I like cricket, travel and radiography. You'll mostly find me editing cricket articles.
Deletionists
Why is it that those who spend the most time nominating articles for deletion spend so little time creating articles? Anyone got any answers?
Favourite players
Stooges who destroyed English cricket
Apparently such a section isn't allowed. However, there are several 'stooges' profiting from dirty money and ego trip money making schemes , all of which neglect the fans and, perhaps most importantly, the grassroots. If only bringing cricket into all state schools, encouraging schools to bring their pupils to county games for free, and putting cricket back on free-to-air TV were at all possible *rolls eyes*.
Teams the ICC should just give up on funding
Mainly teams full of expats that make little or no effort to involve locals in the game. I understand expats are needed to spread the game in countries like Bulgaria and Turkey, but when a country has been a member of the ICC for over 20 years then it just gets stupid to keep funding them. The ICC should not waste money on the following countries.
Canada aka Asian & West Indian Rejects XI & Canasia
UAE aka Asian Rejects XI
USA aka Asian and West Indies Rejects XI
Singapore aka Sri Lankan Rejects XI
Netherlands The Netherlands resemble a South African/Australian XI. Two Dutch-born players in a World Cup, not good enough development. Or this match , where 6 for the 11 players weren't born in the Netherlands, yet at the same time the KNCB talks about the ever increasing depth of talent in the country... hence the need to import expats like a South African, who played youth level cricket for NZ, moved back to SA, wasn't good enough, so moved to the Netherlands... great development there KNCB! Fast forward to 2021 and there is no improvement, this match featured 8 players born outside the Netherlands who did not learn their cricket there .
Compounded by the ludicrous selection of Sybrand Engelbrecht in their 2023 WC squad – a 35 year old South African.
Oman aka Pakistan and Indian Rejects XI - in this recent match, not a single of the Omani players came from Oman.
Italy ... whom I shall christen the "Mostly Italian-sounding names but not Italian XI". In one of the most ludicrous poaching's of recent times, Wayne Madsen , a 39-year-old who has played field hockey for South Africa and county cricket in England, suddenly becomes Italian courtesy of his Italian grandmother. Why fund these teams who are so blatant in their disregard to actually spreading the game and developing their own players?
What is wrong with Irish cricket?
Lived/visited
Sums me up!
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Countries completed
Countries totals in italics still play notable matches, so their tallies will increase. NB: total for mens cricket only.
Argentina (67)
Bahamas (19)
Belgium (0)
Belize (0)
Bermuda (127)
Bhutan (1)
Brazil (6)
Bulgaria (0)
Canada (190)
Chile (4)
China (0)
Cook Islands (1)
Estonia (0)
Falkland Islands (1)
France (18)
Gibraltar (4)
Greece (4)
Hong Kong (84)
Iran (0)
Ireland (588)
Isle of Man (1)
Japan (1)
Kenya (116)
Malta (1)
Mali (0)
Mexico (0)
Mozambique (1)
Namibia (110)
Netherlands (127)
Papua New Guinea (46)
Portugal (4)
Russia (0)
Rwanda (3)
Samoa (9)
Saudi Arabia (1)
Scotland (558)
Serbia (0)
South Korea (0)
Spain (3)
Sweden (0)
Turks and Caicos Islands (11)
Uganda (58)
Zambia (10)
First-class/List A/T20/other teams I completed
Barnstars
The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
For all your work creating Hampshire articles, I know from experience that even tiny cricket articles aren't as easy as they look! Now.. about Somerset.. Harrias (talk ) 22:58, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
The Running Man Barnstar
For your incredible industry on the articles for individual cricket players from every corner of the UK and beyond. Johnlp (talk ) 20:27, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
A non Barnstar Barnstar. The Doctor salutes you!
A virtual warm ale and poor quality radio for TMS, for all your good work on improving cricket coverage, my dear boy. Benny Digital Speak Your Brains 14:26, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
For your many article contributions, especially to cricket related articles. CRICKET ROCKS!! Solar Police ►Talk 13:01, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
The Afghanistan Barnstar of National Merit
I hereby award you this barnstar for your outstanding work on Cricket articles of Afghanistan in Wikipedia.--Ahmadfaisalsidiqi (talk ) 11:25, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
The Modest Barnstar
In recognition of all the work you’ve done lately! 67.80.64.128 (talk ) 22:53, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
The Cricket Barnstar
For all your contributions to Cricket articles........I award you the first cricket bad ever awarded..
