Moseley cc programme

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th 2016

FOR THE NEAL ABBERLEY MEMORIAL TROPHY

A CHARITY MATCH IN AID OF

TIM AMBROSE

BENEFIT 2016

MOSELEY CRICKET CLUB STREETSBROOK ROAD SHIRLEY BIRMINGHAM B90 3PE

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A VERY WARM WELCOME TO

MOSELEY CRICKET CLUB...

A warm welcome to Moseley Cricket Club for the staging of the annual Neil Abberley Memorial Trophy between Warwickshire County Cricket Club and Warwickshire Legends and All Stars, in support of this year’s Warwickshire beneficiary, Tim Ambrose.

We are certain that you are looking forward to and will enjoy the efforts of the many past and present England players involved today, including Ian Bell, Jonathan Trott, Chris Woakes, Ashley Giles and Gladstone Small , together with a number of other celebrities from the worlds of rugby and entertainment.

Moseley Cricket Club was formed in 1855 and is proud of it's history as a founder member, in 1888, of the Birmingham & District Cricket League, the oldest cricket league in the world. The club have been league champions on 20 occasions and in 1980 won the National Club Championship at Lords, the home of cricket.

We moved to our present ground in 1958 and own the freehold of some 12 acres of land housing 2 cricket pitches, a bowling green and extensive practice facilities.

We are a member of the Warwickshire Cricket Board and affiliated to the England & Wales Cricket Board. We run 4 Saturday sides in the Birmingham League and the Warwickshire League and have an extensive youth coaching facility playing at all age groups from 9 upwards.

Neil Abberley played for Moseley in the late ‘50s before enjoying a successful playing and coaching career at Edgbaston.

We look forward to a pleasant and successful day enjoyed by all.

Gordon Brindley PRESIDENT – MOSELEY CRICKET CLUB

PAUL BOLTON OF THE PCA ON

TIM AMBROSE...

He may have taken a circuitous route from Newcastle, New South Wales to Birmingham via Sussex but Tim Ambrose is now very much an adopted Brummie.

The 33 year-old wicketkeeper/batsman has just completed his 11th season with Warwickshire during which time he has collected winners medals in the County Championship and NatWest T20 Blast, appeared in two Lord’s finals and played in 11 Tests, five One Day Internationals and a T20 International for England.

Ambrose, whose mother is English, arrived at Edgbaston in 2006 from Sussex where he often had to play as a specialist batsman because Matt Prior was preferred to him as wicketkeeper.

Ambrose wanted to keep wicket and, injuries excepted, he has been Warwickshire’s undisputed number one for most of the time he has been at Edgbaston.

He briefly replaced Prior as England’s first choice wicketkeeper in 2008 for the tour of New Zealand and home series that followed against South Africa.

A maiden Test century in only his second Test helped to set up victory in Wellington and Ambrose passed 50 three more times in Test cricket including an unbeaten 76 against the West Indies in Barbados in February 2009.

With the help of a sports psychologist Ambrose re-discovered his love for cricket and he courageously spoke about his depression in 2012 to help the Professional Cricketers’ Association raise awareness of mental wellbeing.

He appeared in a video as part of the players’ union’s Mind Matters series along with Marcus Trescothick, Mike Yardy, Graeme Fowler and Iain O’Brien, who have also suffered with depression.

Ambrose has nominated MIND as one of the charities he will support during his benefit year, another public recognition of the support he received during those dark days.

Happily Ambrose has regained form and confidence and his contribution to Warwickshire – more than 6,500 runs and 450 dismissals in first-class cricket, more than Ambrose was not to know that Barbados would 2,000 runs and 125 dismissals in List A matches and more than 900 runs and 58 T20 mark the end of his Test career but his dismissals, richly deserves your support today. subsequent exclusion from England squads was a major contributory factor to him suffering from depression and missing much of the second half of the 2010 season.

We would like to wish Moseley CC, Warwickshire CCC and Tim Ambrose every success today.

Cheers!

PAUL BOLTON OF THE PCA ON

NEAL ABBERELEY...

Neal Abberley is proof that figures do not always paint a true picture when it comes to assessing the career of a cricketer.

