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Liam Naylor
Liam Naylor (born 20 July 2001) is a Scottish cricketer who plays as an allrounder. He bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium. Career. Naylor made his ODI debut against Namibia at Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground on 20th February, 2023. He was selected as a developmental for Scotland's tour to Nepal in January 2023. He was also part of Scotland's 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup Squad.
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Ireland women against Scotland women in Spain in 2023–24
The Ireland women's cricket team and Scotland women's cricket team are scheduled to play three Women's One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Women's Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) at the Desert Springs Cricket Ground in Almería, Spain. The ODIs will be the first played by Scotland since regaining official ODI status in November 2022.
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List of 2023–24 SA20 auctions and personnel signings
This is a list of all auctions and personnel signings for the 2024 SA20 Cricket Tournament. pre-signed and retained players. Durban's Super Giants Pre-signed players: Keshav Maharaj, Quinton de Kock, Kyle Mayers, Naveen-ul-Haq Murid, Reece Topley, Heinrich Klaasen, Dwaine Pretorius, Keemo Paul, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Dilshan Madushanka, Kyle Abbott, Junior Dala, JJ Smuts, Prenelan Subrayen, Matthew Breetzke, Wiaan Mulder. Last season’s overseas retentions: Reece Topley, Keemo Paul, Kyle Mayers New overseas additions: Naveen-ul-Haq Murid, Dilshan Madushanka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa Joburg Super Kings Pre-signed players: Faf du Plessis, Aaron Phangiso, David Wiese, Donovan Ferreira, Gerald Coetzee, Kyle Simmonds, Leus du Plooy, Lizaad Williams, Moeen Ali, Nandre Burger, Reeza Hendricks, Sam Cook, Sibonelo Makhanya, Zahir Khan. Last season’s overseas retentions: Leus du Plooy. New overseas additions: David Wiese, Moeen Ali, Sam Cook, Zahir Khan. MI Cape Town Pre-signed players: Rassie Van Der Dussen, Delano Potgieter, Ryan Rickelton, George Linde, Beuran Hendricks, Duan Jansen, Olly Stone, Grant Roelofse, Dewald Brevis, Kagiso Rabada, Rashid Khan, Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Tom Banton. Last season’s overseas retentions: Rashid Khan, Sam Curran, Olly Stone, Jofra Archer New overseas additions: Liam Livingstone, Tom Banton Paarl Royals Pre-signed and retained players: "David Miller, Jos Buttler, Obed McCoy, Jason Roy, Lungi Ngidi, Tabraiz Shamsi, Bjorn Fortuin, Andile Phehlukwayo, Dane Vilas, Wihan Lubbe, Mitchell van Buuren, Ferisco Adams, Codi Yusuf, Evan Jones, Kwena Maphaka, Fabian Allen." Last season’s overseas retentions: Jos Buttler, Jason Roy New overseas additions: Obed McCoy, Fabian Allen Pretoria Capitals Pre-signed and retained players: "Anrich Nortje, Jimmy Neesham, Migael Pretorius, Rilee Rossouw, Colin Ingram, Senuran Muthusamy, Wayne Parnell, Theunis De Bruyn, Adil Rashid, Will Jacks, Eathan Bosch, Shane Dadswell, Corbin Bosch" Last season’s overseas retentions: "Jimmy Neesham, Adil Rashid, Will Jacksm", Sunrisers Eastern Cape Pre-signed and retained players: Aiden Markram, Ottniel Baartman, Liam Dawson, Dawid Malan, Marco Jansen, Temba Bavuma, Tristan Stubbs, Sisanda Magala, Brydon Carse, Simon Harmer, Sarel Erwee, Jordan Hermann, Aya Gqamane, Adam Rossington, Tom Abell, Craig Overton Last season’s overseas retentions: Brydon Carse, Adam Rossington, Tom Abell New overseas additions: Liam Dawson, Dawid Malan, Craig Overton rookie Picks. Durban's Super Giants Joburg Super Kings Wayne Madsen, Dayyaan Galiem, Romario Shepherd, Imran Tahir, Ronan Hermann (rookie) MI Cape Town Christopher Benjamin, Nealan van Hearden, Thomas Kaber, Connor Esterhuizen (rookie) Pretoria Capitals Paul Stirling, Kyle Verreynne, Matthew Boast, Daryn Dupavillon, Steve Stolk (rookie) Paarl Royals Fabian Allen, John Turner, Lorcan Tucker, Lhuan-dre Pretorius (rookie) Sunrisers Eastern Cape Caleb Seleka, Beyers Swanepoel, Andile Simelane (rookie
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Muskan Malik
Muskan Malik (born 8 October 2002, Hindi: मुस्कान मलिक) is an Indian women's cricketer who primarily plays as a right-handed batter. She plays for Uttar Pradesh women's team, India A and also played for IPL Supernovas in the Women's T20 Challenge before the tournament ended in 2022. Career. In November 2022, she was selected in India A women's squad to play the 2022–23 Women's Senior T20 Challenger Trophy In May 2023, Muskan was selected for National Cricket Academy coaching camp in Bengaluru, alongside Archana Devi and Parshvi Chopra. In June 2023, she was selected in ACC Women's T20 Emerging Teams Asia Cup under the leadership of Shweta Sehrawat. She also captained Uttar Pradesh's Under-19 cricket team. Biography. Born on 8th October 2002, Muskan Malik joined Hamza Cricket Academy in her hometown Aligarh at a young age. She was initially mentored by her younger brother Rashid Malik. Later, she joined Abdul Cricket Academy, where she started developing her skills under the guidance of veteran coach Masood
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Athenian F.C.