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For quickly reverting unexplained content removals by Ghajinidetails! Keep it up! :) TheStrike Σagle 14:22, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Where will we be in 10 years???
Test
My prediction for the Test rankings on December 31, 2029:
Next Test nations, January 1, 2030: Nepal ; Scotland
Associate
Top 5 Associates December 31, 2029:
Next first-class county???
Yes, County Cricket isn't in the best financial health, but hopefully the County Championship will admit a new county in the future... but who? My money is on either:
English domestic cricket
Forget the abomination that is The Hundred, or reducing the first-class counties, there are so many options for restructuring English cricket, heres some ideas.
First-class cricket
In 2020 the Bob Willis Trophy was played, dividing the 18 first-class counties into 3 groups: North, Central, South. This is an excellent idea (yes the ECB are occasionally capable of them), reducing the travel time between counties and reducing costs too. Matches should be played in the week, mostly at smaller county outgrounds (for example Hampshire: Portsmouth, Basingstoke, Winchester, Andover) with free tickets for schools to come along for the day and coaches on hand as part of the day. This should be continued as a restructured County Championship, with the top three from each group, plus the best runner-up qualifying for the semi-finals and a final played at Lord's.
List A cricket
Played to the 50-over format, in a round robin played on weekends. Should involve all 18 first-class counties, plus all 20 minor counties, plus the four provincial teams from Ireland. Depending on opponent, matches played at outgrounds or major venues. Final played at Lord's and at least half the matches on free-to-air TV.
Twenty20 cricket
Keeping the t20 blast format, this should be played in a block around mid-late July/early-mid August, in the evenings and weekends. Involving all 18 first-class counties, plus the finalists of the Minor Counties t20 competition, all matches free-to-air and hosted, where possible, at major venues to maximise ticket revenues. Tickets cheap, especially for kids.
The Hundred
Scrapped
Hampshire expansion project
My own little project to expand coverage on Hampshire cricketers. Below is the list of completed (nothing is ever truly completed!) expansions:
Anthony Abdy (British Army officer)
Cecil Abercrombie (WWI casualty)
James Acton
Geoffrey Adams (cricketer)
Basil Akram (living)
Cecil Allenby
Hamza Ali
Ronnie Aird
Robert Airey
Walter Andrew
Arthur Andrews (cricketer)
Clifford Andrews
Francis Arkwright (cricketer) (WWII casualty)
Edward Armitage (cricketer)
Alban Arnold (WWI casualty)
Herbert Armstrong (cricketer)
Francis Bacon (cricketer) (WWI casualty)
John Badcock (cricketer)
Jim Bailey (cricketer)
Michael Bailey (cricketer) (living)
Paul-Jan Bakker (living)
David Balcombe (living)
William Baldock (Hampshire cricketer)
Dennis Baldry (living)
Harry Baldwin (cricketer)
Mike Barnard (sportsman)
Edward Barrett (English sportsman)
Peter Barrett (cricketer) (RTI death)
Giles Baring
Edward Bartley (cricketer)
Charles Barton (cricketer)
Harold Barton (cricketer)
Victor Barton
Richard Bateman (cricketer)
Frederick Bates (cricketer)
Sydney Beadle
Henry Bedford (cricketer) - mystery man, needs a shit tonne of research to find out more about him
Gordon Belcher (WWI casualty)
Russell Bencraft
Richard Bennett (English cricketer)
Henry Bethune (cricketer)
Hugh Bignell
Guy Bignell
Percy Bird
David Blake (English cricketer)
John Blake (cricketer) (WWII casualty)
Frederick Blundell
Cecil Bodington (WWI casualty)
Bertie Bolton (Chief Constable of Northants)
Lothian Bonham-Carter
Clement Booth
James Bovill (living)
Norman Bowell (WWII casualty)
Edward Ernest Bowen
Joseph Bower
Sir Evelyn Bradford, 2nd Baronet (WWI casualty)
Ruel Brathwaite (living)
John Bridger (RTI death)
Charles Briggs (cricketer)
Bernard Brodhurst (WWI casualty)
James Bruce (English cricketer) (living)
Iain Brunnschweiler (living)
Charles Brutton
Bill Buck (cricketer) (living)
Edward Buckland
Lloyd Budd (international umpire)
Charles Budden
George Bull (cricketer)
