England- Meet the World Cup squad

[Supreme General]

England Cricket is the national governing body of the sport of cricket in England.
Its head offices are at Lord's Cricket Ground in north-west London.

It was formed to replace the Test and County Cricket Board, the National Cricket Association and the Cricket Council.
The board oversees at all levels of cricket and notably organizes the top-tier First-Class and List A tournaments in England.

PLAYER ROSTER | INTERNATIONAL GROUNDS | DOMESTIC CRICKET | 2001 ENGLISH SEASON​

 

[Supreme General]

List of active English cricketers with Test and/or ODI caps.

PLAYER ROSTER

Jonny Johnstone (11/7/1980)
Gary St. John (12/2/1978)
Terry Davids (12/5/1969)
Peter Matherson (27/9/1979)
Fred English (7/7/1977)
Peter Mills (18/5/1976)
Mark Crowe (18/3/1975)
Harry Stock (26/8/1985)
Carl Stone (22/1/1984)

William G. Charles (25/11/1982)
Richard Head (4/11/1977)
Harold Davidson (28/9/1978)
Ronald Wellington (18/12/1977)
Trevor Singh (17/9/1975)
Paul Barnes (8/5/1978)

Eric Naismith(31/12/1977)
Carl Wright (24/3/1974)
Alex Vixen (VC) (10/6/1976)
Jim Malick (24/12/1977)
Peter Sereny (12/2/1979)

Zachary Wilson (29/10/1979)
Zaid Mohammed (5/8/1980)
Nathan O'Flanagan (27/3/1982)
Len Rafferty (5/8/1977)
Mike Hopcutt (27/12/1974)
Richard Carolyne (23/6/1977)

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[Supreme General]

List of international Test and ODI cricket grounds used by England Cricket.

GROUNDS

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LORD'S CRICKET GROUND​	OLD TRAFFORD​	THE OVAL​	Edgbaston​
St John's Wood, London​	Stretford, Greater Manchester​	Kennington, London​	Edgbaston, Birmingham​
Capacity: 30,000​	Capacity: 26,000​	Capacity: 27,500​	Capacity: 25,000​
Pitch: Normal​	Pitch: Poor​	Pitch: Excellent​	Pitch: Normal​

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Trent Bridge​	Headingley​	Rose Bowl​	Bristol County Ground​
West Bridgford, Nottingham​	Headingley, Leeds​	West End, Southampton​	Ashley Downs, Bristol​
Capacity: 17,500​	Capacity: 18,350​	Capacity: 25,000​	Capacity: 17,500​
Pitch: Excellent​	Pitch: Normal​	Pitch: Excellent​	Pitch: Poor​

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[Supreme General]

2002 ENGLISH SEASON​

TBD​

 

[A.P Haux]

@wasteyouryouth maybe you would like this

 

[Pinch hitter]

@ddrap14 instead of Italy you should take over England team...

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

@ddrap14 instead of Italy you should take over England team...

All good bub, let him manage whichever team he wishes to manage. We'll find a manager for England sooner or later.

 

[NaviN GandhI]

@Na Maloom Afraad Just Saw this. Can I take England instead of Netherlands???

I think it is already taken by @Bevab , So I will stick with Netherlands.

 

[Supreme General]

Following the success and massive growth of Cricket in England this year, The Guardian has gone ahead and started writing brief stories and synopsis about the members of the England cricketing team, starting with these 4 players who they consider the heart and most central to the team's heroics.


Richard Head

All-rounder: RHB, LMF, England captain
Born: 4/11/1977 (23yrs old) in Nottingham
Has been playing cricket since he was 5yrs old, got scouted by The ECB at youth trials when he was 11, and has been touted as the backbone and future star ever since. Got a Master's degree in Sports Psychology from UoN via a scholarship paid for by the ECB. Very mature for his age as well as having a very astute cricketing brain on his shoulders, he uses his degree to promote and lead a calming and freeing dressing room environment to get the best out of the group of lads around him. In addition to continually pushing for better pathways and grassroots coaching to get more players into the game and works closely with the ECB to try and put these things in place.
Massive Nottingham Forest fan and likes to listen to Queen and Abba or read old novels when not involved in sport.
Married at 21 and he and his wife are expecting their first child in early December.

