EAST RIDING CRICKET SOCIETY

Autumn will soon be upon us, but East Riding Cricket Society has an outstanding line-up of speakers to entertain local cricket fans throughout the winter in our convivial new home - the Brewery Bar, King William IV , Hallgate, Cottingham HU16 4BD. 7.30 for 7.45pm. Membership costs just £15 a year - join at any meeting. Guests £5 . For more information email ercsoc@gmail.com or telephone Maggie Sumner 01482 861848 Monthly prize raffle - £2/ticket - offers the chance to win vouchers for free tickets to watch Yorkshire CCC at Headingley in 2015 plus a host of other prizes. Please note our 2014 AGM will be held prior to our meeting on 8 October 2014 at 7.15pm . PROGRAMME 2014-15 2014 8 October - AGM / CricketYorkshire Q&A with cricket journalist and entrepreneur, John Fuller 12 November - Brian Halford , Birmingham Mail and author of The Real Jeeves , the award-nominated biography of Goole's Percy Jeeves, the Warwickshire all-rounder killed ...

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...

Jason Gillespie ,Yorkshire CCC's 1st Team Coach and Australian Test great, and Dave Callaghan , the voice of YCCC on BBC radio, will be presenting their Dizzy 'n' Dave roadshow at East Riding Cricket Society on Wednesday 26 February 2014 , 7.30pm for 7.45pm. Jason Gillespie and Glenn McGrath formed Australia's most statistically successful new ball pairing, and Jason is now one of the world's most highly regarded coaches, much talked about in recent days as a possible successor to Andy Flower. Happily for Yorkshire fans, he has restated his 100% commitment to the club. 'I'm going nowhere,' he said on Monday. 'I love being coach of Yorkshire and can't wait for the new season.' Find out more about his aspirations for Yorkshire in 2014, his take on England's Ashes debacle, his views on friend and team-mate Darren Lehmann, his best-ever 7-37 at Headingley or his celebrated 201* against Bangladesh in his final Test, the highest-ever ...

Stephen Mann , Chairman of the Yorkshire CCC Members' Committee , will be speaking at East Riding Cricket Society on Wednesday 8 January 2014 . Stephen was born, raised and educated in the West Riding. He watched his first county cricket at Bradford Park Avenue in the early 60's and made his first visit to Headingley with a school party for the 1962 Test against Pakistan, watching Trueman and Statham - and 2012 speaker Micky Stewart - take on the likes of Mushtaq and Hanif Mohammed. His playing days were spent in the Heavy Woollen leagues and in village cricket during a spell living in Scotland. Stephen joined the YCCC Members' Committee in 2005 and became Chairman that same year at only his second meeting. The Members' Committee represents members' interests to Yorkshire CCC and conducts a number of surgeries and open forums during the year. What's your experience of watching county cricket? What can Yorkshire and the ECB do to improve it? How can Yorks...

Ex Yorkshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire middle-order batsman John Sadler will be speaking at East Riding Cricket Society on Wednesday 11 December 2013 . Dewsbury-born John played alongside current Ashes stars James Anderson, Matt Prior, Ian Bell, Monty Panesar and Chris Tremlett at England Under-19 level, as well as Tim Bresnan, Andrew Gale and Michael Lumb with Yorkshire Seconds. He twice won the Twenty/20 trophy with Leicestershire in 2004 and 2006 and now captains Hoylandswaine in the Drakes Huddersfield Premier League. John is also a qualified ECB Level 3 coach, currently studying for his Level 4 and running his own business John Sadler Cricket , based at Ossett CC. Come and meet John at Humberside Police Sports Club, Inglemire Lane, Hull, HU6 8LE. 7.30 for 7.45pm. Prize raffle £2 with a chance to win vouchers for free tickets to watch Yorkshire at Headingley in 2014. Non-members always very welcome, £5 . For further information telephone Michael Hardwick on 01482 86...

Ex England and Warwickshire captain M.J.K. Smith will be our speaker on Wednesday 13 November. Captain of England in half of his fifty tests, including successive tours of India, South Africa and Australia in the mid-60s, Mike was later an England tour manager and international match referee. He is also England's last d ouble international, playing one match at fly half for England RU against Wales in 1956. His eagerly anticipated biography M.J.K. Smith: No Ordinary Man by Douglas Miller was released earlier this year. 'Mike is speaking all over the country this autumn and we're thrilled we can bring him to Hull,' said chairman Michael Hardwick. 'We're looking forward to a cracking evening.' Mike will speaking at Humberside Police Sports Club, Inglemire Lane, Hull HU6 8LE, 7.30pm for 7.45pm. Raffle prizes including vouchers for free tickets to watch Yorkshire at Headingley in 2014. Guests always very welcome - £5.

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...