Watch Out for Broken Glass at Lord's

After 233 years the MCC names first female president.

Press Association.

Thursday, 25 June 2020.

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Clare Connor, a former England women captain, has been named as the next president of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and will become the first female president in the MCC’s 233-year history.  The decision was confirmed at an annual general meeting on Wednesday - held via an online platform - and the 43-year-old former all-rounder will take up the post on 1 October next year. Kumar Sangakkara, the current president, has been invited to remain in the role for a second 12-month tenure due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on cricket.

Connor, the England and Wales Cricket Board’s managing director of women’s cricket, said: “I am deeply honoured to be named the next president of MCC. Cricket has enriched my life so deeply already, and now it hands me this wonderful privilege.  We often need to look back to see how far we’ve come. I made my first visit to Lord’s as a starry-eyed, cricket-obsessed nine-year-old girl at a time when women were not welcome in the Long Room. Times have changed. Now I find myself entrusted with this remarkable opportunity, the opportunity to play a part in helping MCC to thrive and grow in an even more modern and inclusive future".

Should Sangakkara’s two-year term be approved, Connor’s tenure will start on 1 October 2021 and conclude on 30 September 2022.  Connor made her England debut at the age of 19 in 1995 and went on to become captain of her country in 2000 before retiring six years later.

Information on scoring available via ‘YouTube’ channel.

PTG Editor.

Saturday, 20 June 2020.

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A range of information on scoring matters is available on a ‘YouTube' channel with the title ‘RunsWktsOvers’.  The service, which is the brainchild of current Worcestershire County Cricket Club First XI scorer Sue Drinkwater, who is also the Scorer Education Manager for the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (EWCB) Association of Cricket Officials (ACO), is designed to "help cricket scorers learn new skills and practice their craft" in what is in most places around the world at the moment is "the closed season”. 

Currently the channel has a range of files that provide demonstrations with the titles: 'Play Cricket Scorer Professional - Configuration and Tools'; 'Penalty Runs and Player Suspensions'; 'Recording Wickets in Play Cricket Scorer Pro'; and 'Duckworth-Lewis Calculator in the Play Cricket Scorer app’.  Their run times vary from one hour and thirteen minutes to one hour and fifty minutes.

A professional IT trainer whose ACO role is a voluntary one, Drinkwater scored for Chedworth Cricket Club in the Cotswolds for 30 years, a time during which she also provided training to scorers, before taking up her role with Worcestershire County Cricket Club.  

She received a British Empire Medal for services to cricket as a volunteer in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours list, and prior to that an EWCB 'Outstanding Services to Cricket Award' (PTG 1377-6662, 19 June 2014).  In addition to her YouTube efforts, Drinkwater is also involved in a podcast titled Cricket-scorers-untallied.

George Summers 150 year Anniversary

George Summers is chiefly recalled by historians as the only Nottinghamshire cricketer to be killed whilst playing for the County. A report of the incident gives a clear account of both that tragedy and the demeanour of Summers in general: 

‘On the third day of the match at Lord’s between Nottinghamshire and M.C.C., Summers faced the first ball from Platts. It struck him on the left side of the head just above the ear and felled him to the ground, rolling like a shot rabbit, and producing concussion of the brain. It was thought that had he remained in town he would have had a better chance of recovery, but he wished to return to his parents and, leaving for Nottingham on Friday, he sank and died on Sunday morning, June 19, at his father’s house, the Summers’ Hotel, 35, Station Street, Nottingham, within two days of his twenty-sixth birthday. 

His father never recovered the death of his favourite son, and did not long survive him.

Summers was always neatly dressed in the field, and was a well-spoken, good-looking man, with a heavy moustache, and always bore himself much more like a gentleman than the half-and-half amateurs who sometimes play in big matches. He was a most hard-working field, as all who saw him in the match in which he met his death can testify, and his catching, stopping and return were alike excellent. As a bat he had a very strong defence and correct style, with plenty of wrist play.

He was a great favourite with all classes. Richard Daft and Mr G.M.Royle, the captains of the County and Nottingham Commercial Clubs respectively, were pall-bearers and other cricketers attended the funeral, on June 22, at the Nottingham Cemetery, wherein the Marylebone Club have erected a monument to his memory.’

Summers was born in Nottingham on June 21, 1844 and first played for the XXII Colts in 1864 and again in April 1867, before making his county debut v Middlesex at Islington in June 1867, when he scored 29 and 37. This immediately secured him a permanent place in the County side. In that first season he was chosen for Players v Gentlemen at Lord’s and North v South, also at Lord’s. He travelled with the Nottingham team to Paris in 1864 and scored 90 in one innings whilst there.

