The Club Cricket Conference Yearbook 2020

- 84 - JOHN GOODMAN 5th February 1943 – 12th November 2019 John Goodman was a well-known and well respected scorer for many clubs and organisations over a period of some 63 years. He did start out attempting to play – for one season – but, at the age of 15, he realised his best years were already behind him and, fortunately for the game, he decided to take up the quill and parchment and become one of the unsung heroes of cricket. Although he had many clubs, his principal one was Chipperfield (later Chipperfield & Clarendon) CC for whom he scored some 1,800 matches. At a higher level, he scored for many years for the Club Cricket Conference and Buckinghamshire CCC – including the Minor Counties team and the Over 50s and 60s. He served the CCC as both a scorer and Councillor and, when he stepped down from the latter role, he was rewarded with a Life Vice-Presidency. In addition to the dozens of matches he scored in the UK for the CCC, he also represented us on two tours to Australia (1987 and 91) and the Caribbean in 1989. During one of his Australian tours he became friendly with Swan Richards, the Founding Father of the Crusaders CC, an organisation based in Melbourne which, as well as playing matches, has also been responsible for giving many young Australian players the opportunity to develop and progress their game to the next level whilst touring the world. continued…