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:  23 Mar ANDY MOLES | 2025/26 programme: 27 Oct STEPHEN CHALKE [ report ] |  24 Nov OLLY HANNON-DALBY [ report ] |  4 Dec HARRY PEARSON [ report ] | 15 Jan WILL RHODES [ report ] | 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 Carr [ report ], Graham Onions [ report ], Chris O'Bri...

Our madam chair’s obvious wish to invite only tall speakers continues unabated, with Mr Rhodes also topping the 6’ mark. In addition to this excitement, the new Beverley Town sound system also made its first appearance, bolstered by two microphones from us. [And, as an aside, demoting our treasurer/sound engineer from his post behind the mixing deck. Brian is now confined to financial duties only!]. Will Rhodes last spoke to us as a Yorkshire player back in 2015, alongside Jack Leaning and the County Championship Trophy. In 2017 Will left Yorkshire for Warwickshire, captained the club from 2020 to 2023, won another County Championship and the Bob Willis Trophy, and has now moved to Durham. Although he seldom played at Beverley Town, his few memories are fond ones of good wickets and good matches. Club cricket was his route into a playing career. He moved seamlessly into the Yorkshire system – one trial and he was in. Will entered the Yorkshire academy with Jack Leaning and Al...

A rainy night, and another lofty speaker to dwarf our madam chair. After Olly Hannon-Dalby last month, we welcomed Harry Pearson –  award-winning author and journalist, and  one-time  Tall Man in a Low Land (according to the title of one of his books). Harry's books and articles cover various fields including cricket, football and cycling – many focused on grassroots sport and leisure in northern England (and in Belgium). Born and brought up on the edge of Teesside, he was a fearsome fast bowler in his day.  But, while  confident in his ability, he retired at 30, lacking the courage needed to play good league cricket and survive the on-field ‘commentary’ AKA sledging. And last summer he decided there was no chance of a return to action, when his first ball brought the keeper right up to the stumps. (Not that this deterred Boland and Neser in this winter’s Ashes, mind you!) Turning to George Hirst, Wilfred Rhodes and Schofield Haigh – the tri...

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...