The Twelfth Man 2019

Malcolm Nash (L) with Brian Sanderson MALCOLM NASH 21 January 2019 Today’s guest is famed through- out the cricket world for being the bowler who was on the receiving end of Garry Sobers’ six sixes at Glamorgan in 1968. However as all cricket lovers from that era are aware, there was so much more to Malcolm, who was a very good all round county cricketer with statis- tics to prove it. Malcolm did his own presentation aided by a slide show which includ- ed shots from his school days and throughout his playing career. He attended Wells Cathedral School where he excelled at both at crick- et and hockey. Cricket took him as a 17 year-old to Abergavenny CC. After trials with both Warwickshire and Glamorgan, in 1966 he decid- ed to go with Glamorgan, much to the pleasure of his father. His debut against a county side just happened to be against Yorkshire (Boycott, Close, Illingworth and all) but unfortunately it ended in a snow-affected draw at Harrogate. The following season Malcolm was playing regularly for Glamorgan where he was doing really well until….That Match and That Over! Malcolm went into fine detail of the entire match. A book on the match has been suggested to him many times with one wag advising that a suitable title might be Gone With The Wind! But he had no trouble recover- ing from the ordeal and went on to take 80 wickets and a score of 566 the following season. He also went on to help Glamorgan win the championship in a later sea- son, where he excelled and won the bowling averages. The rest of his career made for impressive sta- tistics and Malcolm entertained us with endless stories and anecdotes to make for a first-class afternoon. * As we went to press we learned the very sad news that Malcolm Nash died in hospital after being taken ill at a function at Lord’s on 30 July 2019. Review BETWEEN TWELFTH MEN A round-up of events in the cricket world since the 2018 Magazine Meanwhile YCCC has de- cided to take a County Championship match in 2019 to York. It is a first for the Clifton Park ground; Yorkshire’s only other first-class match in York was at Wigginton Road in 1890. In late November the ECB announced that the resi- dency period for quali- fication to play for Eng- land was being reduced from seven to three years. Barbados-born Jofra Archer, current- ly playing for Sussex is thought likely to be the first player to qualify un- der the new rules. On 7 December England Test captain Joe Root signed a contract exten- sion with Yorkshire that runs until 2022. This came just a few days af- ter Joe had married his partner Carrie at Dore, Sheffield. The ECB has appointed Ashley Giles, ex-War- wickshire and England spin bowler and current- ly director of cricket at Warwickshire CCC, as Di- rector of England Cricket in succession to Andrew Strauss. One of his first tasks will be to find a successor to Trevor Bay- liss who steps down from the role of England team coach after the 2019 Ash- es series. Alastair Cook was knighted in the New Year’s Honours List. There was more contract news from YCCC in late December. Ben Coad has signed a contract exten- sion until the end of 2021 as has Harry Brook and Jonny Tattersall. Mat- thew Waite has a one- year contract extension taking him to the end of 2020.