RE: Corporate Counsel3 May 2024 16:59
Michelmores shortlisted for ‘Law firm of the Year: The Independents’ at The Lawyer Awards 2024
Michelmores has been shortlisted at The Lawyer Awards 2024 in the ‘Law firm of the Year: The Independents’ category.
The annual Lawyer Awards celebrate outstanding work and initiatives from across the legal industry. The judging panel includes industry experts from the Bar, Private Practice and in-house sectors. The ‘Independents’ category is open to any UK firms that appear in the current edition of The Lawyer UK 200: The Independents report.
https://www.michelmores.com/firm-news/michelmores-shortlisted-for-law-firm-of-the-year-the-independents-at-the-lawyer-awards-2024/
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Lucretuis, I don't know if you are old enough to remember this match?
Almost 40 years ago
Benson & Hedges Cup final of 1984
The valued duck
The opponents of Lancashire in the title round were an extremely strong Warwickshire side. Led by Bob Willis, they boasted in their ranks men like Alvin Kallicharran, Dennis Amiss, Chris Old, Norman Gifford and Gladstone Small.
But, when Abrahams inserted the Warwickshire men on a spicy Lord’s track, Paul Allott bowled his heart out. Left-arm seamer Stephen Jefferies provided adequate support and the batsmen found it extremely tough to negotiate the movement. Only Kallicharran, playing a supreme knock, scored a superlative 70 while the rest of the batting withered away. The vaunted batting line up could not last the stipulated 55 overs and were bowled out for 139.
In the field, Abrahams quietly led the side. He did not bowl his occasional off-breaks, caught Kallicharran at mid-wicket off Jefferies, and dropped a rank sitter at point.
He did little more with the bat. The skipper came in to bat with the score on 70 for three, snicked the third ball he faced to the wicketkeeper, and walked back for a duck. Apart from not scoring a run, he had also fallen to the part time medium pace of opening batsman Paul Smith.
Lancashire finally won the match by six wickets with 74 balls to spare, thanks to an unbeaten 69-run association between Neil Fairbrother and David Hughes.
However, the climax of the day was yet to take place.
The adjudicator for the Man of the Match award was the former England captain Peter May. And during the post-match ceremony he announced that the Gold Award would go to John Abrahams. The stunned players of the two sides pinched themselves. Abrahams himself was seen to mouth, “Who, me?”
And the man, who had turned 32 that day but had done little else, walked up to receive the Man of the Match award for his duck, a dropped catch and unbowled off-breaks.
Full read here
https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/adjudicator-peter-may-presents-lancashire-captain-john-abrahams-with-birthday-gift-209173/