Sheffield Cricket Lovers' Society Year Book 2012

25 Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society Next up was former Derbyshire batsman Tim O’Gorman . Tim entertained with some highlights and memories of his career with Derbyshire. In a career spanning1987 t0 1996 he played 117 First Class matches and 130 one day games. He was a very active member of The Professional Cricketers’ Association and in 2010 was a candidate to be Chairman of the ECB. After the interval Tim answered questions from the floor with extremely good humour and ensured that once again we had a most enjoyable evening. A four man team from Headingley joined us for a most interesting evening. Yorkshire CCC Backroom Staff, Hon. Chaplain Canon Max Wigley : 1st XI Scorer, John Potter : Former Telegraph & Argus Journalist David Warner and Computerised Scoreboard operator Duncan Eccles combined their efforts to give us an insight into their respective roles keeping things moving behind the scenes at Headingley. What came across very strongly was the fact that they all enjoyed working for Yorkshire County Cricket Club, all had a great sense of humour and all were true cricket lovers. Story of Yorkshire CCC . Secretary David Drabble heard that the MCC had an extensive archive film outlining the development of Yorkshire CCC from its foundation in Sheffield in 1863 and persuaded the Curator of the MCC Museum , Adam Chadwick to send up one of his staff to show the film to the Society. Neil Robinson duly arrived with the film, we borrowed a projector and sat fascinated throughout the evening. Naturally some of the footage was ‘a bit scratchy’ but this did not detract from our enjoyment of the film. We sent our thanks to the MCC for making this available and have asked if there is any possibility of making copies available for purchase. So far no response but we will try again. Neil did answer some questions regarding his role in the MCC Museum and it was a great delight to hear someone with such a love of his job and his enthusiasm for cricket. Would you believe that anyone would cycle from Lords to Australia to watch a Test series.? Well, that is exactly what Oli Broom did. He left Lord’s Cricket Ground on 10th October 2009 and cycled across Europe, through 23 countries, played some cricket in all but three. Covered 15600 miles, 40 punctures... did not have to repair any himself!! Arrived at The Gabba, Brisbane on 24th November 2010 and raised over $55000 for British Neurological Research Trust and the Lord’s Taverners. What a fantastic achievement, Oli brought with him some magnificent photographs highlighting his journey, amazingly some of the locations en route were recognised by some of our well travelled members in the audience. What a superb evening.