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Mark P. Atkinson
Mark Peter Atkinson (born 27 November 1970) is an Australian former professional cricketer, who played for Western Australia between 1992 and 2001. Early career Atkinson was born in Bentley, Western Australia, in 1970. He represented the WAIS Colts and Australian Cricket Academy sides. Atkinson played grade cricket for Perth Cricket Club, winning consecutive Olly Cooley Medals for the best player in the Western Australian Grade Cricket competition in 1995–96 and 1996–97. Playing career Western Australia career Atkinson made his debut for Western Australia in 1992. In total he played 21 first-class matches, taking 54 wickets at an average of 35.61 with a best of 5/92, and 31 List A matches, taking 39 wickets at an average of 29.53, with a best of 4/38. English career Atkinson also played cricket in England, including two matches for the Surrey Second XI in 1997, taking two wickets, and 24 matches for Church in the Lancashire League as the team's professional in 1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bentley, Western Australia
Bentley is a southern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, southeast of Perth's central business district. Its local government areas are the City of Canning and the Town of Victoria Park. Bentley is home to the main campus of Curtin University of Technology and Technology Park. History Prior to European settlement, the area was originally home to the Beeloo Nyungar people, whose territory extended from the Canning River to the Darling Scarp. The Beeloo hunted and fished in land close to the river, which was then forested with jarrah and marri trees, as much of the metropolitan area was at the time. In 2001, the ABS reported that about 3% of Bentley's population were Aboriginal. In 1830, the land was granted to James McDermott, and changed hands several times before being subdivided in 1885. The suburb was known as "Bentley Hill" from the 1860s onwards, honouring John Bentley (1822–1871), a prison warder and Crimean War veteran who arrived in the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-class Cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each, although in practice a team might play only one innings or none at all. The etymology of "first-class cricket" is unknown, but it was used loosely before it acquired official status in 1895, following a meeting of leading English clubs. At a meeting of the Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC) in 1947, it was formally defined on a global basis. A significant omission of the ICC ruling was any attempt to define first-class cricket retrospectively. That has left historians, and especially statisticians, with the problem of how to categorise earlier matches, especially those played in Great Britain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricketers From Perth, Western Australia
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at one of the wickets with the bat and then running between the wickets, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this (by preventing the ball from leaving the field, and getting the ball to either wicket) and dismiss each batter (so they are "out"). Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side either catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground, or hitting a wicket with the ball before a batter can cross the crease in front of the wicket. When ten batters have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Australian Cricketers
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1970 Births
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1994 English Cricket Season
The 1994 English cricket season was the 95th in which the County Championship had been an official competition. A very strong Warwickshire team won both the Britannic Assurance County Championship and the Sunday League. England defeated New Zealand 1-0 and drew with South Africa 1–1 in the two Test series. Honours *County Championship - Warwickshire *NatWest Trophy - Worcestershire * Sunday League - Warwickshire *Benson & Hedges Cup - Warwickshire *Minor Counties Championship - Devon *MCCA Knockout Trophy - Devon *Second XI Championship - Somerset II *Wisden Cricketers of the Year - Brian Lara, Devon Malcolm, Tim Munton, Steve Rhodes, Kepler Wessels Test series England played New Zealand in a 3-test series, winning the first, and drawing the remaining two. South Africa toured England, playing three test matches winning one, drawing one and losing one. County Championship NatWest Trophy Benson & Hedges Cup Sunday League Leading batsmen J D Carr topped the batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancashire League (cricket)
The Lancashire League is a competitive league of local cricket clubs drawn from the small to middle-sized mill towns, mainly but not exclusively, of East Lancashire. Its real importance is probably due to its history of employing professional players of international standing to play in the League. History The Lancashire Cricket League was formed on 16 March 1892, growing from the North East Cricket League that had been formed 17 months earlier. Currently in membership are Accrington CC, Bacup CC, Burnley CC, Church CC, Clitheroe CC, Colne CC, Crompton CC, Darwen Cricket Club, East Lancashire CC, Enfield CC, Great Harwood, Greenmount CC, Haslingden CC, Littleborough CC, Lowerhouse CC, Middleton CC, Nelson CC, Norden CC, Ramsbottom CC, Rawtenstall CC, Rishton CC, Rochdale CC, Todmorden CC (actually in Yorkshire) and Walsden CC (also in W Yorks). In the early years Bury CC were also members but they withdrew after participating for just two seasons. The earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Cricket Club
Church and Oswaldtwistle Cricket Club, based at Oswaldtwistle, Accrington, is a cricket club in the Lancashire League. They play at the West End Ground on Blackburn Road in Oswaldtwistle. Their captain for the 2011 season is Craig Fergusson and their professional was Pakistani Saeed Anwar. The club was founded in 1856. It moved to its present location in 1890 and joined the Lancashire League at its inception in 1892. The club has won the League on five occasions, most recently in 1963. During this period it has fielded notable cricketers such as Sydney Barnes, Cecil Parkin, and Chester Watson. Honours *1st XI League Winners - 5 - 1939, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1962 *Worsley Cup Winners - 1 - 1974 *20/20 Cup Winners - 2 - 2014, 2016 *2nd XI League Winners - 6 - 1898, 1926, 1930, 1938, 1991, 2010 *2nd XI (Lancashire Telegraph) Cup Winners - 2 - 1999, 2010 *3rd XI League Winners - 1 - 1984 *Highest 50 overs score - 306-4 v East Lancs East Lancashire Coachbuilders Limited was a manu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 English Cricket Season
The 1997 cricket season was the 98th in which the County Championship has been an official competition. The season centred on the six-Test Ashes series against Australia. England won the first, at Edgbaston, by the decisive margin of nine wickets, and the rain-affected second Test at Lord's was drawn, but any English optimism was short-lived. Australia won the next three games by huge margins to secure the series and retain The Ashes, and England's three-day victory in the final game at The Oval was little more than a consolation prize. It was the 68th test series between the two sides with Australia finally winning 3-2 The three-match ODI series which preceded the Tests produced a statistical curiosity, with England winning each match by an identical margin, six wickets. The Britannic Assurance County Championship went to Glamorgan for the first time since 1969, by a margin of just four points from Kent. The combination of captain Matthew Maynard and Steve James' batting a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surrey CCC
Surrey County Cricket Club (Surrey CCC) is a first-class club in county cricket, one of eighteen in the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Surrey, including areas that now form South London. Teams representing the county are recorded from 1709 onwards; the current club was founded in 1845 and has held first-class status continuously since then. Surrey have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England, including every edition of the County Championship (which began in 1890). The club's home ground is The Oval, in the Kennington area of Lambeth in South London. They have been based there continuously since 1845. The club also has an 'out ground' at Woodbridge Road, Guildford, where some home games are played each season. Surrey's long history includes three major periods of great success. The club was unofficially proclaimed as "Champion County" seven times during the 1850s; it won the title eight times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