The statistics of Abberley’s career were modest – 10,082 runs and three centuries in 261 first-class matches and 2,350 more, including one century, in 133 List A games – in a 15 year career in county cricket.

But bare statistics tell only part of the story.

Abberley was a team player who sacrificed personal glory for Warwickshire’s needs and whose unselfish contributions were appreciated by his team-mates.

He was part of Warwickshire’s Gillette Cup winning side of 1968 and the squad that won the County Championship in 1972 but playing was only the start of Abberley’s long career at Edgbaston.

He achieved greater, if less publicised, success when he made the smooth transition into coaching after he retired in 1979 and gave Warwickshire more than 30 years of outstanding service until his death in 2011.

Abberley served variously as Second XI captain, Second XI coach and batting consultant during which time he helped the likes of Michael Powell, Ian Bell, Jim Troughton and Ian Westwood develop from wet-behindthe-ears youngsters into seasoned county pros and Warwickshire captains.

The role of second team coach can be a thankless one and requires a range of skills from sergeant major to nursemaid to handle the demands of young triallists keen to make their way in the game and senior pros dropped for lack of form.

Abberley had a reputation for being a strict disciplinarian and had no time for those whom he thought regarded a career in professional cricket as a bit of a lark. But those who were prepared to listen and work hard to develop their skills found that there was a gentler side to Neal Abberley.

He took pride in seeing those whose talent he had first identified as youngsters progress into first-class cricket and his deep knowledge proved invaluable to helping them iron out any technical flaws they may have developed.

Most of Abberley’s most valuable work was done in the nets, away from the glare of publicity, which was how he liked things to be done.

But the turnout of former Warwickshire players across the generations for the Memorial Match that has been played in his honour for the past five years reflects the high regard he was held in by those who benefited most from his support.

Warwickshire CCC was officially founded on 8 April 1882 at a meeting in The Regent Hotel, Leamington Spa. The club developed so well that by the time of the first official County Championship in 1890 it was playing some of the top first-class counties such as Surrey and Yorkshire. Warwickshire became first-class themselves in 1894 and surprised the cricket world with wins over Surrey at The Oval and Nottinghamshire. They competed in the County Championship from 1895 but despite being strong in batting, their bowling was, until the arrival of Sam Hargreave and Frank Field in 1899, very weak.

From 1900 to 1906 they were strong enough to be in the upper-middle reaches of the E table, but the decline of their bowling from 1907 returned them to the lower reaches ICKSHIR of the table late in that decade.

WARW Frank Foster, who first played as an amateur left arm pace bowler in 1908 but improved greatly in 1910 as a result of slowing his pace to gain accuracy, still stands as Warwickshire's greatest all-rounder. In 1911 he headed both batting and bowling averages and, along with a fully fit Frank Field, enabled Warwickshire to take the Championship from the "Big Six" for the only time between 1890 and 1935. Foster and Field took between then 238 wickets, but in Wisden nobody doubted that Warwickshire's win was largely caused by an abnormally dry summer, and the following three years saw them return to mid-table although Foster in 1914 displayed all-round form equal to that of 1911.

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In 1919, with Foster having had an accident that ended his short career, Warwickshire fell to last in the table. They did not improve a great deal until the 1930s when Bob Wyatt's captaincy and the bowling of Mayer, Paine and Hollies moved them to fourth in 1934, but as Paine rapidly declined, they fell away. When Wyatt left for Worcestershire after World War II, they declined even further despite Hollies' wonderful bowling in 1946 – with no support at all, he took 175 wickets for only 15 each. The acquisition of New Zealand speedster Tom Pritchard gave Hollies the necessary support and by 1948 they had one of the strongest attacks in county cricket. It was this bowling power, along with effective if not wonderful batting, that gave them the Championship in 1951. However, as with 1911, they fell off rapidly as their batting became unreliable over the rest of the decade.

After Hollies' retirement in 1957, there were some very poor seasons (though they came fourth in 1959 due to Mike Smith's superb batting) until Tom Cartwright emerged as a top-class seam bowler in 1962. The county came second in 1964, but did not establish itself at the top until the late 1960s.

