EAST RIDING CRICKET SOCIETY

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 ...

‘... when that officer returns after ... [finding] cocaine I know that, from that moment, everything is going to change.’ Born in Guyana in 1968, Chris Lewis arrived in the UK aged 10 and went on to play thirty-two Tests and fifty-three one-day Internationals for England. Yet this hugely talented all-rounder often felt at odds with the game, courting off-field controversies lapped up by the tabloids. After naming three England players allegedly involved in a match-fixing scandal, he drifted out of first-class cricket, aged just 30. In 2008 a surprise pay-as-you-play t20 contract with Surrey was ended early by injury, and later that year he was arrested at Gatwick Airport, tried and convicted of smuggling cocaine, and sentenced to thirteen years in gaol. Released in 2015, Chris is gradually rebuilding his life - playing, coaching and working with the Professional Cricketers' Association to better prepare current and future players for life after the game. His autobiography Cra...

Meet a true cricketing legend when Farokh Engineer heads to Cottingham on 14 March. In his new book Farokh, The Cricketing Cavalier , Farokh looks back at many magical moments with Lancashire and India though the 1960s and 1970s. 'He had the ability to lighten up the gloomiest Manchester day, whether on the pitch or off it,' says biographer Colin Evans, former cricket writer for the Manchester Evening News . Nowadays, 40 years after his retirement from the game, he is still warmly welcomed all over the world as an ambassador for cricket.'   Signed copies of Farokh, The Cricketing Cavalier will be available .   Plus win a 'Legends of Cricket' autograph bat , signed by some of the game's biggest names and raffled to raise fund for charities supporting Mumbai street children.   Join the conversation - everyone welcome !   £15 a year / £5 a meeting.   NEW MEMBER SPECIAL ! Join now for 2018/19 to enjoy free 2018 access to Emerald He...

Meet Yorkshire’s youngest-ever professional captain and current First XI Coach when Andrew Gale heads to Cottingham on 14 February. Aged just 26 when appointed skipper in December 2009, the Dewsbury-born batsman led the club to Championship triumphs in 2014 and 2015, before retiring after a 14-year playing career to follow Jason Gillespie as First XI coach. An aggressive left-hander, with 20 first-class hundreds to his name, Andew debuted in league cricket as an 8-year-old with Gomersal before continuing his development with the Yorkshire Academy. He played international age-group cricket from under-15 to under-19 level, including appearances at the MCG and SCG, and also skippered England Lions to t20 victory over a full England side in 2010.  Plus your chance to win a YCCC 2017 signed bat - names include England Test captain Joe Root , Jonny Bairstow , Gary Ballance , Ryan Sidebottom, Tim Bresnan, Adam Lyth, Adil Rashid, Liam Plunkett and more. £5 a ticket.   ...

Andrew Gale (l) / Martyn Moxon (r) Questions at the ready for Yorkshire CCC's own Martyn Moxon . After a distinguished playing and coaching career with Yorkshire, Durham and England, Martyn returned to the White Rose county in 2007 as Director of Cricket. Look back on a decade of on-field highs and lows, financial challenge and huge change in the game ... and forward to a new season, a revamped Headingley and a big city Twenty20 designed to rival the IPL and Big Bash. Lots to discuss in this New Year's Q&A ... Join the conversation - everyone welcome !   £15 a year / £5 a meeting    Venue : Brewery Bar, King William IV , Hallgate, Cottingham HU16 4BD - 7.45pm Map : here   Raffle : top prizes monthly - including YCCC match tickets   E: ercsoc@gmail.com / T: 01482 861848 PROGRAMME 2017-18   2017 11 October : David Smith , Warwickshire opener (1973-85); Chief Executive, Leics (2008-10), Northants (2012-14) 8 November : Geoff ...

Botham, Bairstow, Lehmann, Lloyd, Cowdrey, Stewart, Compton, Sidebottom, Butcher, Broad ... many top players have sought to follow in the footsteps of a famous cricketing father or grandfather. Through exclusive interviews with players, sports psychologists and genomics experts, James Buttler , the 'Cricket Badger', explores these father/son relationships in a revealing new book, Following On: in the Footsteps of Cricketing Fathers (Great Northern, 2017). Why is the sport so multi-generational and how does the weight of expectation affect a young player's progress?  Former Media Manager with Yorkshire CCC, and now a freelance sports journalist, author and broadcaster, James Buttler 's other works include Yorkshire CCC On This Day: History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year (2012) and Killer Instinct: Tales and Trials of Murderous Sports Stars (2015). He also presents his own Cricket Badger Radio Show . 'James Buttler has found a niche in...

Geoff Cope has been involved with Yorkshire cricket for over half a century. His story is full of ups and downs: early success followed by repeated bans for 'throwing' and time spent remodelling his bowling action; a Test match hat-trick snatched from his grasp by captain Mike Brearley at Lahore in 1977; his friendship with Colin Graves and part in the 'Gang of Four' that rescued Yorkshire from bankruptcy; and the gradual loss of eyesight through retinitis pigmentosa that now leaves him reliant on a guide dog. Geoff has long been one of cricket's most accomplished raconteurs, with a wonderful memory and a gift for bringing the past alive. Now, in his new biography, In Sunshine and in Shadow , he talks movingly and humourously about his life and the many characters he has known - Close, Boycott, Illingworth, Trueman, Wardle and all.  Signed copies of In Sunshine and in Shadow will be available on the night - price £16 (cash OR cheque payable to Geoff Cope)...