It was a bit odd having our first meeting in November rather than October but Jeremy Lonsdale was well worth the wait. He began by reminding us that we were celebrating the 60th birthday of East Riding Cricket Society, almost to the day. Our first meeting was held in Jackson's Ballroom, Hull on 4 November 1964, with the Hull Daily Mail reporting that over 100 attendees gathered to listen to Yorkshire great Bill Bowes. And who was Jeremy talking about in 2025? None other than that very same cricketer – now the subject of Jeremy's biography, An Unusual Celebrity: the Many Cricketing Lives of Bill Bowes , shortlisted for the Cricket Writers' Book Award 2024. Perhaps a coincidence – or perhaps a cunning plan. Bill made his first-class debut for MCC in 1928, for Yorkshire in 1929 and for England in 1932, taking 68 wickets over 15 Tests. Meanwhile his first-class total of 1639 wickets at 16.76 (bettering the career average of S F Barnes) and 1531 runs at 8.6...
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