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Re: Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread
« Reply #2850 on: December 31, 2025, 10:03:56 AM »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cn989wr0gvzo

A moving interview with Josh Baker’s parents.

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Re: Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread
« Reply #2851 on: January 20, 2026, 09:17:53 PM »
Sad news for both counties - RIP Norman Gifford

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Re: Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread
« Reply #2852 on: January 20, 2026, 09:41:57 PM »
Sad news for both counties - RIP Norman Gifford

Indeed. Another part of my youth gone.

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Re: Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread
« Reply #2853 on: January 20, 2026, 09:52:59 PM »
Sad news for both counties - RIP Norman Gifford

Oh no! Sad news indeed.

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Re: Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread
« Reply #2854 on: January 20, 2026, 10:37:48 PM »
RIP

He joined Warwickshire when we were a very poor Championship side, often finishing bottom in the days of one division cricket. He seemed to instil a standard of cricket that improved the side on many levels. We were still hopeless but we were better and that was down to Norman Gifford.

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Re: Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread
« Reply #2855 on: January 20, 2026, 10:38:27 PM »
RIP Giff, an important part of the Worcs teams I enjoyed watching ,mainly through the 1970s

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Re: Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread
« Reply #2856 on: January 21, 2026, 09:35:15 AM »
Was part of a terrible team for Warwickshire and a horrible era full of old players. Was a bit rude with the kids and autograph hunters. Should never have been signed really but the Club was very badly run at the time!

But certainly a very good cricketer to Worcestershire!

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Re: Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread
« Reply #2857 on: January 28, 2026, 08:05:11 AM »
Moeen has come out of ‘retirement’ to sign for Yorkshire for t20

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Re: Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread
« Reply #2858 on: January 28, 2026, 09:34:20 AM »
I hope he wins just as many knockout games for them as he did for us.

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Re: Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread
« Reply #2859 on: January 28, 2026, 09:55:29 AM »
I hope he wins just as many knockout games for them as he did for us.
I didnt even realise he'd left us....shows how insignificent he had become with us.

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Re: Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread
« Reply #2860 on: January 28, 2026, 10:28:03 AM »
Saw this image on social media, the gap where the hotel and new stand is going looks very small!


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Re: Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread
« Reply #2861 on: January 28, 2026, 10:46:07 AM »
I hope he wins just as many knockout games for them as he did for us.

And I hope he doesn’t win as many knockout games for them as he did for us

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Re: Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread
« Reply #2862 on: January 28, 2026, 03:49:11 PM »
Saw this image on social media, the gap where the hotel and new stand is going looks very small!



No quite big (from Deep point to deep extra cover). There were two different stands there before.

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Re: Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread
« Reply #2863 on: Today at 02:10:15 AM »
Was watching the latest episode of Stick to Cricket earlier and despite the best efforts of Phil Tufnell to derail it, there was actually a quite interesting discussion on how to structure English domestic cricket.

 - General agreement that the season should start in April with a 50 over tournament lasting to mid May.  David Lloyd suggested a knockout tournament with Minor Counties involved, but I would go with 20 teams (invite Scotland and Ireland) in a 4 groups of 5 format with semi-finals and final.

 - Further agreement that mid May to mid August should be the County Chsmpionship bloc.  David Lloyd suggested 3 divisions of 6 with promotion and relegation.  Michael Vaughan and Mark Butcher suggested it should be 12 teams, but then backed down pretty sharpish when David Lloyd asked them to name which 6 they would cut.  They suggested that the Blast also run in this bloc and Michael Vaughan suggested making Friday nights Blast night, with the County Championship games being played Sunday - Wednesday.

-  General agreement that whatever the thoughts are on The Hundred, it's not going anywhere and should be played in one bloc from mid August to September and the final of it should mark the end of the season.  Mark Butcher made an interesting point.when he said that the Blast and The Hundred should become aligned and the former should lead into the latter.  This is the window where I'd like to see the 50 over knockout with the minor counties as well.

I thought there were some pretty good points made and despite Tufnell clowning around, they came up with a structure that could work and would certainly be better than the current mess.

 


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