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East Riding Cricket Society 2023/24

Join us monthly at Beverley Town CC – Mondays or Thursdays, October to March, 7.30 for 7.45pm. £15 a year / £5 on the door.   Broadcaster, journalist and author Pat Murphy – one of the most distinctive voices in UK radio – closed our season in fine style on Monday 4 March.   Over five decades Pat has worked with and interviewed many cricket and football stars.    He's also published over over forty books, including the widely acclaimed BBC Sports Report: A Celebration – a sell-out on the night!  News of our 2024/25 programme will follow shortly. Meanwhile read more about our recent speakers here: 2023/24: Pat Murphy [report], Dr Jane Powell [ report ], Kevin Sharp [ report ], John Barclay [ report ], Jeremy Lonsdale [ report ], Dean Headley [ report ], Barry Richards [ report ] 2022/23: Vic Marks [ report ], James Carr [ report ], Graham Onions [ report ], Chris O'Brien on Neville Cardus [ report ], Paul Farbrace [ report ], Kevin Howells [ report ] Everyone welcome -

Meeting 13 February - Pat Murphy

Journalist, author and broadcaster supreme Pat Murphy retired in 2017 from a full-time role with BBC Radio after almost fifty years reporting on cricket and football. Still to be heard on Sports Report every Saturday teatime, Midlands-based Pat covered international and county cricket, including home Tests from 1982 to 2017 - ending as he began at his beloved Edgbaston - and overseas tours from 1986 to 2007. Among his favourite memories are an exclusive in-depth discussion with Harold Larwood in 1987, and an hour-long live broadcast from the victorious England dressing-room at the Oval in 2005, after the Ashes had been regained for the first time in sixteen years. ' Champagne everywhere,' Pat recalls, 'yours truly swigging from a magnum ... courtesy of Marcus Trescothick ... No time to tell the players about matters of taste – but mercifully and memorably we got through it unscathed.' His dozens of books include bestselling biographies of Ian Botham and Brian Cl

Winter programme - 2018/19

Yorkshire CCC's Geoff Cope (plus guide dog Lester) - 2017 Steve Patterson , Mark Arthur , Andy Dawson , Mark Robinson OBE, Chris Lewis , Malcolm Nash , Pat Murphy , Alan Butcher ... get closer to the action this winter with East Riding Cricket Society . Two local stars lead the line-up: Steve Patterson is the newly appointed Captain of Yorkshire CCC, while Mark Robinson OBE is the World Cup- and Ashes-winning coach of the England Women's team. Released after six years in gaol for a drugs offence, former England all-rounder Chris Lewis is slowly rebuilding his life - playing, coaching and sharing his extraordinary story; Glamorgan all-rounder Malcolm Nash captained his county, scored the fastest-ever B&H Cup century, coached in the USA ... and fifty years ago bowled the celebrated over hit for Six Sixes by Sir Garfield Sobers - a first in senior cricket; BBC Radio 5 Live's Pat Murphy has covered all the big cricket and football stories in his thirty-year