EAST RIDING CRICKET SOCIETY

Enjoy six winter meetings at Beverley Town CC  – 7.15pm for 7.30pm  | Join at any meeting | Membership  £20  | Guests always welcome  £7     Next:  9 Feb   ARNIE SIDEBOTTOM  | Coming up: 23 Mar ANDY MOLES   2025/26 programme: 27 Oct STEPHEN CHALKE [ report ] |  24 Nov OLLY HANNON-DALBY [ report ] |  4 Dec HARRY PEARSON | 15 Jan WILL RHODES | 9 Feb ARNIE SIDEBOTTOM | 23 Mar ANDY MOLES   To find out more please email: ercsoc AT gmail DOT com Recent guests include:  James Taylor [ report ]  |  Kevin Howells |  Mark Ramprakash MBE [ report ] |  Geoff Cook [ report ] |  Jack Brooks [ report ] |   Jeremy Lonsdale on Bill Bowes [ report ]  |  Pat Murphy [ report ] | Dr Jane Powell [ report ] | Kevin Sharp [ report ] | John Barclay [ report ] | Jeremy Lonsdale [ report ] | Dean Headley [ report ] | Barry Richards [ report ] | Vic Marks [ report ] | James Ca...

Our  cricket society is quite capable of generating differences on occasion, although usually of opinion or viewpoint. For this meeting, we tried a slight change when we stood the visiting 6’ 8” Oliver Hannon-Dalby next to our (whisper it) slightly more petite chair and secretary, Maggie. A quite arresting visual! And quite an arresting speaker too.   Olly’s height undoubtedly gives him the command of the room. But, when combined with an interesting life story told in a straightforward and slightly self-deprecating manner, he held our attention completely. His first cricket match came at just 5 days old, when his mother took him to watch his father play. He took up the game aged 10 or 11 and has been involved in it ever since. As the only cricketer in a rugby-league playing school, an invitation to send pupils for trials at Huddersfield naturally went his way. He made his professional debut at the Oval in 2008, where his first wicket – that of M...