Post by tiptoes on Sept 3, 2020 17:35:58 GMT
I was reminded of this after the sad death of David Capel at just 57, and incidentally my son had an autographed cricket bat by DC in his benefit year and the other Northamptonshire CCC players which was given by my brother to him after he had acquired it cheaply from an old Roade Comprehensive schoolmate of Capel - an interesting aside.
A couple of years ago I was in Corby at a quaint cricket ground in Oakley Vale, where there was a colts game in action and I asked one of the dads if this was the main ground used by Corby CC, which it wasn't. But he told me Northants had played matches there in the 80s, which I very much doubted because it was too small, and I didn't think the county had ever played in Corby. But without wanting to appear contrary, I said "oh right, in the heyday of Alan Lamb, David Capel and Alan Fordham?" You could tell the names meant nothing as he gave me an unconvincing nod.
Being a colts manager of a small club in the borough of Eastbourne the fathers who brought their kids along were equally ignorant who knew nothing about the game and a brick wall would have been more conducive to two way discourse of the sport.
A couple of years ago I was in Corby at a quaint cricket ground in Oakley Vale, where there was a colts game in action and I asked one of the dads if this was the main ground used by Corby CC, which it wasn't. But he told me Northants had played matches there in the 80s, which I very much doubted because it was too small, and I didn't think the county had ever played in Corby. But without wanting to appear contrary, I said "oh right, in the heyday of Alan Lamb, David Capel and Alan Fordham?" You could tell the names meant nothing as he gave me an unconvincing nod.
Being a colts manager of a small club in the borough of Eastbourne the fathers who brought their kids along were equally ignorant who knew nothing about the game and a brick wall would have been more conducive to two way discourse of the sport.