EAST RIDING CRICKET SOCIETY

Great to hear from past secretary, chair and president Terry Frost. Our list of past speakers brought back many memories for Terry ... and he was also able to solve a mystery for us. Who was 1982 speaker A.W. Lawson? Thereby hangs a tale ... so we'll let Terry take up the story. 'At the time,' he writes, 'I was chairman and Harold Cook was secretary. Harold called me the day of the meeting to say that our speaker, the late Peter Roebuck, would not be coming to Hull due to illness! How could Harold and I possibly find a speaker for that night? After lunch we were faced with the daunting task of cancelling the meeting. Then, through my office door at Fenners, in walked Alan Lawson! Alan had just arrived from Heathrow, having landed from South Africa that morning. Alan, a director of Fenner South Africa and a close personal friend, was steeped in South African cricket at a time when it was was ostracised by the cricketing world. He was chairman of Old Edwardi

New to Pace and Bounce. We're proud to present the full list of all our speakers since Bill Bowes (pictured right) - the great Yorkshire fast bowler of the 1930s and later cricket correspondent of the Yorkshire Evening Post - first opened the batting in 1966. (An unusual experience you might think for a man with a first-class average of 8.60!) Plenty of great names among them. Click on the links to read more about a speaker, and watch out for future articles taking a year-by-year look at the society as we build up to our Golden Jubilee.