Averaging above 40 used to be stamp of class — is that still true?
Despite summer dominated by bowlers and ever-changing methods of judging run contributions, old-school batsmen still place inherent value in the magic number
Retirement stirs all kinds of emotions and reactions, but there was one comment from Ingram that especially caught my eye. In an interview with Cricinfo’s Matt Roller he said that there is only one cricketing photograph up in his house and it is of him celebrating a century for Glamorgan in 2024. Why that one moment, though?
“In South Africa growing up, if you didn’t average 40, you weren’t a player at all; you were trying to play cricket, but you weren’t a proper player,” he said. “It’s the day that I got my [first-class] average to 40. It took an incredible amount of work to get it there, and I look back and I feel really grateful that I did. It was something that I chased for years and years. I’m terrifically proud of that.”
Ingram played 280 first-class innings, with a high score of 257 not out
It struck a chord. To average 40 in county cricket was always the benchmark, always the aspiration. It was what the old pros always told you was the sign of a good player. My colleague Mike Atherton remembers Graham Saville, the former Essex batsman turned coach, telling him just that in his early days at Cambridge University, and Saville later repeated the same mantra to me upon arrival at Fenner’s.
Cricket has always been in thrall to the numbers, and it was one of those figures stored neatly at the back of your mind, just like the target of 1,000 runs in a season, as a reminder of the standards expected and a yardstick by which to be measured.
Then, though, I looked up the statistics of my hero, the former Glamorgan opener Alan Jones, and realised that, for all his 36,049 first-class runs and attainment of 1,000 runs in 23 consecutive seasons, his average was only 32.89. But, of course, uncovered pitches and the absence of a helmet for much of that time are very telling strands to that story.
And doubtless today’s batsmen will want the context of this season underlined, a summer where the ball darted around so much that the championship-winning county, Warwickshire, scored only five centuries and England’s finest, Joe Root, did not manage one at all for either England or Yorkshire for only the second time in his career.
Reaching 1,000 runs in a season is much harder these days because there are fewer matches, but only nine players managed it this season, compared to the highest point of 111 in 1961. In 1990, the so-called “year of the bat” when the seams on the balls were small and the pitches flat and brown, 76 batsmen did it, but since 2007 the highest number to achieve the feat has been 38 in 2016.
Different eras have always presented different conditions and challenges. When I opened the batting in the 1990s I felt the bowlers were mainly trying to do two things: hit me on the head with bouncers or swing it away from me to find the edge. Nowadays in county cricket, often neither of those tactics apply. Bouncers are rare and bowlers mostly target the stumps using wobble-seam deliveries.
And much has changed in how we view and interpret figures. Ball-tracking data, in particular, has opened up a smorgasbord of analytics that allows every ball to be assessed in the greatest detail and provides the context that so many of the traditional metrics may have lacked. In T20, one’s batting average is probably the least valuable number now.
So the days of the selectors perusing the county averages and summoning the highest-placed player not already in the side are long gone. And rightly so. Selection should be about both art and science, without ever being totally enslaved to the data. The key is how the data is interpreted and how smart the judgments and thinking then are.
In Australia, where batting has become much more difficult, they now use a player’s median percentage (their typical innings share, with half their innings being higher and half lower), but is that because so many of the batsmen’s averages are so low, with the likes of Jake Weatherald, Matt Renshaw and Sam Konstas all selected recently with averages below 40?
It brings to mind what Ricky Ponting once said about the state of Australia’s first-class batting: “If you were averaging 35 when I was playing your dad would go and buy you a basketball or a footy and tell you to play that.”
England use a “runs added” model, whereby they look at how players perform compared to what is expected. They place great store by performances against international-class opponents. There has always been a lot more rigour, even during Bazball’s more extravagant selections, than much of the public perception has garnered.
But surely over a long period of time, plain, boring averages still tell a worthwhile story? I was always of the impression that any batsman, especially an opener, who averaged over 40 in a long career was unfortunate not to play for England. During my time, players such as Peter Bowler, Alan Fordham and Andy Moles were very unfortunate not to win caps. Sam Hain, who scored two of Warwickshire’s centuries this season at a whopping 74.85, and averages 42.96 overall in first-class cricket, falls into that category now, with two ODI caps against Ireland probably scant consolation.
