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The Cricket Society

November 01, 2023

The Cricket Society is a charitable organisation founded in 1945 as the Society of Cricket Statisticians at Great Scotland Yard, London. It has grown steadily to be the largest body of its kind in the cricket world. The Cricket Society now has approaching 2000 members in the United Kingdom and the cricket playing countries of the world. Its current President is John Barclay.

Activities edit

The Wetherall Awards began in 1967 and presently several Awards are presented at the Society's Autumn Lunch, among them:-

  • Most promising male cricketer
  • Most promising female cricketer
  • The Ian Jackson Award for Services to Cricket
  • The A.A. Thomson Fielding Prize
  • The Sir Jack Hobbs Silver Jubilee Memorial Prize
  • The Charlotte Edwards Award
  • The Don Rowan Trophy
  • The Perry Lewis/Kershaw Memorial Trophy


The Cricket Society instigated an Annual Book of the Year Award in 1970 that now, in association with the MCC, hosts an Awards Evening in the Long Room at Lord's each spring.[1]

In 2020 the Society instituted the Howard Milton Award for Cricket Scholarship, which is given to an individual or institution that has contributed a significant body of work to the history of the game. Recent winners include Ramachandra Guha and Clem Seecharan.

Throughout the winter months, The Society holds monthly meetings, featuring famous names from cricket, for members and guests at diverse locations in Central London, usually the Union Jack Club or the Civil Service Club.

Through its charitable trust, it raises money to coach underprivileged children in the skills of cricket. They link up with various organisations such as the Arundel Castle Cricket Foundation to achieve these aims.

The Society has a cricket team which plays at a number of venues each season. It also holds monthly meetings for the members in London (as detailed above), Bath, Birmingham and Durham at which invited speakers address the audience. These activities are held to maintain an interest in cricket and both inform and entertain its members and guests through the off-season.

The Cricket Society publishes a journal, bi-annually and a regular news bulletin, 8 times per year, for its subscribed membership.

The Society commissioned E.W. Padwick to compile a comprehensive bibliography of cricket literature under the title A Bibliography of Cricket. The first edition, published in 1977 by the Library Association had 8,294 entries.[2] A revised edition, published in 1984, extended this to over 10,000 entries (ISBN 978-0853659020). A second volume, published in 1991 as Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket, Volume 2, was compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths and covers works published between 1980 and 1990 (ISBN 978-0853655282).

The Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year edit

The Cricket Society began naming a book of the year in 1970. Since 2009 the award has been made in partnership with MCC.[3] It carries a prize of £3000, which is presented at an awards evening each spring in the Long Room at Lord's.[4]

Current officers edit

Executive committee edit

  • Chairman Nigel Hancock
  • Vice Chairman Phil Reeves
  • Secretary Geoffrey Levett
  • Treasurer Phil Reeves
  • Membership Secretary Matthew Stevenson
  • Peter Hardy
  • Nick Tudball
  • Derek Barnard
  • Barry Kitcherside
  • Rafaelle Nicholson

Presidents since 1945 edit

1• 1945-1946 F. A. Mackinnon, The Mackinnon of Mackinnon
2• 1947-1959 Hubert Preston
3• 1960-1961 H. S. Altham
4• 1961-1962 Lord Birkett
5• 1963-1968 A. A. Thomson
6• 1969-1973 Lt-Gen Sir Oliver Leese
7• 1974-1975 A. M. Crawley
8• 1976-1983 E. W. Swanton
9• 1983-1998 G. H. G. Doggart
10• 1998-2008 C. D. A. Martin-Jenkins
11• 2008-onwards J. R. T. Barclay

Chairs since 1945 edit

1• 1945-1946 A. Weigall
2• 1946-1947 Capt. J. A. Bayliss
3• 1947-1953 G. A. Copinger
4• 1953-1960 A. R. Whitaker
5• 1960-1965 Dr R. W. Cockshut
6• 1965-1966 L. E. S. Gutteridge
7• 1966-1983 C. C. W. Box-Grainger
8• 1983-1992 R. N. Haygarth
9• 1992-2003 D. Allsop
10• 2003-2008 W. R. Allen
11• 2008 I. R. Jackson
12• 2008-2012 D. E. Barnard
13• 2012-2021 N. Hancock [1]
14. 2023 to date P. M. Hardy

References edit

  1. ^ "The Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year". The Cricket Society. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  2. ^ Barclay's World of Cricket - 2nd Edition, 1980, Collins Publishers, ISBN 0-00-216349-7, p588
  3. ^ "The Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year". The Cricket Society. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Book of the Year shortlist announced". MCC. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  5. ^ "People". The Cricket Society. Retrieved 8 July 2018.

External links edit

  • The Cricket Society web site
  • Brief history (to 1979)
  • Cricket Society cricket team