Other First-Class matches in England 1870
Venue	Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood on 13th, 14th, 15th June 1870 (3-day match)
Balls per over	4
Toss	Nottinghamshire won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Nottinghamshire won by 2 wickets
Umpires	J Grundy, H Royston

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Nottinghamshire first innings		Runs
JG Beevor	b Platts	3
T Bignall	b Riddell	29
G Summers	b Platts	41
*R Daft	b Dale	117
W Oscroft	lbw b Platts	0
F Wyld	c VE Walker b Cobden	0
A Shaw	run out	3
W McIntyre	b Dale	27
G Wootton	not out	23
+S Biddulph	run out	0
JC Shaw	b Hearne	6
Extras	(14 b, 4 lb)	18
Total	(all out, 146.3 overs)	267
Fall of wickets:
1-29 (Beevor), 2-39 (Bignall), 3-158 (Summers), 4-158 (Oscroft), 5-161 (Wyld), 6-164 (A Shaw), 7-227 (McIntyre), 8-238 (Daft), 9-241 (Biddulph), 10-267 (JC Shaw, 146.3 ov)

Marylebone Cricket Club bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts
Platts	48	24	73	3
Riddell	26	10	37	1
Cobden	32	14	54	1
Hearne	18.3	8	23	1
Grace	10	0	34	0
Dale	9	3	17	2
ID Walker	3	0	11	0

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Marylebone Cricket Club first innings		Runs
WG Grace	not out	117
ID Walker	b JC Shaw	48
CE Green	c Beevor b McIntyre	1
+W Yardley	b McIntyre	4
T Hearne	b JC Shaw	0
CI Thornton	b McIntyre	0
JW Dale	b JC Shaw	0
HA Richardson	b JC Shaw	4
EMH Riddell	c Oscroft b JC Shaw	0
FC Cobden	b JC Shaw	0
JTBD Platts	b McIntyre	1
Extras	(3 b, 5 lb)	8
Total	(all out, 108.2 overs)	183
Fall of wickets:
1-127 (ID Walker), 2-134 (Green), 3-138 (Yardley), 4-145 (Hearne), 5-147 (Thornton), 6-149 (Dale), 7-153 (Richardson), 8-168 (Riddell), 9-168 (Cobden), 10-183 (Platts, 108.2 ov)

Nottinghamshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts
JC Shaw	55	26	68	6
McIntyre	29.2	13	68	4
A Shaw	9	2	12	0
Wootton	15	8	27	0

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Marylebone Cricket Club second innings (following on)		Runs
WG Grace	b JC Shaw	0
JW Dale	c McIntyre b JC Shaw	90
CE Green	b A Shaw	33
ID Walker	b A Shaw	63
+W Yardley	b A Shaw	24
CI Thornton	b JC Shaw	8
HA Richardson	b A Shaw	13
T Hearne	c Biddulph b JC Shaw	1
EMH Riddell	not out	3
FC Cobden	b JC Shaw	0
JTBD Platts	b JC Shaw	0
Extras	(3 b, 2 lb)	5
Total	(all out, 128 overs)	240
Fall of wickets:
1-0 (Grace), 2-57 (Green), 3-178 (ID Walker), 4-212 (Dale), 5-218 (Yardley), 6-235 (Thornton), 7-237 (Hearne), 8-237 (Richardson), 9-240 (Cobden), 10-240 (Platts, 128 ov)

Nottinghamshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts
JC Shaw	45	22	65	6
McIntyre	17	4	48	0
A Shaw	40	17	52	4
Wootton	19	4	45	0
Daft	4	1	7	0
Wyld	3	0	18	0

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Nottinghamshire second innings		Runs
T Bignall	b Platts	10
W Oscroft	c Thornton b Cobden	12
G Summers	retired hurt	0
*R Daft	c Riddell b Cobden	53
JG Beevor	b Cobden	3
F Wyld	run out	15
W McIntyre	c Grace b Hearne	34
A Shaw	c Hearne b Platts	9
G Wootton	b Platts	0
+S Biddulph	not out	15
JC Shaw	not out	0
Extras	(4 b, 1 lb, 1 w)	6
Total	(8 wickets, 90.2 overs)	157
Fall of wickets:
1-23 (Oscroft), 2-30 (Bignall), 3-37 (Beevor), 4-96 (Wyld), 5-103 (Daft), 6-114 (A Shaw), 7-114 (Wootton), 8-155 (McIntyre)

Marylebone Cricket Club bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Platts	27.2	8	56	3	-	-
Riddell	3	2	1	0	-	-
Cobden	30	10	52	3	-	-
Hearne	16	6	24	1	-	-
Grace	6	2	9	0	-	-
Dale	8	4	9	0	-	-