EAST RIDING CRICKET SOCIETY

Matthew Wood , the former Yorkshire opener, will be the guest of East Riding Cricket Society on Wednesday 12  March .  Huddersfield-born Matthew first achieved prominence with England Under-19s, touring Zimbabwe in 1995-6 when he opened the batting with a certain Andrew Flintoff. Matthew made his  Yorkshire debut in 1997 and starred in the club's 2001 Championship-winning team, making four centuries during that memorable season, including a first-innings 124 against Glamorgan at Scarborough in the match which secured the trophy. Matthew followed this up with a winning 2002 C&G Final appearance (pictured above) and two Academy tours of Australia – alongside past and present Test men Flintoff, Andrew Strauss, Graham Swann, Ian Bell, Steve Harmison, Rob Key and Monty Panesar – while 1,400 runs and five centuries in a superb 2003 brought him the much-coveted title of Yorkshire's Player of the Year. After a short spell with Glamorgan, Matthew retired in 2009 and...

Aussie Test bowler and current Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie is just one of the star names lined up for the East Riding Cricket Society this winter. Alongside Gillespie will be England captain MJK Smith , Yorkshire opener Matthew Wood , YCCC Members' Committee chair, Stephen Mann and award-winning journalist Graham Hardcastle - cricket correspondent of the Telegraph and Argus and York Evening Press - who opens the batting on Wednesday 9 October. Members old and new are welcome to our monthly meetings at Humberside Police Sports Club, Inglemire Lane, Hull HU6 8LE, 7.30pm for 7.45pm. Membership costs just £15 a year, a single meeting £5. For more information telephone chairman Michael Hardwick on 01482 861228 or follow us on Twitter. Please note our 2013 AGM will be held prior to this meeting at 7.15pm.  An invitation to spend the winter Down Under means that Andrew Gale will be unable to join us as planned on 11 December and now hopes to visit the society at...