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THE Queen’s baton relay arrived at Winchester Sport and Leisure Park as part of the 294-day long commonwealth tour ahead of Birmingham 2022…
How late it went, Williamson was uncertain. “I don’t think I was the last man standing, so I’m maybe not the person to ask.” Williamson then had to farewell his team-mates and hand over the International Cricket Council Mace, which had its own seat on the plane as Tim Southee carried it on for the flight home which left early on Friday (NZT). The skipper, Devon Conway (Somerset), Kyle Jamieson (Surrey) and Colin de Grandhomme (Hampshire) remain in England to play the Twenty20 Blast, or in Williamson’s case The Hundred with Birmingham Phoenix, scheduled to start on July 21.
The area around Hambledon has been inhabited from earliest times and worked flints and traces of Iron Age barrows have been found here, as well the remains of a Roman villa. However, the village is best known for cricket and, although the game may not have been invented here, Hambledon has been called the ‘cradle of cricket’ because this is where the rules were first standardised. Today, a commemorative stone stands on the village’s Broadhalfpenny Down, which was the original pitch of the Hambledon Cricket Club. Just opposite is the Bat and Ball Inn, which used to house the clubroom for...