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Stars on Sunday: when the John Player League ruled the roost
A fascinating and nostalgic book by author Mark Sands recalls the days when county cricket's biggest audiences flocked to the Sunday League, and when Surrey...
20.07.26History
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Surrey and the New Zealand connection
As England play the Black Caps in the second Test at the Kia Oval, Richard Spiller looks through cricket's history books for Kiwi connections with both the...
17.06.26History
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A warm June evening in 2003, when cricket's 'Pandora's Box' was opened
On the eve of the start of this season's Vitality Blast, Mark Church casts his mind back to when a new county competition was launched 23 years ago, when...
21.05.26History
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The Spartan and The Tiger: remembering two cricketing giants of Surrey and Sussex
Former Guardian sportswriter Paul Weaver takes a moment, as Surrey meet Sussex in the County Championship, to recall two cricketers who captained both their...
30.04.26History
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Lord and Master: why Sir Jack Hobbs loved to go to watch Ted Dexter
Former Guardian sportswriter Paul Weaver visits Sir Jack Hobbs' last resting place in Hove and tells the poignant story of how watching Sussex's Dexter...
30.03.26History
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A memory to cherish: the day that Hashim Amla defied Hampshire and added to his legend
Mark Church relives what he regards as a genuine "I was there" moment in his cricket-watching life...
03.03.26History
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The A23 Connection: Surrey and Sussex's shared past
The recent deaths of Arnold Long and Tony Pigott prompted Richard Spiller to talk to former Surrey captain Ian Greig about a cricketing link with a rich...
22.02.26History
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How Bert Lock worked a miracle in the winter of 1945-46, and made the club's 'best signing from Kent'
Surrey faced a daunting challenge after the end of the Second World War... how to turn the Oval back into being a cricket ground
24.01.26History