But how many England-qualified batsmen average more than 40 in their careers? Now there is an excellent quiz question. The answer is 16 and they are: Joe Root, Ollie Pope, Harry Brook, Ben Compton, Jordan Cox, Hain, Ben Duckett, Jonny Bairstow, Jamie Smith, Asa Tribe, Wayne Madsen, Josh Bohannon, Dom Sibley, Joe Clarke, James Rew and Colin Ackermann.
That five of them finished the Test summer in England’s top seven (and the other two, Emilio Gay and Dan Lawrence, are only a smidgen off averaging 40 at 39.33 and 39.94 respectively) suggests averages are not as old hat as some think, and that the old pros who always talked about 40 being the benchmark were not talking complete nonsense.
I am indebted to Sky Sports’ superb statistician Benedict Bermange, who took a look at my final season in 2003, when there were 20 England-qualified batsmen with career averages over 40. That is not so different from today. Three of them, Graham Thorpe, Ed Smith and Alec Stewart, were in England’s Test side for the final Test of that summer, while two others in that team, Marcus Trescothick and Mark Butcher, may not have been averaging 40 then but would finish their careers doing so.
Yes, the very best players in the world average more than 50 in Test cricket. That too has long been the golden marker there. That is why Brook (53.08), Steve Smith (56) and Root (50.45) are the three top-ranked Test batsmen. That they all average less in first-class cricket, with Brook’s 44.11 compared to 53.08 one of the highest differences between those two figures, is another story for another day.
And, yes, recently a reader did remind me of the famous quote from the economist Ronald Coase, who said: “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.” And he is right. But Ingram was right too in placing so much emphasis on averaging 40.
He averaged 41.89. He never played a Test for South Africa, instead making a name for himself in white-ball cricket but, interestingly, still maintaining that goal of 40 in red-ball cricket as a major driving force. He could be the last of a dying breed, but one hopes the tradition continues. Forty and fabulous, and all that.
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Dennis Amiss’s 1977 crash helmet — an adaption of the motorcycle version — is prominently displayed in a cabinet in Edgbaston’s Tom Dollery lounge. Faced with the fearsome proposition of fending off Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thompson, Mike Procter and a battery of West Indian quicks on hastily prepared pitches for Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket, he took it out to Australia and both he, and it, survived to tell the tale.
Amiss’s helmet — to be joined in the cabinet by the Rothesay County Championship trophy — looks an anomaly in a summer dominated by medium-pacers, led by Warwickshire’s Ethan Bamber who claims to have “never rushed anyone” and admits he might notch 80mph downhill with a gale behind him. Concentration and technique are vital to negotiate his nagging and skilful bowling, but a helmet is largely superfluous.
It is symptomatic of the championship as a whole. England’s leading wicket-taker this summer — Ollie Robinson — rarely challenges your reflexes, but his three regular partners — Jofra Archer, Josh Tongue and Gus Atkinson, augmented by Sonny Baker, all capable of 90mph — definitely do. Whereas the majority of honest county toilers hover around the national speed limit — often with the wicketkeeper stood up to the stumps.
Played on increasingly dead surfaces with counties afraid of attracting the attention of the pitch inspector, first-class cricket has been fairly unedifying this year. As Craig Overton suggested when accepting the player of the year trophy at the PCA awards, the championship has largely become a six-month slog rewarding the survival of the fittest.
The championship was always a summer of hard yakka, but it was elevated by internationals — both home grown and overseas — who would grace us with their presence and sprinkle a little stardust on our modest efforts. Interest in the championship was significant and crowds — especially in the holidays — were decent. Weston-super-Mare was a sell-out on a Tuesday in August as Somerset, replete with Viv Richards, Ian Botham and Joel Garner, prepared to decimate Middlesex. Alas they were bowled out for 57 and lost by an innings.
England central contracts, the protectiveness of other countries’ cricket bosses around their gun players and the lure of the franchise world, has stripped the counties of their stellar names — Joe Root has played four championship matches in two years, Harry Brook three and Jacob Bethell one. Kumar Sangakkara is the last top ranked international player to have a full season in the championship (Surrey, 2017) during which he averaged 106. (Marnus Labuschagne had a few shorter stints with Glamorgan more recently.)