The Athenian Football Club, usually referred to in the media as Athenians, was a short-lived association football club from Edinburgh. History. The club was founded on 22 March 1887, taking its name from Edinburgh's nickname of the Athens of the North; the club was made up of rugby union players (mostly from Watsonians) trying their hand at the association game, and was considered to be a club founded on "a higher social basis than hitherto", with Ings, the Edinburgh University goalkeeper, as captain. The club's first match was a 5–0 defeat to the university at Corstorphine on 26 March, and its first match against an unrelated club came the following week, a 4–0 defeat to Heart of Midlothian in an hour-long game. Before the club's first (and only) full season, it hosted an athletics contest on 21 July at the Powderhall. The club had invited Queen's Park and Battlefield, both famous amateur clubs, to take part, but neither could turn up, and two Athenian teams took on Heartsand Hibernian in ten-minute matches at the close of proceedings, the club losing both matches heavily. Rather ambitiously, the club joined the Scottish Football Association in August 1887, and entered the 1887–88 Scottish Cup. It was drawn at home to West Calder in the first round, but had to switch the tie as it did not have a ground suitable to host the match, and was "very short-handed" following "little to no practice"; West Calder scored 5 with the wind in the first half and 4 in the second, the Athenians not getting on the scoresheet. The club's ambitions had over-run it; it had even set up a friendly with the mighty Vale of Leven following the West Calder tie, but judiciously telegraphed two days beforehand to say that the Athenians could not raise a team. There were higher hopes for the club's debut in the Edinburgh Shield, against fellow amateurs Adventurers, considered a "comparatively light one". Despite fielding a stronger side, the Athenians suffered another heavy defeat, this time 5–0; Adventurers scoring once against the run of play in the first half, but dominant in the second, the Athenian collapse put down to "want of combined action" and a lack of practice. The club continued playing friendlies through the season, against prestigious sides such as Queen's Park, Dumbarton, and St Bernards, but suffering heavy defeats every time. Enthusiasm ran out quickly, in January 1888 the club sending a wire to Dundee to cancel a friendly against Strathmore the day before the match, and not even bothering to notify West Calder that it was not turning up. By March the club was said to be out of money. It was considered something of a moral success to "not get much of a thrashing" at Queen of the South Wanderers in April, the score being 4–2. Athenian finally avoided defeat with a 1–1 draw at West Calder later the same month, the XI boosted by M'Kinnon and Henderson of Hearts, and Lyle from Dumfries Wanderers. The momentum was kept up with a 1–1 draw at Motherwell but the club did not play eleven-a-side football again. The club's final outing was in an unsuccessful outing in a five-a-side tournament in May, at which time "it still had something to learn". There was however not enough time, even the Hearts hosting a benefit match against a select west of Scotland side under the name I Zingari (which included Ings, Ballantyne, and Knox of the Athenians) not enough to keep the club afloat - although at least the three Athenian players finally found themselves on a winning side, I Zingari winning 3–2. Its short existence was confirmed at an end when it was thrown off the Scottish FA's register for non-payment of subscription in August 1888. The club had entered the Shield before its disbanding, but as being "evidently a club of the past" its scheduled first round opponent Claremont Park gained a walkover. Colours. The club's official colours were primrose and pale blue "harlequin" shirts. Perhaps reflecting the club's financial difficulties towards the end of its first season, or the formation of the side from members of rugby clubs, Athenian wore "no less than five colours of dress" in a defeat at Leith Athletic in March 1888. Ground. The club played at Crawford Road Park, in Newington, a former cricket pitch. The first match the club had there was against Battlefield on 1 October, the visitors winning 1–0.
