Grimsby and District Cricket League Annual Dinners 2011-2022

Marshall Brewson Grimsby & District League Annual Dinner & Presentation 2019 (Established 1921) Friday 11th October2019 Grimsby Golf Club Guest Speaker - Simon Hughes Middlesex & Durham ‘The Analyst’ Simon Hughes - joined Middlesex County Cricket Club in 1980 and played for them for 12 seasons, culminating in his benefit sea- son of 1991. He subsequently spent two seasons (1992–1993) playing for Durham County Cricket Club. Hughes also played for Northern Transvaal in South Africa dur- ing the winter of 1982–83, and the Grafton United Cricket Club in Auckland in the 1987/88 season. He retired in 1993 to concentrate on a writ- ing career which began as a player for The Independent with the widely acclaimed Cricketer's Diary. He has worked as a jour- nalist for The Independent and The Daily Telegraph, and for the BBC. He has written several books, including the autobiographical A Lot of Hard Yakka, Yakking Around the World, Jargonbusting (a guide to cricket terminology) and Morn- ing Everyone: An Ashes Odyssey.He is perhaps best known for his work as The Analyst on Channel 4's cricket coverage, where he spent matches in a VT trailer, watching replays and drawing viewers' at- tention to particular details. Channel 4's cricket coverage won 28 awards in its sev- en-year span, including six Baftas. He was a commentator/analyst on Cricket on Five with Geoffrey Boycott and Mark Nicholas (with whom he worked on Channel 4). He originally signed up for the programme from 2006 to 2010 when the deal expired, with the ECB. On England's December 2007 Test match tour of Sri Lanka he was a summariser on the BBC's Test Match Special, and a commentator for the ODI series against the West Indies in 2009. In 2010 he again joined the Test Match Spe- cial team commentating on the tour of Bangladesh and the One Day Series against Australia. He was the analyst for ITV4's coverage of the Indian Premier League and until 2018 he was The Analyst on Channel 5's evening highlights pro- gramme. He commentates on BBC radio and writes for the Daily Telegraph.