GerryShedd
Super Moderator
Bearing in mind the short duration of the Hundred and the fact that, for the rest of the year, the players are playing for a variety of teams all over the world, I'm not sure what a Hundred team coach does for most of the time. So JT not being available until March might not have been too much of a problem.
The_Lickey_Banker wrote:
I've heard from a journalist friend, that Jonathan Trott is in discussions to take over from Vettori as Phoenix Head Coach.
I would think that this is quite likely. He is leaving the Afghanistan post having never been to the country; and he still lives in Birmingham.
Here's a name from the past:
https://www.thepost.uk.com/sport/cricket/callington-captain-wagg-leaves-moores-park-848001
A couple of decades on from being sacked by the Bears for cocaine use, he's still playing.
Maybe we are only a short step away from Bearsfans being available on prescription. As per the article:
"Talking about your sports fan blues with a friend will help you process the disappointment that you’re feeling. Commiserate with other fans who are having some of the same feelings. It can help just to know that people care and to be reminded that you’re not alone. Pretty soon, you’ll be talking less about the loss, and more about what your team’s going to do next year."
I've read a post elsewhere today that repeats the claim that, in 1932, Indian batsman C. K. Nayudu hit a six that went over the River Rea at Edgbaston and therefore travelled from Warwickshire into Worcestershire:
"His most famous knock came against Warwickshire, where he smashed 162. One of his sixes famously cleared the River Rea, the natural boundary between Warwickshire and Worcestershire. So literally, he hit a six that travelled from one county to another!"
Although the actual hit seems well documented, I am not at all sure that the River Rea was ever the boundary between the two counties.
I recall that in 1964, well before he played for Warwickshire, the great Rohan Kanhai hit a six over the river. He was playing in an end of season game for a West Indies XI against an England XI. I'm not aware of anyone else achieving the feat.
I didn't realise that his funeral was being held at Edgbaston:
https://edgbaston.com/news/remembering-bears-great-john-jameson/
The poem by his daughter may not be great poetry but obviously came from the heart;
The umpires confer, the night starts to fall,
The light meter’s out and Stumps is the call.
The teams gather around you, and you all walk together,
Over the boundary, not out forever.
Back in August:
"We’ve recruited an experienced sports Head of Media. He’s from Warwickshire, has good sporting instinct, journalistic knowledge, and a passion for red and white ball cricket with great ideas about how we produce timely, informative news for Members on cricket at every level of the Club. I’m excited about the fresh focus he will bring when he joins in October."
Where is he? Either he didn't actually join or, as the Good Book says, he is hiding his light under a bushel.
Yes, as reported by the BBC - nothing so far on the Club website as far as I can see.
Northwalesbear wrote:
Yates, Mousley, Bethell, Webster, Barnard, Woakes, Barker, Thompson, Booth , Bamber.
not far off an all rounder XI
Alex Davies says "Can I have a game, please?"
"Woakes, 36, has signed a new two-year deal to play across all three formats in both red and white ball — a commitment that will take him beyond 20 years of playing cricket for Warwickshire."
When I was there for the Cricket Society meeting two weeks ago it wasn’t exactly a hive of activity but there was certainly work going on.
Apparently, Jonathan Trott will not renew his contract with Afghanistan when it runs out in March next year. It seems that a new contract would require him to live in Afghanistan, which he is not willing to do. I was surprised to read that, although he has coached the team successfully for three years, he has never actually set foot in the country. I was forgetting that Afghanistan haven't played a proper "home" match since 2017.
George Dobell reports in The Cricketer that there is unlikely to be another domestic review until 2029, according to the chair of the Professional Game Committee (PGC) and Warwickshire Chair Mark McCafferty. Instead, the PGC will focus on reviewing playing conditions in county cricket, with changes likely around the type of balls used, the allocation of bonus points in the County Championship and, perhaps, the way in which pitches are judged.
So the current 14 game Championship stays in place.
Regarding the Kookaburra versus the Dukes balls, the statistics, apparently, are:
Where matches with a Duke’s ball have averaged 980 runs, the figure with the Kookaburra is 1128. Duke’s matches have yielded 30.27 wickets against 27.72 with Kookaburra. These figures mean that the average runs per wicket are respectively 32.37 and 40.71.
On another but related topic, I am one of those who goes on about the light workloads of current cricketers (bowlers in particular) compared with those of earlier eras. However, I was interested to read in the biography of the pre-war Yorkshire and England bowler Bill Bowes ("An Unusual Celebrity" by Jeremy Lonsdale - an excellent read) that Bowes, as a pace bowler, was told not to bend or run unnecessarily. He was allegedly hauled before the Yorkshire committee for chasing a ball to the boundary.
Yes, that's about it - Eric took 2323 wickets and scored 1673 runs, Bill Bowes took 1639 wickets and scored 1531 runs.
Yes, he is.
No but along the right lines.
While we await the next set of teasers from Highveld, here is a question:
What first class cricket record does Eric Hollies hold, where the next on the list is Bill Bowes, the old Yorkshire and England fast bowler?