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Title: Back in the day
Post by: Alvaro on November 28, 2013, 10:07:24 PM
Paul,

Your name appears at the very start of this video – do you remember the game? Did you get AB out?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-U9UDTs-tM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-U9UDTs-tM)

Is Slater the best bat you played with at Derby?

Lots of questions, sorry!
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Aldred Cricket Bats on November 29, 2013, 10:33:27 AM
  Blimey that's when we beat Australia, mark tailor was ctain do Australia then good day, I got tailor out with a beauty, Derbyshire pretty much had him coming to captain after dean jones finished but mr Barnett and cork stuffed it all up with their politics and that was that, would have been good that. Yes I managed to hang around long enough to be in at the end and knock the runs off to beat them, happy days. What video is that you found must be the full final day somewhere.
Well tough one to say as I played with culinary jones, slater diventito. Cullinan was an awesum player, we played against Warwickshire almost my adopted club really I loved it there and Donald bowled us out twice and he bowled f###### quick second innings it was one of my early first class games! he broke my finger second ball, he was getting it to hit people in front of the face from know where and cullinan got something like 170 and was cutting and pulling and got out cause he was bored to dermot reeve, but that's the way he was, dean jones end of his career was still unbelievable took the game to the opposition great runner between the wickets made fielders look stupid and never asked anyone to do anything that he hadn't or wouldn't do, tough no nonsense man. Slatsy well I consider him a true friend even though I haven't seen him for many years now since the break up of his first marriage but chat occasionally via email. He was fantastic in every way, he had a tough time at derby as they wanted him to play the way he did for Australia but when he came they prepared the lowest shirt test tracks you could imagine so it didn't really work for him, but you got glimpses on other grounds. We went over to aus for the millennium and travelled round with the Aussie team and we saw just how good these guys were as a unit and what great guys they were too. Diventito good player but I never felt he scored the runs when it mattered which was what you wanted from a good overseas to be a match winner so in that sense although his number of runs was high I didn't think he was any better than our good county players but he came along to us when central contracts came in so it was almost having an overseas for overseas sake really I reckon, decent guy though.
 I look back and feel fortunate in many ways as we were playing with and against the England guys and then against the great overseas such as Donald , Ambrose, warne, Walsh, mark Waugh, mullaritharan however you spell it Mushtaq, Saqlain all those sorts of guys it was a good time but it changed when central contracts came in and it all so in my opinion got softer as more money came into it and the will for young lads on the staff to succeed was surpassed as they were sitting nicely as a16/17 yr old on decent money for 6 months work doing what they wanted. My first contract in 1995 was wait for it, £4,500 and I was 26. I would have taken half of that as I had been trying to get a contract since the age of 19 when I had my first trial game for Derbyshire against notts. It's changed a lot since those days for better maybe? Not in all ways I am sure.
  It stood me in good stead really though as it has helped me in my bat business as I know you can't just jump in and have success you have to build it and be patient. I look at it like my days trying to get into cricket that if I work hard get my head down and learn my trade then you have a chance of doing ok, as long as you do your best every time you can't complain. The difference being that I have a say in my bats as it's only me that is making the product and I don't have to rely on anyone else to allow it to succeed so I just keep doing and putting out the best we can.
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: cricketbadger on November 29, 2013, 10:44:33 AM
Why was he unhappy with the decision? If he hasn't hit that then he doesn't really have a leg to Stand on
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Number4 on November 29, 2013, 10:48:09 AM
Great read Paul... I'd personally love to see you do a story like this every now and then when you have the time.... Makes the forum an interesting place.

By the way bloody good eyes to spot Pauls name Alvaro ;)
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Alvaro on November 29, 2013, 11:04:48 AM
Thanks Paul – great response. Of course it was Taylor and not AB. I got my ashes tours mixed up.
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Aldred Cricket Bats on November 29, 2013, 11:06:30 AM

Grizzly middles it that's why he was miffed and he was in great form and it was an important game for him to get the selectors looking at him as he was scoring loads of runs but was at an unfashionable county. Here's a nice article by Anton Rippon about the day. There were two articles the same really but with different pics this was sent to me when it came out the other was just a different pic of me bowling you can find it on the Internet.

(http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t472/Aldredcricket/1577b8675255aebabee380a242f00e83_zpsb8a3530f.jpg)
Paul Aldred hit the winning runs

SHAME that Derbyshire aren’t playing the Australians this summer.

But the tourists are meeting hardly any counties. As cricket shifts towards more internationals and one-day matches, the traditional fixture list is no more.

So I’m going to look back to June 1997, when Paul Aldred hit the winning runs with three balls to spare against the Australians at the County Ground.

Aldred was doing more than seeing the county to a breathtaking victory; it was the first time in 28 attempts, stretching back almost 120 years, that Derbyshire had beaten the Australians – and, for good measure, they had achieved it with their highest-ever fourth innings

On a slow Derby pitch – fast bowler Devon Malcolm had been rested before the Tests – Derbyshire were asked to score 371 off what, ultimately, were 69 overs.

