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Post by kevininnessupersub on Oct 3, 2018 10:47:01 GMT
According to Radio Sussex the club have given Megan and Harry a signed cricket bat. Are the club going to offer them to become Vice Presidents or any other title?
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 3, 2018 11:01:21 GMT
Kevin,
The Club surely must offer them both a Vice-President title. That is the obvious way to go and next season invite them both to a home Championship match and a grand lunch for VIPs. Those like Rob Andrew would fit in very comfortably with such honoured guests. He was snug as a bug alongside the 'Duke of Richmond & Gordon' and son Charlie March at the weekend.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 3, 2018 11:07:51 GMT
It is amazing how Surrey have turned things around in recent years and congrats to them. Alec Stewart believes their lowest point was during the Chris Adams reign that led to his sacking in June, 2013 which I feel is rather harsh. Agreed the tragic death of Tom Maynard had left an indelible chasm that will never fully heal, but Adams did help them win a trophy. Even so, the transformation in just 5 years has been spectacular and one feels Surrey will remain a dominant force for many years to come. One hopes this will be the inspiration required for Sussex. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/45717794
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Post by kevininnessupersub on Oct 3, 2018 11:30:30 GMT
A grand lunch would be excellent and a good way to raise money for the foundation charity.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 4, 2018 14:59:26 GMT
It's good to see Piers Morgan making a bit of an a*se of himself in the amateur Dunhill Links competition this week. It seems to me, amazingly, that he suffers from nerves like normal people.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 4, 2018 15:04:42 GMT
I sometimes wonder whether I live in an alternative universe. Our vacuous, superficial, at times, amazingly banal popular culture is now throwing this one up at us. I am not sure whether I can last it out until Christmas?!?
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 4, 2018 17:06:15 GMT
I can't stop myself. Morgan and golf just keep giving. Once a hacker always a hacker.
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Post by flashblade on Oct 4, 2018 18:53:09 GMT
I can't stop myself. Morgan and golf just keep giving. Once a hacker always a hacker. Is there no beginning to this man's talents?
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 5, 2018 8:33:33 GMT
Someone needs to create this year's Winter Watch thread as you can barely breathe after the County season is over before our lads are in warmer climes and playing for other teams. Salty thrashes 37* off 21 ballsTonight, the Afghanistan Premier League (APL) blasts off and experiences its inauguration where Laurie Evans, Tymal Mills and, of course, Rashid Khan feature. The tournament runs from Friday 5th October to Sunday 21st October Other Sussex players involved are Chris Jordan and Luke Wright. Only two other English cricketers are playing:- Sam Billings and Ravi Bopara. There are five Franchises. Rashid and Evans will represent Kabul and Jordan and Wright form part of the Paktia squad alongside Bopara, while Mills joins Billings on the Kandahar roster. The other two teams are from Balkh and Nangarhar. Meanwhile, Phil Salt is in Abu Dhabi and playing for the Lahore Qalanders in a T20 competition. He scored 37* off 21 balls yesterday to help his side beat Yorkshire by 6 wickets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJc3Xr5DTggunofficialsussexccc.freeforums.net/post/29347/thread
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 5, 2018 8:38:47 GMT
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 5, 2018 16:38:33 GMT
Surely, we know who it must be or do we? It could be close amongst the two obvious contenders.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 6, 2018 9:39:47 GMT
Broadcasting changes within the cricketing world continue apace as this latest example shows. The tradition of TMS is being replaced by the commercialisation of the new, although this story has a happy ending as the new broadcaster is underwritten by Wisden.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 6, 2018 10:04:44 GMT
You can't keep a serial hacker down.
Piers Morgan Twitter
BREAKING: I just became the first golfer in history to drive into the bridge on the 1st hole at Carnoustie - then hit the clubhouse. Final round @dunhilllinks starting quite literally with a bang.
I suspect Michael Vaughan has never laughed so much in his life during these last three days.
That's enough now. Back to the cricket.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 8, 2018 9:09:22 GMT
Already, perhaps, a new generation of young cricketers are asking the question "Kevin Pietersen who?", yet still KP makes the headlines when he opens that loud, self-assured mouth. His most recent assertion is that International cricket is bereft of "superstars". He told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek at the weekend, "I really struggle to see entertainers, they're lacking in the game..." Adding that Virat Kohli is the rare "stand-out" of those currently playing where "pure entertainers and superstars are not in the game and that's a big worry." As an England supporter, surely, Ben Stokes is a "superstar" and "entertainer"? KP contrasted current international cricketers with stars of the early 2000s such as Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, West Indies fast bowlers Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh and Australia greats Justin Langer, Matthew Hayden, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne. "Maybe it's a generational thing," he added. "But the sad part is that quite a few of those former players are commentating but they are not in the game of cricket." Then Pietersen expands his view more. "You want those superstars attached to franchises, national sides and academies so that youngsters get inspired to be those people." Adding that cricket National Boards needed to pay more to hire former greats into coaching and director of cricket roles. "They have to get paid more because the money for commentary, which is a pretty easy gig, is fairly good," says KP, who himself cashes in on this 'easy gig'. "The boards have that money and they maybe need to get their fingers in their pockets." The problem with Pietersen is that he can talk common sense, but his ego often sends his views astray. Meanwhile, after joining Piers Morgan, Shane Warne and Michael Vaughan on "A Famous Four Play the Dunhill Links Adventure" last week in a golfing caper, KP will be back on telly with a National Geographic documentary about his new passion, the plight of the Rhino. circleofcricket.com/category/Latest_news/26122/kevin-pietersen-bags-a-contract-with-national-geographic-on-rhino-conservation-documentary
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 8, 2018 15:53:08 GMT
The county cricket season is over, Winter draws closer, so now it's the time for those charity walks and runs. First, it was Graham Gooch whom along with his partner & three friends undertook a walking journey from St Bees on 17th September in Cumbria, then finishing in Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire on the 29th September. This 193-mile hike over 13 days has to date raised over £21,000 and is in aid of the PCA Benevolent Fund to help former & current players & their dependants in times of hardship & upheaval or to readjust to the world beyond the game. www.justgiving.com/campaigns/charity/pcabenevolent/goochiescoast2coast2018Now, up steps the ever popular Mark Church from BBC Radio Surrey and avid Surrey CCC fan, who is putting Gooch and friends in the shade by running 1,000 miles for the UK Pancreatic Cancer Research charity. The film below suggests he ran a 100 yards from The Oval gates to a waiting taxi (stop it!) But wait, ‘Churchy’ has plotted a five-mile route between London’s two Test grounds and will take it on four times a day, six days a week with a scheduled finish on December 4th (200 separate runs). That means twenty miles a day across fifty days of running all in memory of his late father, Tony, who passed away in 2017. Churchy has already raised close to £12,500 of his £15,000 target. www.kiaoval.com/main-news/mark-church-set-to-run-1000-miles/www.justgiving.com/fundraising/200runs
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