Broughton's 1978 crop of intermediates who saw duty in a cup final against Nuform at the Cemetery Road ground in Scunthorpe - home to Redbourn, Appleby-Frodingham 3rds and later Normanby Park Works. Broughton's Neil Simpson reveals his club's youngsters won this final by 10 wickets "courtesy of Simon and Dobber knocking off 62."
Back row: Mark Rawlins, Paul Lawson (now back playing in the Lincs prem for South Kelsey - by the way), Russ Bunyan, Bri Darker, Carl Clark (Shaun's Dad) and Rick Wilmot.
Front row, Dobber, Mick Bunyan, Simon, Kev Clark (Shaun's Uncle), Ian Bunyan.
For the benefit of the few Lincs Cricket Latest followers who might not know Dobber - he's ex-Lincolnshire Minor Counties keeper Nigel Dobbs, now keeping again for Broughton in the top flight of the Lincolnshire League. It always seems to amuse the Broughton lads when we mention his service with the county side, but you can't re-write history, or argue with the facts.
Neil Simpson might wonder what's happened to the orange he of his original picture. We've removed it with a bit of Adobe Photoshop trickery. However we are unsure whether the 'cast' should have remained on the pic, as it helps to add a nostalgic feel to the image. This pic, and others from Neil's collection, are earmarked to appear in the next issue of Nostalgia magazine, produced by the Scunthorpe Telegraph, and published on September 1. There's usually some cricket content in this popular publication, which hits the shops most months, priced 75p.
hahahahahaha !!!! "ex minor county mbe lincolnshire former total hero 'sorry nige' dobbs who used to keep wicket for the county and broughton under 18's circa 1878"
ReplyDeletethough hes right ......u cant argue with the facts.....!!!!!! awesome stumping today, there wont be a keeper in the league who could affect a stumping of a delivery like that when stood up to paul clark!!!! and nobody springs to mind who would be capable of standing up to paul clark on any wicket at any time..........shame the rest of us cant back it up when we bat!!!!!! as crawf would say "sorry nige"....!!!!!
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