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Remembering Graham Cross' City Career

By davieG, in Leicester City Forum

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Spudulike

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When I first starting going as a kid, one of my earliest memories are sitting on the Main Stand enclosure wall with the other boys and Graham Cross right in front of me calling a linesman a twat. 

 

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st albans fox

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Just now, pazzerfox said:

I didn't realise he played first class cricket too!  That is some talent.

There were a few in the old days ....

 

I was too young to appreciate cross ......who of the defenders we had over the past twenty years would the slightly older posters liken him to ??

Dorkingfox

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Chris Balderstone also played cricket and football.

Leicestershire won their first-ever trophy in 1972, the inaugural Benson and Hedges Cup at Lords and Balderstone took the man of the match Gold Award. He scored 41 not out and steered the team to the trophy. This marked the beginning of a golden era for Leicestershire, with 5 trophies in 5 seasons, and Balderstone was at the core of the side.[3]

In 1973 Balderstone played his first full season of cricket and jumped right to the front-rank of English batsmen, making 1,222 runs at an average of 42. He passed the 1,000-run mark in 10 of the next 12 seasons, batting either in the middle order or as an opening batsman. His runs were an important part of Leicestershire's first county Championship success in 1975, and he weighed in with 43 useful wickets in that season too. In 1976, Balderstone was called into the England Test team to make his international debut aged 35 having focused in his younger days on football (Carlisle and Huddersfield)

 

 

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Dorkingfox

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Linekar was a great cricketer and golfer, he was good enough to get a career in cricket, may even have played for England, he was Leicestershire Schools cricket team captain,

 

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20 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

There were a few in the old days ....

 

I was too young to appreciate cross ......who of the defenders we had over the past twenty years would the slightly older posters liken him to ??

I have to say, i can't really remember him.  He's slightly before my time.  I will ask my Dad what sort of player he was.

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I remember seeing Cross at Grace Road taking a 1 handed catch on the boundary rope, think it was against the West Indies in a friendly, might be wrong though... 

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Went to his testimonial game cant remember which year or who against. 

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I also remember the tank the tank crossey is our daddy with a ...... 🙄

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55 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

There were a few in the old days ....

 

I was too young to appreciate cross ......who of the defenders we had over the past twenty years would the slightly older posters liken him to ??

Hard to compare really. When I first started going to Filbert Street he often played further forward than he did later. 

Him and and McLintock used to interchange constantly which used to baffle opponents in those days.

That midfield fluidity was a real innovation that City brought to the game,  and Cross was fundamental to it.

As he became older he dropped back more, but still moved well further forward. 

As for modern equivalents - hard to say really. Bit of Maguire maybe in his forays forward,  but a Crossy was a better defender. And faster. 

I often think we took him for granted a bit at Leicester. 

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1 hour ago, Dorkingfox said:

Chris Balderstone also played cricket and football.

Leicestershire won their first-ever trophy in 1972, the inaugural Benson and Hedges Cup at Lords and Balderstone took the man of the match Gold Award. He scored 41 not out and steered the team to the trophy. This marked the beginning of a golden era for Leicestershire, with 5 trophies in 5 seasons, and Balderstone was at the core of the side.[3]

In 1973 Balderstone played his first full season of cricket and jumped right to the front-rank of English batsmen, making 1,222 runs at an average of 42. He passed the 1,000-run mark in 10 of the next 12 seasons, batting either in the middle order or as an opening batsman. His runs were an important part of Leicestershire's first county Championship success in 1975, and he weighed in with 43 useful wickets in that season too. In 1976, Balderstone was called into the England Test team to make his international debut aged 35 having focused in his younger days on football (Carlisle and Huddersfield)

 

 

Other footballers/cricketers:

 

Arnie Sidebottom (father of Ryan) played for Yorkshire and Man Utd

Jim Cumbes played for Villa and Worcestershire

Ted Hemsley played for Sheff Utd and Yorkshire

Ian Botham played for Scunthorpe and Somerset

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52 minutes ago, String fellow said:

In the LCFC team photo shown above, he's on the back row, second in from the right. My hero is on the back row, second in from the left. 

Who's the bloke 3rd from the left,  between String and Rod Fern? 

Thought it was Munro, but maybe not...

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A True legend. Him and John Sjoberg were fantastic servants to this Club.  I just recall him going about the pitch doing his job and not saying very much.

 

He was in the Team for my first Leicester game - 4-2 win at Highbury.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Stoopid said:

Who's the bloke 3rd from the left,  between String and Rod Fern? 

Thought it was Munro, but maybe not...

? a young Malcolm Partridge

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1 minute ago, Foxes1 said:

I have at home somewhere the 45 rpm vinyl record they bought out, think it was for his testimonial

Leicester City vs Derby County 1974

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