W ell, there we were! We few, we happy few, we band of cricket fans – and not so few either. Around 7pm the gathering started, culminating in around 45 of us. Familiar and welcome faces, new and equally welcome ones too. The return of the smiles and greetings we’d missed out on. In a new venue, too. Thanks to Simon Foster, we reconvened in Beverley Town CC's clubhouse alongside the pitch and scoreboard – how appropriate. New venue, new private bar, new meeting day – and miraculously Brian's new confident handling of the PA system. I think he spent the last two years practising! Same format though, same expectations of a night of cricket talk and the airing of some robust opinions. Not wrong there, then. Mr Kevin Howells kicked us off for the new season – one of the voices of cricket. Familiar tones, familiar passion for the game expressed honestly and fluently. Essentially he dwelt on three themes during the course of the evening: intertwined and revealing o
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