benjamin1945 16,157 Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 Love this picture too.......wonder if bad light stopped play? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,157 Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 Cricket will live forever in Kirkby in ashfield...........i pass these statues everyday........the two Englishmen Bill Voce and Harold Larwood both from Nuncargate Kirkby in Ashfield were the main Bowlers in the infamous Body-line series of 1932-33 played in Australia.......it actually caused diplomatic tension between our two great cricketing countries.........The Batsman is the great Aussie opener Don Bradman'' Edit........Voce was actually born in Annesley.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alpha 176 Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 Ben, I'm slightly off piste with the cricket; but can you recall my maternal family name of Alcock who's origins were in kirkby and the local coal mining. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,157 Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 No Alpha sorry.............don't know many folk in Kirkby.....my origins are Bestwood and Bulwell........with a bit of Basford thrown in........ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 @Alpha my maternal family lived in Kirkby in the early 1800s. Hodgkinson and Shacklocks. Hodgkinson were local worthies, I believe, and have a street named after them. Shacklocks are still there: solicitors and plumbers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,278 Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 11 hours ago, Jill Sparrow said: Hodgkinson were local worthies, I believe, and have a street named after them. They certainly have it joins the main road through Kirkby the B6020 and at that end is called Urban Road. Hodgkinson Street near where it meets Urban Road is where the Kirkby Leisure Centre is. I worked just down Urban Road before I emigrated. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted April 9 Report Share Posted April 9 Notts got off to a spectacular start. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/68760144 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,278 Posted April 9 Report Share Posted April 9 59 minutes ago, Cliff Ton said: Notts got off to a spectacular start All out for 80 in their second innings. Essex's Cook took 6 for 14 after snaring 4 in the first innings giving him match figures of 10 for 73. Apparently, Essex may suffer a points deduction after opener Feroze Khushi's bat failed an on-field size check. Sounds more like the EPL than cricket. Meanwhile back in OZ, South Australia's long term Sheffield Shield Redbacks coach and coach of the Strikers T20 team for nine years Jason Gillespie has resigned. He has not announced why and what he is doing next. Some reckon the new Saudi league, involvement in the IPL or a lucrative international team coach, West Indies? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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