Re: So who's allowed to lay charges again?

On Mar 2, 10:21 pm, "dechucka" <dechu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Southpaw" <arbi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Mar 2, 9:20 pm, Mike Holmans <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 20:52:24 -0800 (PST), Southpaw <arbi...@xxxxxxxxx>
tapped the keyboard and brought forth:

Incidentally, since you brought up this link, I believe the company is
Sunridges Sporting Goods. (Unless they've changed their name
recently.) And I don't believe I saw a single press report from
anywhere mention this name right.

I think this goes to show how poor cricket journalism really is these
days. This is a fairly popular brand in India - certainly among the 3
or 4 most visible brands of cricket goods. A brand you'll encounter
pretty much in your first club game, for example.

This is a brand that supplies the wicket-keepers of the top 2 test
playing nations in the world. Has in the past supplied several test
cricketers. VVSL's 281 was made with an SS bat, for example, and as is
bat manufacturers' wont, the company went on to release a model called
the SS 281. From what I read, not a single English language newspaper
anywhere got the name right. And it's not some weird vernacular name
either - it is "Sunridges" - a combination of two fairly common
English words. (Yes, Andrew, "sun" is actually a word, although you'll
have to leave NZ to figure out what it means.)

However, the English Surridge brand has been supplying the world's top
cricketers for fifty years and more. They look similar if you're not
reading very closely, and I confess I would have assumed Sunridge was
simply a typo for Surridge without your explanation.

Cheers,

Mike, waiting to hear about the Koolaburra cricket ball commonly used in
Indian club cricket....

+Well, Sunridges has been around for at least 20 years AFAIK. We often
used to wonder if they started as a knock-off and suddenly became a
brand of their own. Knock-offs being a popular business in India and
all - I

Like other sports players they wear the brand but don't necessarily wear the
gear. OT years ago playing rugby. First year playing senior level I went to
my footy boot supplier who asked what company was sponsoring my team and
promptly put the correct number of stripes on my boots.Aren't logos
wonderful.

Certainly true at the amateur level. A Slazenger sticker was as
valuable as a Stuart Surridge bat among my friends. Stuart Surridge
was used by various pretenders like Gooch, whereas the Slazenger V100
was The King's bat of choice.

Stuart Surridge was in fact a much-mocked foreign brand in India. Not
too many non-Englishmen used it after all. Several West Indians (e.g.
Haynes) and Australians used Gunn & Moore bats as did Vengsarkar.
Gavaskar used Duncan Fearnley, later switching to Gray Nicolls and
finally SG. (He may have used SS or Symonds earlier in his career but
not while I was following cricket.) And of course Viv used Slazenger.
Greenidge used SS for a while, but he was no Richards. Another popular
brand was Symonds, who used a charging rhino as their emblem.

-Samarth.
.

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