They got them with three balls to spare, after Chris Adams had set up victory with 91 off 76 balls. Adams, in trouble for disputing his first-innings dismissal, had been particularly well supported by Adrian Rollins (66) and Derbyshire’s Australian captain, Dean Jones (57).

But it had been an excellent all-round effort, not least by Aldred and last man Kevin Dean, who had nonchalantly pulled the first ball he received, from Shane Warne (seven for 103) to the boundary.

Derbyshire needed five runs off the last over, bowled by Brendon Julian, and Aldred, playing despite the death of his father the previous week, duly collected them to write a new chapter in the county’s history.
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Aldred Cricket Bats on November 29, 2013, 11:16:38 AM
Just spotted my name there out for 8. I remember it well I had done the night watchman job night before then came out and started nicely and my big error was that first over Gillespie ran in and I drilled him for a perfect cover drive for 4 it was text book and he stood and stared at me and the batter at the other end looked at me and walked down and said that was a bit silly I don't think he appreciated it. The next ball was about a yard quicker and the one after ripped my off stump out the ground and I got a very good send off from him. Thinking that was it I walked off and as I walked through the gate someone sat reading a news paper in the players enclosure and it was mark Waugh and as he dipped hi paper he just said monotone in his Aussie way ' well he just made you look a right c##t mate' to which I could only reply 'yep'!
I remember it very well.
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Bats_Entertainment on November 29, 2013, 11:21:12 AM

 the traditional fixture list is no more.


A great shame.
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: TangoWhiskey on November 29, 2013, 11:24:40 AM
Great read Paul... I'd personally love to see you do a story like this every now and then when you have the time.... Makes the forum an interesting place.

By the way bloody good eyes to spot Pauls name Alvaro ;)

I second this.
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Aldred Cricket Bats on November 29, 2013, 11:39:33 AM
Don't know what I'd talk about to be honest I'm not that interesting ???
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Number4 on November 29, 2013, 11:45:35 AM
I think we all beg to differ.... I think this short topic has had more likes already than any other topic on here.

Little stories like this is what we crave... All of us have dreamt of doing what you have done... Play with and against the biggest names in the game... It's great hearing it and just for a second imaging it is us in your shoes
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Aldred Cricket Bats on November 29, 2013, 11:51:34 AM
Yes I was very very lucky in many ways. If I had been playing now I would have had a chance of opening up regularly I reckon at derby or at least be a major part in the way it's changed. Back then you were always second fiddle to Malcolm defreitas cork Munton finishing his career there and then the seasoned bowlers such as warner bass etc. it was a tough learning curve. I should have really gone to Hampshire when I had the chance but remained loyal to Derbyshire and I was settled in a relationship and that certainly wouldn't have lasted had I gone down there playing. With the best will in the world cricket has many other distractions if your not careful  ;)
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Number4 on November 29, 2013, 11:53:04 AM
Paul... I think I love you ;) :D
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Aldred Cricket Bats on November 29, 2013, 12:00:47 PM
Steady I'm still in that relationship :-[
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Number4 on November 29, 2013, 12:02:03 PM
Great read mate thanks
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: FattusCattus on November 29, 2013, 12:55:42 PM
Paul, have you ever read Jon Agnew's book 'Eight days a Week'? He describes DeFreitas as quite difficult to get along with sometimes, but he always seemed ok to me.

How did you find him and Dev as individuals bearing in mind they both had up and down England careers?

By the way, not digging for anything libellous, just wondering how these guys were when they came back into the county fold?
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Aldred Cricket Bats on November 29, 2013, 01:08:09 PM
Dev is a good guy. Daffy yes good bloke in many ways, he used to live at my home for a couple of years after his first marriage broke up that's when I was still at my mums as she had room. Let's put it this way there's no loyalty sometimes to people who have looked after him rent free that's all id say
Why did he have so many clubs is a good question to ask
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: FattusCattus on November 29, 2013, 07:54:54 PM
Enough said, no need to Expand further. I've heard that Dev always has time to chat cricket with a clubby like us. Someone I'd like to meet.
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Alvaro on November 29, 2013, 08:01:39 PM
Kevin Dean. There's a name!

Surely a better left armer than Mullally at the time ?
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Aldred Cricket Bats on November 29, 2013, 08:02:48 PM
Didn't have the pace good bowler
Title: Re: Back in the day
Post by: Northern monkey on December 24, 2013, 08:34:05 PM
I think we all beg to differ.... I think this short topic has had more likes already than any other topic on here.

Little stories like this is what we crave... All of us have dreamt of doing what you have done... Play with and against the biggest names in the game... It's great hearing it and just for a second imaging it is us in your shoes

I agree also,
Great reading about your memories

Look forward to a couple of bats off you,in the new year