Alex Vixen

Spin bowler: LHB, SLO, England Vice Captain
Born:10/6/1976 (25yrs old) in Gillingham
Had a rough upbringing after both his parents were laid off when the docks and Naval base closed down. Had to start picking up odd jobs here and there to help his parents and 3 younger siblings make ends meet. Was at one of these jobs in a sporting goods shop where he first learned about cricket but he didn't think too much of it at first. However, after scraping together a pass in his English and Maths GCSEs he dropped out of school. Still in financial trouble though, Alex walked past a flyer about a Cricket camp being put on in Beckenham and that there was some well-paid work to be had so he cobbled together what money he could and got a train in. While working at a stall and keeping the place tidy, he got asked to throw down a few balls which eventually turned to him bowling some impressive off breaks the coaches running the program immediately offered him a deal, and from then on it was history. Due to Alex’s grit, determination, and resourcefulness, he was appointed as England’s VC ahead of the 2001 season.
Is a big player of Golf as well as Cricket and also a devout Christian.
Alex got engaged this summer between the Morocco and Japan series

William George Charles

Middle Order Batter, RHB, Star Batter
Born:25/11/1982 (18yrs old) in Windsor
William’s sporting potential has been seen for a long time ever since his time at Lambrook preparatory school which he joined aged 3 due to his family’s generational wealth which dates back to the 1700s and his godparents are the Astor’s. After leaving Lambrook he joined Eton where he excelled at sports playing Hockey, Polo, Football, Rugby, cross-country, Golf and Cricket to a high level. At 18 he received many offers from sporting associations for scholarships to the top universities including Oxbridge. However, he was so blown away by the ECB’s proposal and potential to be the leading light in a new cricketing revolution that he decided to skip Uni and instead join the England team immediately.
William is a young slightly hot-headed maverick of a player who craves the limelight. His talent is doubtless and virtually unlimited, especially for such a young person but he is also very committed to his craft working extremely hard to make everything in his game better by using the latest in sports science.
William still keeps up with the sports he used to play recreationally and is a big Arsenal fan and goes into his family’s box at Highbury when he can.

Zachary Wilson

Born: 29/10/1979 (21yrs old) in Boston
Zachary was born to farmers around the Boston area and grew up working hard hours on his family’s farm but still had things well off and attended the local grammar school where a PE teacher first taught him cricket aged 13 and he kept on at it throughout his schooling career before moving to Manchester to attend the polytechnic and get a degree in natural sciences. His talent in cricket was kept close tabs on through his great performances at club level and his name soon started getting talked about at higher echelons of the game and eventually into the England team.
He is a rigorous trainer and is always first in and last out of the gym and the nets which has allowed him to develop a great physique and skill with a cricket ball.
Has begun to like and occasionally attend Manchester City games in his adoptive home. Is a massive music fan from various genres but Oasis is his favourite from his continued stay in Manchester.

 

[pillowprocter]

Beat ESPNcrickintel to it

 

[Supreme General]

OFFICIAL ECB STATEMENT-DOMESTIC TOURNAMENTS GIVEN THE GREEN LIGHT

Over the last few weeks, The ECB has been asking its members their thoughts on the future of English cricket and how it should proceed. We collected all of what we had received and reviewed it in the Board's Yearly Summit at Lord's along with the England team Head Coach Supreme General and captain Richard Head in attendance. From there, we settled on a plan of action in which we proceeded and contacted various stakeholders who we wish to get involved in the project ranging from local and national companies and entrepreneurs, local councils, Sport England, and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to get this off the ground.

