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Slough Cricket Club
Slough Cricket Club is a cricket club based in Berkshire, in southern England. Slough Cricket Club has been at the forefront of cricket in the Thames Valley since it moved to Chalvey Road in 1899. It joined the Thames Valley League on its inception in 1972 and has remained in the top division ever since. Their first team play in Division Two of the Home Counties Premier Cricket League, with the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th elevens playing in divisions 1,3,5,7 and 9 respectively in the Thames Valley Cricket League, a Sunday eleven team who participate in the South East Shires Cricket League, and a Junior Section, who play in the Berkshire Youth Cricket League. Club history The club was founded in 1849.The club was initially based in Chalvey Road East since its formation but moved a mile to its present location Upton Court Park ground from the 2000 season. Slough Cricket Club has produced many fine players over the years, one of which is Ian Gould. Ian played for Middlesex and ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket Ground Between The Parks (geograph 5587729)
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Mark Gillespie (New Zealand Cricketer)
Mark Raymond Gillespie (born 17 October 1979) is a former New Zealand cricketer. He came to the selectors attention in the 2005–06 season with 43 wickets at 23.16 for Wellington. He then played for New Zealand A in the Top-End series of 2006 before being included in New Zealand's squad of 14 for the Champions Trophy. He had a successful domestic career for Wellington being crowned Wellington's cricketer of the year and Men's Outstanding Bowler in 2012. International career Gillespie has taken Twenty20 Internationals with 4/7 during New Zealand's 9 wicket win over Kenya in the 2007 ICC World Twenty20. On his Test Match debut, he took five wickets in the first innings against South Africa at Centurion In the Roman army during classical antiquity, a centurion (; , . ; , or ), was a commander, nominally of a century (), a military unit originally consisting of 100 legionaries. The size of the century changed over time; from the 1st century BC ... in 2007. References Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Cricket Teams In England
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All Stars Cricket
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Kamran Younis
Kamran Younis (born 20 January 1985) is a Pakistani former first-class cricketer who played in 76 first class cricket, 78 List A cricket, and 19 Twenty20 cricket Twenty20 (abbreviated T20) is a shortened format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the county cricket, inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two t ... matches between 1999 and 2016. References External links * 1985 births Living people Pakistani cricketers Sialkot cricketers Cricketers from Gujranwala Gujranwala cricketers Sialkot Stallions cricketers Port Qasim Authority cricketers 21st-century Pakistani sportsmen {{Pakistan-cricket-bio-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Northamptonshire. Its limited overs team is called the Northants Steelbacks – a reference to the Northamptonshire Regiment which was formed in 1881. The name was supposedly a tribute to the soldiers' apparent indifference to the harsh discipline imposed by their officers. Founded in 1878, Northamptonshire (Northants) held minor status at first but was a prominent member of the early Minor Counties Championship during the 1890s. In 1905, the club joined the County Championship and was elevated to first-class status, since when the team have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England. The club plays the majority of its games at the County Cricket Ground, Northampton, but has used outlier grounds at Kettering, Wellingborough, Rushden and Peterborough (historically part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saif Zaib
Saif Ali Zaib (born 22 May 1998 in Northampton) is an English cricketer who plays for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club. A spin-bowling all-rounder, Zaib is a left-handed batsman, who bowls left-arm orthodox spin. He made his List A debut for the county against the touring New Zealand A cricket team in July 2014, and his first-class debut the following August. Ahead of the 2015 season, Zaib signed a three-year contract with Northamptonshire. He made his Twenty20 Twenty20 (abbreviated T20) is a shortened format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the county cricket, inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two t ... cricket debut for Northamptonshire in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 27 July 2017. In January 2025, Zaib agreed a new contract with Northamptonshire running until the end of the 2027 season. References External links * * 1998 births Living people Cricket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Pringle
Christopher Pringle (born 26 January 1968) is a New Zealand former cricketer. A medium-fast bowler, he played 14 Tests and 64 One Day Internationals (ODI) for New Zealand between 1990 and 1995. He represented Auckland in the State Championship between 1989 and 1998. Pringle was in England in 1990 playing cricket in the Bradford Cricket League and had gone to watch an ODI at Headingley, Leeds between England and New Zealand. He asked if there was a spare ticket for the match, and when three other New Zealand bowlers were injured or unwell, he found himself playing in two matches. International career Pringle made his Test debut versus Pakistan at Karachi in 1990/91 and in his third test took Test best figures of 11-152, including 7-52 in the first innings. The match and the series was dogged by controversy as both teams were accused of ball tampering. Pringle later admitted that he had used a bottle cap that he'd cut into four quarters to scrape one side of the ball. He ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Radford
Toby Alexander Radford (born 3 December 1971) is a Welsh cricket coach, former first-class cricketer and cricket administrator. First-class career The son of journalist Brian Radford, Radford was born at Caerphilly in Glamorgan in 1971. He played for Middlesex between 1993 and 1995, Sussex between 1996 and 1997, and Berkshire in 1999 as a right-handed opening batsman and an occasional off spiner. He played a total of 14 first-class and six List A matches. He also played for England in six Youth Tests with a personal best of 79 run against New Zealand in Auckland.Toby Radford CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 December 2023. Coach Upon leaving first-class cricket, he played two full seasons for Berkshire and served the Berkshire Cricket Board as its Cricket Development Officer. After a successful spell as Direc ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slough
Slough () is a town in Berkshire, England, in the Thames Valley, west of central London and north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways. It is part of the historic county of Buckinghamshire. In 2021, the population of the town was 143,184. The wider Borough of Slough had a population of 158,500. Slough's population is one of the most ethnically diverse in the United Kingdom, attracting people from across the country and the world for labour since the 1920s, which has helped shape it into a major trading centre. In 2017, unemployment stood at 1.4%, one-third the UK average of 4.5%. Slough has the highest concentration of UK HQs of global companies outside London. Slough Trading Estate is the largest industrial estate in single private ownership in Europe, with over 17,000 jobs in 400 businesses. Blackberry, McAfee, Burger King, DHL, Telefonica and Lego have head offices in the town. History The name was first recorded in 1195 as ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Lewis (cricketer)
Clairmonte Christopher Lewis (born 14 February 1968) is an English former cricketer, who played for Nottinghamshire, Surrey and Leicestershire in the 1990s. He played in 32 Test matches and 53 One Day Internationals (ODIs) for England between 1990 and 1998. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1992 Cricket World Cup. Lewis was regarded as an aggressive lower-order batsman, fine fast-medium bowler and an able all-round fielder. He was regarded as a colourful player of the game, who never quite lived up to his early potential. He was later convicted of drug smuggling. International career Lewis was drafted into the England squad to tour the West Indies in 1990 when Ricardo Ellcock pulled out through injury, making his one-day international debut during the tour. He made his Test debut the following summer against New Zealand. He pulled out of England's disappointing tour of Australia the following winter after only one Test, but made an i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