In 1971 Lance Gibbs' magnificent bowling enabled them to come second, whilst brilliant batting gave them a clear Championship win in 1972.

Yet again, though, a Championship win was followed by a decline and the next twenty years saw the county almost always in the lower half of the table. In 1981 and 1982, with Bob Willis doing nothing for them whilst producing match-winning form for England, they averaged over 45 runs for each wicket they took – still a record. Only under the coaching of Bob Woolmer and captaincy of Dermot Reeve (with their allowed foreign player being one of Brian Lara, Shaun Pollock or Allan Donald) did the team become consistently successful. Although they had won the NatWest Trophy in 1989, it was their astonishing victory in the same competition in 1993, overhauling a record score posted

by Sussex in the final, which launched their most dominant period in English cricket. In 1994 they secured a historic treble, winning the County Championship, Axa Equity & Law League (now National Cricket League) and Benson & Hedges Cup. In that season Lara set the world record for a first-class cricket score of 501 whilst playing for Warwickshire against Durham County Cricket Club; the team total of 810–4 declared in that match is also a club record. In 1995 they won the County Championship again, and also won the C&G Trophy. This was to be the last trophy of Dermot Reeve's captaincy with him stepping down during the 1996 season, Bob Woolmer also having moved on to coach South Africa. 1997 saw them lifting the AXA league trophy once again, but this proved to be a false dawn. Performances for the next few years were poor, including relegation to the second division of the County Championship and National Cricket leagues.

However they have since been promoted in both competitions (though relegated again in the National Cricket League), won the Benson & Hedges Cup in 2002 and strong performances with the bat saw the county reclaim the County Championship in 2004. Warwickshire were once again promoted in the national cricket league, and played in the top division of both competitions in 2006.

Until the year 2005, the club captain was Nick Knight, the coach was John Inverarity, and the Chief Executive was Dennis Amiss, though all three stepped down at the end of the season. Heath Streak was appointed as captain for the 2006 and 2007 seasons, but resigned after one game of the 2007 season on 25 April 2007, and Darren Maddy replaced Streak as captain.

The 2007 Championship season was a big disaster for Warwickshire, who were relegated to Division Two, after not winning a single game since they topped the table in early May. They also got relegated from Pro40 league, a matter made worse when local rivals Worcestershire CCC clinched the title.

Since the end of the disastrous 2007 season Warwickshire made several changes to the team and management staff. Controversial coach Mark Greatbatch was sacked and Ashley Giles replaced him as Director of Cricket. Former Warwickshire Bear and South Africa international Allan Donald joined the Bears' coaching staff.

Fans favourite Dougie Brown also took up an Academy Coaching role. After a successful campaign in Division 2, the Bears were promoted back to the top flight after only a season's absence in September 2008.

Maddy stepped down from the captaincy in November 2008. Ian Westwood was announced as his replacement. In 2009 Indian seamer Sreesanth replaced Jeetan Patel, who was busy with national duties for New Zealand, to become the first Indian to join the club. Westwood in turn stepped down as captain at the end of the 2010 season.

Jim Troughton took over as captain shortly after, before struggling with injury during the 2014 season. Varun Chopra stood in before Troughton retired from first class cricket in 2015, promoting Chopra to permanent captain.

Early in 2015, Varun Chopra resigned the captaincy in order to focus on batting, with Ian Bell taking over as captain.

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WARWICKSHIRE CCC SQUAD CHRIS WOAKES