As a result, I'm so pleased to announce that starting next season England will have it's own domestic tournaments. With 8 participating regions taking part. They are:

• The Northerners (representing: Northumberland, Durham, Tyne and Wear and Yorkshire) playing at Headingley. England stars: Zaid Mohammed, Harold Davidson
• The Red Roses (representing: Cumbria, Cheshire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Lancashire) playing at Old Trafford. England stars: Zachary Wilson, Eric Naismith
• The East Midlands (representing: Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Rutland) playing at Trent Bridge. England star: Richard Head
• The West Midlands (representing: West Midlands, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire) playing at Edgbaston. England stars: Ronald Wellington, Nathan O'Flanagan
• The Home Counties (representing: Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Suffolk and North London) playing at Lord's. England star: William George Charles, Gary St John
• The Westerlands (representing: Gloucestershire, Bristol, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall) playing at Bristol county ground. England stars: Terry Davids, Trevor Singh
• The South Coast (representing: Hampshire, Sussex, Dorset and Isle of Wight) playing at Ageas Bowl. England stars: Peter Matherson, Carl Wright
• The Suns (representing: Surrey, Kent and South London) playing at The Oval. England stars: Alex Vixen and Jonny Johnstone

The First Class tournament, The Npower Regional Championship (NRC) will run from 14th March to 7th April where it will pause for the WCC Knockout trophy and resume on 2nd May to finish its final 3 rounds of competition on May 2nd to May 19th. It will be a league format with everyone playing each other once

This isn't the only competition that will be taking place next year, however. There will also be the Friends Provident Trophy (FPT) for One Day matches which will run from 10th to the 31st August. Everyone will again play every other team once but the top 4 teams go through to a semi-final round and then a grand final at Lord's on Saturday 31st August.


To help bring this to the masses, the ECB have formed a TV rights deal with BSkyB, Channel 4 and the BBC in a deal which is worth £80 million a year between them for international and domestic coverage.

There will also be overseas players allowed to play in these new tournaments. There is a cap of 1 overseas player per tournament, a region can pick the same overseas player to play in both tournaments . Overseas players can register their interest in playing in the tournaments by contacting the ECB as well as the ECB will be reaching out to boards asking of any interest. The deadline for when players can register interest for the tournament is the 28th February for the NRC and 31st July for the FPT with overseas being selected by the regions the following day. If the overseas play is part of a winning team they will receive an upgrade point for their performances and contributions.

Also, any players who are currently out in other domestic leagues with prior agreements will be upheld even if they do clash with our own tournament

The future is looking bright for English cricket.

 

[Till Valhalla]

No 10 ball over tournament?

 

[HighFlyingDwarf]

The South Coast (representing: Hampshire, Sussex, Dorset and Isle of Wight) playing at Ageas Bowl. England stars: Peter Matherson, Carl Wright

Let's go Sussex

 

[Supreme General]

DOMESTIC SQUADS ANNOUNCED

Since discussions began to introduce a domestic structure into England, the newly created regional boards went to work scouring and scouting in every club and school in every city,town and village up and down their areas. This has resulted in 105 players being given regional contracts plus the 15 already centrally contracted players, leaving still 8 spots to be chosen for overseas which the boards along with the ECB are looking at potential candidates they wish to get in contact with. The squads are as follows

The Northerners

• Nick Stewart - (20/1/1970,Rothwell)
• Steve Gunson -(23/6/1984,Wallsend)
• Kurt Tinkler -(13/2/1985,York)
• Harold Davidson -(28/9/1978,Wakefield)
• Bill Hansen -(27/2/1977,Elland)
• Stanley Drinkell -(23/4/1977,Morpeth)
• Eric Pollard -(19/6/1975,Amble)
• Anthony Barnwell -(19/3/1979,Wombwell)
• George Welch -(26/10/1976,Hartlepool)
• William Stock -(4/12/1972,Rotherham)
• Morris Haylett -(22/3/1984,Ferryhill)
• Raymond Ramshaw - (11/5.1979,Ripon)
• Zaid Mohammad -(5/8/1980,Sunderland)
• Vic Slater -(26/10/1980,Scarborough)
• Frank Rush -(11/5/1982,Billingham)
• Dean Myerscough -(10/2/1974,Bradford)
• Phil Stewart -(19/3/1977,Ponteland)

