Lee Nurse
Basingstoke & North Hants will be remembering their former captain Lee Nurse at a special 'celebration of life' day at May's Bounty on Sunday. Lee died from covid in April 2020, aged 43 years.
The memorial day will see international cricketing legend Sir Gordon Greenidge attending, alongside England all-rounder Phil Defreitas, South Africa left-armer Charl Willoughby, Shaun Udal, Julian Wood, Jon Hardy, Monty Lynch and David Nash.
Son of Leon Nurse, Lee was a classy batsman who as a teenage prospect in 1993/94 was selected to tour the West Indies with the West of England Under-15 schools, alongside representing Hampshire throughout the junior age groups and onto Hampshire second team.
Having cemented his place in the May’s Bounty first team for whom he scored almost 11,000 runs (18 hundreds and 56 half-centuries, plus 50 wickets), Lee went on to captain Basingstoke & North Hants, but left to join Finchampstead in 2006 when the Bountymen were relegated from the Home Counties Premier Division.
He was immediately made captain of Finchampstead, at the time describing his decision to leave Basingstoke as “the hardest I have ever had to make. I had to think long and hard about it. I've never played anywhere else and it is my club, where I have a lot of friends and family.”
Lee, who wore an infectious smile, played Minor Counties Championship for Berkshire between 1997 and 2006, having made two Bain Hogg Trophy appearances for Hampshire seconds against Somerset and Worcestershire in 1995.
Many of Lee’s former Berkshire team-mates will play at May’s Bounty in an 1100 T20. There will be a second 15 x 8 ball match mid-afternoon, starting at approximately 3.30pm. Admission is free, with the Reading Steel Band set to provide a Caribbean flavour to the occasion.
The memorial day will see international cricketing legend Sir Gordon Greenidge attending, alongside England all-rounder Phil Defreitas, South Africa left-armer Charl Willoughby, Shaun Udal, Julian Wood, Jon Hardy, Monty Lynch and David Nash.
Son of Leon Nurse, Lee was a classy batsman who as a teenage prospect in 1993/94 was selected to tour the West Indies with the West of England Under-15 schools, alongside representing Hampshire throughout the junior age groups and onto Hampshire second team.
Having cemented his place in the May’s Bounty first team for whom he scored almost 11,000 runs (18 hundreds and 56 half-centuries, plus 50 wickets), Lee went on to captain Basingstoke & North Hants, but left to join Finchampstead in 2006 when the Bountymen were relegated from the Home Counties Premier Division.
He was immediately made captain of Finchampstead, at the time describing his decision to leave Basingstoke as “the hardest I have ever had to make. I had to think long and hard about it. I've never played anywhere else and it is my club, where I have a lot of friends and family.”
Lee, who wore an infectious smile, played Minor Counties Championship for Berkshire between 1997 and 2006, having made two Bain Hogg Trophy appearances for Hampshire seconds against Somerset and Worcestershire in 1995.
Many of Lee’s former Berkshire team-mates will play at May’s Bounty in an 1100 T20. There will be a second 15 x 8 ball match mid-afternoon, starting at approximately 3.30pm. Admission is free, with the Reading Steel Band set to provide a Caribbean flavour to the occasion.
