Tag: Lancashire

Lancashire sign New Zealand bowler Neil Wagner

15 January 2016 0 comments

NEW Zealand seamer Neil Wagner will be Lancashire’s overseas player for the 2016 season. The 29-year-old has played 18 Tests […]

Where are they now? Essex – NatWest Trophy finalists 1996

29 December 2015 1 comment

By Neil Fissler Paul Grayson admits that Essex thought that they had one hand on the NatWest trophy after restricting […]

Yorkshire groundsman picks up top award

1 December 2015 0 comments

YORKSHIRE have picked up another County Championship accolade as groundsman Andy Fogarty was awarded the main prize at the Groundsman […]

Where are they now? Lancashire – NatWest Trophy and Benson & Hedges Cup winners 1990

1 December 2015 0 comments

By Neil Fissler Mike Watkinson admits this was a Lancashire side who, once they got into the winning habit in […]

Final Over – Ben Cotton

24 November 2015 0 comments

ON THE SPOT Date of Birth: 13/9/1993 Marital Status: Single Former Clubs: Porthill Park, Staffordshire THE LAST Bat you bought/used? […]

Club Spotlight – Accrington CC

24 November 2015 0 comments

By Paul Eddison Shane Warne’s first ball in Test cricket on English soil has gone down as the most famous in […]

T20 Blast fixtures

4 November 2015 0 comments

North Group Friday May 20 Leicestershire v Northamptonshire, Grace Road, Leicester Nottinghamshire v Warwickshire, Trent Bridge, Nottingham Worcestershire v Durham, […]

County Championship Division One fixtures

4 November 2015 0 comments

Sunday April 10 – April 13 Durham v Somerset, Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street Hampshire v Warwickshire, The Rose Bowl, Southampton Nottinghamshire […]

Club Spotlight – Bramhall CC

27 October 2015 0 comments

By Frank Smith WHEN the ECB asked their Twitter followers to name their club’s cricketing heroes, Derek Randall, Harvinder Singh […]

Where are they now? Northants – Runners-up, NatWest Trophy & B&H Cup 1987

27 October 2015 0 comments

By Neil Fissler Geoff Cook admits that he still cannot believe that Northants failed to win a trophy in 1987 […]

County cricket – The gulf between haves and have-nots is widening

13 October 2015 0 comments

Tim Wigmore says the competitive balance between the counties is eroding… It did not take long for Gloucestershire’s warm afterglow […]

Looking back – England v Pakistan series 1992

12 October 2015 0 comments

On paper, it’s a nothing contest: a dead rubber with England already in an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match limited-overs series… but the script of the summer is not allowing events to be played out in a placid manner.

County Championship Division Two – Team of the Year

6 October 2015 0 comments

The Cricket Paper’s experts offer their team of the season from Division Two

Where are they now? Yorkshire – Gillette Cup winners 1969

7 July 2015 0 comments

By Neil Fissler John Hampshire admits that he did not know it at the time but Yorkshire’s second Gillette Cup […]

Inside this week’s TCP – Ashes special

3 July 2015 0 comments

We’re at the centre-point of a captivating schedule for England in 2015; flanked either side by the Kiwis and South Africans, […]

LV= Breakthrough Player Award shortlist announced

30 June 2015 0 comments

Six of the county game’s brightest young talents have been shortlisted for this year’s LV= Breakthrough Player Award. Alex Davies […]

Where Are They Now? Derbyshire – NatWest Trophy finalists 1998

24 June 2015 0 comments

By Neil Fissler Matt Cassar recalls that Derbyshire were put at a major disadvantage after being asked to bat first […]

Where are they now? Lancashire – Benson and Hedges Cup winners 1995

16 June 2015 0 comments

By Neil Fissler WARREN HEGG believes that it will remain one of cricket’s great mysteries why Lancashire weren’t crowned County […]

Luke at what’s happening at Lancas-hair

3 June 2015 0 comments

LANCASHIRE are running away at the top of Division Two but Luke Procter is making sure some things are still a close shave in the Old Trafford dressing room.