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Pat Rodgers
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St Pius X College
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Q: The Erratic Syd Emery by Pat Rodgers
Chapter 1 “One of the few unplayable balls I have seen”.
LORDS 1912
Syd had been warned about the chance of rain interrupting play during a so-called English summer. The dampness in the air on the first morning of the Lord’s Test on 24 June 1912 seemed to confirm this. He and his teammates had entered the field with black mourning bands on their left upper arms in memory of their friend Ernest Hume
Chapter 1 “One of the few unplayable balls I have seen”.
LORDS 1912
Syd had been warned about the chance of rain interrupting play during a so-called English summer. The dampness in the air on the first morning of the Lord’s Test on 24 June 1912 seemed to confirm this. He and his teammates had entered the field with black mourning bands on their left upper arms in memory of their friend Ernest Hume
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/199/pat-rodgers/blog/3127/the-erratic-syd-emery-by-pat-rodgers
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Chapter 1 “One of the few unplayable balls I have seen”.LORDS 1912Syd had been warned about the chance of rai ...
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Q: An interesting chat about two wicketkeepers that I was pleased to be a part of
Pat Rodgers and Rodney Ulyate talk about their recent articles in The Cricket Statistician, available here:
Pat Rodgers and Rodney Ulyate talk about their recent articles in The Cricket Statistician, available here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/two-fine-wicketkeepers/id1659836998?i=1000634687983
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Q: 19 February 1963: the English spinner Tony Lock completed his initial season with Western Australia. 2 May 1963: the former English Test all-rounder, Jack Crawford, died in a Surrey hospital.
"So what?" I can hear you say. Well, on closer examination, not only were these two cricketers the first Test players from England to appear in the Sheffield Shield competition, but their lives and careers share quite remarkable parallels.
The Surrey county club can boast many fine players in its history. Crawford and Lock rank high among them. Crawford's talent was obvious from an early age. He had such great success as a schoolboy cricketer that he was selected for Surrey at just 17 years of age. Two years later, he was playing the first of his 12 Tests as the youngest Englishman to do so and he was also a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1907. The world seemed to be at his feet. However, a dispute with his county led to his venture to Australia.
"So what?" I can hear you say. Well, on closer examination, not only were these two cricketers the first Test players from England to appear in the Sheffield Shield competition, but their lives and careers share quite remarkable parallels.
The Surrey county club can boast many fine players in its history. Crawford and Lock rank high among them. Crawford's talent was obvious from an early age. He had such great success as a schoolboy cricketer that he was selected for Surrey at just 17 years of age. Two years later, he was playing the first of his 12 Tests as the youngest Englishman to do so and he was also a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1907. The world seemed to be at his feet. However, a dispute with his county led to his venture to Australia.
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/199/pat-rodgers/blog/1232/from-surrey-to-the-sheffield-shield
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19 February 1963: the English spinner Tony Lock completed his initial season with Western Australia. 2 May 1963: the former English Test all-rounder, Jack Crawford, died in ...
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Cricket selectors have been attracting criticism since at least the start of Test cricket when Fred Spofforth refused to play because his friend Billy Murdoch had been over ...
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This is an early chapter of a book entitled Looking Back and Reaching Forward by myself and Ronald Cardwell that was prepared for the start of this season. It is an updated history of th ...
