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M.J.K. Smith

Ex England and Warwickshire captain M.J.K. Smith will be our speaker on Wednesday 13 November. Captain of England in half of his fifty tests, including successive tours of India, South Africa and Australia in the mid-60s, Mike was later an England tour manager and international match referee. He is also England's last d ouble international, playing one match at fly half for England RU against Wales in 1956. His eagerly anticipated biography M.J.K. Smith: No Ordinary Man by Douglas Miller was released earlier this year. 'Mike is speaking all over the country this autumn and we're thrilled we can bring him to Hull,' said chairman Michael Hardwick. 'We're looking forward to a cracking evening.' Mike will speaking at Humberside Police Sports Club, Inglemire Lane, Hull HU6 8LE, 7.30pm for 7.45pm. Raffle prizes including vouchers for free tickets to watch Yorkshire at Headingley in 2014. Guests always very welcome - £5.

Gillespie and MJK star in 2013/14 programme

Aussie Test bowler and current Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie is just one of the star names lined up for the East Riding Cricket Society this winter. Alongside Gillespie will be England captain MJK Smith , Yorkshire opener Matthew Wood , YCCC Members' Committee chair, Stephen Mann and award-winning journalist Graham Hardcastle - cricket correspondent of the Telegraph and Argus and York Evening Press - who opens the batting on Wednesday 9 October. Members old and new are welcome to our monthly meetings at Humberside Police Sports Club, Inglemire Lane, Hull HU6 8LE, 7.30pm for 7.45pm. Membership costs just £15 a year, a single meeting £5. For more information telephone chairman Michael Hardwick on 01482 861228 or follow us on Twitter. Please note our 2013 AGM will be held prior to this meeting at 7.15pm.  An invitation to spend the winter Down Under means that Andrew Gale will be unable to join us as planned on 11 December and now hopes to visit the society at

Congratulations to ERCUSA

Umpires Mullaney, Smith, Foster & Coward The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was not the only event of note in 1953. Congratulations also go to the East Riding Cricket Umpires & Scorers Association which is celebrating its Diamond Jubilee this year with a number of events throughout the summer. Today sees the opening of an exhibition on the history of the association at Hull History Centre, with cartoons, poetry, biographies, photographs and a range of cricketing artefacts on display. The exhibition is on until 29 July and the treasurer of ERCUSA, Michael Free, has produced an illustrated book to accompany it. With a foreword by Dickie Bird, it expands on the written material on display and gives an interesting insight into some of the characters who have umpired local cricket! Next Sunday 14 July sees a charity cricket match at Hull CC's Chanterlands Avenue ground, when an Umpires XI will take on an Invitation XI made up of cricketers from the local leagues. A raff

David Warner

Our March speaker will be journalist and author David 'Plum' Warner. The former cricket correspondent of the Bradford Telegraph and Argus , David has been reporting on the ups and downs of Yorkshire cricket since 1975, and now writes daily reports for the Press Association as well as end-of-season reviews for Wisden. Yorkshire supporters will also know him as editor of the YCCC Yearbook and most recently as author of the bestselling hardback The Sweetest Rose: 150 Years of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, 1863-2013 . In his foreword to the book, CricInfo's UK editor David Hopps describes the challenge of writing a history of Yorkshire as 'a task that demand meticulous research, a dogged perseverance and above all a high level of integrity. David Warner is well equipped on all three counts.' Much of the modern material is drawn from David's own collection of cuttings - some ninety volumes collected throughout his career. "Over forty years now,&qu

Alan Lawson

Great to hear from past secretary, chair and president Terry Frost. Our list of past speakers brought back many memories for Terry ... and he was also able to solve a mystery for us. Who was 1982 speaker A.W. Lawson? Thereby hangs a tale ... so we'll let Terry take up the story. 'At the time,' he writes, 'I was chairman and Harold Cook was secretary. Harold called me the day of the meeting to say that our speaker, the late Peter Roebuck, would not be coming to Hull due to illness! How could Harold and I possibly find a speaker for that night? After lunch we were faced with the daunting task of cancelling the meeting. Then, through my office door at Fenners, in walked Alan Lawson! Alan had just arrived from Heathrow, having landed from South Africa that morning. Alan, a director of Fenner South Africa and a close personal friend, was steeped in South African cricket at a time when it was was ostracised by the cricketing world. He was chairman of Old Edwardi