Dorset Cricket Society

Dorset Cricket Society

Resumé of events 2008-9

Year

Month

Day

Speaker

Topic

2008
Sept
25th

Ian Henderson

Having started our programme in an excellent manner last year, Ian repeated the trick this season, with a talk which covered not only the Dorset Rangers, but also playing for Hursley Park and many memories from Ian's career in sports reporting and broadcasting.

Oct
2nd

Alan Rayment

Alan is our own resident ex-Hampshire player from the late 1940's - 50's. This was a fascinating insight into the world of professional cricket, post war and the difficulties of existing on a salary of £7/10/-. Alan holds Dean Park in Bournemouth in great affection, as a ground where many significant games of his career occured. As well as cycling to the ground in Southampton for home matches, Alan and his wife were also dancing teachers, which was somewhat better paid! We heard many of Alan's favourite stories, including Fred Truman's response to being hit for two successive fours and the time his Captain, Desmond Eager, almost talked him out at a lunch!

9th

Douglas Miller

Douglas, who is a member of the Association of Cricket Statisticians, told us of his efforts to play and love cricket from the tender age of six to the present day. He is the author of many publications, including the only biography of the Glamorgan player, Don Sheppard. He also explained the difficulties that occur when the ICC decide that matches like the Australia v Rest of The World should have Test status. Alan Rayment, who spoke last week, implored Douglas to find one more First Class match to add to his career, so that he could achieve his double-century!

16th

Tim Hill

Tim is the current Chairman of the English Schools Cricket Association and he related how he had spent his year, from an opening dinner in Bournemouth which coincided with the Rugby Union World Cup, losing him star guest Robin Smith, to a very full if rather wet season, with a variety of festivals and competitions. He displayed a considerable amount of memorabilia from his year and paid tribute to the support of Dr David English of Bunbury cricket fame. Tim also found the time to run the U17's here in Dorset,

23rd

Lord's Visit

47 members, wives and friends had an excellent visit to Lord's. Our arrival at the Tavern Restaurant for a tasty lunch of roast beef followed by bread and butter pudding meant we were set-up for the afternoon tour. A visit to the pavilion included the Long Room, which was laid out for a dinner that evening, the Writing Room and then a trip upstairs to the England dressing room, with its Honours Boards detailing the centuries scored and 5 or 10 wicket hauls throughout the history of Test cricket at this ground. Ian Botham (1978) was the last England bowler to achieve 10 wickets in a match. From the Long Room bar we then visited the museum, with the famous Ashes urn. A tour around the ground included the various stands and the media centre, built for the 1999 World Cup. Further pictures can be found here.

30th

Vic Loveless

Vic is chairman of the New Forest cricket league and has writtten a book about the cricketers and pesonalities of the New Forest. Our own Nick Glossip has a page dedicated to him and we also heard of Simon Rowley. Vic has been hard at work on a second book, which includes areas of the forest as well as players. The book comes out in the Spring.

Nov
6th

Tony Davies

Tony has been associated with Somerset County CC for many years and is now involved in organising their scouting system for young talent, to try to ensure that nobody slips through the net in the area. He told us of the impressive system of coaching and opportunities for both boys and girls. In addition he has been a member of Taunton Cricket Club for nearly sixty years and still helps out twice weekly to maintain their grounds.

13th

Martin Howe

Martin, who is a proud Yorkshireman gave an interesting slant on the 'aberation' by which Hampshire won the County Championship in 1961, thereby preventing a Yorkshire hat-trick. His provocative selection of a joint Hampshire/Yorkshire side both pre and post season brought many responses from his southern audience, including Alan Rayment who had played under Colin Ingleby-MacKenzie in previous seasons. By the end of an entertaining afternoon, the concensus was that Yorkshire would probably have won the title with Ingleby-McKenzie as Captain.

20th

Gerry Stickley

Gerry related his career as a Minor Counties and latterly First Class umpire in the 1990's, which he followed with a career as the current scorer for Somerset. He gave us an insight into umpiring at that level and some of the problems encountered. He was one of the umpires on the day when Dorset conceded 60 runs from one over by bowling wides. This was an effort to engineer a result. He has also scored a Test match, England v Sri Lanka, though he revealed that England no longer have an official scorer since Duncan Fletcher's time as coach. The person doing the job is officially scoring for the Press Association.

27th

Chris Finch

Chris, who is one of our members, spoke about cricket journalism and writing. He lamented the fact that many journalists at provincial papers were being laid off and that the four main broadsheets all have ex-cricketers as their correspondents. Chris is one of the judges for the Cricket Society Book of the Year award and his love of cricket and cricket writing showed through in his enthusiasm for the subject. Members were also grateful that he had brought along a small part of his varied collection of books for us to view.

