While chatting to Appleby-Frodingham Cricket Club chairman Mike Campion (pictured) the other day, in the Brumby Hall pavilion, the topic of Jacob Oram and twenty20 cricket came up.
Jacob - a key member of the New Zealand team in the current world tournament being played in the UK - first honed his skills in this type of cricket while turning out for the Scunthorpe steelworks club in the Broughton and District Evening League, which then played 14 or 16 eight-ball overs, rather than 20 x 6-ball.
Jacob came to this country as a young overseas player with App-Frod, very much as a batsman. But while playing in the Yorkshire League for our local side he developed the seam bowling side of his game.
These days, some pundits would regard bowling as being his strongest suit, though he's useful with the bat at Test level and in one-day forms of the game.
Lincs Cricket Latest would love to hear from clubs cricketers in the Scunthorpe area who remember playing against Jacob while he was with App-Frod.
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I remember playing with Jacob as an App Frod player and he was a joy to watch. He was a very attacking batsmen who had all the shots and when he hit the ball it stayed hit.
ReplyDeleteHe was not too happy when some of the senior members of the team was trying to take his attacking attitude away, but i am glad he went his own direction. Hope he goes from strength to strength.
Gagsy