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4 unusual facts about England cricket team


Andrew Samson

Andrew Samson is the current (2013) statistician for the BBC's live broadcasts of "Test Match Special" when the England cricket team is playing abroad.

Barry Fisher

Strong performances saw Fisher selected in an Australian XI that played against the English cricket team during their 1958–59 tour of Australia leading up to the Tests.

Beer wench

The custom made international headlines during the 2006-07 Ashes series played between England and Australia when an Australian fan advertised on UK websites for an English beer wench to serve beer to Australian cricket fans during the Fourth Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Yohan Blake

On 16 August 2012, Blake rang the bell at Lord's Cricket Ground, London to signify the start of the third Investec test match between England and South Africa.


Alex Wyatt

Wyatt took 3-14 from four overs, including a maiden, and took the wickets of then current England player Paul Collingwood and former Australia ODI batsman Michael di Venuto.

Basanta Regmi

In 2009, he played for Nepal in a three-day match against the MCC, taking 3–20 and 3–27 to help lead his team to an innings win over an MCC side captained by former England Test cricketer Min Patel.

Billy Doctrove

On 20 August 2006, the fourth day of the fourth test between England and Pakistan at The Oval, he was involved in controversy when he and fellow umpire Darrell Hair ruled that the Pakistani team had been involved in ball tampering.

Carry the bat

The first to do so was South African Bernard Tancred in March 1889, against England at Newlands in Cape Town, hitting 26 not out (off 91 balls) as his team were bowled out for 47 in their first innings.

Combined Services cricket team

For example, in the 1951 match against the touring South Africans the side included Brian Close, who had already played for England, and Jim Parks, Fred Titmus and Alan Moss, who would all go on to do so.

Controversies involving the Indian Premier League

Because the inaugural IPL season coincided with the County Championship season as well as New Zealand's tour of England, the ECB and county cricket clubs raised their concerns to the BCCI over players.

Dean Cosker

In 1997 he was given a longer run in the Glamorgan side as Robert Croft was playing for England.

Don Tallon

His early cricket was played in Bundaberg where he was selected to represent Queensland Country against the England cricket team during the infamous Bodyline tour.

Douglas James Smith

He stood as an umpire six times in first-class cricket, including replacing Alfred Atfield for the fifth Test between South Africa and England at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth in 1913–14.

Fred Smallwood

He was one of several players recruited by new manager George Goss and replaced Laurie Fishlock, who was unavailable as he was on a tour of Australia with the England cricket team.

Harry Storer, Jr.

He came from a sporting family; his father was a goalkeeper for Arsenal and Liverpool and played cricket for Derbyshire, and his uncle Bill Storer played cricket for England and Derbyshire and football for Derby County.

Indian cricket team records

Bapu Nadkarni – 0.15 (32overs, 27maidens, 5runs, 0wickets) v England at Chennai on 10 January 1964.india won

James Vince

According to Duncan Fletcher, who acted as a consult for Hampshire and was the former coach of the England team, Vince is reminiscent of former England batsman Michael Vaughan.

Kenneth Hutchings

Kenneth Lotherington Hutchings (born 7 December 1882 in Southborough, Kent, and killed in action on 3 September 1916 in Ginchy, France) was a cricketer who played for Kent and England.

Malcolm Jardine

His son Douglas went on to play cricket for Oxford, Surrey and England, captaining the latter two and being associated with the use of Bodyline bowling.

Pat Hone

Another uncle, Leland Hone also played for Ireland in addition to playing one Test match for England.

Paul Dixey

Against a bowling attack that featured Sajid Mahmood (who has played for England), Kyle Hogg, Oliver Newby, and Tom Smith, Dixey scored 103 runs from 209 balls – beating his previous highest first-class score of 31 – before being dismissed by Mark Chilton.

Richard Kettleborough

He was the ECB's designated TV umpire on the ICC International Panel for the 2009 season, but was appointed to stand on-field in a Twenty20 between England and Australia in August 2009 and a One Day International between the same sides a month later.

Richard Stemp

Stemp was a slow left arm bowler, and was a member of the England squad picked to play New Zealand in 1994, but was left out of the final eleven.

Ross Taylor

He scored his maiden Test century, a patient and restrained 120, in March 2008 at Hamilton in the first Test of the 2007–08 series against England and went on to be the leading run scorer for the series.

Sean Terry

The son of former England and Hampshire batsman Paul Terry, he spent much of his early life in Australia, where he was educated at Aquinas College, Perth, and the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle.

The Ashes urn

It was presented to Ivo Bligh, the captain of the England cricket team, after a friendly match hosted at Rupertswood mansion in Sunbury, during the 1882–83 tour in Australia, as a personal gift, and after his death was presented to the Marylebone Cricket Club, which has it on display at Lord's cricket ground.

Vijay Hazare

In India's 25th Test match, nearly 20 years after India achieved Test status, he led India to its first ever Test cricket win (and the only victory under his captaincy) in 1951–52 against England cricket team at Madras, winning by an innings and eight runs in a match that began on the day that King George VI died.

Walter Sugg

His younger brother Frank played first-class cricket for Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and England.

Warsop

It is home to The Meden School & Technology College on Burns Lane; former pupils include television hosts Pollyanna Woodward and Simon Mapletoft, Mansfield 103.2 presenter Jason Harrison, Breakfast Show host Joe Sentance on Rother FM, ex-Everton footballer Neil Pointon, and England wicketkeeper Bruce French.


see also

John Lubbock, 2nd Baron Avebury

At school he played both association football and cricket although not in their representative XIs, but he won in 1876 a game of Eton Fives with Ivo Bligh who was later famous as the captain of the England cricket team of "Ashes" fame.

Moulton, Lincolnshire

Johnny Douglas (1895-7), Olympic gold medal winner in boxing and captain of the England Cricket Team