By Stan Nicholson

14 June 2013

Sam Burge, received his CCC Cap from Simon Prodger, CCC Chairman of Cricket, to the applause of teammates, prior to the CCC Representative XI's match at Wanstead CC against a strong Indian side, Chemplast Sanmar.

Sam is the 250th Conference player to be awarded a Cap since 1948.

Prior to 1948 Caps were awarded to any player representing the Conference in a full representative match for the first time. Thereafter Caps were awarded (& numbered) at the discretion of the CCC Executive Council, although since the mid 1970’s they have mainly been awarded to players undertaking a major overseas tour.

With the CCC tour programme now mainly short tours to ICC Associate countries (although a major tour will occur in our Centenary year 2015), the CCC decided to award Caps to those who have played 25 or more Representative & Tour matches.

Sam has played 23 representative matches, plus 4 matches on the 2010 tour to Denmark, & 4 matches on the 2012 tour to Oman. Overall to date he has played 33 matches for the Conference, scored 959 run at an average of 36.88, with a highest score of 110.  He top scored for the Conference in the match against the MCC at Lord’s in 2011.

A full list of CCC Capped players since 1948 is here on our website. http://www.club-cricket.co.uk/capped_players