The Red Roses

• Peter Mills -(18/5/1976,Blackpool)
• Mark Phillips -(27/2/1978,West Kirby)
• Nick Short -(21/11/1974,Newton-le-Willows)
• Ben Sutherland -(6/3/1981,Sedbergh)
• Lawrence Rowntree -(26/1/1977, Dalton in Furness)
• Julian Henman -(15/10/1981,Stretford)
• Ben Moss -(7/8/1979,Warrington)
• Eric Naismith -(31/12/1977,Colchester)
• Graham Mudie -(24/5/1976,Northwich)
• Justin Sheen -(3/6/1980,Neston)
• Andy East -(3/5/1976,Poulton-le-Fylde)
• Zachary Wilson -(20/10/1979,Boston) *Not Available due to commitments to CBI
• Peter Charnock -(10/7/1976,Kirkby)
• Henry Parris -(11/4/1984,Barrow)
• Jim Horne -(9/6/1972,Blackburn)
• Richard Carolyne -(23/6/1977,Wilmslow)
• Steve Siggins -(8/8/1968,Lancaster)

East Midlands

• Andy Snow -(18/9/1979,Hucknall)
• Graham Stanton -(24/9/1978,Louth)
• Fred English -(7/7/1977,Buxton)
• Kurt Aitkenhead - (19/5/1979, Newark on Trent)
• Brian Haylett -(27/4/1976,Leicester)
• Richard Head -(4/11/1977,Nottingham)
• Marcus Christie -(4/6/1979,Long Eaton)
• Dennis Lowe - (27/7/1980,North Walsham)
• Michael Rutter -(20/9/196,Huntingdon)
• Keith Charles -(14/2/1982,Irthlingborough)
• Omana Singha -(6/5/1975,Daventry)
• Alec Bradley -5/2/1973,Grantham)
• Bill Mutch -(23/3/1976,Norwich)
• James Freshwater -5/4/1979,Oakham)
• George London -(5/10/1982,Towcester)
• Lawrence Keegan -(7/10/1978,March)
• Raymond Paul -(26/12/1983,Gorleston)

West Midlands

• Wayne Foyle - (6/12/1979,Coventry)
• Barry Rooney -(8/12/1976,Nuneaton)
• George Cook - (15/8/1984,Hereford)
• Phillip Hucknall -18/12/1970,Bilston)
• Ronald Wellington -(18/12/1977,Telford)
• Paul Barnes -(8/5/1978,Wawrick)
• Ian Haylett -(6/2/1984,Bridgnorth)
• Harry Briers -(18/7/1985, Stratford upon Avon)
• Nicholas Winston -(19/12/1980,Kingsbury)
• Mitchell Munday -(2/5/1980,Rugeley)
• Gerald Wilkins -(16/8/1984,Ledbury)
• Geoffrey Ryder -(16/4/1974,Leominster)
• Nathan O'Flanagan -(27/3/1982,Birmingham)
• Mike Hopcutt -(27/12/1974,Bromsgrove)
• Steve Ecclestone -(13/1/1978,Wolverhampton)
• James Dial -(2/9/1978,Sedgley)
• Alec Melly -(14/7/1982,Worcester)

