Durham v Derbyshire 1999 (video)
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Durham v Derbyshire 1999 (video)
« on: February 23, 2014, 04:43:09 AM »
Slightly off topic, i.e. not about your bats (hope you don't mind), but I found this video on Youtube...you make a few appearances in the field and of course with the ball! What was it like bowling to David Boon?!

Edit: It won't let me embed the video so just search "David Boon 61 (Durham v Derbyshire, National League 1999)" on Youtube.

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Re: Durham v Derbyshire 1999 (video)
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2014, 08:35:08 AM »
Probably Pauls inspiration for one his bats with a huge middle! :D
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Re: Durham v Derbyshire 1999 (video)
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2014, 09:34:04 AM »
It was a dream to be able to play against and with those sorts of people I can tell you. I spent from the age of 19 trialling at different counties wrighting to them to just get a bowl in the nets or get a game and it took me until I was 26 to get a contract just missing out on a contract with my favourite county Warwickshire ccc. It had taken a lot of hard work rejection and sacrifice to get it and decided I would enjoy every minute of it. My first contract at 26 in 1995 was £3,500 for 6 months that was it and I would have taken half of it to have a go. Different times now days young lads with agents sponsored cars huge kit sponsors and a great starting package as a 17 year old. I was lucky though the young players now don't get to play against the world greats very often in county cricket where as we played against them every week, very lucky lad
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Re: Durham v Derbyshire 1999 (video)
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2014, 09:54:07 AM »
Great grill and pads and anybody else notice boo bat was not the biggest yet he could biff a decent ball.

Who the best player you ever balled at Paul and what was the outcome ???

Who is the best player you ever got out

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Re: Durham v Derbyshire 1999 (video)
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2014, 11:12:35 AM »
Tough question who's the best I bowled at as I was lucky or unlucky enough to bowl at some of the best. Mark Waugh, Gooch, Boon, Symondson, robin smith, Andrew Strauss,  Lara , the great Aussie team of the 90s to name but a few and they were all great in their different ways. I suppose wickets would be Mark Taylor the Aussie skipper, Hick Andrew Strauss. They are the ones I can remember I am not great at remembering all those sorts of things I tend to remember what people were like as players and individuals and great and fun times to be honest. I also remember the ones who were prize wotsits too.
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Re: Durham v Derbyshire 1999 (video)
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2014, 12:54:32 PM »
Who didn't you like? Haha
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Re: Durham v Derbyshire 1999 (video)
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2014, 04:19:10 PM »
 :D there weren't many to be fair generally really good guys then who all had a beer together after the game but played hard on the pitch. You could count them on one hand over the years really ones just finished playing international after it taking many years for the ECB to realise his destructive manner. One was our captain but he wasn't a bad guy really and I used to get on very well with him to be honest but he just had to try and live up to an image which wasn't him but he needed someone who had the guts to stand up to him and manage him within the club but because of his status at the time not one person in the club had the guts. I told him the truth and was inevitably sacked,another was captain at derbsyhire beforehand of whom I had the upmost respect for as a player but he was a nasty piece of work when you realised he wasn't the gentleman he first appeared to be. That sort of thing happened at every county really to some extent but Derbyshire dirty linen was often hung out in the public too often. It was a big shock as a club cricketer who expected professional sport to be the ultimate in team spirit, I think the word is naive.
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