An August Of Johnn Betjeman with Lance Pierson.
Lance Pierson who has performed his two "Sticky Wicket" compilations of cricket writing to members of The Cricket Society has planned a series of events celebrating the work of Britain's former Poet Laureate during August.
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Cricket Society Day at Canterbury on Wednesday 24th September 2008.
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Ravi Bopara presented with Wetherall Trophy. Click here for more details.
Former Kent Wicket Keeper Derek Ufton, who celebrates his 80th birthday on Saturday 31st May, was presented with a bottle of champagne, courtesy of The Cricket Society, in the Tunbridge Wells marquee of the Kent County Cricket Supporters Club during the match between Kent and Somerset on Friday 23rd May.
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Legend Lohmann beats Major and Warne to win Cricket Society Book of the Year Award
Surrey scorer and cricket author Keith Booth's biography of one of cricket history's great bowlers of the Victorian age - George Lohmann - has pipped ex-Prime Minister John Major's book about early cricket and Simon Wilde's biography of controversial Australian star Shane Warne to win the Cricket Society's
prestigious annual book award.
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A Tale of a Cricket Society member
Norman Grey lives in Peterborough and has over a long life been playing cricket the length and breadth of England. He recently realised that the only county in which he had not played was Durham. He had played to the north of it, the west of it and the south but not Durham. He had wisely not attempted to play to the east.
He knew nobody in Durham but he got hold of The Cricket Society and they know where to find a team short of a player. Chester-le-Street Cricket Clubs midweek side obliged and Norman achieved his full set on the evening of the 2nd July in a win over Komatsu. He played a key part in the victory with a run a ball 17 and a couple of wickets in the reply.
Also in the team was a man who hadn’t played in any English county. Brad Hopes, father of the club’s Australian pro, Ty Hopes, is visiting the area on holiday and played his first game in England and got the side off to a flying start with some elegant late cuts as he adapted to local conditions within a couple of balls.
Given the English summer Norman took the precaution of arranging a back up match. It was just as well that it only rained a little bit at Chester-le-Street as his team Davipart, managed only 15 balls against Sunderland QS on the 3rd July before the heavens opened and the game was abandoned. He didn’t get on the pitch.
Norman is pictured third from the right and Brad fourth from the right on the picture.
