EAST RIDING CRICKET SOCIETY

Test star Ashley Giles launched East Riding Cricket Society's Golden Jubilee programme on Wednesday 14 October with a wonderful evening of cricket chat at the King William IV, Cottingham. Quizzed by journalist Brian Halford, the ex-England spinner led a packed house from his idyllic Surrey childhood to the heart of England's nailbiting 2005 Ashes triumph - from defeat at Lords, via a view from the middle of Kevin Pietersen's crucial 158* in the final Oval Test, to celebrations on the steps of 10 Downing Street. Beyond the first-class game, Ashley was a proud team captain in the highest-ever cricket match, a 10-over affair played at 5,752m on Mount Kilimanjaro in September 2014. Battling altitude sickness and biting cold, with temperatures down to -20C, thirty climbers raised over £200,000 for charities including Cancer Research UK. Ashley and his wife Stine have also recently founded their own charity, the Giles' Trust , helping to fund brain tumou...

To mark the Centenary of the First World War , author and ex- Birmingham Post cricket correspondent Brian Halford will tell the story of The Real Jeeves , the young Goole cricketer Percy Jeeves . Plucked from country-house cricket in the Dales, the modest young Yorkshireman went on to outshine the greats of the Golden Age in just two seasons with Warwickshire - clean bowling Jack Hobbs, hitting Wilfred Rhodes for six and outclassing England captain Plum Warner. In September 1914 he bowled his adopted county to victory over champions Surrey. It was his 50th first-class match - and his last. Among the first to volunteer for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Percy was killed, vanished without trace, at High Wood during the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. But  his name lives on forever in the works of ardent cricket-lover PG Wodehouse . So impressed was Wodehouse by Percy's immaculate conduct and appearance during a match at Cheltenham in 1913 that he noted the...

Autumn will soon be upon us, but East Riding Cricket Society has an outstanding line-up of speakers to entertain local cricket fans throughout the winter in our convivial new home - the Brewery Bar, King William IV , Hallgate, Cottingham HU16 4BD. 7.30 for 7.45pm. Membership costs just £15 a year - join at any meeting. Guests £5 . For more information email ercsoc@gmail.com or telephone Maggie Sumner 01482 861848 Monthly prize raffle - £2/ticket - offers the chance to win vouchers for free tickets to watch Yorkshire CCC at Headingley in 2015 plus a host of other prizes. Please note our 2014 AGM will be held prior to our meeting on 8 October 2014 at 7.15pm . PROGRAMME 2014-15 2014 8 October - AGM / CricketYorkshire Q&A with cricket journalist and entrepreneur, John Fuller 12 November - Brian Halford , Birmingham Mail and author of The Real Jeeves , the award-nominated biography of Goole's Percy Jeeves, the Warwickshire all-rounder killed ...