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 David Chapman, 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
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| Cricket Society Christmas Card on sale now |
Please see Autumn dinner photos from the night here. Tammy Beaumont - Most Promising Young Women's Cricketer of the Year with Barney Gibson - Winner of the A. A. Thomson Fielding Prize.
Film request
A request for your footage for an impressionistic
film about English cricket in the 1960s from Michael Burns.
Ivo Bligh Grave Rededication at Cobham in Kent
(click to see pictures from the day)
At a time of success in retaining the Ashes, it is appropriate to think back to how all this started, and in that context The Cricket Society has taken the lead in the restoration of the grave of the Honourable Ivo Bligh, who first brought back the Ashes urn to England. Read more here. The story has also been covered in The Times Newspaper on 16th May 2011. An online version can be accessed here but a subscription is required to view it.
Book of the Year Award 2011 Winner Harry Pearson
Please see joint Cricket Society and MCC press release and photos from the night with details on the winner Harry Pearson's Slipless in Settle here. See reviews of all nominated books. The page contains short and full reviews by The Cricket Society Reviewers.
A History Of The Cricket Society XI by Peter Hartland
The book relating the History of the Cricket Society XI is now available. It is a paperback with 115 pages, plus 16 central photographic pages.