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Cricket => Essex Eagles T20 => Topic started by: stickyboy on May 26, 2014, 08:18:18 PM
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Anyone planning on going?
http://www.cookybenefityear.com/
Possibly the highlight of the Benefit Year as the County Ground plays host to a T20 showdown between Cooky's All-Star team of Essex teammates and internationals and a Past Essex XI!
Simply a must-see for all Essex cricket fans. See the stars of today take on the stars of yesteryear and there's a 'legends' parade of Essex Greats too!
Featuring: Gough, Swann, Anderson, Flower, Cook, Panesar, Harmison, Bopara, Irani, Napier, Foster, Grayson, Such. Stephenson, Ryder, Tudor plus more
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For me the whole purpose of benefits is to reward loyal club players who have given years of service, not to make very rich people even richer.
Yes, I know half is going to charity, so presumably the other half isn't. Count me out.
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For me the whole purpose of benefits is to reward loyal club players who have given years of service
When it's Ravi & Tendo's turn we'll be rewarding players who have given us weeks of service. ;)
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No sign of KP putting in an appearance. ;)
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No sign of KP putting in an appearance. ;)
He'll be too busy playing championship cricket
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I've always been of the belief that the British heirarchy always have money for the wrong people and wrong causes, a classic example being the Coronation in 1953 which cost in the region of a £million, the equivalent today of circa £160 million. This of course being at a time when the country was bankrupt, indebted to the yanks for the next 50 yrs, rationing still being in force and half the country's cities bomb sites.
T'would appear that ECCC also have adopted the same tactics, with Bopara and Tendoeschate being next in line. I sincerely hope that Essex cricket fans will look the other way when the begging bowels are touted around for Cook, Tendoeschate and Bopara, although I doubt this will be the case. Blessed are the meek, for we shall inherit them.
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Hope Cook and Bopara are going to make themselves available then for the T20 game the next day v Surrey! if they can be playing in a tinpot match like this!
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also its £18 on get in for this (£22 for reserved!)
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Did Cookies Bash go down a smash ? Anyone go this event , so can give a general view.
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i know of no-one who went!
so Cook played yesterday but not in the squad for today?
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so Cook played yesterday but not in the squad for today?
All that bashing must be exhausting.
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Central contracted to the ECB, with a change in top management less likely to play for Essex than before when Andy Flower was at the helm. So not always his fault in his unavailability.
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On the brief clip of Nasser batting at this event on Sky, the crowd looked very poor.
A few hundred?
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He doesn't deserve a benefit. FACT.
It should have been given to Swampy, a proper, loyal, Essex cricketer who captained his county to success and would still be doing so if it hadn't been for the disgusting work of a few people involved in the DK affair.
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He doesn't deserve a benefit. FACT.
It should have been given to Swampy, a proper, loyal, Essex cricketer who captained his county to success and would still be doing so if it hadn't been for the disgusting work of a few people involved in the DK affair.
I think it is a well established practice that benefits are awarded approximately 10 years after being capped. Cook (and Bopara were capped on 2005). Pettini (also Phillips & ten Doescate) were capped in 2006 so I can see a bit of a backlog building up. But setting aside the legalism, I would agree that Pettini ought to be at the front of the queue.
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Totally agree about swampy, deserves his own benefit given what he got lumbered with by the usual poor leadership and planning shown by the ECCC management. Don't forget they never gave topley a benefit but Darren Robinson did. Go figure.
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I think it is a well established practice that benefits are awarded approximately 10 years after being capped. Cook (and Bopara were capped on 2005). Pettini (also Phillips & ten Doescate) were capped in 2006 so I can see a bit of a backlog building up. But setting aside the legalism, I would agree that Pettini ought to be at the front of the queue.
One positive thing is that players have stayed at the club for so long, compare this to football
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Totally agree about swampy, deserves his own benefit given what he got lumbered with by the usual poor leadership and planning shown by the ECCC management. Don't forget they never gave topley a benefit but Darren Robinson did. Go figure.
It is against my nature to be a pedant, but Robbo never received a benefit from ECCC, Andy.
Ironically, he was released a year after his golden season where scored over a thousand CC runs, as well as captaining the side in several games as they won promotion in 2002*. As we all know prior to that he had miraculously managed to regularly gain a new contracts after years of ongoing, sub-standard performances. (Compare and contrast with the contemporary openers at the Club!)
Nasser's autobiography gives an insight into the circumstances surrounding his departure, which you can reprise yourself with.
