Lincolnshire County Cricket League Handbook 1970

FOREWORD I am delighted to contribute a foreword to this, the first handbook of the Lincolnshire County Cricket League and to deflect briefly on the considerable and highly commendable progress achieved since its inception in 1963. Born out of the Grmsby League Division One with , en member clubs, the league has, in its to-date brief history, -,...,....ne much to improve the standard and competition of cricket i:- / ed in the County-the chief reason for its introduction . ~- Indeed the league has improved the quality of the game to such a degree that in 1967, at the first attempt, the represen– tative XI convincingly won the Rothman Trophy. In 1968 this success was repeated even more handsomely with the result . ·that the league was almost instantlf held in high respect through– out the north of the country. ' ,_Linc.cilrrshire's success. in the Minor Counties Competition in 1955··aI~0 re.f)&,o,tes favoura.bly on the league, for at that time eight or nine . plac~s in the County XI were regularly held by league cricketers . , ..· -~ . ·,· '· . . ,\, Last season's intro.duction of a 2nd Division was also a successful innovation and th.is season no less than 25 clubs will play under the auspices of the league : . From small beginnings in 1963, this real progress and no ··o-tH'er league anywherr ·::in boast of such achievement in recent years . ' I am pleased and honoured to have been associated with the League's early development and I enjoyed immensely my t ime and cricket in the County . I wou ld take this opportunity to wish everyone connected with the league - the officials , member clubs and the players - a happy and further success– ful season in 1970. NORMAN McVICKER Warwickshire C.C.