EAST RIDING CRICKET SOCIETY

Alan Butcher - March 2019 A packed house enjoyed a superb evening with March speaker Alan Butcher [left]. Great stories, sharp analysis and an all-action replay of a Michael Holding over - terrific stuff! Thanks also to Alan, fellow speakers and members and friends old and new for a memorable winter. Among many other highlights: Malcolm Nash - on his 'Six Sixes' duel with Garry Sobers; Chris Lewis - from World Cup Final to prison cell; Mark Robinson OBE - on the challenges of coaching elite women's sport; Steve Patterson - on his pride in the YCCC captaincy and plans for his new, young team; Pat Murphy - on a kaleidoscope of names from fifty years in journalism and broadcasting.   East Riding Cricket Society is flourishing in its comfortable home - the Brewery Bar, King William IV , Cottingham - with more top speakers lined up for 2019/20 .  Getting 'closer to the action' are: Nathan Leamon : England Test, 1-Day and T20 analyst; ECB Lead f

Part of a cricketing family which includes his sons Mark (Surrey & England) and Gary (Glamorgan & Surrey) and brothers Ian (Leics & Gloucs) and Martin (Surrey), Alan Butcher played just one Test and one ODI in his 20-year first-class career, scant reward for this stylish Surrey and Glamorgan opener, named in 1991 among Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year. On retirement Alan took on coaching roles with Essex and Surrey, returning again to The Oval in 2006 as Head Coach. But his greatest challenge came during his time as Head Coach of Zimbabwe (2010-13), presiding over the national team's return to Test cricket after a self-imposed six-year exile. Alan recounts his experiences in The Good Murungu - shortlisted for the Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year Award- describing how he fashioned a team out of a dispirited and disillusioned group of players, and offering a fascinating insight into sport and society in this beautiful but troubled country. Signed copi

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

Enjoy a special start to 2019 with the welcome return of the East Riding's own Mark Robinson OBE . The ex Yorkshire seamer coached Sussex to Championship, 50-Over and t20 titles, led England Lions on overseas tours and in 2015 became Head Coach to England Women - World Cup winners in 2017 and recently World t20 finalists. Everyone welcome - no dress code, no formalities, just great cricket chat ! £15 a year (with free match-day access to Emerald Headingley's East Stand & Long Room) / £5 a meeting  ** NEW YEAR OFFER ** 2018/19 membership still available - just £12 !     Venue : Brewery Bar, King William IV , Hallgate, Cottingham HU16 4BD, 7.45pm Map : here   Raffle : top prizes monthly - including 3 pairs of YCCC match ticket vouchers   E: ercsoc@gmail.com / T: 01482 861848 PROGRAMME 2018/19 2018 10 October : Chris Lewis (Surrey, Leics, Notts & England) 14 November : Steve Patterson , Mark Arthur & Andy Dawson (YCCC) + AGM

Fifty years ago, at Swansea on 31 August 1968, Sir Garfield Sobers hit 'Six Sixes' in one six-ball over - the first player in senior cricket to achieve the feat. But who was the unlucky bowler? None other than Glamorgan all-rounder, and later captain, Malcolm Nash . Join Malcolm to relive an iconic moment in cricket history - by chance recorded for posterity by BBC Wales (watch here ); learn more about his bowling and his own feats as a big-hitter (four consecutive sixes in one over, plus the fastest-ever century in the B&H Cup); and enjoy great stories of cricket in the 60s and 70s, many featuring the all-conquering Yorkshire team of that era - Close, Trueman, Boycott, Illingworth et al.    Signed copies of Malcolm's autobiography - Not Only, But Also: My Life in Cricket (St David's Press, May 2018) - will be available . Read more in interviews with Gareth Griffiths, BBC Sport Wales [ here ]; Lawrence Booth, Daily Mail [ here ] ‘A thoughtful a

A fter a great start to the winter, with a well-merited full house for England all-rounder Chris Lewis , now is the time to talk all things Yorkshire CCC with captain and local boy Steve Patterson , Chief Executive Mark Arthur and Commercial Director Andy Dawson . New-look team, new main stand, Ashes and World Cup cricket in 2019, franchise cricket in prospect ... these are lively times at Headingley. Take the chance to put your views to the club's top names. Everyone welcome - no dress code, no formalities, just great cricket chat ! £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 3 pairs of YCCC match ticket vouchers   Note: the 2018 AGM will precede this meeting at 7.15pm . Early arrivals welcome but voting restricted to current members only.  E: ercsoc@gmail.com / T: 01482 861848 PROGRAMME 2018/19 2018 10 October : Chris Lewis (Su

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