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Off-Topic => In The Hut => Topic started by: firehazard on August 23, 2016, 11:30:27 AM

Title: The first floodlit match...
Post by: firehazard on August 23, 2016, 11:30:27 AM
Nice piece on Britain's first floodlit cricket match (in which Essex were involved) by John Ashdown in today's Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/23/the-spin-forgotten-story-first-floodlit-cricket-match (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/23/the-spin-forgotten-story-first-floodlit-cricket-match)
Title: Re: The first floodlit match...
Post by: nat on August 23, 2016, 12:23:17 PM
I was there.
Title: Re: The first floodlit match...
Post by: essexfan548 on August 23, 2016, 06:39:50 PM
What about the indoor county 6 a side that we won many years back - we are still the holders of that trophy!
Title: Re: The first floodlit match...
Post by: Perov on August 23, 2016, 06:45:32 PM
When did we play in the Dartford tunnel?
That was floodlit.
Title: Re: The first floodlit match...
Post by: JasonP on August 23, 2016, 07:23:14 PM
What about the indoor county 6 a side that we won many years back - we are still the holders of that trophy!

This one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmJBG25cv_c

Title: Re: The first floodlit match...
Post by: nat on August 23, 2016, 07:31:16 PM
What about the indoor county 6 a side that we won many years back - we are still the holders of that trophy!

This one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmJBG25cv_c

Blimey the Wadham Stringer Trophy final ... presented by Fred Dineage. TV Gold. I don't remember this at all.

Top players involved so they must have got relatively well paid.

This video should be preserved.
Title: Re: The first floodlit match...
Post by: essexfan548 on August 23, 2016, 08:50:01 PM


This one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmJBG25cv_c

Yes - I was there! I think I have a video tape of the semi-final somewhere. I met most of the team at one point during the weekend = they were pleased to have some support - it was when I lived in Hastings.