Hampshire County Cricket Club 1946-2006

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Hampshire County Cricket Club 1946-2006

Hampshire County Cricket Club 1946-2006

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Arundel will of course be a home ground outside the county boundaries but even that is not quite a first. Hampshire have of course played on the Isle of Wight, and their most recent visit there last year was their third home ground on the island. In addition, after the county boundary changes of the mid-1970s, Bournemouth too became ‘away’ at home, having moved to Dorset. But neither the Isle of Wight nor Bournemouth had previously been the home ground for another first-class county, so this will be an unusual occurrence, although again not unique; among this year’s matches, with Lancashire and Leicestershire meeting at Worcester. When the day-ending rain came at tea, he was six runs shy of a fifth half-century of the season and helped his side to a 73-run lead. When Hampshire begin their Bob Willis Trophy match against Surrey at Arundel, the Duke of Norfolk’s ground will be the 15th on which Hampshire have played a home first-class match and the 10th home ground in a first-class county competition, although strictly speaking the new competition is distinct from the traditional County Championship. It was an ‘old fashioned’, so not ‘limited-overs’ one-day match and after Pakistan won the toss and took the field, Jimmy Gray went for 16, then Roy Marshall (61) and Henry Horton (55) took the score to 97 and Horton and Livingstone to 165-3. Hampshire declared after 63 overs on 204-6 (Farooq 4-42) and in reply the tourists took the opportunity to acclimatise themselves, reaching 173-6 in nine fewer overs – the result, a draw. Shane Snater had been helped off the field just over 24 hours previous, having damaged his calf while bowling, but bravely reappeared with Michael Pepper as his runner. He lasted just three balls before he was lbw to Dawson.

In 2017 we met Lancashire 2 nd XI there in a Championship Final match which the visitors won on first innings to take the Trophy. Of our team that day we might expect to see Felix Organ in Hampshire’s RL Cup side this year, while Chris Wood, Harry Came, Matt Salisbury and Brad Wheal might be playing elsewhere in the Hundred or for their counties. The Lancashire side included Josh Bohannon, Daniel Lamb and Saqib Mahmood. Hampshire’s team was much changed too with only Peter Sainsbury surviving from the 1962 side after the great batsman Roy Marshall retired at the end of the 1972 season. Other recent departures included pace bowlers Bob Cottam and John Holder while Barry Reed and Larry Worrell would play no more for the first team. Captain Richard Gilliat had the challenge of moulding a new side and no one - including the ‘Bookies' offering 66-1 against them winning the Championship - can have anticipated what would occur in 1973 as Hampshire won their second, and to date, last title.Shaun ‘Shaggy’ Udal was an off spinner and an interesting character who, very late in his career, won four Test caps against India and Pakistan. Udal’s autobiography, My Turn To Spin, appeared in 2007, coinciding with his retirement. Well played Australia – again not a thriller but a very fine all-round performance. The final figures:

We have played Sussex every year starting with our first-ever T20 match in 2003 at the Rose Bowl, and our overall record is Won 15; Lost 11 with one that started with No Result, and five Abandoned with no play. Among the beneficiaries post-war were Vic Cannings (cap 1950, benefit 1959), Jimmy Gray (cap 1951, benefit 1960), Roy Marshall (cap 1955, benefit 1961), Trevor Jesty (cap 1971, benefit 1982), and Malcolm Marshall (cap 1981, benefit 1987). Adam Rossington was challenged outside his off stump by John Turner to edge behind - the newly England-qualified fast bowler claiming Championship best of 3-23. Greenidge played for Berkshire Bantams and Hampshire Colts, then in August 1967 made his debut for the county’s 2nd XI. He joined the county staff and qualified by residence, making his Championship debut in early August against Sussex at Bournemouth, batting at number six, and ten days later he played in his first Sunday League match and opened with Barry Richards for the first time. In 1972 and 1975, Sussex played two John Player Sunday League matches at Arundel Castle, then from 1994-2013 they played a further 20 List A matches, including three against Hampshire in 1996, 1998 and 2009. Hampshire won the first two and Sussex the third by just four runs.