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Arthur Beresford, 6th Baron Decies
Arthur George Marcus Douglas de la Poer Beresford, 6th Baron Decies DFC (15 April 1915 – 7 November 1992) was an Anglo-Irish hereditary peer and soldier. Early life. Beresford was born on 15 April 1915. He was the youngest of three children born to John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies (1866–1944), aide-de-camp to the Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and Helen Vivien Gould (1893–1931). From his parents marriage, he had two older sisters, Eileen Vivian de la Poer Horsley-Beresford and Catherine Moya Beresford. After his mother's death in 1931, his father married another American heiress, Elizabeth Wharton Drexel (widow of society leader Harry Lehr), in 1936. His paternal grandparents were William Beresford, 3rd Baron Decies and the former Catherine Anne Dent. His maternal grandparents were American railroad tycoon George Jay Gould I and, his wife, former actress Edith Kingdon. Among his extended family were uncles William Beresford, 4th Baron Decies and cricketer Seton Beresford, and aunt Hon. Catherine Beresford (who married Edward J. M. Lumb). From his mother's side, his aunts and uncles included Kingdon Gould I, Marjorie Gwynne Gould, Jay Gould II, Edith Catherine Gould, and Gloria Gould. Career. Upon the death of his father, he inherited his father's titles and became Baron Decies. He gained the rank of Flying Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and fought in World War II where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, U.S. Personal life. On 27 October 1937, Beresford married Ann Trevor in London, England. Ann, a daughter of Sidney Walter Trevor, died on 28 March 1945. They had no children. On 12 September 1945, Lord Decies married Diana Mary ( Turner-Cain) Galsworthy (1916–2004) at Chapel Royal, Windsor, England. Diana was a daughter of W/Cdr. George Turner-Cain and Jessie Mary Smith and the widow of David William Arthur Galsworthy, a Major with the Royal Fusiliers, City of London Regiment who died in 1944, with whom she had one child, Anna Galsworthy. Together, Arthur and Diana were the parents of three children together: Lord Decies died on 7 November 1992 at King's Lynn, Norfolk.
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Stonehaven F.C. (1890)
Stonehaven Football Club was an association football club from Stonehaven in Kincardineshire, active in the 1890s. History. The club was founded in around 1890; its earliest recorded fixture is a 2–1 win over Caledonian (Aberdeen) in August 1890. The club played in the Aberdeenshire Cup for the first time in 1890–91, beating Aberdeen Thistle in its first tie by 8 goals to 1, described as "a surprise to the spectators, to the Thistle, and above all to the winning team". In the semi-final, Caledonian exacted a brutal revenge for the season-opening friendly, winning 11–0 on an ice-bound Aberdeen pitch; Stonehaven rather desperately put in a protest about the state of the ground. Despite this sobering defeat, the club joined the Scottish Football Association in 1891 and made its Scottish Cup debut in the first qualifying round in 1891–92, at home to Bon Accord, which was (in)famous for its world record defeat to Arbroath six years before. The Bons outclassed the home side, turning around at half-time 4–0 up and finishing with a 9–0 win. The blame was put in part on some of its players preferring to play in the closing cricket season fixtures, hence having a goal difference of -17 after two matches, and the club recovered enough to lose only by 4 goals to 2 to Aberdeen in the Aberdeenshire Cup in October. However the club's true status was emphasized with a 15–0 defeat at Montrose the following month. The following season the club was not ready for the first qualifying round in the Scottish Cup, and so scratched to Peterhead. The club's opening match of the season was a 13–2 defeat at home to Victoria United and in November it lost 13–0 to Orion in the first round of the Aberdeenshire Cup; while the Orion had been preparing by going for three mile runs twice per week, Stonehaven had not trained at all. Faced with such apathy from players and spectators alike, the club did not play senior football after 1892–93. After moving to Glenury in 1899, it only seems to have played one match, before dissolving. Colours. The club played in white shirts, with blue knickers in 1892–93 and white knickers in 1893–94. Ground. The club's ground was described as "Urie" or "the Urie Ground", perhaps referring to Urie Crescent, on the northern outskirts of the town. In 1899 the club moved to a new ground, Glenury, opened with a match against Melrose of Aberdeen. The ground became the home of the Stonehaven F.C. junior club.
