EAST RIDING CRICKET SOCIETY

Join us for six winter meetings a year at Beverley Town CC – 7.30 for 7.45pm . Join at any meeting £15 | visitor £5 . Coming up : Mon 11 Nov, Jeremy Lonsdale on Bill Bowes ; Mon 25 Nov, Jack Brooks (Yorkshire, Northants & Somerset); Mon 9 Dec, Geoff Cook (England & Northants, Durham Director of Cricket. More speakers tbc ... Everyone welcome - no dress code, no formalities, just a great evening talking cricket .  To find out more please email: ercsoc AT gmail DOT com Recent guests include: Pat Murphy [ report ], Dr Jane Powell [ report ], Kevin Sharp [ report ], John Barclay [ report ], Jeremy Lonsdale [ report ], Dean Headley [ report ], Barry Richards [ report ], Vic Marks [ report ], James Carr [ report ], Graham Onions [ report ], Chris O'Brien on Neville Cardus [ report ], Paul Farbrace [ report ], Kevin Howells [ report ]

Pat Murphy – broadcaster, journalist and author of 40+ books, most recently BBC Sports Report: A Celebration – first entertained us in our Cottingham days, back in 2019, and his return brought another cavalcade of enjoyable tales. Now he introduced us to his ' Murphy XI ' dream team , all players he wrote with or about during his 47- book writing and broadcasting career . He took us at pace through his openers, middle order and all - rounders, then on to the bowling attack . All speed , no twirl in this particular side ! As you'd expect, there are some notable names in there : Graham Gooch, Alec Stewart, David Gower, Viv Richards, Bob Willis , Basil d'Oliveira, Ian Botham , Wasim Akram , Imran Khan , Mike Procter , Alan Donald. N ot to mention walk-on parts for Jeff Lynne, Eric Clapton and Elton John. I t 's clear that the worlds of cricket, sport , music and fame can collide in interesting ways ! A fter the break,

Journalist, author and broadcaster supreme Pat Murphy retired in 2017 from a full-time role with BBC Radio after almost fifty years reporting on cricket and football. Still to be heard on Sports Report every Saturday teatime, Midlands-based Pat covered international and county cricket, including home Tests from 1982 to 2017 - ending as he began at his beloved Edgbaston - and overseas tours from 1986 to 2007. Among his favourite memories are an exclusive in-depth discussion with Harold Larwood in 1987, and an hour-long live broadcast from the victorious England dressing-room at the Oval in 2005, after the Ashes had been regained for the first time in sixteen years. ' Champagne everywhere,' Pat recalls, 'yours truly swigging from a magnum ... courtesy of Marcus Trescothick ... No time to tell the players about matters of taste – but mercifully and memorably we got through it unscathed.' His dozens of books include bestselling biographies of Ian Botham and Brian Cl

Yorkshire CCC's Geoff Cope (plus guide dog Lester) - 2017 Steve Patterson , Mark Arthur , Andy Dawson , Mark Robinson OBE, Chris Lewis , Malcolm Nash , Pat Murphy , Alan Butcher ... get closer to the action this winter with East Riding Cricket Society . Two local stars lead the line-up: Steve Patterson is the newly appointed Captain of Yorkshire CCC, while Mark Robinson OBE is the World Cup- and Ashes-winning coach of the England Women's team. Released after six years in gaol for a drugs offence, former England all-rounder Chris Lewis is slowly rebuilding his life - playing, coaching and sharing his extraordinary story; Glamorgan all-rounder Malcolm Nash captained his county, scored the fastest-ever B&H Cup century, coached in the USA ... and fifty years ago bowled the celebrated over hit for Six Sixes by Sir Garfield Sobers - a first in senior cricket; BBC Radio 5 Live's Pat Murphy has covered all the big cricket and football stories in his thirty-year