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A mix of rare, unusual, spectacular, personal, and historic pictures and videos from cricket's earliest days to modern times. Nothing AI generated Surrey Joined September 2017-
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Geoff Boycott, Herbert Sutcliffe and Len Hutton, the three Yorkshiremen to score a hundred hundreds, pictured at Headingley, August 13th 1977, two days after Boycott achieved the milestone in the 4th Ashes Test. Sutcliffe died a little over five months later (Ken Kelly)
The Gloucestershire side which won the unofficial County Championship in 1877. They played eight county matches, won seven and drew one.
He emigrated in 1950 and was helped by a few individuals - primarily Jack Fingleton on arrival - but not the board itself. He was not so much ostracised by Lord's as made a scapegoat by the establishment. His life after playing in England was fairly grim but happily he enjoyed life after emigrating
Jack Hobbs and Douglas Jardine head out to open for England, 5th Ashes Test, MCG, March 8th 1929. Hobbs' regular partner Herbert Sutcliffe was sidelined with a shoulder injury so Jardine stepped up. It did not work as Jardine was dismissed for 14 and 0. However, he had a good series scoring 341 runs at 42.62
The County Ground at Worcester taken by Patrick Eagar in 1968. Most pictures of the ground are taken with the cathedral as a backdrop so it's far less usual to see it from the other side (C)
Counting the gate money at Lord's in the 1940s. As everyone paid by cash in coins this was a huge exercise on major match days
Surrey's Robin Jackman just fails to hold on to a return catch from Sussex's John Barclay during the B&H Group C match at Hove on May 19th 1979. Sussex won by three wickets but failed to make the quarter-finals; Surrey finished runners-up to Essex (The Cricketer)
Groundstaff hard at work on what was the only one-day match to extend over six days. The Gillette Cup semi-final between Middlesex and Somerset was scheduled for August 17th 1977 but rain washed it and the two subsequent reserve days out. The match was rescheduled for August 24th, 25th and 26th with the County Championship match between the teams scheduled for that date postponed. More rain meant that only on the third of those dates was it possible to play a 15-over thrash. Somerset made 59 in 14.4 overs. Middlesex knocked off the runs in 11.3 overs
Clive Lloyd on his way to a match-winning 109 for Lancashire in their low-scoring Gillette Cup quarter-final against Essex at Chelmsford in June 1971. Lloyd was a key part of Lancashire's one-day dominance which saw them win the Gillette Cup in 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1975. The match was described as "the greatest in the nine-year history bof the tournament". Lancashire won by 12 runs, David Lloyd taking a boundary catch to secure the victory. Lancashire also won the John Player League in 1969 and 1970 (Patrick Eagar/The Cricketer)
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The old Tavern at Lord's pictured in 1965, two years before it was demolished
A packed Lord's for the final round of the Championship in 1920 when Middlesex beat Surrey in the decider in front of three days of full houses. The Championship, the highlight of the sporting summer, was finished by the end of August. In the modern era it too often feels little more than an inconvenient afterthought as far as the ECB are concerned
@englishsportfan The difference is cricket grounds evolved, often in town/city centres, and did not need to be stadiums
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Four great Australian captains - Ian Chappell, Bill Lawry, Bob SImpson and Richie Benaud - pose during a photoshoot for a promotional film they were making in early 1976
The county flag is hoisted at Edgbaston in August 1951 after Warwickshire secured the County Championship for the first time in 40 years when Worcestershire beat Yorkshire at Scarborough. They next won the title in 1972. The ground is unrecognisable to the one now. Back then it had few stands and banks of open terracing. Although it hosted four Tests between 1902 and 1929, it was not considered good enough to do so again until major redevelopment brought it back to the schedule in 1957
@LifeLikeSport It may take longer to make the fish pie that this match lasts if both sides carry on batting like this
First day of the final round of the 2026 County Championship and what a finale we have. Anyone seen any marketing or even a mention by the glorious ECB marketing men? Follow every match on the quite brilliant BBC local radio coverage
@Longhood70 @justchristwo It's one of the two named as they were the officials who stood in the match
Twenty-year-old Tony Greig bowling for Sussex v Gloucestershire, July 15th 1967, in his first full season with the county. He scored 1299 runs at 24.50 and took 67 wickets at 26.52 and ended the year being named Best Young Cricketer of the Year by the Cricket Writers' Club
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