From Ann Boulton
Everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame on your website! Brother-in-law Graham is at it now - he says not to forget he was the first player to score 100 in the Alliance.
And speaking of Kelsey, as we were, I was once there with East Halton when Neil Wright opened the batting and was there for 32 overs before he scored his first run. I can't remember if he got out - but as it was only a 40-over innings, probably not.
Editor's note: I played many times against the amiable Neil. He may have been a very slow scorer but I seem to recall he often finished on the winning side. He was the sort of player, and skipper, who couldn't see anything wrong in taking 39.5 overs to knock off 80-odd, especially if it deprieved the other side of a point or two along the way. Some of us, of course, just wanted to get to the pub as soon as possible and drown our sorrows!
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Neil was world champion for 10 years at the art of BROGGING. Developed by a tribe in the Jurassic age whereby a player would defend 3 sticks placed in the ground with a mammoths jawbone whilst other members would hurl hard boiled dodo eggs at the sticks. The champion Brogger would be the player that defended most eggs due to the fact that runs and boundrys hadn't been invented.
ReplyDeleteNeil was a direct decendent of that tribe said to have lived around the Kelsey area for thousands of years.
He once brogged away at one end for forty overs v Brigg and scored 8 runs. This would have been only 4 runs had the fielders not been asleep under the sightscreen for the last 15 overs of the match !!!
Needless to say Kelsey won in the last over.