Grimsby and District Cricket League Annual Dinners 2011-2022

Marshall Brewson Grimsby & District League Annual Dinner & Presentation 2022 (Established 1921) Friday 14th October2022 Grimsby Golf Club Guest Speaker - Graham Gooch Essex & England Graham Gooch OBE was the most prolific run scorer top-class cricket has ever seen. After he retired in 1997, the statistician Robert Brooke calculated that he had scored 22,211 runs in List A cricket which, added to his 44,846 first-class runs, put him ahead of Jack Hobbs. It was an amazing achieve- ment. His enigmatic qualities seemed almost cultivated. When England first plucked him out of Essex, as a 21-year-old in 1975, Gooch was an uninhibited belter of a cricket ball. Armed with one of the game's heaviest bats, he could always wallop it when he chose. When England made him captain his fanat- ical fitness and work-ethic gave the team more purpose than it had shown in a dec- ade. Approaching 40, he kept getting better as a batsman and even after retirement, his ca- reer took a surprise turn: earmarked as Eng- lish cricket's supremo, he became a broad- caster, with a sly wit that surprised those who had seen only his poker face and his broad bat. He returned to coaching as Essex batting coach, working closely with Alastair Cook. His success earned him a consultancy role for England before he was made full-time batting coach for the national side in Febru- ary 2012 . From ESPNCricinfo