FORMER ENGLAND BATSMAN DENNIS AMISS TO BE GUEST OF LINCOLNSHIRE CRICKET LOVERS AT CLEETHORPES MEETING

A cricketing legend who has enjoyed more than 50 years in the game is the guest at the December meeting of the Lincolnshire Cricket Lovers’ Society, writes ANN BOULTON.

Dennis Amiss MBE will be at Cleethorpes Cricket Club on December 11 to talk about his long career as a player and later as an administrator.

The former Warwickshire and England batsman scored more than 43,000 runs and is one of the few batsmen to have score 100 first class centuries, a feat he achieved in 1986

As an England player, he hit an unbeaten 262 against the West Indies in the 1973-74 test series and followed it up with 206 at the Oval in 1976 against an attack that included Michael Holding and Andy Roberts.

In the early days of limited over cricket, he also became the first batsman to hit a century in One Day Internationals. Amiss went on to become CEO of Warwickshire and deputy chairman of the ECB before retiring in 2011. 

The evening begins at 7.30pm and is free to Society members and £5 for guests.