Then in the early years of this century Brian Gardner set about creating a ground of first-class standard on the island and since 2009, Newclose has hosted many interesting matches. In one of the first, a young local prospect Danny Briggs appeared in an island side that lost to Derbyshire and later that year Mike Gatting came to officially open the ground followed by a match between Brian Gardner’s XI and MCC. The most surprising statistic is that of the 44 other matches 22 were won batting first and 22 batting second. The toss did not help with only 16 toss winners going on to win the game, although the captains seemed to improve – they won just four of the first 20 matches having won the toss but won seven of the final eight. The other figures (rounded up or down): Leaving, perhaps, the best until last brings me to the Barbadian fast bowler Malcolm Marshall. During his fourteen years with Hampshire, in 1987, Marshall’s autobiography, Marshall Arts, appeared. In 2000, following Marshall’s untimely death, his collaborator in that book, Pat Symes, updated and republished the book as Maco: The Malcolm Marshall Story.

Then in late May 2019 came the new ground’s great event with Hampshire’s four-day Championship match against Nottinghamshire, moved from the Ageas Bowl to accommodate the World Cup which also deprived Hampshire of James Vince and Liam Dawson. Despite this, Hampshire gave a fine performance against Stuart Broad and his team-mates winning by 244 runs on the fourth day with time to spare. From yesterday’s Daily Telegraph: “The constant tinkering with County Championship regulations will continue next year”. They predict firstly that from two last year the number of matches played with the Kookaburra ball will be doubled to four. The committee consisted of three former players, Mike Barnard, Tim Tremlett & Will Kendall, plus scorer & statistician Vic Isaacs, plus Neil Jenkinson my predecessor and fine Hampshire historian, and me. Having compiled an initial pre-war list, we would often discover a photograph or other evidence showing another recipient but it’s likely that we now have a definitive list that is as accurate as possible. Richards long time opening partner was Gordon Greenidge. The Barbados born but Berkshire raised Greenidge played in over a hundred Tests for West Indies but gets a mention here by dint of spending the best part of two decades with Hampshire. His autobiography, The Man in the Middle, appeared in 1980. In 1962, reigning Champions Hampshire played 32 Championship matches plus first-class games at Oxford University and against the touring Pakistanis. Ten years later, there were just 20 Championship matches but three one-day competitions as Hampshire played three in the 60-over Gillette Cup, four in the brand new 55-over Benson & Hedges Cup and 16 on Sunday afternoons in the 40-over League sponsored by John Player.World Cup final on Sunday ( India v Australia, 8.30 start GMT ) is being broadcast on Channel 5 as well as on Sky. Smith has written two books that are essentially autobiographical in nature. The first, Quest For Number One, published in 1993, is not exactly an autobiography, but the more recent, The Judge, appeared in 2019 certainly is. It is a thought provoking and engrossing read on the subject of a man at whom life has certainly aimed a few short ones over the years. Long time Hampshire captain and now accomplished broadcaster Mark Nicholas published his autobiography in 2016. A Beautiful Game is one of the best of the genre. Of his charges three have been the subject of books, Robin Smith, Sean Udal and Hampshire’s second Marshall, Malcolm. Vince, enjoying these opponents, hit 68 at Merchant Taylor’s School in 2014 accompanied by the former Middlesex batsman Owais Shah (49*); then Briggs, 3-20, bowled us to victory. In 2015 on our first visit to Lord’s, Carberry 72 and Shah 64 led our first T20 victory there, but in 2016, Malan hit 93 at Uxbridge which is their highest score against us, leading to victory by 69 runs

In terms of legacy and achievement the other member of the ‘class of ’68’ is one of the very best batsman to have played the game. Barry Richards thrilled county crowds for a decade. There are two books that concern the life of the great man, The Barry Richards Story, that appeared in 1978, and a biography by Murtagh in 2015, Sundial in the Shade. He is also the subject of a recent monograph from Michael Sexton, The Summer of Barry, that looks at his record breaking season with South Australia in 1970/71.

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Robin Smith ‘Judge’ starred for Hampshire and England in first-class and limited-overs competition at the end of the 20th century. He scored 18,984 first-class runs at 42.09 for Hampshire, many with his trademark square cut, and another 12,034 at 42.97 in one-day competition. Apart from five matches with no results we have played Middlesex 34 times, winning 20 and losing 14. A list of away matches covers no fewer than six grounds, with Radlett, for the second time on Tuesday; the others were Lord's, Uxbridge, Richmond, Southgate and Merchant Taylor’s School. I'm happy just to be contributing. I kind of shouldered that responsibility and in the end we didn't have to bowl that many overs." Then in 1976 the tourists – West Indies – were the first to field Hampshire players against the home team, with Andy Roberts having a brief bowl but Gordon Greenidge top-scoring with 84.



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