EAST RIDING CRICKET SOCIETY

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 ...

‘... when that officer returns after ... [finding] cocaine I know that, from that moment, everything is going to change.’ Born in Guyana in 1968, Chris Lewis arrived in the UK aged 10 and went on to play thirty-two Tests and fifty-three one-day Internationals for England. Yet this hugely talented all-rounder often felt at odds with the game, courting off-field controversies lapped up by the tabloids. After naming three England players allegedly involved in a match-fixing scandal, he drifted out of first-class cricket, aged just 30. In 2008 a surprise pay-as-you-play t20 contract with Surrey was ended early by injury, and later that year he was arrested at Gatwick Airport, tried and convicted of smuggling cocaine, and sentenced to thirteen years in gaol. Released in 2015, Chris is gradually rebuilding his life - playing, coaching and working with the Professional Cricketers' Association to better prepare current and future players for life after the game. His autobiography Cra...