Grimsby and District Cricket League Annual Dinners 2011-2022

John Pettit Grimsby & District League Annual Dinner & Presentation 2012 (Established 1921) Thursday 21st March 2013 Guest Speaker - Paul Smith (Ex- Warwickshire) Saturday 25 Over League Curry Cup (Champions) Pheonix Brocklesby Cup (Runners up) Rose & Crown Falconer Cup (Batting) K Young (Rose |& Crown) Curry Cup (Bowling) K Meech (Rose & Crown) Knockout Cup Winners Harvest Moon Man of the Match D Baker (Harvest Moon) Ashridge Cup (Most Runs) D Baker (Harvest Moon) Franklin Cup (Most Wickets) K Meech ( Rose & Crown) Sheckell Cup (Best Wkt Keeper) M Board (Harvest Moon) Haddelsey Cup (Most Catches) A Wheatley (Rose & Crown) Paul Smith born April 15, 1964 in Gosforth, Northumberland is a former English cricketer who played for Warwickshire from 1982 to 1996. A mercurial allrounder, Smith was a big hitting right-handed batsman and genuinely fast right arm bowler. He made four first class hundreds in his 221 game career, the first when he was just 19, and in 1986 scored 1,500 runs as an opening batsman. In all first class cricket he scored a total of 8173 runs at 26.44 with a best of 140. With the ball he took 283 wickets at 35.72 which included two hat-tricks, in 1989 and 1990 and a best of 6 for 91. Always a potent force in the one day game, able to turn a match with bat or ball, he won 3 titles with Warwickshire in the 50 over game. He was released by the county in 1996 and soon after was quoted in a Sunday tabloid as having admitted to drug use throughout his career. The ECB banned him for two years. He struggled with life after cricket and moved to America for a time where he became involved with the 'Cricket without boundaries' project in Los Angeles which seeks to use the spirit and disciplines of cricket to turn youngsters away from crime. He also works for the Prince's Trust in the U.K. In 2007, Smith published a revealing autobiog- raphy entitled Wasted?, described by one review- er as "far from a conventional read" and a work of "refreshing honesty".