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19 Nov 2021 13:09:14
Hey what's going on with the gentleman of cricket 😳 i can see them working out with baseball bats the way there going. As boycott says, wwll that's creeeket.

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19 Nov 2021 14:15:31
Reminds me of body line ,poor old Lol ,Harold Larwood ,a Nottm miner got the blame when he was doing what he was ordered to do by the so called Gentlemen.
Never played for England again despite topping the averages for the next three years.
If you ever get the chance to see him on film, what a great fast bowler .
CARLO

19 Nov 2021 15:37:52
Harold Larwood was no mug with the bat either.

19 Nov 2021 16:35:48
When I lived on Church Lane Underwood in the 1980s and 90s I was lucky enough to have as my next door neighbour an old gentleman called Ken Harris. He was a Notts cricketer ( his more famous brother was Charlie Harris Notts opening batsmen for years in the 1930s ) and he told me many wonderful stories about Harold Larwood and “Tangy” Voce his equally deadly fast bowling partner, both England players, all of them ex miners. He said Dennis Compton, one of the finest batsman of his day came into the Notts dressing having been bowled first ball by Larwood complaining he was “too bloody dangerous “ to face! Voce was taller just as quick as Harold but it more bounce whereas Larwood skidded the ball on. There was no technology to measure speed in those days but Ken thought 90mph, easily!

19 Nov 2021 16:41:51
Just digressing Ken told me that his brother Charlie was quite a character. He once walked out in overcast conditions in a full house at Trent Bridge to bat and put a candle in the middle of the pitch, lit it and took his guard, trying to get the umpires to come off for bad light! An ex miner himself he always greeted the opposing fielders on coming out to bat with the words “Good morning fellow workers and comrades “ which didn’t go down well with the posh “gentlemen “ players but got a laugh with the rest!

19 Nov 2021 17:03:01
Ken was in his eighties when I knew him but was always digging over his garden and shifting tons of earth, fit as a butchers dog. I remember him saying the best way of coaching batsmen in his day was to get them to go out dancing which was great fun, you could meet girls and it taught you to be light on your feet and balanced. Even at that age he showed me how to adjust, back foot, front foot, sway back, drop forward. It was wonderful to see!

19 Nov 2021 17:27:28
Bit embarrassing for Mr Rafiq to suddenly be reminded of his old disgusting anti Semitic tweets wasn’t it. By the way he was so badly treated at Yorkshire that he went back for a second stint there after he left. Having said that there’s no justification for racist language or behaviour in any sport in my book.

19 Nov 2021 17:28:50
Good stuff reds, love the old stories 👌.

19 Nov 2021 21:56:03
Stokey, all the best away buses left from Underwood welfare loaded with crates of it!
There is no place on earth like Underwood, Briinsley and selston - cracking folk and a great place to grow up!

20 Nov 2021 13:01:23
2 Star, fully agree. I lived for 15 years in Underwood. My Dad was from Radford, ny Mum from the Meadows and I was brought up on the Bestwood Estate and first lived in St Anne’s. Discovered Underwood whilst policing the Miners Strike and moved out of the City for the first time there. Great country pubs like the Red Lion and Dixies Arms, indulged my love of DH Lawrence on yomps round Haggs Farm, Beauvale and Moorgreen, lovely countryside, lovely people.







 

 

 
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