The divergence in the standard of county and international cricket has grown ever wider. This is not to denigrate the wholehearted efforts of the dedicated county pros, but without world-class players the championship lacks gloss. With the occasional exception, a four-day game is like the sea at Folkestone, gently ebbing and flowing, punctuated by the odd drama — a diving catch at cover/a migrant boat intercepted by the coastguard.
A legion of retirees are happy with the championship backdrop and the community spirit many counties engender. But the balance sheets are suffering. Costs are rising, income is largely static. On average a county earns about £1.25m from its membership subscription. That is topped up by the ECB’s annual payment (on average £4m). But, without box office attractions, many are over-reliant on that ECB handout, which is likely to diminish over time.
According to the Leonard Curtis Cricket Finance report, collectively the 18 counties lost £12m in 2024, the highest figure for a decade. Only one county — Somerset — has made a profit every year in the past ten. “The ECB are trying to support an unsustainable model,” says David Brown, who played for Gloucestershire and Glamorgan and is one of the authors of the report.
He points to the fact that, despite the windfall from the sale of the Hundred franchises being evenly distributed amongst the counties, the divide between the Hundred hosts and non-hosts also continues to widen. The hosts have large stadiums they can exploit or repurpose. The new Radisson hotel replacing the old seating at Edgbaston will have 146 rooms and a stand in front accommodating 3,200 spectators. Many of the smaller counties do not have the space or purchasing power for such a development. “But you can’t do nothing [if you are one of the smaller counties],” Brown says. “All the data says something has to happen.”
here are really two choices. One is to “sweat your assets”. That means making fuller use of your ground with other matches or events. Ed Warner, the new chairman at Sussex, seems the enterprising type. He has suggested a regional T10 tournament between Sussex, Kent and Essex during the Hundred. “I look at this ground and think it’s a community asset,” he said. “It’s in the middle of a lovely part of Hove six minutes from the seafront. It’s embedded in the community but we don’t use it for community purposes. Apart from the T10 idea, why can’t you have diagnostic vans here where you can come and get your PSA test, or a mamogram? Why couldn’t you have a farmer’s market on here on a Saturday in the middle of winter?”
At Somerset, a remarkable success story of seven second-place finishes since 2000 and ten years of consistent profit, the CEO Jamie Cox is likeminded. “We’ve got a good product, and a real cricket-loving community, and we want to reward our people who come and watch it by having the best facilities and giving them the best experience,” he said. “But we need to find other means and mechanisms and we’re trying to build a business case and understand what other opportunities there might be.” The high point of next year is a Simply Red concert which could make the club a vital £300,000.
One of those other “opportunities” is demutualisation. As the maelstrom around Manchester City rages on, considering outside investment might frighten the horses but it is something a number of counties — including Sussex, Yorkshire and Middlesex — are seriously looking at. The nervousness of members must be weighed against the financial reality, and the evidence from, say, the Bundesliga, where external investors are encouraged but cannot own more than 49 per cent of a club. The members retain control and the league is financially healthy. For 2024-25 all 18 Bundesliga clubs had positive equity. In 2024, ten of the 18 first class counties made a loss and several others only just broke even.
Richard Gould, the ECB chief executive, recently declared that the board was determined to maintain 18 first-class counties, underlining the value of their “pathways” into the game, both for players and supporters. You can absolutely see the contribution of a club like Somerset on both those fronts. But you do question the raison d’être of a club like Derbyshire, with a membership of less than a thousand and a perennial position in the nether regions of Division Two, who haven’t produced an England player since Dominic Cork in 1995.
The Club notes the Cricket Discipline Panel’s decision, which imposes an eight-point deduction, an additional eight-point deduction suspended until the end of the 2027 season, and a financial penalty of £5,000.
Under ECB Rothesay County Championship Playing Condition 16.2.6, the 19 points earned in the match concerned will also be deducted from Leicestershire CCC’s 2026 Rothesay County Championship total. Accordingly, the Club will lose 27 points overall.
Having received the Panel’s decision, the Club is reviewing its position and considering all available options. No further statement will be issued at this time.
