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Third_Man

Third_Man

State Vice-Captain
Peter Lee
Northants, Lancashire and wisden cricketer of the year

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Remembering Peter Lee - Northamptonshire CCC

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club is sad to learn of the death of former player Peter Lee at the age of 80. Northamptonshire-born in the village of Arthingworth, fast bowler ‘Leapy’ Lee began his professional career at Wantage Road although he enjoyed his greatest success in the game after...
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Remembering Peter Lee (1945-2026)

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wpdavid

wpdavid

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Molehill said:
Tony Pigott, ex Sussex Chief Executive and player (and 1 Test) has died aged 67.
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I thought I'd look up one of his obituaries, and found this astonishing fact on the BBC website.
Pigott joined Sussex as teenager, taking a hat-trick with his first three balls on his first-class debut against Surrey in 1978.

That must surely be unique.

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I think the Beeb may have been wrong about it being his first three balls on his FC debut.
Still likely to be unique though.

Yup - here's the scorecard.


More importantly, vale and RIP Tony.
 
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Chin Music

Chin Music

International Debutant
Yeah I RIP. I remember him having a real bustling action and had vaguely heard about his solitary test match appearance.
 
Chin Music

Chin Music

International Debutant
HeathDavisSpeed said:

CW Worst 15 Cricketers of All Time - The Results

It's not at all like you to be facetious. How silly of me. It isn't? Blow me down sideways with a feather.
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I remember being far more focussed on highlighting the poor England records of several Somerset players back on 247, to wind up Sir Virgs, who ironically was a Brighton fan. Never had the same heart for identifying poor Sussex performers.
 
HeathDavisSpeed

HeathDavisSpeed

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Chin Music said:
I remember being far more focussed on highlighting the poor England records of several Somerset players back on 247, to wind up Sir Virgs, who ironically was a Brighton fan. Never had the same heart for identifying poor Sussex performers.
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I spent an inordinate amount of time on there putting the boot into Matt Prior. Which annoyed someone, just can’t remember who.
 
Chin Music

Chin Music

International Debutant
HeathDavisSpeed said:
I spent an inordinate amount of time on there putting the boot into Matt Prior. Which annoyed someone, just can’t remember who.
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I think that may well have been a fella called Sharky who got more than a little vexed when Prior's keeping got questioned.
 
HeathDavisSpeed

HeathDavisSpeed

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Chin Music said:
I think that may well have been a fella called Sharky who got more than a little vexed when Prior's keeping got questioned.
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That’s the fella. Yes! All a very long time ago now - back in the era of the Chris Read debates. Probably 20 years ago.
 
A

AndrewB

International Vice-Captain
wpdavid said:
I thought I'd look up one of his obituaries, and found this astonishing fact on the BBC website.
Pigott joined Sussex as teenager, taking a hat-trick with his first three balls on his first-class debut against Surrey in 1978.

That must surely be unique.

EDIT
I think the Beeb may have been wrong about it being his first three balls on his FC debut.
Still likely to be unique though.

Yup - here's the scorecard.


More importantly, vale and RIP Tony.
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According to Cricinfo, two bowlers took a hat-trick in the first over they bowled: RR Phillips and RR Yadav... since it doesn't say "with their first three deliveries", I assume it wasn't in either case.

For Phillips (as with Pigott's feat mentioned above), it wasn't actually on his debut.
 
chris.hinton

chris.hinton

International Captain
Rupert Roopnaraine has died aged 83, Roopnaraine played 1st class cricket for Cambridge University (1964-66) where he was awared a blue, He also became an author and was later Minister of Education in his native Guyana between 2015-17 as part of the Working People's Alliance Government.

Rupert Roopnaraine - Wikipedia

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