Mervyn Burden
Tom Burrows (living)
Lindsay Bury
Richard Busk
Arthur Byng
Alexander Cadell (RTI death)
Edward Cadogan (cricketer)
Henry Calder
Jack Campbell (cricketer) (living)
Victor Cannings
Bob Caple
George Carter (Hampshire cricketer)
Donald Cartridge
Richard Carty (ideally, a little more would be nice)
George Case (cricketer)
Alan Castell (living)
Edward Causton
Aubrey Cecil
Egerton Cecil
Geoffrey Chance
Frank Charters (ideally, a little more would be nice; was not in the RAF as claimed elsewhere)
Thomas Chignell
Ian Chivers (living)
Dominic Clapp (living)
George Cole (cricketer)
Thomas Collins (cricketer, born 1895)
Richard Court (cricketer)
Alexander Cowie (WWI casualty)
Rupert Cox (living)
Cosmo Crawley
Edward Crofton (cricketer)
Edmund Crofts
John Crookes
James Crowdy (cricketer)
George Cull
Cecil Currie
Christopher Curzon (living)
James Darby
Reginald Dare
Thomas Dashwood
Henry Davies (jockey)
Gilbert Dawson
Tom Dean (Hampshire cricketer)
William Deane (cricketer)
Alec Debnam
Arthur Delmé-Radcliffe
Harold Denham
Richard Dibden (living)
William Dible
Calvin Dickinson (living)
Cecil Dixon (cricketer)
William Dodd (cricketer)
Lewis Dorey
Harry Downer
Horatio Dumbleton
Arthur Duncan (English cricketer)
Dunbar Duncan
Arthur Duthie
Henry Dutton (cricketer)
Desmond Eagar
Charles Eccles
William Eccles (cricketer)
Edward Ede (cricketer, born 1834)
Edward Ede (cricketer, born 1881)
George Ede
John Eggar
Kevin Emery (living)
Edward English
Alfred Evans (cricketer, born 1858)
Bertram Evans († Spanish flu)
Dudley Evans
James Evans (cricketer)
Ralph Evans (cricketer)
Rodney Exton
Walter Feltham
Stanley Fenley
Albert Fielder (related to the below?)
Walter Fielder (related to the above?)
Reginald Fisher (cricketer)
Darren Flint (living)
Raymond Flood (cricketer)
Harold Forster (WWI casualty)
Robert St Leger Fowler
Francis Foster (cricketer, born 1848)
Thomas Fox (dermatologist)
John Francis (English cricketer)
Sir Edward Frederick, 9th Baronet
John Frederick (English cricketer)
Frederick Freemantle
Henry Frere
Charles Fry
Stephen Fry (cricketer)
Charles Fynn
Henry Gale (cricketer)
John Galpin
Christopher Gandy (cricketer) (an unusual surname, must be more on him?)
Mark Garaway (living)
Thomas Garnier (cricketer)
Leslie Gay
Jack Gentry (English cricketer)
Herbert Gibbons
Billy Gladdon
John Godfrey (cricketer)
Chris Goldie (living)
James Gornall (RN captain)
Mark Gravett
George Greenfield (cricketer)
Hubert Greenhill
John Gregory (cricketer, born 1887) (WWI casualty)
J. G. Greig
David Griffiths (cricketer) (living)
Frederick Gross
David Guard
Charles Gunner
John Gunner (WWI casualty)
Herbert Hake
Clifford Hall (cricketer)
Ernest Hall (cricketer)
Patrick Hall (cricketer)
James Hamblin (cricketer) (living)
Thomas Hansen (cricketer) (living)
James Hargreaves (English cricketer)
Reginald Hargreaves
Frederick Harold (ideally, a little more would be nice)
George Harris (cricketer, born 1880)
Henry Harris (English cricketer)
Gerald Harrison (rear admiral, RN)
Leo Harrison
William Harrison (cricketer, born 1866)
Asher Hart (living)
Frank Harvey (cricketer)
Peter Haslop (living)
Edward Haygarth
Ernest Hayter
Montague Hayter
Edwin Hazelton
Allan Heath
George Heath (cricketer)
Malcolm Heath
Geoffrey Hebden
Coote Hedley
Robert Henley (cricketer)
Lofty Herman
Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst, 4th Baronet
Lionel Hervey-Bathurst
Christopher Heseltine
Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard (GA)
Anthony Hill (cricketer)
Michael Hill (English cricketer) (living)
Richard Hindley (living)
Basil Hitchcock
John Holder (umpire) (living)
Henry Holmes (cricketer)
Arthur Holt (sportsman)
Frank Hopkins (cricketer)
Alec Hosie
Alan Hotham (RN admiral)
William Humphrey (cricketer)
Walter Humphreys (cricketer, born 1849)
Frederick Hyland
Hector Hyslop
Lionel Isherwood
Frederick Jackman
Thomas Jameson (cricketer, born 1908)
Arthur Jaques (WWI casualty)
Martin Jean-Jacques (living)
Arthur Frederick Jeffreys
Frederick Jellicoe
William Jephson (cricketer)
Gilbert Jessop (cricketer, born 1906) (C of E)
Robert Jesson (WWI casualty)
Guy Jewell
Henry Jolliffe
George Jones (Hampshire cricketer) - gotta be more on this guy... somewhere!