Cricket Discipline Panel (CDP) Sanction
The independent Cricket Discipline Panel (CDP) has upheld the Cricket Regulator’s charge against Leicestershire County Cricket Club for breaching the ECB Pitch Regulations, following the pitch at Uptonsteel Grace Road being rated as ‘poor’ during the Rothesay County Championship match against Glamorgan, between the 20th and 23rd of August.
As a result, Leicestershire County Cricket Club have been sanctioned, by the CDP, with an eight-point deduction, with a further eight points suspended until the end of the 2027 season, and issued with a £5,000 fine.
The Club has the right to appeal the decision with the CDP, within 10 working days. As the appeal window is open, no further comment will be made by the Cricket Regulator.
The full judgement is here.
Implication of the sanction on Rothesay County Championship Playing Conditions
The ECB has been informed of the CDP decision and in accordance with the ECB’s Rothesay County Championship Playing Condition 16.2.6, the points gained by Leicestershire CCC in the match in question, (19 points), shall also be deducted from its 2026 Rothesay County Championship points tally. With this deduction, and the CDP sanction, Leicestershire will lose 27 points in total.
The wording from the relevant Playing Condition is copied below.
Rothesay County Championship Playing Condition 16.2.6
In the event of a match being abandoned due to a pitch that has been rated unfit, or if the pitch is rated poor or below average and a Cricket Discipline Panel upholds a charge brought against the County, in each case in accordance with the ECB’s Pitch Regulations, the home team shall be awarded 0 points and any First Innings Points already achieved shall be rescinded. The home team shall be credited with a loss and the away team a draw for tiebreaker purposes. Note that this does not preclude the matter being referred to the Cricket Regulator. For the avoidance of doubt, over-rate penalties shall apply. Ref Playing Condition 12.4.
In the case of an unfit pitch, the visiting team shall be awarded 8 points in respect of a draw plus First Innings Points already achieved. In the case of a pitch rated poor or below average, the visiting team shall be awarded the points it gained in the match, regardless of the result of the match. Over-rate penalties shall apply. Ref Playing Condition 12.4.
Marcus Trescothick should leave England set-up for good of his career
Batting guru has designs on head coach role but would be better served leading county side to truly prove credentials
Marcus Trescothick boarded the team bus on Sunday morning from Birmingham to Southampton, where the summer circus resumes on Tuesday, able to reflect on a job well done as England’s interim Test coach.
Trescothick stepped in to lead England against Pakistan after Brendon McCullum was sacked and his replacement, Stephen Fleming, indicated he was not available to start immediately. The reviews of Trescothick’s leadership from players and staff have been positive, with his calmness in what his captain Joe Root called a “summer of chaos” shining through. “Outstanding,” was Root’s verdict on the coach’s influence.
It is bizarre, then, that Trescothick’s stock as a coach is as high as it has been at any point over the last year, at the same moment as his position in the set-up is at its most uncertain.
In the short term, his task is coaching England’s batsmen for three T20s and three one-day internationals against Sri Lanka. Longer term, the picture is less clear.
McCullum has recruited Kevin Pietersen as a “specialist mentor” for the white-ball team, through to the World Cup in South Africa next year. Pietersen is a 2005 Ashes team-mate of Trescothick and they have already spoken about working together. There is a world in which the pair can work together, but while Pietersen’s job title may not be batting coach, he has not been brought in to work on Jofra Archer’s slower balls. Pietersen is a voracious trainer and serious technician, who will want to get stuck in with Harry Brook and co on both mindset and method. Trescothick said Pietersen would add “spark and variety”, but where it leaves him is unclear.
On the Test side, Fleming arrives in the country on Monday for a fact-finding mission during which he will spend time with Root and Rob Key, as well as key county figures, and scope out his backroom staff. Fleming has already tried – and it seems failed – to recruit his former Chennai Super Kings assistant Mike Hussey to work with England’s Test batsmen, and it is expected that he will build his own team.
“No, not really,” Trescothick said when asked if he knew what his future looked like beyond the Sri Lanka series. “I’ve spoken with Rob Key a little bit over the last couple of weeks and had bits of discussions on what might happen.
“I think when Stephen’s over and then they – Rob and Stephen and Brendon – can get together and really sort of thrash out exactly how it’s going to look, then we’ll probably be involved in those sort of conversations afterwards.
