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Bill Alley interviewed by Ralph Dellor



Reference
MCC/AAL/3/132
Date:
1990
Level of description
item
Extent
1 CD: 59 minutes 10 seconds
Part of
David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)
Scope and Content
1 CD, Bill Alley, cricketer, interviewed by Ralph Dellor. The CD consists of 12 tracks.

Track 1: [0:00-0:14] Opening jingle, [0:15-1:41] Introduction and brief biography by Dellor, [1:42-2:15] Alley talks about playing cricket as a boy, [2:16-3:07] Alley talks about not coming from a cricketing family, having good hand/eye coordination and playing other sports, [3:08-3:42] Alley talks about moving to Blackpool and watching Stanley Matthews play football, [3:43-5:04] Alley talks about his boxing career.

Track 2: [0:00-2:07] Alley talks about making the New South Wales cricket team, not making the Australian Test Team and moving to England to play for Colne Cricket Club, [2:08-4:23] Alley talks about missing out on the 1946 Australian tour to New Zealand and his wife giving his clothing to Ernie Toshack.

Track 3: [0:00-4:02] Alley talks about playing league cricket for Colne Cricket Club, moving to and playing for Blackpool Cricket Club and the possibility of playing county cricket.

Track 4: [0:00-1:03] Alley talks about not getting a longer contract with Blackpool and moving to Somerset, [1:04-2:52] Alley talks about being rejecting a contract by Lancashire, [2:53-3:24] Alley talks about signing for Somerset.

Track 5: [0:00-0:48] Alley talks about who else he played with at Somerset, [0:49-2:14] Alley talks about fitting in at Somerset and having a good batting attack but never being able to bowl sides out, [2:15-4:15] Alley talks about converting himself to an all-rounder in league cricket, taking collections and the tough nature of matches.

Track 6: [0:00-2:36] Alley talks about bowling Tom Graveney out when he close to getting a century and being very talkative during a match, [2:37-4:13] Alley talks about players avoiding talking to him.

Track 7: [0:00-2:15] Alley talks about talking back to Fred Trueman and becoming friends with him, [2:16-4:51] Alley talks about his 1961 cricket season including taking a mysterious tablet.

Track: 8: [0:00-1:47] Alley talks about missing out on 3,000 runs and 100 wickets in 1961 and being the oldest player to get the double in 1962, [1:48-2:26] Alley talks about never knowing what were in the pills he took in 1961, [2:27-5:29] Alley talks about playing against Australian tourists.

Track 9: [0:00-4:01] Alley talks about going on commonwealth tours under the leadership of George Duckworth and Freddie Brown and visiting an Indian doctor, [4:02-5:45] Alley talks about operations on his knees.

Track 10: [0:00-3:40] Alley talks about playing county cricket until he was 49 and people not believing his age, [3:41-4:44] Alley talks about why he stopped playing for Somerset, [4:45-6:59] Alley talks about being a first-class and Test umpire.

Track 11: [0:00-0:14] Alley talks about doubting anyone enjoyed playing or umpiring cricket more than he did, [0:15-1:47] Alley talks about being made a Test Match umpire and wanting to do a Test Match at Lord's against Australia with Cec Pepper which Billy Griffith refused., [1:48-3:44] Alley talks about umpiring his first Test Match and dealing with Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson, [3:45-5:40] Alley talks about how he is perceived in Australia.

Track 12: [0:00-0:56] Alley talks about Geoffrey Boycott trying to sign him for Yorkshire, [0:57-2:28] Alley compares himself with Ian Botham, [2:29-3:12] Alley talks about Somerset should have done better with Ian Botham, Viv Richards and Joel Garner, [3:13-4:50] Alley talks about his relationship with Somerset, [4:51-5:05] Closing jingle.

A back-up copy of this CD is included.
Associations
William Edward Alley
Ralph Dellor
Colne Cricket Club
Sir Stanley Matthews
Ernest Raymond Herbert Toshack
Blackpool Cricket Club
Somerset County Cricket Club
Brian Anthony Langford
Sir Donald George Bradman
Thomas William Graveney
Frederick Sewards Trueman
Commonwealth Cricket Team
George Duckworth
Frederick Richard Brown
Cecil George Pepper
Stewart Cathie Griffith
Dennis Keith Lillee
Jeffrey Robert Thomson
Geoffrey Boycott
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Sir Ian Terence Botham
Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards
Joel Garner
Subject
Australia in New Zealand 1945-1946, football, boxing, Somerset cricketers, county cricket, Lancashire League Cricket, all rounders, Commonwealth tours of India, county cricket, umpires, umpiring
Conditions governing access
Open
Language
English
Size
1 CD: 59 minutes 10 seconds
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