Rumour had it that Irani was jealous that DR had a better car than him. ::)
Worryingly only two players have accumulated 1,000 Championship runs since then; Jeffo in 2004 and Cook in 2005. So, they're approaching the tenth anniversary.
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Totally agree about swampy, deserves his own benefit given what he got lumbered with by the usual poor leadership and planning shown by the ECCC management. Don't forget they never gave topley a benefit but Darren Robinson did. Go figure.
It is against my nature to be a pedant, but Robbo never received a benefit from ECCC, Andy.
Ironically, he was released a year after his golden season where scored over a thousand CC runs, as well as captaining the side in several games as they won promotion in 2002*. As we all know prior to that he had miraculously managed to regularly gain a new contracts after years of ongoing, sub-standard performances. (Compare and contrast with the contemporary openers at the Club!)
Nasser's autobiography gives an insight into the circumstances surrounding his departure, which you can reprise yourself with.
Rumour had it that Irani was jealous that DR had a better car than him. ::)
Worryingly only two players have accumulated 1,000 Championship runs since then; Jeffo in 2004 and Cook in 2005. So, they're approaching the tenth anniversary.
Sorry Mog, although I symathise with your general views the stats aren't quite right: in 2006 Andy Flower, Irani and (yes!) Pettini all topped 1,000, followed by Bopara in 2008. Since then only we have only had three totals over 900-Foster twice (905 in 2009 and 931 in 2011) and Walker (933 in 2009). But hey, as we've been told for the last 20 years or more, we are in transition!
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It is against my nature to be a pedant, but Robbo never received a benefit from ECCC, Andy.
Ironically, he was released a year after his golden season where scored over a thousand CC runs, as well as captaining the side in several games as they won promotion in 2002*. As we all know prior to that he had miraculously managed to regularly gain a new contracts after years of ongoing, sub-standard performances. (Compare and contrast with the contemporary openers at the Club!)
Nasser's autobiography gives an insight into the circumstances surrounding his departure, which you can reprise yourself with.
Rumour had it that Irani was jealous that DR had a better car than him. ::)
No Nat, Pieshop definitely got a shared of a benefit, I put some French Centimes in the bucket.
Nasser never said anything about Iranis Nissan Micra envy in his autobiography. However he did mention the usual Mancunian habit of shooting his mouth off about Robbo's great performances before letting someone else tell the latter that he wasn't getting a new contract.
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Totally agree about swampy, deserves his own benefit given what he got lumbered with by the usual poor leadership and planning shown by the ECCC management. Don't forget they never gave topley a benefit but Darren Robinson did. Go figure.
It is against my nature to be a pedant, but Robbo never received a benefit from ECCC, Andy.
Ironically, he was released a year after his golden season where scored over a thousand CC runs, as well as captaining the side in several games as they won promotion in 2002*. As we all know prior to that he had miraculously managed to regularly gain a new contracts after years of ongoing, sub-standard performances. (Compare and contrast with the contemporary openers at the Club!)
Nasser's autobiography gives an insight into the circumstances surrounding his departure, which you can reprise yourself with.
Rumour had it that Irani was jealous that DR had a better car than him. ::)
Worryingly only two players have accumulated 1,000 Championship runs since then; Jeffo in 2004 and Cook in 2005. So, they're approaching the tenth anniversary.
Sorry Mog, although I symathise with your general views the stats aren't quite right: in 2006 Andy Flower, Irani and (yes!) Pettini all topped 1,000, followed by Bopara in 2008. Since then only we have only had three totals over 900-Foster twice (905 in 2009 and 931 in 2011) and Walker (933 in 2009). But hey, as we've been told for the last 20 years or more, we are in transition!
Postman, I must apologise for my fundamental error; I intended to write; "Worringly only two openers have accumulated 1,000 Championship runs since then......"
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Postman, I must apologise for my fundamental error; I intended to write; "Worringly only two openers have accumulated 1,000 Championship runs since then......"
However, all is not as bleak as first appears, Mog, because there has been the occasional interspaced season when the combined weight of opener's runs have crept past the 1000 mark. Heaven forbid you should ever be accused of adopting a pessimistic approach to the club's achievements over the past decade. ;)
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Did anybody go? What happened?
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Did anybody go? What happened?
It is rumoured that Cook attended, or at least his bucket carrying representatives.
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He doesn't deserve a benefit. FACT.
It should have been given to Swampy, a proper, loyal, Essex cricketer who captained his county to success and would still be doing so if it hadn't been for the disgusting work of a few people involved in the DK affair.
I agree. Cook's going to do very well as a result of being England captain. Bopara's in a different position, of course, then come Pettini etc.