Grimsby and District Cricket League Annual Dinners 2011-2022

Marshall Brewson Grimsby & District League Annual Dinner & Presentation 2015 (Established 1921) Thursday 29th October2015 Grimsby Golf Club Guest Speaker - David Steele Northamptonshire , Leicestershire, Derbyshire & England Sunday 25 Over League Curry Cup (Champions) Cuxwold Brocklesby Cup (Runners up) Harvest Moon Falconer Cup (Batting) - A Ratchford ( Cuxwold) Curry Cup (Bowling) - D Boulton (Cuxwold) Ashridge Cup (Most Runs) - Chris Jordan (Pheonix) Franklin Cup (Most Wickets) - D Boulton ( Cuxwold) Sheckell Cup (Best Wkt Keeper) - Chris Jordan (Pheonix) Haddelsey Cup (Most Catches) - Gareth Cook (Pheonix) Sunday League Cup Winners - Harvest Moon Not collected in box - Replaced David Steele - was a comparative rarity at test level - a genuine selec- tion-panel coup. A grey-haired middle-order batsman for Northants, he played in steel-rimmed spectacles and looked years older than his actual 33. He had Tony Greig to thank for his inclusion in Greig's first Test as captain, against Australia in 1975. Steele's England career lasted only eight matches and little more than a year, but in that time he became a national hero, averaging 42 against the best fast bow- lers in world cricket. Steele based his defence on a firm, long-striding, for- ward stroke, and stood up to Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson, then to the fearsome West Indian pace quar- tet of 1976 (Roberts, Holding, Daniel, Holder). Far from showing fear, Steele appeared to revel in it. Yet until Greig plucked him out of county cricket, Steele had scored only 16 hundreds in 12 seasons with an average of 31. Described by The Sun's Clive Taylor as "The bank clerk who went to war," Steele scored 50 and 45 on his debut at Lord's after losing his way from the home dressing- room to the Long Room, and added 106 against West Indies at Trent Bridge. A well-liked and drily humorous Staffordshire man who was voted BBC Sports Person- ality of the Year in 1975, Steele had another triumph: he persuad- ed a Northampton butcher to re- ward him in kind in his benefit season, and finished up with 1756 lamb chops - one for every run he scored.