Linden Joseph (living)
Arthur Judd
William Judd (English cricketer)
George Katinakis
Henry Kay
James Kaye (cricketer)
Charles Kendle
William Kendle
John Kennard (cricketer)
Arthur Kimish
Frederick Kitchener
Arthur Kneller
Charles Knott
Francis Lacey
Bruce Lamb (suicide)
Walter Lancashire
Kevin Latouf (living)
Percy Lawrie
Howard Lawson
Maurice Lawson
Charles Leat
Arthur Lee (cricketer, born 1913)
Edward Lee (cricketer)
Frederick Leveson Gower (cricketer)
Elisha Light
William Light (cricketer)
Edwin Lineham
Francis Lipscomb
William Lipscomb (cricketer)
Danny Livingstone
Lewis Vaughan Lodge (international footballer)
Okeover Longcroft
George Longman (cricketer)
John Lord (cricketer)
Raymond Love
Geoffrey Lowndes
Arthur Luard
Charles Lucas (cricketer, born 1843)
Steve Lugsden
Verner Luckin
Algernon Lushington
Joseph Lynn
George Hamilton D'Oyly Lyon
Percy MacKenzie
Alistair MacLeod (cricketer)
Steve Malone (living)
John Manners (cricketer) {{ FA-Class }}
George Mannings
Robert Manser
Sydney Maartensz
Edward Mariner
Charles Martin (English cricketer)
George Martin (Hampshire cricketer)
William Martin (English cricketer)
Henry Maturin
John May (cricketer) (needs DOD)
Edward Michell (cricketer)
Stuart Milburn (living)
Henry Misselbrook
Walter McBride
Neil McCorkell
Harold McDonell
Charlie McGibbon
Arthur McIntyre (sportsman)
Richard McIlwaine (living)
Frederick McLaren
Jono McLean (living)
Tony Middleton (cricketer) (living)
Sir Henry St John-Mildmay, 6th Baronet
John Moberly (cricketer)
William Moorcroft (cricketer) (definitely needs more; likely a Southampton man)
Dick Moore (cricketer)
Jack Moore (cricketer)
Sir Henry Mordaunt, 12th Baronet
Robert Mornement (RAdm)
Tom Mottram
Henry Murgatroyd
Andy Murtagh (living)
Edward Newton (cricketer)
Victor Norbury (Southampton F.C.)
Frank Nugent
Eric Olivier
Sidney Olivier
Hugh Orr
Thomas Page (cricketer, born 1872)
Cecil Palmer (WWI casualty)
Rodney Palmer
Frederick Parker (cricketer)
John Parker (English cricketer)
Bobby Parks (cricketer) (living)
Cecil Paris
William Paris
Tom Parsons (cricketer) (living)
Walter Parsons (ideally, a little more would be nice – why was he in the Far East?)
