Guest Speaker: Tim Tremlett

SATURDAY, 10TH OCTOBER 2026.

Tremlett, Timothy Maurice (376) born Wellington, Somerset 26.7.1956. His father played for England and captained Somerset, where Tim Tremlett was born, but the family moved to Hampshire, and he played for the 2^nd XI in 1973, just before his 17^th birthday. He was principally a medium-fast bowler in his early career, and in July 1976, made his first-class debut at Hove. It would be another year before his next Championship game, at Cardiff, but he began appearing in Hampshire’s limited-overs sides, and in 1978, as the departures of Richards and Roberts disrupted Hampshire’s season, he held his place in the side, playing in the match v Middlesex at Bournemouth as Hampshire clinched their second Sunday League title. When Richard Gilliat retired and the promising David Rock departed, Tremlett sometimes stood in as an opening batsman, in the early 1980s, and while he was predominantly a very fine county bowler, his Hampshire career brought 3,815 first-class runs at 21.31 with 18 half-centuries and one century, 102*, returning to Taunton in 1985, where he shared with Kevan James what was then Hampshire’s record eighth-wicket partnership of 227.

But it is for his bowling that he will be remembered, particularly and mostly as first-change in the 1980’s attack led by Marshall, in the decade when covered pitches became the norm. Had he bowled 20 or 30 years earlier he might well have opened regularly and taken considerably more wickets, but his record was nonetheless admirable. In a reduced programme of Championship matches he took 63 in 1983, followed by 71, 75, 43, and 72 in successive seasons. The latter was 1986 when his accuracy and control also made him Hampshire’s leading bowler as they won their second Sunday League title – he took 26 wickets at 18.00. In 1988, he suffered injury problems which would eventually curtail his career, and meant he missed Hampshire’s first Lord’s Final. By the next Final, he had joined and then succeeded Peter Sainsbury as Hampshire’s coach, before moving to Director of Cricket, and he is still at the club, after 45 years, in his capacity as Cricket Secretary. He took 445 first-class wickets for Hampshire at 23.44, and 252 in limited-overs matches, and he won selection on tours with the England Counties and ‘B’ sides – the equivalent of today’s Lions. He was known as ‘Trooper’, a reference to his immaculate appearance, and bearing, but he has too a mischievous side, and a sense of humour which often surfaced in the dressing room.