The Twelfth Man 2018

28 games he had sorting out his lodgings. After getting plenty of wickets it was decided he should get some more league cricket experience in the Huddersfield League where he ended up playing for Clipstow. His debut with the county soon followed and he gave us an entertaining run down of his early county experiences before we moved on to the Q & A session. John was asked about Trent Bridge batting and was it really a batter’s paradise? He said that it was when dry but in his first season there was a lot of rain, the only dry spells being when India and Middlesex got a ton of runs in successive matches. When asked about the front-foot rule which was changed whilst he was playing first class cricket, John said that although it affected a lot of the established bowlers it did not affect him a deal.After his time with Nottinghamshire John told us that he went back to league cricket and also some minor County cricket with Cheshire. The question and answer session ended with John describing a Sobers match winning innings for Littleborough in the league, to conclude a fine evening. Richard Hutton OUR special guest for the coaching award evening was Richard Anthony Hutton who became President of Yorkshire County Cricket Club following the untimely death of the much loved John Hampshire. He played in five Test matches for England and would surely have clinched the regular all-rounder slot but for the emergence of a gentleman from overseas who would become the right hand man, Australia’s Kerry Packer. A right handed batsman, Richard scored five first class centuries and 29 fifties and as a right arm seam bowler he took 625 wickets at 24.01, surely a match winner in the Yorkshire of today. As it was, Richard was an all-rounder central to five Yorkshire Championship triumphs of the 1960s, a golden age of Yorkshire Cricket. He was educated at Repton School, where he developed a reputation as an all-round cricketer, and Christs College Cambridge, being awarded a blue. He played for Yorkshire from 1962 until 1974, and for Transvaal in South Africa. Hutton made his test debut in a drawn match against Pakistan in1971, being promoted to open in the second innings and scoring 58 not out in his maided Test innings. Richard’s highest Test score of 81 came in his last Test Match at the Oval against India. He shared a century partnership for the seventh wicket with the wicket keeper Alan Knott, after the Indian spinners did some early damage. He went on the World XI tour of Australia in 1971- 72, and in 1980-81 he toured Bangladesh with the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) team. After he retired from the game Richard had a spell as the editor of The Cricketer magazine. His father, Sir Leonard Hutton captained England, while his elder son, Ben Hutton, captained Middlesex in 2006. The question and answer session included Richard giving us a full run down on the famous Yorkshire victory against the Aussies. at Bramall Lane. However much to Richard’s credit he also gave us the low down on Yorkshire’s failure on the same ground when they needed one run for victory off two overs with six wickets in hand and failed (in a county match)! Sir Len Hutton’s Bat