Okay Gideon, in the lead up to the WTC against South Africa at Lords in June, can we please have more details and stories about the seventy-eight-year-old left-arm spinner who took a Michelle Pfeiffer.
Something additionally enjoyable about Sir James (as well as Sir Geoffrey and Lord Botham, but I suspect not Sir Andrew and Sir Alastair) is that in another time, the time of Sir Leonard and Sir Alec, he would have enjoyed the prestige of being a knighted professional.
Why is there nearly as many West Indians knighted as English and only one Australian and Kiwi? Do the countries themselves put forward nominees for consideration?
Bill Woodfull offered a knighthood in 1934 for services to cricket, but turned it down (Gideon -any further details?). Later received an OBE for services to education (Headmaster at Melbourne High School - just down the road from your Yarras home ground)
I just consulted Alan Gregory's life of Woodfull, Tony, and it seems like family lore, rather than something for which there's a document trail. Good story if true! Thanks for the lift on Saturday night, btw.
What is the highest award an Oz cricketer has received in our unknightly times ? -Surely Shane Warne deserved something to go with his State memorial service.
Okay Gideon, in the lead up to the WTC against South Africa at Lords in June, can we please have more details and stories about the seventy-eight-year-old left-arm spinner who took a Michelle Pfeiffer.
On its way.
Awesome.
Thanks so much!
Something additionally enjoyable about Sir James (as well as Sir Geoffrey and Lord Botham, but I suspect not Sir Andrew and Sir Alastair) is that in another time, the time of Sir Leonard and Sir Alec, he would have enjoyed the prestige of being a knighted professional.
Why is there nearly as many West Indians knighted as English and only one Australian and Kiwi? Do the countries themselves put forward nominees for consideration?
Bill Woodfull offered a knighthood in 1934 for services to cricket, but turned it down (Gideon -any further details?). Later received an OBE for services to education (Headmaster at Melbourne High School - just down the road from your Yarras home ground)
I just consulted Alan Gregory's life of Woodfull, Tony, and it seems like family lore, rather than something for which there's a document trail. Good story if true! Thanks for the lift on Saturday night, btw.
Impressive Windies knights:
Worrell
Sobers
Walcott
Weekes
Hunte
Richards
Hall
Ambrose
Roberts
Richardson
Griffith
Lloyd
Greenidge
Who makes the First XI?
Wasn't it Fred Trueman rather than Len Hutton who came up with the quip about Francis Drake beingt the last bowler to be knighted?
Wonderful and interesting rabbit holes there 😀
What is the highest award an Oz cricketer has received in our unknightly times ? -Surely Shane Warne deserved something to go with his State memorial service.
Dunno, but Sir Glen McGrath would be an appropriate gong for services to cricket and charity. Much like Ian Botham.
I'd have given Warnie the Brownlow. He'd have loved that.