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john barclay - cricket society presidentHello, I would like to welcome you all to The Cricket Society Website.
The Cricket Society encapsulates all that is good and wholesome about the game. Watching cricket in lovely places amongst friends; absorbed by its rich literature; enjoying the Society's sociable atmosphere. The Cricket Society provides a healthy, fulfilling and enjoyable culture for lovers of the game. I am sure you will find something to interest you here on the website. Do contact John Symons, the web site editor or David Chapman, the web site manager if you have any suggestions about the site. If you are not a member, I would like to invite you to download an application form and join. If you have any membership queries contact the membership secretary, David Wood.
John Barclay


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winner chris waters
Photo credit: Clare Skinner/MCC 		  The Cricket Society And MCC Book Of The Year Award 2012
Please see the winners press release here.
Please see the shortlist and joint press release here.

Congratulations to Chris Waters on winning
The Cricket Society And MCC Book Of The Year Award 2012
with his book Fred Trueman, The Authorised Biography published by Aurum. Photos of the night are here.

Please read the review of his winning book here.

 

Cricket Symposium to be held at De Montford University June 12th 2012 (Please click for further details)
The International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester is opening-up to Cricket Society members its one-day cricket symposium on 12 June. There will be no charge to members, free tea and coffee on arrival, and refreshments from university campus outlets will be available for purchase during the lunch break. 

Tammy Beaumont – Most Promising Young Women’s Cricketer of the Year with Barney Gibson – Winner of the A. A. Thomson Fielding Prize   Please see Spring dinner photos from the night here.
Jack Mynott of Dauntsey's School, Wiltshire receives the Wetherall Award for Leading All-Rounder in Schools' Cricket in 2011 from Society President John Barclay, with Chairman Derek Barnard looking on..



film requestFilm request
A request for your footage for an impressionistic
film about English cricket in the 1960s from Michael Burns.







Ivo Bligh Grave restoredIvo Bligh Grave Rededication at Cobham in Kent
(click to see pictures from the day)
At a time of success in retaining the Ashes, it is appropriate to think back to how all this started, and in that context The Cricket Society has taken the lead in the restoration of the grave of the Honourable Ivo Bligh, who first brought back the Ashes urn to England. The story has also been covered in The Times Newspaper on 16th May 2011. An online version can be accessed here but a subscription is required to view it.


Cricket Society XI
Please see the 2012 fixture list and player application form here.


A History of The Cricket Society XI by Peter Hartland
The book relating the History of The Cricket Society XI is now available. It is a paperback with 115 pages, plus 16 central photographic pages.

Society XI Players records can be viewed here.