At least I have the Summer of 73

Greenidge and Richards, catches win matches (featuring the same players) "young" Peter Sainsbury and his second career Championship win and Mottram and Herman, possibly the least promising opening bowlers to win the competition.

We have been reasonably successful in 40, 50 and 55 over cricket and more recently in T20 and I went to the first few Lords finals, but as with Dubs and Test cricket, it is the Championship which is the real game and prize.

The equivalent of Coventry in 85 is Worcs in 74 just winning by a very small margin after Yorkshire (playing the role of Everton) refused to play a single innings match at Bournemouth after 2 days of rain.

My natural pessimism tells me we will win more matches than Surrey but lose out and the difference will be the rained off last day v Lancs at Southampton. Go on, Hampshire, prove me wrong.

Posted By: watfordcanary on July 22nd 2022 at 15:46:27

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Pm Watford (Other Sports) - Black Creosote Time, Jul 22, 14:33:26
- Misery guts (Other Sports) - Black Creosote Time, Jul 22, 15:15:58
  - Evening Fawlty (Other Sports) - watfordcanary, Jul 22, 15:22:09
    - To be fair (Other Sports) - Black Creosote Time, Jul 22, 15:32:53
      - At least I have the Summer of 73 (Other Sports) - watfordcanary, Jul 22, 15:46:27
        
        And have you any stand out memories of Malcolm Marshall? (n/m) (Other Sports) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jul 22, 15:58:15
        
        Yes (Other Sports) - Black Creosote Time, Jul 22, 17:55:03
        
        Yeah (Other Sports) - Huge Small, Jul 22, 20:35:04
        
        Dean Park was probably my favourite Hampshire ground (n/m) (Other Sports) - watfordcanary, Jul 22, 19:25:14
        
        We lived in Dorchester so it was the handiest for us (Other Sports) - Black Creosote Time, Jul 22, 20:04:30
        
        Northlands Road was easy to get too after school (Other Sports) - watfordcanary, Jul 22, 20:17:55
        
        What did you think of Nicholas, and did you ever see Barry Richards bat? (n/m) (Other Sports) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jul 22, 15:51:13
        
        Nicholas (Other Sports) - Black Creosote Time, Jul 22, 18:02:55
        
        I liked MCJ as a batsman and a captain, needed to be at a fashionable county (Other Sports) - watfordcanary, Jul 22, 16:16:23
        
        Lovely,thankyou.👍 I remember Nicholas getting bounced out (Other Sports) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jul 22, 16:41:47
        
        Marshall used to bowl like this sometimes in the county game (Other Sports) - watfordcanary, Jul 22, 17:03:34
        
        Foster was shamefully scared.That said this Windies attack still had (Other Sports) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jul 22, 17:15:15
        
        The fast bowlers union was on its last legs by then (n/m) (Other Sports) - watfordcanary, Jul 22, 17:18:29
        
        Hehehe,all that protective equipment mad it inevitable I think. (Other Sports) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jul 22, 17:32:24
- doing their best to blow it with reverse sweeps (n/m) (Other Sports) - watfordcanary, Jul 22, 15:03:23

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