MINOR COUNTIES REMEMBERED

Trip down memory lane with Lincs

"Yours truly" has just been confirmed as guest speaker at the Lincolnshire Cricket Lovers' monthly get-together on Thursday, November 12, 7.30pm, at Cleethorpes CC.
My topic this time will be Minor Counties Cricket - Home and Away, Players and Grounds. Non-members are welcome at the Chichester Road venue, and you can pay the small entrance fee required on the night.
The talk will focus on my years spent covering Lincolnshire's Minor Counties games - home and away - from 1984-90. For some of that time, overseas stars were permitted, and a number of Test players appeared against Lincs. In our own line-up at the time were the likes of Geoff Robinson, Harry Pougher, Dave Marshall, Pete Wood, Bob Leafe, Dave Allen, Jim Quincey, Paul Butler, Nigel Dobbs (pictured), Rick Burton, Neil Priestley, Steve Braithwaite, Mark Fell, Paul Todd, Dave Gilbert, Tim Hopper...and many, many more.
Among the away grounds was Bignall End (try SatNav on that one!) and Knypersley (where we were offered a trip round a coal-mining museum), while home fixtures were then played regularly at the incredibly rural Burghley Park (right on the border with Cambridgeshire).
This will be the second time I've been called in to substitute for the Cricket Lovers this year, following unexpected unavailability of the original speakers.
My earlier talk looked at Characters of Lincolnshire Club Cricket.
If you want to know more about the Cricket Lovers, or to take out membership, follow this email link to Ann Boulton LCL INFO