The Twelfth Man 2011

22 WOMBWELL CRICKET LOVERS COACHING CLASSES – AWARDS REQUIRED 2011 DEREK MOXON MEMORIAL TROPHY Winner: HARRY SYKES (Plus original trophy engraved) Runner up: ELLIOT JENKINSON BRIAN JOHNSTON MEMORIAL TROPHY Winner: JACOB HADFIELD (plus original trophy engraved) Runner up: ASHLEY POTTER & MATTHEW MARSH COLLEEN MORLEY AWARD Winner: ALEXANDER SCANLAN (trophy required) Runner-up: DOMINIC CROSSLAND ERIC SYKES MEMORIAL AWARD Winner: JACK HULLEY (plus original trophy engraved) Runner up: CALLUM SVERDLOFF JOHN ARLOTT MEMORIAL AWARD Winner: JOSEPH WHITE (plus original award engraved) Runner up: NATHAN NEWMAN JACK SOKELL MEMORIAL AWARD Winner: SHAUN TODD (trophy required) DAVID MUSGRAVE MEMORIAL AWARD Winner: JACOB HADFIELD (trophy required) TROPHIES FOR COACHES: CHRISTIAN MUSGRAVE SAM WILSON BRIAN MARSH MARK HINCHLIFFE DARREN CROSSLAND SIMON POTTER Play Cricket The Right Way by Geoff Boycott Published by Great Northern Books, Ilkley (hb) - £9.99 Society Patron Geoff Boycott first published a version of this coaching book back in 1976. It was revised and re- published in 1994 as Learn Cricket with Geoff Boycott and now we have an edition for the 21 st century generation of cricketers. This task can surely not be in better hands. If ever a player demonstrated the value of practice and development of technique and skill then it was GB – I would suggest that over 48,000 career runs and 151 hundreds serves to demonstrate that point. All aspects of the game are covered and, 16 years on from the last issue, the ‘new’ techniques, now part of the modern game are here – reverse sweep, switch hit, reverse swing (old fashioned in-swing) and the Doosra. As you’d expect from Geoffrey, clear, no-nonsense instructions are here and it is well illustrated with both diagrams and colour action photos. You’d expect that most of Wombwell’s young cricketers should have a copy in their cricket bag as they start the winter coaching nets – it ought to be a must! M.P. Frith on Cricket Half A Century Of Writing by David Frith Published by Great Northern Books (hb) - £18.00 Any serious cricket follower needs no introduction to the work and achievements of David Frith. Author of 30 books (three of which secured him the Cricket Society Book of the Year award); editor of The Cricketer and thereafter his own Wisden Cricket Monthly (never the same publication after his departure in 1996); collector and memorabilia expert; authority on archive cricket film; cricket historian and a player for virtually half a century, not to mention a good friend to many in the game. One remarkable cricketing CV! Here at Wombwell David’s contribution has been equally impressive. A special guest/speaker at the Society on six occasions, from the first back in 1973 until his most recent visit after that extraordinary summer of 2005 (no one better equipped than DF to talk about the most gripping Ashes series of them all). David’s pilgrimage to Barnsley in 1985 was to receive the Society’s Cricket Writer of the Year award (1984) and he has contributed timely tributes Books to Treasure Reviewed by Mick Pope and Norman Hazell