Counties cricket for Cumberland and Cornwall. An adaptable cricketer,he appeared for Cumberland and Warwickshire as a wicket-keeper,but when he moved to Somerset he developed into an aggressive batsman who bowled at medium-pace when needed.
Charles Cuthbert Powell Williams,Baron Williams of Elvel,was a British business executive,Labour life peer and member of the House of Lords. In his 20s he played first-class cricket while at university and for several seasons afterwards. He was the stepfather of Justin Welby,the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Bernard William Quaife was an English first-class cricketer who played more than 300 matches between the wars. He played first for Warwickshire,but later found much more success at Worcestershire,where he became the usual wicket-keeper. He was the son of England Test player Willie Quaife.
Charles Robson was an English first-class cricketer,who played as a wicket-keeper for Middlesex between 1881 and 1883,and for Hampshire from 1891 to 1906,for whom he served as captain for three years from 1900 to 1902.
John Andrew Simpson is an English cricketer who plays for Sussex County Cricket Club. Simpson is a wicket-keeper and left-handed batsman who won the Denis Compton Award in 2004 at Lancashire,and 2011 at Middlesex. He made his international debut for the England cricket team in July 2021.
Arthur Edward Newton was an English cricketer who played for Somerset in the county's pre-first-class days and then for more than 20 years after the team entered the County Championship in 1891. He also played for Oxford University and for a variety of amateur teams. As a cricketer,he was known as "A. E.",not by his forename.
Andrew Nicholas Edwards is a former English cricketer. Edwards was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Delft,Netherlands.
Alan Keith Colin Jones is an English former cricketer. Jones was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Solihull,Warwickshire,and was educated at Solihull School and St Edmund Hall,Oxford.
Harley James Roberts was an English cricketer and amateur golfer. He played first-class cricket for Warwickshire in 17 matches between 1932 and 1937. He later became an England international golfer and was runner-up in the English Amateur.
Colin Kendall Langley was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Warwickshire between 1908 and 1914. He was born at Narborough House,Narborough,Leicestershire and died at Hatton,Warwickshire.
Ernest Frederick "Mick" Waddy was an Australian clergyman,schoolmaster and cricketer who played first-class cricket before the First World War for New South Wales and then from 1919 to 1922 in England for Warwickshire. He was born in Morpeth,New South Wales and died at South Littleton,Worcestershire.
References
- ↑ "Teams played for by Paul Fisher". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 May 2007.
- ↑ "Middlesex Young Cricketers v Buckinghamshire Young Amateurs in 1973". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 May 2007.
- ↑ "Oxford University v Leicestershire in 1974". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 May 2007.
- ↑ "First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Paul Fisher". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 May 2007.
- ↑ "Essex Second XI v Kent Second XI in 1974". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 May 2007.
- ↑ "Oxford University v Warwickshire in 1975". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 May 2007.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". Cricketarchive.co.uk. 8 July 1975. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". Cricketarchive.co.uk. 2 July 1976. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". Cricketarchive.co.uk. 1 July 1977. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". Cricketarchive.co.uk. 30 June 1978. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ↑ "First-Class Matches played by Paul Fisher". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 May 2007.
- ↑ "List A Matches played by Paul Fisher". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 May 2007.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". Cricketarchive.co.uk. 31 August 1979. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". Cricketarchive.co.uk. 7 September 1979. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". Cricketarchive.co.uk. 3 September 1978. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". Cricketarchive.co.uk. 8 August 1980. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ↑ "Worcestershire v Australians in 1981". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 May 2007.
- ↑ "Loughborough Grammar School: Welcome". Lesgrammar.org. Archived from the original on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ↑ "Home – Loughborough Endowed Schools". Olaoga.co.uk. Archived from the original on 27 August 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2012.