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Andrew Parkin-Coates

Parkin- Coates made his cricketing debut for England Under-15s in the Under-15 World Challenge in 2000, alongside future first-class cricketers such as James Hildreth and David Stiff.

Arjan Kripal Singh

He hails from a family of cricketers with his grandfather A. G. Ram Singh playing in two unofficial Test matches, his father A. G. Kripal Singh (14 Test matches) and uncle A. G. Milkha Singh (4 Test matches) representing India in Test cricket.

Arthur Mold

In his second year, a successful match against the Free Foresters, an amateur team, impressed two Lancashire cricketers who played against him.

Austin Robertson, Jr.

Robertson subsequently managed many of Australia’s leading cricketers over a period of 30 years, including Shane Warne.

Barbados Cricket Association

From its earliest days Barbados has been renowned for the quality and calibre of its cricketers producing cricketers such as Challenor, Martindale, Weekes, Sobers, Hall.

Basin Reserve

Players involved in the match included Shane Warne, Stephen Fleming, Tana Umaga, Richard Hadlee, Martin Crowe, other famous former New Zealand cricketers, current All Blacks Richie McCaw and Conrad Smith and actors Russell Crowe, Ian McKellen.

Beverley Ground

The social scene was an important part of the festival; some cricketers formed the Canterbury Old Stagers to provide entertainment in the evenings of the Cricket Week and they claim to be the oldest extant amateur dramatic company in the world.

Daisy Hill F.C.

They then joined the Westhoughton League winning a number of honours in the 1920s and 1930s and during this time, Lancashire County Cricket Club cricketers Dick Pollard and Bill Farrimond both played football for Daisy Hill.

David Coltart

In 2003, Coltart met with the Zimbabwean cricketers Andy Flower and Henry Olonga to discuss their plans for making a protest against the Mugabe regime at the forthcoming World Cup, and came up with the idea of the two cricketers wearing black armbands during the match, signifying the death of democracy in Zimbabwe.

East Hills Boys High School

Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe and cricketers Mark and Steve Waugh are notable former students.

Frank Druce

He is one of the very few Test cricketers to have made his claims for inclusion purely upon his performance for an Oxbridge university.

Gil Langley

Langley's skills behind the wicket were recognised by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, who proclaimed him "the safest wicketkeeper in the game" and named him one of its five cricketers of the year in 1957.

Glenn Turner

In all, he played 455 first-class matches, amassing 34,346 runs at 49.70, including 103 centuries—making him one of a select few to score a "century of centuries", one of only four non-English cricketers to do so (the others being Donald Bradman, Zaheer Abbas and Viv Richards).

Hammad Siddiqi

In 1996, he was named in the 100 Best Young Cricketers in Pakistan, which included future stars like Shahid Afridi, Hasan Raza, Bazid Khan and Faisal Iqbal, and was invited to a camp for fast bowlers supervised by former Test bowler Sarfraz Nawaz the same year.

Indonesian Australian

Ben Hollioake, sportsman (cricketers), Australian and Indonesian ancestry.

Itchin Stoke Down

Ashley Mote, John Nyren's "The Cricketers of my Time", Robson, 1998

Jacob Harris

He also coached some brilliant cricketers like Wallis Mathias, Antao D'Souza, Khalid Wazir, Wasim Bari, Rashid Israr, all who ended up as Test cricketers for Pakistan.

Jamnagar

Cricket is a major sport in Jamnagar, and a number veteran, well-established, and emerging Indian test cricketers originate from Jamnagar; including vinu mankad, Salim Durrani, karsan ghavri, Indrajitsinhji, Ajay Jadeja and Ravindra Jadeja.

Jock Livingston

In 1949–50, when Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) declined to tour India, the former England wicketkeeper George Duckworth assembled a Commonwealth side consisting of Lancashire League players plus a handful of English and West Indian cricketers.

JSSATE

Former Indian cricketers Gundappa Viswanath(GR Viswanath) and Anil Kumble, HH Jagadguru Sri Shivaratri Deshikendra Mahaswamiji and Karnataka State Cricket Association president Srikanta Wadiyar were present during the inauguration.

