English domestic season, 2005

   I thought it might be helpful to have a thread on which to post comments about county matches taking place during the season. I realise that county cricket won't be of interest to everyone, but now and again there will be noteworthy performances we can comment on.
A couple of things come to mind straight away:

Phil DeFreitas and Matthew Maynard have already announced that they will retire at the end of the season. One is 39 and the other 38 so I think they have made the right decision. Both were under-achievers in terms of international cricket (although DeFreitas was in and out of the side for ten years) but fine players at county level.
Nick Knight has just completed the first first-class hundred of the season, for Warwickshire against MCC. A very good one-day batsman unlucky not to play Test cricket since 2001 in view of his form in the Championship.

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Tailender Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List 12th Man Joined: 13 February 2005 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 38	Topic: English domestic season, 2005 Posted: 09 April 2005 at 3:48pm
	I thought it might be helpful to have a thread on which to post comments about county matches taking place during the season. I realise that county cricket won't be of interest to everyone, but now and again there will be noteworthy performances we can comment on. A couple of things come to mind straight away: Phil DeFreitas and Matthew Maynard have already announced that they will retire at the end of the season. One is 39 and the other 38 so I think they have made the right decision. Both were under-achievers in terms of international cricket (although DeFreitas was in and out of the side for ten years) but fine players at county level. Nick Knight has just completed the first first-class hundred of the season, for Warwickshire against MCC. A very good one-day batsman unlucky not to play Test cricket since 2001 in view of his form in the Championship. Edited by Tailender

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Starter	Posted: 09 April 2005 at 3:55pm
	This may well be suited in the County News Thread. Phil did announce that he will retire by the end of the season so that now means there will be no active player around from the last England side ever to win an Ashes series. The match between the MCC and Warwickshire was a bit of an anti-climax due to the bad weather but nevermind its common practice for cricket to be washed out in Britain. Edited by JALRC

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Starter	Posted: 09 April 2005 at 6:48pm
	Okay i've moved it to the County News forum as its more general talk of the county season at the moment. Edited by JALRC

Tailender Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List 12th Man Joined: 13 February 2005 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 38	Posted: 11 April 2005 at 2:49pm
	University player hits double-hundred Durham UCCE batsman Alastair Maiden (good cricket name, that) has made a double century against Somerset. Against an attack including three Test bowlers (Caddick, Johnson and McLean) Maiden, no relation of the Scotland player Gregor, reached his 200 off 407 balls. Before this season he had made 177 runs in 9 first-class innings. I don't know who was the last University player to make 200 against a county side. Atherton and Crawley,probably the two best University batsmen of the last 30 years, never managed it. We would probably have to go back to the time of Peter May, when Oxford and Cambridge were far stronger than nowadays. Edited by Tailender

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Starter	Posted: 11 April 2005 at 3:06pm
	Sorry Tailender but i just done have the energy to check right now. I'll have a look when i get a bit more time and get back to you on that.

Tailender Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List 12th Man Joined: 13 February 2005 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 38	Posted: 12 April 2005 at 2:26am
	No rush mate. It's the sort of thing I quite enjoy looking into myself. But before I do I'll check the reports in the papers to see if anyone's already answered the question. My gut feeling when I saw Maiden closing on his 200 was that it must be extremely rare. I see he's on Worcestershire's books, on this form he'll be playing for the county before long.