TIM

AMBROSE

Matches 111 Runs 4288 Wickets 372 Born March 12 1989@ Birmingham

SAM

HAIN

OLIVER KEITH

BARKER

HANNON- WILLIAM PORTERFIELD DALBY CHRIS

WOAKES IAN

ATEEQ

JOSH

VARUN

RICHARD

BOYD

RIKKI

ALEX

SUNNY

BELL

CHOPRA

CLARKE

JAVID

JONES

MELLOR

POYSDEN

RANKIN

SINGH

TIM AMBROSE

Matches 201 Runs 9254 Wickets 1 Born December 1 1982@ Newcastle, Australia

KEITH BARKER

AARON

Matches 77 Runs 2296 Wickets 249 Born October 21 1986@ Manchester

THOMASON

IAN BELL

Matches 267 Runs 18076 Wickets 47 Born April 11 1982@ Coventry

VARUN CHOPRA

Matches 156 Runs 8787 Wickets 0 Born June 21 1987@ Barking

RIKKI CLARKE

Matches 199 Runs 9176 Wickets 342 Born October 29 1981@ Essex

RECORDO GORDON

JONATHAN

CHRIS

TROTT

WOAKES

ANDY

CHRIS

Matches 6 Runs 52 Wickets 13 Born October 12 1991@ St Elizabeth, Jamaica

SAM HAIN

Matches 27 Runs 1426 Wickets 0 Born July 16 1995@ Hong Kong

OLIVER HANNON-DALBY Matches 42 Runs 209 Wickets 87 Born June 20 1989@ Halifax

UMEED

ATEEQ JAVID

WRIGHT

Matches 31 Runs 1068 Wickets 3 Born December 1 1982@ Newcastle, Australia

RICHARD JONES

Matches 50 Runs 723 Wickets 150 Born November 6 1998@ Stourbridge

JEETAN

PATEL WESTWOOD

WILLIAM PORTERFIELD

IAN

Matches 116 Runs 5612 Wickets 0 Born September 6 1984@ Londonderry

BOYD RANKIN

Matches 93 Runs 572 Wickets 308 Born July 5 1984@ Londonderry

JONATHAN TROTT

Matches 239 Runs 15878 Wickets 68 Born April 12 1981@ Capetown

IAN WESTWOOD

Matches 149 Runs 7470 Wickets 7 Born July 13 1982@ Birmingham

CHRIS WRIGHT

Matches 114 Runs 1916 Wickets 317 Born July 14 1985@ Oxford

LAURIE EVANS

Matches 51 Runs 2753 Wickets 1 Born October 12 1987@ London

IAN

BELL

JONATHAN

TROTT

see separate double page spread for middle page 16 and 17

see separate double page spread for middle page 16 and 17

WARWICKSHIRE LEGENDS & ALL-STARS DOMINIC OSTLER

ASHLEY

GILES

LOUIS

DEACON

COLIN

SALMON

GEORGE

CHUTER

Dominic Piers Ostler (born 15 July 1970) played for Warwickshire between 1990 and 2004.He also played for the England A cricket team in 1995 and 1996 in first-class and List A games.

NEIL SMITH

GLADSTONE

SMALL

Neil Michael Knight Smith (born 27 July 1967) played in 7 ODIs from 1986 to 1996. He is the son of the former England test captain, M J K Smith.

MIKE POWELL

JAMES

PHELPS

DOUGIE

BROWN

OLIVER

PHELPS

TIM

JIM

TROUGHTON

DOMINIC

SMITH

Griqualand West in South Africa in the 2001–02 season, and three matches for Otago in New Zealand in the 2005–06 season.

MUNTON OSTLER TIM MUNTON

NEIL

Michael James Powell (born 5 April 1975 ) captained Warwickshire from 2001 to 2003 He also played for

MIKE

POWELL

Timothy Alan Munton (born 30 July 1965, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire) Tim played the bulk of his career for Warwickshire, and was capped twice by England.

He was Warwickshire's player of the season three times, including in the county's treble-winning 1994 season, when he took 81 wickets.

JIM TROUGHTON

Jamie Oliver Troughton (born 2 March 1979) was mainly an attack-minded left-handed batsman but also an occasional slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He played for and captained Warwickshire and has played for the England one day international team.

DOUGIE BROWN

Douglas Robert Brown (born 29 October 1969) is a former Scottish cricketer, and coach for Warwickshire.

He is an all-rounder who has represented both England and Scotland at One Day International level.

He is a regular summariser for the BBC's cricket coverage including Test Match Special.

ASHLEY GILES

Ashley Fraser Giles MBE (born 19 March 1973) is an England Ashes winner. Giles played the entirety of his 14-year first-class career at Warwickshire.