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Dirkie de Villiers
Dirk Isaac de Villiers (20 July 1889 - 1 October 1958) was a South African rugby union international and first-class cricketer active in the 1910s and 1920s. He was a lawyer by profession. Biography. Born into a musical family in Wellington, de Villiers is the son of music institute founders Dirk and Tina de Villiers. His elder brother, the Reverend Marthinus Lourens de Villiers, composed Die Stem van Suid-Afrika, which used to be the national anthem of South Africa. Dirkie himself was said to be an accomplished violinist. A Cambridge-educated lawyer, de Villiers gained blues in rugby and was capped in three Test matches for the Springboks as a centre in the 1910 British Lions tour, scoring a try on debut. As a cricketer, de Villiers was an all-rounder and played at first-class level for Western Province and Orange Free State, the latter after the war. His best score of 200 not out, against Border in the 1923/24 season, was a then record for Orange Free State.
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Tamil Union Open Championships
The Tamil Union Open Championships also known as the Tamil Union Open was an open international men's and women's clay court tennis tournament founded in 1930 as the Tamil Union Championships. It was first organised by the Tamil Union Cricket & Athletic Club and first played on clay courts in Colombo, Ceylon then later Sri Lanka. The international tournament was played annually until 1973 when it was discontinued as part of the worldwide ILTF Independent Tour. History. In 1895 the Lanka Sports Club (f.1895) and in March 1899 the Tamil Sports Club was formed. In December 1899 both clubs merged to form the Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club. In 1920 a tennis section was established and three clay courts were built. In 1930 the Tamil Union Championships as an SLTA event. The championships became part of the ILTF World Circuit until 1969 (for men) and 1972 (for women). In 1970 the men's event was part of ILTF Independent Tour with the women's tournament joining that tour for 1 edition only in 1973. The event was downgraded from the annual worldwide tour but is still held today as the Janashakthi Life Tamil Union Open (for sponsorship reasons) a Sri Lanka Tennis Association ranking tournament.
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Friendship Oval
The Friendship Oval also known as Emilio Aguinaldo College Cricket Ground is an international cricket ground located in Dasmarinas, Philippines. In 2019, It hosted cricket matches between Philippines women national cricket team and Indonesia Women national cricket team
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Lahore Qalandars Players Development Program
Lahore Qalandars Players Development Program is a player development program of Lahore Qalandars that conducts cricket players' trials throughout Punjab. History. Established in 2016 by the Lahore Qalandars, the Lahore Qalandars Players Development Program identifies and develops emerging cricketers not previously integrated into Pakistan's domestic cricket system. Through this program, representatives visit various cities, conduct trials, and curate city-specific squads. These squads participate in a tournament overseen by Qalandars, with top performers progressing to further training at the Qalandars High-Performance Center (QHPC) in Lahore. The program has expanded to include both male and female cricketers. In the early stages of the program, selected squads played matches in Australia against Big Bash League teams, including the Sydney Sixers, Sydney Thunder, and Hobart Hurricanes. Players such as Haris Rauf, Usman Qadir, Salman Irshad, and Ghulam Rabbani subsequently received contracts with clubs in Australia, with Rauf later participating in the Big Bash and representing Pakistan. Affiliations. The Lahore Qalandars have also established affiliations with the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Yorkshire Cricket Club. Annually, two standout participants of the program receive training at the MCC. A player exchange agreement is also in place with Yorkshire. Matches between Qalandars and Yorkshire are scheduled yearly. Qalandars High-Performance Center (QHPC). Located in Lahore, the Qalandars High-Performance Center (QHPC) provides facilities such as gyms, astro and turf pitches, speed guns, and access to coaching personnel. In addition to physical training, it provides courses in various areas such as fitness, injury management, nutrition, doping regulations, game comprehension, conduct ethics, anti-corruption protocols, career strategies, sports psychology, and media communications.
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Hanif Mohammad Trophy
The Hanif Mohammad Trophy is a cricket event arranged by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), honoring Hanif Mohammad, a key figure in Pakistan's early cricket history. It's a way to pay homage to his skill, passion, and lasting impact on the sport. Format. The Hanif Mohammad Trophy is a four-day grade-II cricket tournament involving 10 regional teams during the domestic season. It acts as a stepping stone for regional teams to advance to the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, the top-level first-class competition. The winning team of the Hanif Mohammad Trophy earns promotion to the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, while the last-placed team in the first-class tournament is demoted to the grade-II event. Inaugural season (2023-24). The first season of the Hanif Mohammad Trophy was held during the 2023-24 domestic cricket season.