“Our immediate plan is obviously then looking at the Sri Lanka series we’re now straight into, with the possibility of going maybe into Pakistan. But I think within the next couple of weeks we’ll know a bit more.
“I probably do [have a preference], but it’s probably best I don’t mention it, because that may not be what happens. But I love doing both formats, and it’s been a privilege to be an assistant coach. There’s nothing better than working with your own national country.”
Trescothick’s stated aim is to become a head coach, ideally of England. But when the job came up this summer, he was not considered a candidate to do it permanently, even if he was the safest pair of hands in the room to step in as interim. One of the key talking points around Fleming’s appointment was the lack of realistic English candidates; Trescothick doing a good job in that role has underlined his potential as a head coach when it comes up again.
Fleming has signed a four-year deal and, if Trescothick is to be a candidate next time, it is time for him to leave the England set-up. At 50, as a well-regarded figure in the game, he seems perfectly placed for a head coach role at a big county – and given where some of them sit in the championship table, change is clearly possible. That would broaden his horizons and give him greater responsibility.
Since stepping up in 2022, Trescothick’s record as Test batting coach is mixed. He was always the sensible, decent head in the changing room, and clearly knows batting inside out, having thrived for so long across formats and scored 66 first-class hundreds. But the likes of Zak Crawley and Ollie Pope did not improve enough in 64 Tests of investment. Revealing that he and the batsmen had not even discussed the dangers of driving on the up on bouncy Perth and Brisbane pitches last year was a blot, one element of a torrid Ashes tour.
As a player, Trescothick was the perfect vice-captain to Michael Vaughan in 2005. Head coach, in many ways, is a similar role, there to support the overall boss, the captain. It is time for Trescothick to step out of the set-up, in the hope of stepping up in the future.
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Derbyshire have appointed County Championship winner, Chris Wright, as Men’s Assistant Coach – Bowling Lead.
Wright, 40, amassed more than 800 wickets in a playing career which saw him lift the County Championship with Warwickshire, as well as multiple white ball honours with the Bears, Essex and Leicestershire, with whom he also won promotion to Division One last season.
Having retired from playing at the end of the 2025 campaign, Wright moves into his first full-time coaching role, and will work with a bowling attack containing Division Two’s leading wicket-taker in 2025, Luis Reece, overseas seamer Mohammad Abbas, as well as a number of players entering their prime years.
Head of Cricket, Mickey Arthur, said: “We had an unbelievable amount of talent apply for this role, but it was Chris’ energy, enthusiasm and his ideas for how he can drive our project forward which impressed me most.
“He’s a very promising coach and, as someone who was playing the game at a high level as recently as last season, he will be able to form a great understanding with our squad and continue the development of our bowling attack.
“Our pieces are coming together for nicely for the new season, our red ball squad has been finalised and now our coaching structure is ready to hit the ground running in the new year. I’m very excited for next season and I know our supporters share that optimism.”
Wright added: “I’m immensely excited to be joining Derbyshire, the squad here is in a great place and I’m looking forward to working with our bowlers and helping them to develop their games further.
“I’ve played with and against a lot of players in this squad and I know all about the quality they possess, now it’s about honing our skills through the winter and going one step further for promotion next year.
Peter Moores has been appointed as the new Head Coach of Trent Rockets Men.
Moores, 62, spent the 2025 edition of The Hundred with the Rockets as an assistant coach to Andy Flower, with the side reaching the final of the tournament.
He moves up to replace the former Zimbabwe batter, who joined London Spirit last month.
“It feels like a good time to be taking over the Rockets, and I’m really excited about the opportunity to lead the team,” said Moores.
“I see this as a great opportunity to continue on from the strong and successful foundations built by Andy Flower.”
Moores is the only man to win the County Championship title with three different sides, completing his trio this year with Nottinghamshire, where he has been in charge since September 2016.
In his first season with the Outlaws, he lifted both the One Day Cup and the T20 Blast trophies, and, including this year’s success, has since won a further three pieces of silverware.
His extensive CV also includes time spent as head coach of Melbourne Stars in Australia’s BBL and the PSL’s Karachi Kings, as well as two separate stints as England Head Coach.
“The investment and energy that’s coming into The Hundred, and the change of ownership at the Rockets in particular, make it a really exciting time," continued Moores.
