Cricket Thread. Only Mad Dogs And Englishmen

[YoungWillz 21,026]

Hubert Doggart, sports administrator and former England Test cricketer, dead at 92. https://www.icc-cricket.com/media-releases/625554

 

DDP Pick.

[YoungWillz 21,026]

On ‎2‎/‎21‎/‎2018 at 15:12, YoungWillz said:

Hubert Doggart, sports administrator and former England Test cricketer, dead at 92. https://www.icc-cricket.com/media-releases/625554

 

DDP Pick.

Now, Hubert Doggart gets a name check in this article from The Times. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/thanksgiving-service-douginsole-pgdhsxqrq

 

Anyone able to read the whole thing to see if this might be a QO for the DDP?

[msc 18,437]

2 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Now, Hubert Doggart gets a name check in this article from The Times. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/thanksgiving-service-douginsole-pgdhsxqrq

 

Anyone able to read the whole thing to see if this might be a QO for the DDP?

 

It's not. A poem by Doggart about Insole was read at the service. No mention of Doggart being dead.

[YoungWillz 21,026]

Cheers, msc, very possible they are preparing one, though. Times big on their cricketers.

[msc 18,437]

Just now, YoungWillz said:

Cheers, msc, very possible they are preparing one, though. Times big on their cricketers.

 

I know very little about cricket, but the little I do surely tells me anyone who played for England will get a Times obit before too long.

[Heef 166]

I can't believe IL Bula (i.e. Ilikena Lasarusa Talebulamainavaleniveivakabulaimainakulalakebalau), the First Class cricketer with the longest name is still apparently alive. 96 years old. Probably the most famous Fijian cricketer. Pretty decent player by all accounts.

 

Might be obit worthy due to the name length.

[charon 4,943]

Former SA Test cricketer Colin Bland, dead at 80.

 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/23198074/former-south-africa-allrounder-colin-bland-dies-aged-80

[Heef 166]

Bland was always one of my favourite South African cricketers. Truly set new benchmarks for fielding.

[Bentrovato 1,087]

Happy Birthday Dickie Bird. 85 not out. 

[Redrumours 860]

It's not OVER yet then.

2 hours ago, Bentrovato said:

Happy Birthday Dickie Bird. 85 not out. 

 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

In the category of great sports names, South Africa has an outstanding wicker-keeper batsman named Quinton de Kock.
I stumbled upon this whilst searching other stuff -- so yes, I stumbled onto de Kock.

SC

[time 8,592]

I hope Sir Creep doesn’t discover the Saffers Fanie de Villiers, or England’s Peter  Willey, or India’s Salman Butt.

Or that three Aussies have been suspended for ball tampering.

 

[Bibliogryphon 9,570]

59 minutes ago, time said:

I hope Sir Creep doesn’t discover the Saffers Fanie de Villiers, or England’s Peter  Willey, or India’s Salman Butt.

Or that three Aussies have been suspended for ball tampering.

 

The Batsman's Holding, the bowler's Willey

[msc 18,437]

3 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

In the category of great sports names, South Africa has an outstanding wicker-keeper batsman named Quinton de Kock.
I stumbled upon this whilst searching other stuff -- so yes, I stumbled onto de Kock.

SC

 

When Gent won the Belgian league (and then did surprisingly well in the Champions League), they had a midfielder called Sven Kums.

 

He's not ill or anything, I'm just letting you know.

[Toast 16,130]

That brings to mind an old episode of Fantasy World Cup Football in which Baddiel and Skinner sang to the tune of Nessun Dorma

 

We hoped so much that Italy

Had learned a lot from Germany

We thought they'd play like Klinsmann, Sammer -

Instead they played like Kuntz.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

16 minutes ago, Toast said:

Instead they played like Kuntz.

My (step) grandfather's surname was Kuntz.  He and much of my father's side were 'Pennsylvania Dutch'. 

[En Passant 3,741]

2 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

My (step) grandfather's surname was Kuntz.  He and much of my father's side were 'Pennsylvania Dutch'. 

You don't say?

[time 8,592]

Former Test umpire Don Oslear died a few days ago, aged 89 (second story in link). Umpiring career cut short by controversy over ball-tampering.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

8 hours ago, time said:

Former Test umpire Don Oslear died a few days ago, aged 89 (second story in link). Umpiring career cut short by controversy over ball-tampering.

If I lost a job every time I was ball tampering, I'd be unemployable.

[YoungWillz 21,026]

Scotland beat England at their game: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2018/jun/10/scotland-v-england-odi-live

 

Truly we are in the end of days....ha!

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Saait Magiet, a former SA allrounder whose career was adversely affected by apartheid, died July 16th.  He was 66.

 

http://kwese.espn.com/cricket/story/_/id/24119306/south-african-allrounder-saait-maajiet-dies-66

 

[Cerberus 302]

1960s Middlesex and England wicket-keeper John Murray dies at 85:

 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/24190817/middlesex-england-keeper-john-murray-dies

 

He was his generation's Jack Russell, often omitted from England teams in favour of batsman-keeper Jim Parks.

[msc 18,437]

On 02/07/2017 at 12:26, gcreptile said:

Carrick keeper Gordon Browne recovering from a brain tumour:

 

http://www.newsletter.co.uk/sport/cricket/cricket-family-so-supportive-during-my-cancer-battle-says-carrick-keeper-gordon-browne-1-8036086

 

Feeling good right now, but it was high-grade gliobastioma. So it is likely to return and kill him.

 

It did, and he died, but doesn't appear to troubled any bigger press.

[Thatcher 2,386]

Ajit Wadekar, Indian cricketer, has died aged 77. He was Captain of the Indian Team from 1971-1974, during Tests against the West Indies and England. Probably couldn't deal with the absolute pasting England is giving India in the current Test. 

 

Edit: BBC, The Telegraph, The Independent obituaries.

[time 8,592]

Former Sussex wicket keeper Rupert Webb has died aged 96, played between 1948 & 1960 (i.e before most of us were born). Last week he signed and donated his copies of Wisden to the Sussex CCC museum.

 

After retiring he took up modelling and acting, and appeared (according to the the report) in Four Weddings & a Funeral as Duckface's father.