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« Reply #375 on: June 07, 2015, 12:04:39 PM »

 South bank West ham?
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« Reply #376 on: June 07, 2015, 12:08:06 PM »

South bank West ham?

too easy

this was a wartime match against chelsea

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« Reply #377 on: June 07, 2015, 12:37:05 PM »

Probably been to Upton park more than any other away ground.Night games used to be a great atmosphere haven't been since all seating and Luton tumbling down the leagues.
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« Reply #378 on: June 08, 2015, 12:11:00 PM »



Pictured in 1975, this cricketer scored a county hundred against Derbyshire

115 to be precise

who is he?

what was unusual about that century, that can never be repeated these days.....?
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« Reply #379 on: June 08, 2015, 12:21:56 PM »

Is that Chris Balderstone ?.

No idea why it was unusual.
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« Reply #380 on: June 08, 2015, 12:26:22 PM »

Is that Chris Balderstone ?.

No idea why it was unusual.

it is

On Monday 15th September 1975 he played cricket for Leicestershire against Derbyshire at Chesterfield and at close of play he was 51 not out.

A quick drive to Belle Vue followed and he played for Doncaster Rovers in the evening in a 1-1 draw against Brentford in the Fourth Division.

The following morning he was back playing cricket, finishing his innings on 116 and taking 3 wickets for 28 runs to help win the County Championship for Leicestershire for the first time.
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« Reply #381 on: June 08, 2015, 12:27:11 PM »

ok where is easy

who is playing and what year?

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« Reply #382 on: June 08, 2015, 01:03:18 PM »

Wow - short boundary much?

You might want to rename that image Tighty...
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« Reply #383 on: June 08, 2015, 01:11:01 PM »

different image now...

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« Reply #384 on: June 08, 2015, 01:41:44 PM »

Australia Windies around WSC era playing an exhibition before any floodlights were installed in English grounds.

Ground is too easy (I think!!)
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« Reply #385 on: June 08, 2015, 01:49:46 PM »

Australia Windies around WSC era playing an exhibition before any floodlights were installed in English grounds.

Ground is too easy (I think!!)

yep didn't ask for the ground

stamford bridge

bit later than WSC

west indies against.....
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« Reply #386 on: June 08, 2015, 01:52:52 PM »

Australia Windies around WSC era playing an exhibition before any floodlights were installed in English grounds.

Ground is too easy (I think!!)

yep didn't ask for the ground

stamford bridge

bit later than WSC

west indies against.....

Chelsea would come under Middlesex, wouldn't it?

I think...
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« Reply #387 on: June 08, 2015, 01:57:11 PM »

its not middlesex, though yes it is in middlesex (if it was to be any county, chelsea is middlesex)

it is a county though
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« Reply #388 on: June 08, 2015, 03:41:11 PM »

On August 14th 1980 Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground hosted the first senior day-night match in England, Essex against the West Indies. An artificial pitch was laid but a football pitch is not the ideal shape for cricket. Being long and thin it was an easy matter to hit sixes to the short boundaries - Graham Gooch hit a century in just 77 minutes (which back then was a big thing, not so much now) and in one 18-minute spell Viv Richards scored 53 runs.

A crowd of 11,073 made it a successful experiment, so much so that when Chelsea played Wrexham two days later in their opening Football League fixture of the season the chant of 'We want cricket' was heard during the slower moments of the game.

I was at this match as a teenager. a friend and his family lived on the fulham palace road and took me along. we bumped into joel garner in the corridor of the east stand behind the exec boxes. garner could not walk standing to his full height and had to walk along neck cricked so low was the ceiling. he was still massive. like a giant redwood.

A month later, on 17th September 1980 an England XI (including Botham, Gooch, Boycott and Gatting) played the Rest of the World (including Richards, Gavaskar, Lloyd and Marshall) in a 40-over match at Bristol City's Ashton Gate Ground. A crowd of 7925 made it a profitable venture but the experiment didn't bring a lasting union between the sports with the major cricket grounds getting their own floodlights.

so, as part of the promotion of the stamford bridge match, there was some pr photo opps

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« Reply #389 on: June 08, 2015, 05:15:25 PM »

Viv Richards behind the stumps and Gavaskar to his left.
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