“I’m especially looking forward to the auction, where we’ll be looking to ensure the squad is as strong as it can be as we continue to strive for success!”
Trent Rockets Director of Cricket Mick Newell added: “We’re really pleased to promote Peter to the role of Men’s Head Coach.
“It’s no exaggeration to say he’s one of the finest English head coaches of his generation, and his strong existing knowledge of Trent Bridge will be of great benefit in his new role.
“His winning mentality, his strong record of improving players, and the experience he gained last year, all make him a superb fit to take over the role from Andy Flower.”
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Craig White leaves Lancashire
Lancashire Cricket can confirm that Craig White has left his role as men’s Lead Bowling Coach by mutual consent.
White has been at Emirates Old Trafford since 2021, working as an Assistant Coach for Lancashire Women before joining the men’s set-up as Lead Bowling Coach ahead of the 2024 season.
Everyone at the Club would like to thank Craig for his hard work and commitment while at Lancashire. We wish him all the very best for the future.
Yorkshire appoint CEO permanently after over a year as interim
Sanjay Patel took on the role in September 2024 amid a tumultuous period for the club and oversaw the sale of Northern Superchargers to The Sun Group
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Sanjay Patel has been named Yorkshire's permanent group chief executive after over a year in the role on an interim basis.
He joined the club's board in February 2024 before stepping into the CEO role.
Patel steered the club through a tumultuous financial position in the wake of the racism scandal, in which the club were labelled institutionally racist, handed fines and deducted points by the ECB.
More recently, he oversaw the sale of Northern Superchargers to The Sun Group, owners of IPL Franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad, for £100.5 million.
"When I first came to Yorkshire, it was only supposed to be for a short time, but after a turbulent year, the club is in a great place, and I am excited about the potential," he said. "The passion for the game, the people and the opportunities have made this a challenge I couldn't turn down, and I'm genuinely excited to play my part in writing the next chapter for cricket in this county.
"I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the board, our staff and players, members and supporters and everyone else who has made the last year at the club so enjoyable. There is some brilliant work taking place that makes Yorkshire what it is, and gives me a lot of optimism for the future."
On the field, Yorkshire Men were promoted to Division One of the County Championship in 2024 before retaining their status this season. And the women's team will move up to tier one next season after winning League Two of the One Day Cup.
Colin Graves, the club's chair, added: "We are delighted that Sanjay has agreed to take on the role of CEO at the club and have no doubt that his impact will be game-changing.
"Having worked closely with him during my tenure as chair at ECB and over the last year, I've seen first-hand the way that he operates, and I believe he is one of the best leaders in sport."
Patel joined the White Rose after nine years at the ECB, having been chief sales and marketing officer, chief commercial officer and managing director of The Hundred.
It was his last role at the governing body that made him well placed to handle the recent sale of Superchargers.
"The recent sale of Northern Superchargers has given the club a great opportunity, but it is now imperative that we set the business up to be financially sustainable," Patel added. "We've got a challenging couple of years coming up with no men's Test cricket at Headingley in 2027 and 2028, which presents a significant financial challenge and is another reason for us to re-develop our business plan to ensure long-term and sustained success is achievable.
"I am determined to ensure our pathway for boys and girls remains strong and our Yorkshire men and women's teams are regularly competing for silverware on the pitch."
Graves added: "The club has been given a lifeline with the influx of capital from The Hundred sale, but we must now set ourselves up for long-term and sustained success, both on and off on the field.
"In Sanjay, we have the best possible person to drive us forward and I, alongside the rest of the board, am looking forward to working with him in the coming years."
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No surprise PM gets the windfall Rockets job appointed by his bestie but still its dispicable all the same. They're like the Freemasons
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I’m pleased 😀 The General will(presumably) get the chance in the Metro Bank comp again and as you righty say HBD, hopefully he won’t be stitched up 🆙 quite as badly as he was right on the eve of the 50 over stuff starting. We were never 👎 going to qualify but some good things still came out, we showed some real fight and tenacity and Joe Pocklington had an unexpected chance to show what he can do for us
DeleteDelighted to see “Stewie” resume his role as director of Cricket at Surrey especially after what he’s been through this last year. Absolute top bloke in every way. Legend
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