Dec
4th

Jimmy Adams

11th

Peter Frampton

18th

Derek Hopkins

2009
Jan
8th

Richard Mockridge

15th

22nd

Dr David Allen

29th

Feb
5th

12th

19th

26th

March
5th

12th

19th

26th

April
2nd

9th

Derek Hopkins

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Year	Month	Day	Speaker	Topic
2008	Sept	25th	Ian Henderson	Having started our programme in an excellent manner last year, Ian repeated the trick this season, with a talk which covered not only the Dorset Rangers, but also playing for Hursley Park and many memories from Ian's career in sports reporting and broadcasting.
	Oct	2nd	Alan Rayment	Alan is our own resident ex-Hampshire player from the late 1940's - 50's. This was a fascinating insight into the world of professional cricket, post war and the difficulties of existing on a salary of £7/10/-. Alan holds Dean Park in Bournemouth in great affection, as a ground where many significant games of his career occured. As well as cycling to the ground in Southampton for home matches, Alan and his wife were also dancing teachers, which was somewhat better paid! We heard many of Alan's favourite stories, including Fred Truman's response to being hit for two successive fours and the time his Captain, Desmond Eager, almost talked him out at a lunch!
		9th	Douglas Miller	Douglas, who is a member of the Association of Cricket Statisticians, told us of his efforts to play and love cricket from the tender age of six to the present day. He is the author of many publications, including the only biography of the Glamorgan player, Don Sheppard. He also explained the difficulties that occur when the ICC decide that matches like the Australia v Rest of The World should have Test status. Alan Rayment, who spoke last week, implored Douglas to find one more First Class match to add to his career, so that he could achieve his double-century!
		16th	Tim Hill	Tim is the current Chairman of the English Schools Cricket Association and he related how he had spent his year, from an opening dinner in Bournemouth which coincided with the Rugby Union World Cup, losing him star guest Robin Smith, to a very full if rather wet season, with a variety of festivals and competitions. He displayed a considerable amount of memorabilia from his year and paid tribute to the support of Dr David English of Bunbury cricket fame. Tim also found the time to run the U17's here in Dorset,
		23rd	Lord's Visit	47 members, wives and friends had an excellent visit to Lord's. Our arrival at the Tavern Restaurant for a tasty lunch of roast beef followed by bread and butter pudding meant we were set-up for the afternoon tour. A visit to the pavilion included the Long Room, which was laid out for a dinner that evening, the Writing Room and then a trip upstairs to the England dressing room, with its Honours Boards detailing the centuries scored and 5 or 10 wicket hauls throughout the history of Test cricket at this ground. Ian Botham (1978) was the last England bowler to achieve 10 wickets in a match. From the Long Room bar we then visited the museum, with the famous Ashes urn. A tour around the ground included the various stands and the media centre, built for the 1999 World Cup. Further pictures can be found here.
		30th	Vic Loveless	Vic is chairman of the New Forest cricket league and has writtten a book about the cricketers and pesonalities of the New Forest. Our own Nick Glossip has a page dedicated to him and we also heard of Simon Rowley. Vic has been hard at work on a second book, which includes areas of the forest as well as players. The book comes out in the Spring.
	Nov	6th	Tony Davies	Tony has been associated with Somerset County CC for many years and is now involved in organising their scouting system for young talent, to try to ensure that nobody slips through the net in the area. He told us of the impressive system of coaching and opportunities for both boys and girls. In addition he has been a member of Taunton Cricket Club for nearly sixty years and still helps out twice weekly to maintain their grounds.
		13th	Martin Howe	Martin, who is a proud Yorkshireman gave an interesting slant on the 'aberation' by which Hampshire won the County Championship in 1961, thereby preventing a Yorkshire hat-trick. His provocative selection of a joint Hampshire/Yorkshire side both pre and post season brought many responses from his southern audience, including Alan Rayment who had played under Colin Ingleby-MacKenzie in previous seasons. By the end of an entertaining afternoon, the concensus was that Yorkshire would probably have won the title with Ingleby-McKenzie as Captain.
		20th	Gerry Stickley	Gerry related his career as a Minor Counties and latterly First Class umpire in the 1990's, which he followed with a career as the current scorer for Somerset. He gave us an insight into umpiring at that level and some of the problems encountered. He was one of the umpires on the day when Dorset conceded 60 runs from one over by bowling wides. This was an effort to engineer a result. He has also scored a Test match, England v Sri Lanka, though he revealed that England no longer have an official scorer since Duncan Fletcher's time as coach. The person doing the job is officially scoring for the Press Association.
		27th	Chris Finch	Chris, who is one of our members, spoke about cricket journalism and writing. He lamented the fact that many journalists at provincial papers were being laid off and that the four main broadsheets all have ex-cricketers as their correspondents. Chris is one of the judges for the Cricket Society Book of the Year award and his love of cricket and cricket writing showed through in his enthusiasm for the subject. Members were also grateful that he had brought along a small part of his varied collection of books for us to view.
	Dec	4th	Jimmy Adams
		11th	Peter Frampton
		18th	Derek Hopkins
2009	Jan	8th	Richard Mockridge
		15th
		22nd	Dr David Allen
		29th
	Feb	5th
		12th
		19th
		26th
	March	5th
		12th
		19th
		26th
	April	2nd
		9th	Derek Hopkins