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If you’re a county age-group cricketer, boy or girl, your coach can apply to us for help towards travel & kit costs. If you’re new to a Women’s Tier Two team you can also now be considered. We are awarding our final grants and have EXTENDED the application window to end May.
ALT A slide about the grants.
Go out and buy a copy of the spring edition of Nightwatchman (no. 49) now. 136 pages of great articles, great photos and even a poem or two. The best read for those who think about, and care about, cricket.
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There is now a short report at the @ACScricket website acscricket.com/ on the highly successful Members' Meeting held at the @unionjackclub in London on Saturday. Those attending were entertained by seven speakers on a variety of cricketing topics.
ALT ACS members seated around tables to listen to Jo Rice's talk on the Kent Cricket Heritage Trust.
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@ACScricket had an in-person meeting at the @unionjackclub yesterday. There were some fine events during the day as members came from far & wide. The presenters included @AnnieChave @lonsdale_jeremy @DavidKendix @JonathanRice47 #tonywatts @chrisobrienuk & the whole event was expertly chaired by @ACScricket Chair #johnbryant whilst #keithwalmsley rose from his sick bed to present a drop-dead good quiz. Thank you to everyone who contributed.
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Jonathan Agnew is our special guest speaker at the @JohnnersTrust Dinner at Lord’s, Mon 4th Nov. Tkts ww1.emma-live.com/Johnners-2… as we mark 30 yrs of support for VI ckt, and raise funds for the final cohort who’ll receive grants to keep them in the talent pathway. Join us! #cricket
A Cricketer's Life kentcricketheritagetrust.wor… via @jonathanrice47
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The latest post on the Kent Cricket Heritage Trust blog looks at England's first captain of our women's Test team. A great lady
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Mordecai Sherwin was the last professional captain of @TrentBridge in the 19th C, there was not another until 1961 when John Clay was appointed. This portrait of Sherwin, who also played in goal for Notts County, hangs in the Trent Bridge Long Room. #SportAndArt
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Not many cricketers are remembered in stained glass but Rev Philip Williams, who played 20 First-Class games (two for @TrentBridge) in the 1840s, has this splendid memorial in his church St Mary the Virgin at Rewe, Devon. #SportandArt
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John Johnson’s portrait hangs over the door to the Long Room @TrentBridge but not for his on-field exploits (just a few games) but as a long-served Hon Sec, club Vice-President and the guiding hand in the building of the ground’s first Pavilion. #SportandArt.
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Charley Brown, born this day 1815, was a wicketkeeper-batsman for @TrentBridge whose most original claim to fame was to bowl right arm ‘behind his back’, a curious method that helped to secure him nine First-Class wickets. trentbridge.co.uk/trentbridg…
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Six @TrentBridge players appeared for Alfred Shaw’s XI v Melbourne CC XI in January 1887; as tour manager Shaw was not among them. Of the non-Notts players, Johnny Briggs of @Lancscricket was born in Nottinghamshire. Shrewsbury skippered the side and batted at number ten.
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30 Dec 1882 @KentCricket's Ivo Bligh & Edmund Tylecote debuted for @ECB_cricket v Australia at MCG. Tylecote top scored in both innings but England lost by 9 wkts. Under Bligh's leadership they won the next 2 Tests, prompting some ladies to burn a bail & put the Ashes in an urn.
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On this day in 1994, Jack Rippon of @GlamCricket passed away.
He was a wicket-keeper for Swansea CC who was understudy to Haydn Davies after the Second World War. Rippon appeared in three matches in 1947 and 1948.
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28 Dec 1898. Jimmy Cutmore b. Walthamstow. Right-handed opener for @EssexCricket 1924-36. 342 matches, 15937 runs @ 28.37. 1000 runs in every season 1925-35, 15 100s. Had a fine tenor voice + was a professional music hall entertainer. Played cricket + hockey into his 70s.
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Thomas George ‘Topsy’ Wass was born on Boxing Day 1873 – Happy 150th Topsy! – and set fast bowling records that remain today. In a career cut short by WWI he took 1666 First-Class wickets, 1653 of them for @TrentBridge, 300 more than the next best. trentbridge.co.uk/trentbridg…
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So Wham! finally have a Christmas number one. The Skillful Hits blog has been updated and all at Winston Records Limited send their congratulations. skillfulhits.wordpress.com/2…
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Derek Ufton was the best of @KentCricket's cricketing footballers. 21 Dec 1957 he dislocated shoulder playing for @CAFCofficial v @htafc. Losing 5-1 when he went off to A&E, 10 man Charlton went on to win 7-6. Played 148 games for Kent, 277 for Addicks & 1 for @EnglandFootball.