Alfred Parvin (might have been a jockey and/or schoolmaster)
George Passmore (cricketer)
Chetan Patel (living)
Kenneth Paver
Stanley Pearce
Walter Pearce (English cricketer)
Francis William Pember
Henry Persse (WWI casualty)
Howard Phillips (cricketer)
Dan Piachaud (living)
Albert Pillans
Alfred Pink
Raymond Pitman
Henry Plowden
Nick Pocock (living)
Robert Poore
Albert Porter (cricketer)
Sidney Pothecary
Ernest Powell
Walter Powys
Lawrence Prittipaul (living)
Bill Proud
Ralph Prouton
Francis Quinton
James Quinton (cricketer) (suicide)
George Raikes (England international footballer)
Victor Ransom
Tim Ravenscroft (living)
John Rawlence
Alan Rayment
Robert Raynbird
Walter Raynbird
Ernest Read (cricketer)
Harry Redhouse
Elvis Reifer
Ernest Remnant
Hamza Riazuddin (living)
Arthur Richards (cricketer)
Cyril Richards
Charles Ridding
Alfred Ridley
Anthony Rimell
Charles Robson (cricketer)
David Rock (cricketer) (living)
Herbert Rogers (WWI casualty)
Neville Rogers
Colin Roper (living)
Don Roper (footballer for Arsenal and Southampton)
William Russell (cricketer)
Arnold Rutherford
John Rutherford (Hampshire cricketer)
Frank Ryan (cricketer)
George Sandeman (WWI casualty)
Lee Savident (living)
James Schofield (cricketer, born 1978) (living)
William Scott (English cricketer, born 1903)
Andrew Sexton (living)
Alfred Seymour (cricketer)
Charles Seymour (cricketer)
Edgar Sheldrake
Thomas Sheppard (cricketer)
Ian Shield
William Shirley (cricketer)
Alan Shirreff
Herbert Shutt
Valentine Simpson
Hamilton Smith (cricketer)
George Smoker
Henry Smoker
Henry Soames
Oli Soames (living)
Thomas Soar
Adolphus Sparrow
Joshua Spencer-Smith
Orlando Spencer-Smith
James Spens (British Army officer)
Henry Sprinks
Edward Sprot
John Steele (cricketer, born 1905)
William Stewart (English cricketer)
Ryan Stevenson (cricketer) (living)
Jimmy Stone
Reginald Studd
James Sutcliffe (WWI casualty)
Thomas Sutherland (cricketer)
Ernest Sykes (cricketer)
Edward Tate
Frederick Tate (cricketer)
Henry Tate (cricketer)
Robert Tayler (cricketer)
Brad Taylor (living)
George Taylor (cricketer)
John Taylor (cricketer, born 1923)
Hugh Thompson (cricketer)
Mark Thorburn (living)
Robert Thorne (cricketer)
Philip Thresher
Martin Thursfield (living)
Brian Timms (living)
Edward Tolfree
Geoffrey Toynbee (WWI casualty)
Stanley Toyne
Sampson Tubb
James Tuck (cricketer)
Derek Tulk
Francis Turner (cricketer, born 1890)
Charles van der Gucht
Clifford Walker (cricketer)
Donald Walker (cricketer) (WWII casualty)
Frank Walkinshaw
Nesbit Wallace
Francis Walton
Charles Ward (cricketer, born 1875)
Herbert Ward (sportsman) (footballer for Southampton)
John Ward (Hampshire cricketer) (needs a shit tonne more research, highly at risk of deletion)
Merrik Ward
Alan Wassell (living)
Arthur Watson (cricketer, born 1866)
Ian Watson (cricketer)
Alfred Watts (cricketer) (needs a shit tonne more research, highly at risk of deletion)
Philip Weaver
Arthur Webb
Hubert Webb (neurovirologist)
Edward Whalley-Tooker
Keith Wheatley (living)
Walter Wheeler
Paul Whitaker (living)
William Whitcher
William White (British Army officer)
Tom Wild (ideally, a little more would be nice)
George Wilder (cricketer)
Edmund Willes
George Williams (cricketer)
Frederick Willoughby
Thomas Wilson (cricketer, born 1841)
Alfred Wood (cricketer)
Arthur Wood (cricketer, born 1844)
Maximillian Wood
Kenneth Woodroffe (WWI casualty)
Larry Worrell (living)
Francis Wyatt (cricketer)
Teddy Wynyard
George Ubsdell
Richard Utley
George Underdown
Charles Yaldren (WWI casualty)
Humphrey Yates
Charles Young (cricketer) (youngest Hampshire FC debutant)