Washington Post Mentions Chipping Sodbury Cricket Club
Article Date: 24th October 2004
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Well the last couple of months have yielded some unusual mentions in the UK's media for CSCC. First the Daily Telegraph and then BBC Test Match Special, I thought it couldn’t get any more bizarre.
That was until we appeared in the Washington Post on Monday 18th October 2004. Ok, this was a bit of my doing, but I didn’t really expect CSCC to make it into a USA newspaper, with a readership of around 5,000,000. I suppose it gets our name out there though! I wonder if we’ll have any Yanks playing for us next year......
Anyway a brief explanation behind our mention. I was just searching on the web, as you do, and saw that a Washington Post journalist had mentioned Chipping Sodbury in his column. The column had a pretty weird subject which looked into the reasons behind why buildings had certain addresses………hmmmm.
Washington Post Extract - 11th October 2004
“What you should know about housing numbers is that there's a system. Without a system, you would be in bedlam. (Or you would be in England. [I have] an aunt there who once lived in a house with the street address "The Cottage." That's it: The Cottage. Of course, what do you expect from a country that names its town things like Chipping Sodbury and Leighton Buzzard?)”
Anyway latching onto this mention, I sent the journalist an email and received one back. Among other things he mentioned his surprise when his daughters came back from school saying they had been playing cricket in PE with plastic bats.
Good to see the Yanks having a go! Anyway the email led to a further mention in the Washington Post which you can see below.
Washington Post Extract - 18th October 2004
“Last week in [my] column about how new addresses are determined, [I] made the most fleeting of lighthearted references to two oddly named English towns: Leighton Buzzard and Chipping Sodbury.
The ever-alert Amy Williams, a deputy news editor with GWR, a British radio conglomerate that has a station serving the greater Leighton Buzzard area, happened upon the column......
...Then Mark Reynolds wrote in to say that he not only plays for the Chipping Sodbury Cricket Club but was born at the Chipping Sodbury Cottage Hospital, the same hospital where author J.K. Rowling was born.
It is a small world after all.”
Come on people, you have to say some unusual stuff to get into national newspapers, me and J.K go back years you know.
