HERE INDOORS

It's a shame the Scunthorpe and District Indoor Cricket League is no longer operating at High Ridge Sports Hall, off Jackson Road.
It ran for many years, with several divisions, offering something a bit more competitive, and a lot more useful and enjoyable, than net sessions during the winter months.
Dream conditions, if you were a flighty spinner. For the batsman would lose the ball in the battery of lights at the far end of the hall. But somewhat tricky for the square-leg umpire, who was very much in the firing line.
Some great matches were contested - and must have improved running between the wickets by 100 per cent.
I can't remember quite when, or why, it all came to an end. Perhaps increasing costs; perhaps someone to run it all.
If a keen administrator could be found, how about trying to get it under way once again? I'm not offering to take on the role - but this website might play its part by judging whether any interest exists among the current crop of players.
The league was certainly going as far back as the mid-to-late 1970s when it was one of the first in the UK. For I recall writing a special feature on Scunthorpe indoor cricket for publication in Steel News, the national newspaper of the then British Steel Corporation (while on their PR staff, which I left in 1979).
There was even a national indoor competition, and I recall Normanby Park Works - in the days of Rick Burton and Co - getting to the finals one year.
Please post a comment here, now, if you think it's a good idea to get it going again.