He played 54 Test matches and 62 One Day Internationals for England before being forced to retire due to a recurring hip injury.

Now director of cricket and head coach at Lancashire.

GLADSTONE SMALL

Gladstone Cleophas Small (born 18 October 1961 in St. George, Barbados) played in seventeen Tests and fifty three ODIs for England.

Small was in England's squad for both the 1987 and 1992 Cricket World Cups.Another Ashes winner, down under in 1986-87 series. He was integral to the strong Warwickshire side of 1994. Later, he became a director of the Professional Cricketers' Association.

COLIN SALMON

Colin Salmon (born 6 December 1962) is a British actor best known for playing Charles Robinson in three James Bond films and James "One" Shade in the Resident Evil film series. More recently he has been seen by television audiences as Walter Steele on The CW series Arrow and General Coburn on 24: Live Another Day.

OLIVER & JAMES PHELPS

James Andrew Eric Phelps and Oliver Martyn John Phelps (born 25 February 1986) are identical twin British actors, best known for playing identical twins, Fred and George Weasley in the Harry Potter film series.

LOUIS DEACON

Louis Deacon (born 7 October 1980, in Leicester) is a former English professional rugby union footballer.

He played lock.He took the opportunity in 2003–04 to command a regular place during the World Cup. He made 23 appearances in all that season.

GEORGE CHUTER

George Scala Chuter (born 9 July 1976 in Greenwich, London) is an English rugby union ex player who played at Hooker for Leicester Tigers.

Sporting a full beard, he featured in the 2007 World Cup squad,battling with Mark Regan for the role of first-choice hooker. Chuter was a used replacement in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final.

Gladstone Small celebrates with Beefy and Embers.

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ASHLEY

GILES

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A VERY BRIEF HISTORY OF

MOSELEY CRICKET CLUB...

Scorer’s Cricket Ground on Streetsbrook Road in Shirley has been home to Moseley Cricket Club for over 50 years.

Moseley Cricket Club was one of the founders of the Birmingham and District Cricket League – the oldest cricket league in the world.

Moseley were the John Haig National Knock Out Cricket Champions in 1980 and Natwest National Indoor Six-A-Side Cricket Champions in 1991.

The Cricket Club has enjoyed considerable success being multiple champions of the Birmingham and District Cricket League, Warwickshire Sunday League and the Warwick Trophy.

BE PART OF IT

JOIN OUR CLUB...

Welcome to Moseley Cricket Club - Why not come and join us?

You will find a warm welcome from both our Cricket and Bowls members whatever your ability. If your "glory days" are behind you and you are looking for a place to enjoy a quiet drink and watch some sport then Moseley Cricket Club is the ideal place for you, too.

For cricketers, the 1st XI and 2nd XI Saturday teams play in the Birmingham and District Premier Cricket League whilst the 3rd XI and 4th XI compete in the Warwickshire League. We operate one team on Sundays which plays in the Warwickshire Sunday League.

We have a substantial thriving Junior Cricket section under the guidance of former Moseley captain and club legend Ian Stokes.

The club is fully compliant with England and Wales Cricket Board standards and holds a current Club-Mark certificate.

Teams from under 9 to under 17 play in a variety of competitions.

Senior nets are held on Thursday nights from 6:00pm and Junior Cricket practice from 6:00pm until 8:00 pm on Friday evenings.

In addition Moseley Cricket Club proactively seeks to promote and enable Women's' Cricket and would welcome new women members of all ages and abilities. Here's a recent quote from Marie Kelly captain of Warwickshire Ladies Cricket Team, "... Moseley Cricket Club has played a vital role in the development of women’s and girl’s cricket within Warwickshire.........."

In addition, our active Social Committee ensure that there is always something going on to entertain you throughout the year Membership Enquiries for playing and social members are always welcome and should be directed to Basil Hylton - basilhylton@blueyonder.co.uk 07752424578. Or if you'd rather, fill in our Contact Form on our website: info@moseleycc.co.uk

Moseley Cricket Club would like to thank the following people and companies who have made today possible......

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The players of Warwickshire CCC The celebrities and Warwickshire “legends” All our advertisers Our kind sponsors

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