Summer Sports - Cricket


I’m just trying to even out usage. I’m fortunate that, with two squares, we can accommodate two Junior games at one time


The area outside the rope is maintained by other members of the idverde team


we’ve only lost one, possibly two days. There’s usually some pretty spectacular scoring here.” It has been the scene of several notable


cricketing achievements. When Essex entertained Kent at Colchester in 1938, A.E. Fagg became the only batsman ever to hit a double century in each innings, scoring 244 in his first and 202 in his second. Ken McEwan, always a prolific scorer, hit five hundreds in four consecutive visits to Castle Park between 1981 and 1984. He surpassed himself in 1983, scoring 181 against Gloucestershire and then, in the same week,


189 against Worcestershire, on both occasions securing a comfortable victory for his adoptive county. Javed Miandad has good cause to


remember Castle Park. In 1981, after Glamorgan had secured a first innings lead, a century each from Gooch and Hardie allowed Essex to declare their second innings at 411 for 9. Undeterred at being set 325 runs with very little time left, he raced away to 200 not out, and it was only when he ran out of partners, fourteen runs short of the required total, that Essex and a nervous crowd of supporters could breathe freely again. Last


season, in their second innings against Sussex, Essex players Ryan ten Doeschate hit 109 and Graham Napier scored 124 in a total of 470 for 8 declared. Jez has some minor changes to the pitch usage this year that will result in the Men’s Third XI playing on the Junior square, with five pitches allocated to the Second XI on the Main square. “I’m just trying to even out the usage on


both areas. I’m fortunate that, with two squares, we can accommodate two Junior games at one time. Being close to the River Colne, we are basically on a sandy soil, but


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