Lincolnshire County Cricket League Handbook 1970

LINCOLNSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET LEAGUE PERSONALITIES Personality No. 1 NORMAN McVICKER The re was solace and re– assurance fo.r many Lin– colnshire League cricketers in last season's first class averages . - --- - ---~- - 1 They number among those ______j who faced, and fell , to the hostile artillery of Norman McVicker who left the League last season to join Warwickshire in the County Championship. This comfort stemmed f.rom the misfortune of the game's hierarchy who fell in similar fashion before the pace bowling of the slim Lancastrian, who five years previously appeared, or rather hurtled, onto the Lincolnshire cricket scene. He came from Strand C.C., a club near Manchester, and d· awn to this County by Ross Group to team up with Brian 1::-__,ns, formerly of Glamorgan, and Ivan Madray, West Indian Test player, in a trio which has done a great deal to lift the standard of pla1 in the League. With Evans, Norman formed the county's most effe_ctive opening attack, both at club, Rothman Cup and Minor Counties level: And, of course, it was the attention which these two drew 1 ·by. the_ir .performances with Lincolnshire and the Lincoln– shire LeaQue · XI that led to Warwiskshire offering Norman terms for last se9,son .