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.

Yorkshire have what it takes to achieve success in their 150th anniversary season. That's the opinion of our latest speaker, Lancashire's assistant coach Gary Yates. Yorkshire have recruited well over the winter, reckoned Gary, increasing competition for places in the team with the signature of highly rated pace bowler Jack Brooks from Northants, and former England man Liam Plunkett from Durham. Lancashire too were interested in signing Brooks, he revealed, but they came off second best on this occasion. Gary also explained exactly why Lancashire's young players had managed to win the county championship in 2011, why they suffered unexpected relegation in 2012, and why he backed them to bounce back straight away in 2013. As coach to Lancashire's highly successful Second XI, Gary gave us a fascinating insight into modern coaching ideas and how he goes about developing aspiring test and county cricketers. As a spin bowler he provided an action close-up of the doosr

Many happy returns to Yorkshire County Cricket Club - 150 years old today! More on the club website , from Graham Hardcastle in the Graham Hardcastle in the York Evening Press, or from these links to the special Yorkshire Post 150th birthday supplement . Meanwhile new signing Liam Plunkett is heading off to Adelaide for a couple of months at the Darren Lehmann Cricket Academy , and Yorkshire are planning to follow Old Trafford's lead with a series of concerts at Headingley over the next couple of summers, subject to council permission. For more news updates and selected links to the best of cricket journalism  Follow @ERidingCricket

The Red Rose meets the White on Wednesday 9th January when Lancashire's Gary Yates will be crossing the Pennines to join us .  Educated at Manchester Grammar School, where England captain Michael Atherton was a classmate , Gary has spent his entire career with the Red Rose county and was awarded a well-deserved benefit in 2005 . 'Gary has been a loyal servant to Lancashire County Cricket Club, said then chairman Jack Simmons. [He] is just the sort of cricketer benefits were designed for. ' Playing alongside the likes of Atherton, Andrew Flintoff, Wasim Akram, John Crawley and Neil Fairbrother, Gary's economical off-spin and reliable lower order batting made him a key member of Lancashire's all-conquering one-day side of the mid-1990s, winners of the B&H Cup in 1995 and 1996, the Natwest Trophy in 1996 and 1998, and the AXA League title in 1998 and 1999. In fact, in company with wicket-keeper Warren Hegg, it was Gary who guided his

Enjoyable chat last week with John Fuller (pictured here with  Yorkshire's Gerard Brophy) whose Cricket Yorkshire website is essential reading for players and supporters alike. Interviews, features and reviews focus on cricket at both county and club level - John's Xmas present ideas and James Buttler's 2012 highlights are particularly good reads at the moment. John is busy working on a revamp of the site - due to go live next month - and is planning a feature on the East Riding Cricket Society, as well as interviews with some of our speakers. He's also keen to hear more from clubs across the county. So if any East Yorkshire club out there has a story to tell, contact John . 

Undeterred by the freezing weather, Jim Love made his way from Tadcaster to Hull last night for a really enjoyable evening. Jim's work as Regional Manager (North) for the charity Chance to Shine is keeping him very busy at the moment. Described by Minister for Sport Hugh Robertson as 'one of the most successful grassroots sports initiatives in this country', Chance to Shine aims to reverse the rapid decline in state school cricket experienced since the 1980s. The scheme has already given cricketing opportunities to over 1.5 million primary age children nationwide. And now with new funding from Sport England Jim and his colleagues are preparing to go into the secondary sector for the first time. It's a campaign which certainly means a lot to Jim, a one-time pupil at Brudenell School in Leeds, where a cricket-loving headmaster helped him take his first steps towards a professional career. Now Chance to Shine has produced its first county player in sixteen-year-old