Alan Rayment interviewed by David Rayvern Allen Part 1

Reference

MCC/AAL/3/84

Date:

2006-12-11

Level of description

item

Extent

1 CD: 70 minutes

Part of

David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)

Scope and Content

1 CD, Alan Rayment, cricketer, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 15 tracks.

Track 1: [0:00-0:30] Rayvern Allen introduces Alan Rayment, [0:31-4:23] Rayment talks about playing cricket as a boy for Finchley Cricket Club, playing for Middlesex Colts and being noticed by RWV Robins, [4:24-5:13] Rayment talks about playing for the RAF and being spotted by Sam Staples (coach of Hampshire) in a match for Middlesex 2nd XI against Hampshire.

Track 2: [0:00-3:14] Rayment talks about signing a contract with Hampshire, not being able to break into the Middlesex team and Desmond Eager paying him money to catalogue the Hampshire library, [3:15-4:17] Rayment talks about working as clerk for the estate of a Hampshire committee member.

Track 3: [0:00-2:13] Rayment talks about finding accommodation in Southampton and having to move due to having a baby, [2:14-5:31] Rayment talks about his ballroom dancing, playing the piano and singing in a choir.

Track 4: [0:00-0:49] Rayment talks about his ballroom dancing, [0:50-1:16] Rayment talks about being called up by the RAF, [1:17-2:50] Rayment talks about having a dance studio next to Hampshire's ground and hitting Richie Benaud into its orchard against the Australians in 1953, [2:51-4:57] Rayment talks about getting into trouble with Desmond Eagar over teaching dance classes, [4:58-5:12] Rayment talks about first moving to Southampton.

Track 5: [0:00-0:40] Rayment talks about fulfilling a childhood dream of playing cricket everyday, [0:41-1:24] Rayment talks about his second season at Hampshire and getting a reputation for batting well on bad wickets, [1:25-4:05] Rayment talks about being left out of the Hampshire side for his third season, [4:06-5:29] Rayment talks about being in psychotherapy in the 1980's.

Track 6: [0:00-1:17] Rayment talks about being psychotherapy and unleashing the anger he felt at being dropped, [1:18-3:49] Rayment talks about nearly emigrating to Australia, having an excellent 1952 season and getting his county cap, [3:50-4:32] Rayment talks about having no one to talk to about being dropped, [4:33-5:09] Rayment talks about not going to Australia and playing on until 1957 and establishing a successful ballroom business.

Track 7: [0:00-2:26] Rayment talks about a successful life in 1957 but discovering his wife had an affair and his heartbreak, [2:27-3:41] Rayment talks about having mystical experiences, joining a church on encouragement by David Sheppard and seeking answers for 25 years.

Track 8: [0:00-3:54] Rayment talks about trying to find out what had happened with his mystical experiences and discovering reincarnation, [3:55-4:33] Rayment talks about reading the work of Harry Williams, [4:34-5:28] Rayment talks about being reincarnated from several people, [5:29-6:13] David Rayvern Allen the talk back to 1957.

Track 9: [0:00-3:24] Rayment talks about his decision to retire from county cricket at the end of 1958 and speaking too much to a journalist about going to be a missionary in Africa, [03:25-4:20] Rayment talks about one of his finest innings at the end of the 1958 season.

Track 10: [0:00-0:20] Rayment talks about finishing is his career on a high note, [0:21-1:24] Rayment talks about his career having a great symmetry and being in the Who's Who for cricket, [1:25-1:40] Rayment talks about leaving country cricket with regrets.

Track 11: [0:00-3:17] Rayment talks about leaving country cricket with regrets, enjoying playing county cricket, seeing it it as his university and gaining experiences from visiting different places, [3:18-3:33] Rayvern Allen asks Rayment how he think he would do in modern era.

Track 12: [0:00-0:52] Rayment says he think he would do well in a modern cricket environment but being a purist at heart, [0:53-1:50] Rayvern Allen lists many of Rayment's different jobs, [1:51-3:29] Rayment talks about being against advertising, [3:30-3:53] Rayment talks about batting helmets, [3:54-4:07] Rayment admits to being an enigma, [4:08-5:05] Rayment talks about staying with his wife post-cricket career.

[Track 13: [0:00-2:34] Rayment talks about moving in Southampton and becoming a coach at Lord's, [2:35-5:28] Rayment talks about not being happy with the coaching system, working out how to help the boys and coaching the boys how to bat, [5:29-6:12 Rayment talks about telling the boys being against the way the coaching system works.

Track 14: [0:00-3:10] Rayment talks about being offered the chief coaching job by Harry Altham and Billy Griffith and declining it out of loyalty to Bill Watkins, [3:11-3:21] Rayment talks about playing his last match at Lord's, [3:22-3:53] Rayment talks about trying to sell aga's in Southampton, [3:54-4:39] Rayment talks about teaching dance lessons in Winchester and being asked to do some decorating.

Track 15: [0:00-3:02] Rayment talks about doing decorating in Winchester and standing in for a teacher at a prep school including coaching sports, [3:03-3:17] Rayment talks about playing captaining Hampshire 2nd XI's, [3:18-4:02] Rayment talks about becoming an estate agent and his children.


A back-up copy of this CD is included.

Associations

David Rayvern Allen
Alan William Harrington Rayment
Robert Walter Vivian Robins
Hampshire County Cricket Club
Edward Desmond Russell Eagar
Royal Air Force
Harry Surtees Altham
Stewart Cathie Griffith
William Richard Watkins

Subject

Australia in England 1953, coaching, Hampshire cricket

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 CD: 70 minutes

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