EAST RIDING CRICKET SOCIETY

Enjoy six winter meetings at Beverley Town CC  – 7.15pm for 7.30pm  | Join at any meeting | Membership  £20  | Guests always welcome  £7  |   Next:  4 Dec HARRY PEARSON  | Coming up: 15 Jan WILL RHODES | Feb TBC | 23 Mar ANDY MOLES  | 2025/26 programme: 27 Oct STEPHEN CHALKE [ report ] |  24 Nov OLLY HANNON-DALBY |  4 Dec HARRY PEARSON | 15 Jan WILL RHODES | Feb TBC | 23 Mar ANDY MOLES   To find out more please email: ercsoc AT gmail DOT com Recent guests include:  James Taylor [ report ]  |  Kevin Howells |  Mark Ramprakash MBE [ report ] |  Geoff Cook [ report ] |  Jack Brooks [ report ] |   Jeremy Lonsdale on Bill Bowes [ report ]  |  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 ] |...

We kicked off the 2025/6 season with a corker of a meeting. Our speaker was Mr Stephen Chalke, the prolific and prize-winning author, oral historian and publisher, who last visited us in 2011 during our days in Hull, at the old Humberside Police Sports and Social Club. Although based in Bath, Stephen has worked on and with many YCCC players over the years, including Bob Appleyard, Geoff Cope, George Hirst and Ken Taylor, and in his latest book, One Hell of a Life (the 2024 Wisden Book of the Year), he turns his attention to the great Brian Close. After a welcome by Simon Foster and a brief intro from Maggie, we were off - and rapidly too.  Stephen is a fount of information and stories – many of them humorous, but some more sombre in character.  This is largely because his subject Brian Close is such an interesting and multi-faceted personality, including darker aspects that were not ignored. Stephen was first drawn to Brian in 1963, at the age of just 15...