ub59
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Post by ub59 on Mar 9, 2024 10:17:31 GMT
For those of us that follow Worcestershire in the summer,another legend has passed.
Owner of one of the best cricket blazers ever, and a lovely guy.
I spent many a summer using one of the DF bats desperately trying to get the ball off the square whilst playing Herefordshire league cricket.
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Post by eggchaserbull on Mar 9, 2024 14:26:34 GMT
Chairman of WCCC during their most successful period, IIRC. Did a lot for Worcs and cricket in general.
RIP
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Post by psychedelictony on Mar 10, 2024 19:18:08 GMT
For those of us that follow Worcestershire in the summer,another legend has passed. Owner of one of the best cricket blazers ever, and a lovely guy. I spent many a summer using one of the DF bats desperately trying to get the ball off the square whilst playing Herefordshire league cricket. Only know him for the bats which were everywhere in the 80s when I was a kid playing |
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Post by sevenoaksbull on Mar 10, 2024 20:02:16 GMT
Top bloke and a legend.
Loads of my cricketing mates used to get their bats from the factory in Sansome Walk because they were much cheaper than from a sports shop on account of having an imperfection, which you had to look very closely to find.
That blazer was something else too!
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Post by Monkey Tennis on Mar 10, 2024 20:17:46 GMT
For those of us that follow Worcestershire in the summer,another legend has passed. Owner of one of the best cricket blazers ever, and a lovely guy. I spent many a summer using one of the DF bats desperately trying to get the ball off the square whilst playing Herefordshire league cricket. Only know him for the bats which were everywhere in the 80s when I was a kid playing It was either Duncan Fearnley or Gunn and Moore back then. One of them, can't remember which, produced a "jumbo" cricket bat I think; a fkn huge thing. |
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Post by Monkey Tennis on Mar 10, 2024 20:29:59 GMT
Only know him for the bats which were everywhere in the 80s when I was a kid playing It was either Duncan Fearnley or Gunn and Moore back then. One of them, can't remember which, produced a "jumbo" cricket bat I think; a fkn huge thing. Ah. Could've got that wrong. Looks like it might've been Stuart Surridge. It was either Duncan Fearnley or Gunn and Moore or Stuart Surridge back then. One of them, can't remember which, produced a "jumbo" cricket bat I think; a fkn huge thing. |
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Post by sevenoaksbull on Mar 11, 2024 7:09:13 GMT
It was either Duncan Fearnley or Gunn and Moore back then. One of them, can't remember which, produced a "jumbo" cricket bat I think; a fkn huge thing. Ah. Could've got that wrong. Looks like it might've been Stuart Surridge. It was either Duncan Fearnley or Gunn and Moore or Stuart Surridge back then. One of them, can't remember which, produced a "jumbo" cricket bat I think; a fkn huge thing. DF had the Magnum, Stuart Surridge had the Jumbo. Both were basically railway sleepers for slogging with. My kid brother was a useful cricketer and had a Magnum; used to launch balls into orbit with it. |
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ub59
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Post by ub59 on Mar 11, 2024 7:55:11 GMT
I still have two ‘Jumbos’ in the garage.
I don5 think I could even pick them up now.
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Post by greekgod on Mar 11, 2024 9:09:28 GMT
Proper batsmen use Gray-Nicholls
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Post by Barney still in B-Block on Mar 11, 2024 15:34:53 GMT
I had a beautiful Newbery back in the day. Distraught when it broke, beginning of the end of a very undistinguished career. Just the £570 for a new one these days!!
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Post by White Lightning on Mar 11, 2024 15:55:11 GMT
I had a beautiful Newbery back in the day. Distraught when it broke, beginning of the end of a very undistinguished career. Just the £570 for a new one these days!! If MT has messaged you offering you a new career for £570 don't do it. It's a scam. Although in his defence he only took £450 off me. Must be London weighting. |
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Post by eggchaserbull on Mar 11, 2024 16:11:34 GMT
It was either Duncan Fearnley or Gunn and Moore back then. One of them, can't remember which, produced a "jumbo" cricket bat I think; a fkn huge thing. Ah. Could've got that wrong. Looks like it might've been Stuart Surridge. It was either Duncan Fearnley or Gunn and Moore or Stuart Surridge back then. One of them, can't remember which, produced a "jumbo" cricket bat I think; a fkn huge thing. Are you sure it wasn't a pizza paddle? |
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Post by GRL on Mar 13, 2024 16:24:44 GMT
"A Fearnley bat was an object of desire from playgrounds to pavilions across the country and the world, with players of the calibre of Ian Botham, Viv Richards, Graham Gooch, Graeme Pollock, Clive Lloyd, Wasim Akram, Sunil Gavaskar and Allan Lamb using them. The England players Darren Gough, Kevin Pietersen and Stuart Broad were among many whose first childhood bat was a Duncan Fearnley.
A left-handed bat, he made his first-class debut for Worcestershire in 1962 and played 97 times for the county over 6 years, averaging 20.58 and scoring one century.
His 12-year tenure as chairman was the most successful period in the club's history, featuring six trophies."
The Times, Register, 11th March 2024.
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