Hello, I would like to welcome you all to The Cricket Society Website.
The Cricket Society encapsulates all that is good and wholesome about the game. Watching cricket in lovely places amongst friends; absorbed by its rich literature; enjoying the Society's sociable atmosphere.
The Cricket Society provides a healthy, fulfilling and enjoyable culture for lovers of the game.
I am sure you will find something to interest you here on the website. Do contact Tony Weaver, the web site editor or Neil Taylor, the web site manager if you have any suggestions about the site.
If you are not a member I would like to invite you to download an application form and join If you have any membership queries contact the membership secretary, David Wood.
John Barclay
A Message from The Cricket Society's new Chairman Ian Jackson
As you may have heard, Bill Allen, chairman for the last five years, has retired and I have been elected by your executive to chair The Society. I must start by thanking Bill for his work. Not only have The Society’s activities flourished but Bill has become a good friend and I have enjoyed playing, watching and talking cricket with him. There have even been rare moments when we have found interests outside the game.
The message to the world is more of the same. I have enjoyed The Society for some years and would encourage anyone with a love of cricket to do the same. In the summer you will find me at The Riverside watching part of most championship games, though work interferes with my attendance record. I am a rarer sight at one day games as I still play for a Sunday side, Davipart, around the North East and occasionally leave the area for a jaunt to the South and a game for The Society XI.
We haven’t had first class cricket up here for very long and I have enjoyed watching whenever I got the chance. Middlesex caught my imagination when I was young and I am a member of the club and try to watch them a few times every year. It will be good when they are back in the first division and playing more games up in the North.
We are always looking for new ideas for Cricket Society activities so if you want to do something or if you are coming up to The Riverside and want to chat get in touch on ian@irjackson.co.uk or write through the official address.
Ian Jackson bowling for The Cricket
Society XI at Tilford in Surrey.
Photograph by Vanessa Histon
