Cricket Australia
chairman Earl Eddings believes it is "unlikely" and
"unrealistic" that the Men's T20 World Cup will take place in
Australia as scheduled this year. The fate of the tournament, scheduled between
October 18 and November 15, is being deliberated fiercely by the ICC Board
which last week deferred to take the final call.
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William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny
KG MVO (1826 – 1915), styled Viscount Neville and known as The Earl of Abergavenny
was a British peer.
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Royal Tunbridge Wells, previously just
Tunbridge Wells, is a town in western Kent, England, 30 miles (48 km)
south-east of central London, close to the border with East Sussex. The town came into being as a spa in the
Restoration and enjoyed its heyday as a fashionable resort in the mid-1700s;
though its popularity as a spa town waned with the advent of sea bathing, the
town remains highly popular and derives some 30 per cent of its income from the
tourist industry
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Slazenger is an English sporting goods
manufacturer which concentrates on racket sports including tennis, golf,
cricket and hockey. Founded in 1881, it is one of the oldest surviving sporting
brand names. It has the longest sporting sponsorship in world history, thanks
to its association with the Wimbledon Tennis Championship, providing balls for
the tournament since 1902.
On 11 April 1913,
the original pavilion was burnt down in an arson attack attributed to militant
suffragettes. The fire was discovered by a passing lamplighter and the fire
brigade extinguished it within an hour, but too late to save the pavilion. It is
generally believed that the fire was caused by militant suffragettes as part of
a country-wide campaign of arson and other violent opposition to the withdrawal
of the 1912 Franchise Bill co-ordinated by the Women's Social and Political
Union.
There was an angry
reaction to the attack locally and nationally. The National League for Opposing
Woman Suffrage held a meeting in the town with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was
a member of Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club, attending, where he called the
suffragettes "female hooligans" and compared the attack to "blowing up a
blind man and his dog". A new
pavilion was built using the original designs after a series of fund raising
concerts at the Opera House.
The Nevill Ground
is a cricket ground at Royal Tunbridge Wells in the English county of Kent. It
is owned by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and is used by Tunbridge Wells
Cricket Club in the summer months and by Tunbridge Wells Hockey Club in the
winter. The cricket ground was leased from William Nevil. It was opened in 1898
and was first used by Kent County Cricket Club in 1901. The county has held the
Tunbridge Wells Cricket Week on the ground annually, despite a suffragette
arson attack which destroyed the pavilion in 1913. The ground is known for
being one of the more picturesque county grounds in England.
Fall of
wickets: 1-0 (Sunil Gavaskar), 2-6 (Kris Srikkanth), 3-6 (Mohinder Amarnath), 4-9
(Sandeep Patil), 5-17 (Yashpal Sharma), 6-77
(Roger Binny), 7-78 (Ravi Shastri), 8-140 (Madan Lal) ~ every die hard Indian fans knows this story of 17/5 to 266 for 8 and the epic knock by
Captain Kapil Dev 175* - incidentally the first century made by an Indian in an
ODI. On 18th Jun 1983,
at Turnbridge Wells, with India reeling at 17/5, in walked Kapil Dev – scored
the first century for India in ODI, an epic 175* .. .. we had to wait for more than an year, as Ravi
Shastri made the 2nd ton playing against
Australia at Indore in Oct 1984, Dilip Vengsarkar made 105 against England at
Pune in Dec 1984; Shastri made another at Cuttack and then Krish Srikkanth made
a flamboyant 102 off 104 balls against
Australia at Jaipur in Sept 1986; a month later Raman Lamba made one at
Rajkot. Now –
39 Indian Cricketers have hit century in an ODI and the centuries total is 294
!
The scorecard
of that famed match read : India 266 for 8 (Kapil Dev 175*; Rawson 3-47, Curran
3-65) beat Zimbabwe235 (Curran 73; Madan Lal 3-42) by 31 runs
Statistics would
perhaps never describe properly that great ODI match nor the greatness of that
epic knock by Kapil Dev taking the team from nadir to a victory. Tunbridge Wells is described tobe a small ground, but that day was packed with a large
crowd, squeezing in between the marquees and hospitality tents that surrounded
much of the boundary.
After India had
decided to bat, Zimbabwe losing the toss for the fifth consecutive time, Peter
Rawson and Kevin Curran bowled so well getting lot of assistance from the
ground. Openers Sunil Gavaskar and Krish Srikkanth both failed to score, and the
five top batsmen were all gone for a mere 17 runs, with Dave Houghton taking
three catches behind the stumps. Srikkanth,
tried to pull Curran and got a top edge,
the ball looping into the air to be well caught by Iain Butchart running about
thirty metres backwards from mid-on and taking it over his shoulder. Mohinder
Amarnath, Sandeep Patil and Yashpal Sharma all departed sooner giving worries
that the match would be over before the lunch time. Some started talking about another Zimbabwe
win, yes they had earlier beater a strong Australian side.
There was a good
recovery as Roger Binny stayed and took the score to 77, but Ravi Shastri made
it 78/7 – Madan lal partnered till 140 then Syed Kirmani stood by and watched
Kapil Dev playing an incredible innings hitting bowlers all over the park and
some outside too. The partnership added 126 and is still an official one-day
international record for the ninth wicket. Kapil ended up 175* - 181 minutes, 6 sixes, 16 fours, and century
off 72 balls. Kapil
played with a Slazenger V12 bat !
Zimbabwe began the chase well with an opening partnership of 44, but were set back by two run-outs. They slumped
to 113 for six, ended up only 32 runs short of a victory they had
looked like winning easily a few hours earlier. There
was no official television footage of the match as BBC cameramen were on strike
on the day of the match, the Nevill Ground
being ruled as too small and India and Zimbabwe being deemed too
"irrelevant" for a camera crew to be sent to the match.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
16.6.2020.
PS : 1. It is 37 years since that epic day – 18th
June 1983 – am posting this today itself to ensure that I am ahead of others in
Covid times
2. Kapil photo : www.scoopwhoop.com~ may not be of that match - but shows Kapil with Slazenger V 12!
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