Leroy Loggins

Game 1 of the series was at the BEC where a then Australian indoor attendance record crowd of over 11,000, including celebrities such as international cricketers Greg Chappell and Ian Botham.

Linda Klarfeld

Klarfeld created several sculptures of well-known Australians including Dr Victor Chang, Cricketers Keith Miller and Bill Woodfull, AFL Footballer Neil Roberts and former Mayor of Mosman, Cr Dom Lopez OAM.

London County Cricket Club

In 2004 the club was relaunched by former Essex, Somerset and Leicestershire wicket keeper / batsman Neil Burns as a mentoring organisation for the development and support of cricketers.

Mark Tronson

He continues to network with athletes, especially Australian cricketers and developed athlete respite facilities, Basil Sellers Moruya and Basil Sellers Tweed.

Matthew Fosh

He toured the West Indies with the England Young Cricketers in 1976 and played in one 'test match' in Trinidad alongside Mike Gatting and David Gower, scoring 41 in the first innings of a game won by England by 22 runs.

Melissa Marsh

Her brothers Shaun and Mitchell are both cricketers; she is the middle child and only daughter of retired cricketer Geoff Marsh.

Michael Colvin

He also became briefly the owner of the Cricketers' Arms in Tangley, to save it for the village.

Mr Kneebone

As the band are all avid cricket supporters, inside the album sleeve, the band thanks, among others, Australian cricketers Mark and Steve Waugh.

Nelson Cricket Club

During this period the club has fielded prominent cricketers such as Learie Constantine, Kapil Dev and Steve Waugh.

Netherlands national cricket team

Several Dutch cricketers have also played at first-class level elsewhere, the most successful of these probably being Roland Lefebvre who played for Somerset and Glamorgan in English county cricket as well as for Canterbury in New Zealand.

Newtown, Victoria

Famous cricketers who played for Newtown include the young Lindsay Hassett, Aaron Finch and Ian Redpath.

Robert Seddon

In 1888, a private venture by cricketers Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury, saw a group of rugby players chosen to tour Australia and New Zealand.

Sign cricket

"The Eleven Cricketers" at Storrington in Sussex, now closed, did score 22 runs since the number of cricketers was specified.

Simon Halliday

This was when he scored 113 not out against Kent in 1982, with a bowling lineup consisting of English Test cricketers Graham Dilley and Bob Woolmer.

South African Defence Force cricket team

At the time the strength of the South African Defence Force was boosted by conscription for all young white men, and as a consequence the South African Defence Force team were able to call on many young first-class cricketers, some of whom went on to play at Test level in the 1990s.

Sport in Barbados

Barbados has a number of famous cricketers including: Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Everton Weekes, Sir Clyde Walcott, and Sir Frank Worrell.

Stephen Lishman

He took two wickets in the match, those of Test cricketers Wilf Slack and Roland Butcher.

The Guide to Cricketers

The Guide to Cricketers was a cricket annual edited by Fred Lillywhite between 1849 and his death in 1866.

Tubou

One of eight villages on Lakeba, it is considered the capital of the Lau Islands, being the seat of the Vuanirewa clan, a powerful chiefly family from which Fiji's longtime Prime Minister and President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (1920–2004) and one of Fiji's famous cricketers I. L. Bula (1921–2002), hailed.

William Caffyn

Known in England as the Surrey Pet, he came to Australia with a sponsored 1861/62 team which consisted of mainly Surrey cricketers, and again in 1864 after which he stayed on as coach of the Melbourne Cricket Club.

William Wilmot

Despite Wilmot finishing not out from seventh in the batting lineup, Derbyshire lost by an innings margin, thanks to centuries from the Australians' batsmen Hugh Trumble, Monty Noble and Joe Darling, all of whom were past and future Test cricketers for the national side.

Wisden Cricket Monthly

The cricketers' associations condemned the article while Phillip DeFreitas and Devon Malcolm filed defamation suits.


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