The Home Counties

• Gary St John -(12/2/1978,Kings Lynn)
• Greg Austerfield -(9/12/1976,Twyford)
• Carl Stone -(22/1/1984,Camden)
• William Chandler -(1/1/1974,Shefford)
• William George Charles -(25/11/1982,Windsor) *Not Available due to commitments to CBI
• Robert Howells -(14/4/1977,Welwyn Garden CIty)
• Julian Richards -(3/3/1981,Milton Keynes)
• Joseph Friend -13/8/1982,Arlesley)
• Mark Keen -(10/12/1970,High Wycombe)
• Peter Sereny -(12/2/1979,Bishop's Stortford)
• Jack Hendry -(25/5/1976,Barnet)
• Danny Charnock -(9/11/1975,Wokingham)
• Wayne Harrington -(24/2/1978, Gerrards Cross)
• Andy North -(22/2/1980,Henley-on-Thames)
• Len Graham -(5/8/1977,Abingdon-on-Thames)
• Kurt Good -(21/12/1968,Sunninghill)
• Michael Popplewell -(16/4/1973,Ipswich)

The Westerlands

• Terry Davids -(12/5/1969,Swindon)
• James Hughes -(19/12/1980,Bristol)
• Gary Barton -(24/9/1975, Penzance)
• Ben Graham -(3/8/1970,Sidmouth)
• Trevor Singh -(17/9/1975,Clifton)
• Tom O'Neill -(1/7/1985,Westbury)
• Ian Hills -(7/3/1977,Taunton)
• Raashid Jamshed -(10/10/1972,Weston-Super-Mare)
• Marcus Morley -(23/10.1972,Yeovil)
• Jim Hacker -(3/1/1982,Bideford)
• Gary Robertson -(18/11/1979,Bude)
• Larry Douglas -(19/4/1980,Gloucester)
• Charles Plummer -(14/3/1973,Warminster)
• Daniel Norris -(13/3/1983,Exmouth)
• Morris Morgan -(12/9/1973,Dawlish)
• David Rowntree -(15/8/1981,Filton)
• David Fish -(20/2/1980,Tewkesbury)

The South Coast

• Peter Matherson -(27/9/1979,Basingstoke)
• Mark Crowe -(18/3/1978,Fleet)
• Vic Bradley -(11/10/1977,Locks Heath)
• Paul Bradshaw -(9/12/1969,Rye)
• Anthony Hyams -(3/12/1979,Shoreham-by-sea)
• Jim Malick -(24/12/1977,Sandown)
• Keith Samson -(13/11/1972,Seaford)
• Ben Burley -(2/12/1968,Eastbourne)
• Carl Wright (24/3/1974,Wimborne Minster)
• Stanley Binden -(5/5/1977,Gosport)
• John Bucknall -(9/1/1979,Liphook)
• Albert Andrews -(22/1/1977,Lewes)
• Phil Oakes -(17/4/1976,Bournemouth)
• Tony Richards -(1/4/1975,Reigate)
• Stuart Hume -(4/10/1982,Ferndown)
• David Boston -(16/11/1977,Bexill-on-sea)
• Jack Tong -(22/3/1978,Chichester)

The Suns

• Jonny Johnstone -(11/7/1980,Crayford)
• Dennis Barlow -(9/5/1982,Bromley)
• Harry Stock -(26/8/1985,Bexleyheath)
• David Black -(28/8/1972,Swanscombe)
• Ian Dennis -(1/10/1981,Ashford)
• Jack Ruttles -(20/9/1981,Sevenoaks)
• Michael Pointer -(5/10/1973)
• Alex Vixen -(10/6/1976,Gillingham)
• Simon Marsden -(17/12/1978,Dover)
• Norman Howard -(11/12/1972,Greenwich)
• Jack Lynch -(25/5/1970,Tonbridge)
• Lawrence Williamson -(16/12/1974,Dorking)
• Graham Bates -(12/9/1978,Walton-on-Thames)
• Brian Adams -(20/4/1969,Brixton)
• Len Rafferty -(21/8/1973,Guildford)
• Robert Carolyne -(10/3/1979,Chatham)
• Paul Egan -(28/7/1976,Ewell)

 

[pillowprocter]

2022 already?