November 01, 2023
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The Cricket Society is a charitable organisation founded in 1945 as the Society of Cricket Statisticians at Great Scotland Yard London It has grown steadily to be the largest body of its kind in the cricket world The Cricket Society now has approaching 2000 members in the United Kingdom and the cricket playing countries of the world Its current President is John Barclay Contents 1 Activities 2 The Cricket Society MCC Book of the Year 3 Current officers 4 Executive committee 5 Presidents since 1945 6 Chairs since 1945 7 References 8 External linksActivities editThe Wetherall Awards began in 1967 and presently several Awards are presented at the Society s Autumn Lunch among them Most promising male cricketer Most promising female cricketer The Ian Jackson Award for Services to Cricket The A A Thomson Fielding Prize The Sir Jack Hobbs Silver Jubilee Memorial Prize The Charlotte Edwards Award The Don Rowan Trophy The Perry Lewis Kershaw Memorial TrophyThe Cricket Society instigated an Annual Book of the Year Award in 1970 that now in association with the MCC hosts an Awards Evening in the Long Room at Lord s each spring 1 In 2020 the Society instituted the Howard Milton Award for Cricket Scholarship which is given to an individual or institution that has contributed a significant body of work to the history of the game Recent winners include Ramachandra Guha and Clem Seecharan Throughout the winter months The Society holds monthly meetings featuring famous names from cricket for members and guests at diverse locations in Central London usually the Union Jack Club or the Civil Service Club Through its charitable trust it raises money to coach underprivileged children in the skills of cricket They link up with various organisations such as the Arundel Castle Cricket Foundation to achieve these aims The Society has a cricket team which plays at a number of venues each season It also holds monthly meetings for the members in London as detailed above Bath Birmingham and Durham at which invited speakers address the audience These activities are held to maintain an interest in cricket and both inform and entertain its members and guests through the off season The Cricket Society publishes a journal bi annually and a regular news bulletin 8 times per year for its subscribed membership The Society commissioned E W Padwick to compile a comprehensive bibliography of cricket literature under the title A Bibliography of Cricket The first edition published in 1977 by the Library Association had 8 294 entries 2 A revised edition published in 1984 extended this to over 10 000 entries ISBN 978 0853659020 A second volume published in 1991 as Padwick s Bibliography of Cricket Volume 2 was compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths and covers works published between 1980 and 1990 ISBN 978 0853655282 The Cricket Society MCC Book of the Year editThe Cricket Society began naming a book of the year in 1970 Since 2009 the award has been made in partnership with MCC 3 It carries a prize of 3000 which is presented at an awards evening each spring in the Long Room at Lord s 4 1970 My Dear Victorious Stod A Biography of A E Stoddart by David Frith 1971 Nottinghamshire Cricketers 1821 1914 by Peter Wynne Thomas 1972 Thanks to Cricket by J M Kilburn 1973 Sort of a Cricket Person by E W Swanton 1974 The Story of Warwickshire Cricket 1882 1972 by Leslie Duckworth 1975 Learie Constantine by Gerald Howat 1976 On Top Down Under Australia s Cricket Captains by Ray Robinson 1977 Spinner s Yarn by Ian Peebles 1978 Sir Donald Bradman A Biography by Irving Rosenwater 1979 The Best Loved Game by Geoffrey Moorhouse 1980 Barclay s World of Cricket by E W Swanton and John Woodcock 1981 P G H Fender A Biography by Richard Streeton 1982 Phoenix from the Ashes by Mike Brearley 1983 Australian Cricket The Game and the Players by Jack Pollard 1984 C B The Life of Charles Burgess Fry by Clive Ellis 1985 The Art of Captaincy by Mike Brearley 1986 Hedley Verity A Portrait of a Cricketer by Alan Hill 1987 Pageant of Cricket by David Frith 1988 The Players A Social History of the Professional Cricketer by Ric Sissons 1989 A La Recherche du Cricket Perdu by Simon Barnes 1990 History of Indian Cricket by Mihir Bose 1991 Herbert Sutcliffe Cricket Maestro by Alan Hill 1992 England Expects A Biography of Ken Barrington by Mark Peel 1993 Beyond Bat amp Ball by David Foot 1994 Arlott The Authorised Biography by David Rayvern Allen 1995 David Gower A Man Out of Time by Rob Steen 1996 Bradman An Australian Hero by Charles Williams 1997 The Glory Days of Cricket The Extraordinary Story of Broadhalfpenny Down by Ashley Mote 1998 The Chronicle of W G by J R Webber W G Grace A Life by Simon Rae shared 1999 The Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley 2000 Mystery Spinner The Story of Jack Iverson by Gideon Haigh 2001 At the Heart of English Cricket The Life and Memories of Geoffrey Howard by Stephen Chalke 2002 A Corner of a Foreign Field The Indian History of a British Sport by Ramachandra Guha 2003 The Ross Gregory Story by David Frith 2004 Jim The Life of E W Swanton by David Rayvern Allen 2005 Red Shirts and Roses by Eric Midwinter 2006 Cricket s Burning Passion Ivo Bligh and the Story of the Ashes by Scyld Berry and Rupert Peploe 2007 George Lohmann Pioneer Professional by Keith Booth 2008 No award with this date Before 2008 the award was for books published in the year of the award after 2008 the award was for books published the previous year 2009 Life Beyond the Airing Cupboard by John Barclay 2010 Of Didcot and the Demon The Cricketing Times of Alan Gibson by Anthony Gibson 2011 Slipless in Settle by Harry Pearson 2012 Fred Trueman The Authorised Biography by Chris Waters 2013 On Warne by Gideon Haigh 2014 The Great Tamasha Cricket Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India by James Astill 2015 Field of Shadows The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 by Dan Waddell 2016 Fire in Babylon by Simon Lister 2017 A Beautiful Game My Love Affair with Cricket by Mark Nicholas 2018 Connie The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine by Harry Pearson 2019 Steve Smith s Men Behind Australian Cricket s Fall by Geoff Lemon 2020 The Great Romantic Cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus by Duncan Hamilton The Final Innings The Cricketers of Summer 1939 by Christopher Sandford shared 2021 The Unforgiven by Ashley Gray 2022 Who Only Cricket Know Hutton s Men in the West Indies 1953 54 by David Woodhouse 2023 An Island s Eleven The Story of Sri Lankan Cricket by Nicholas BrookesCurrent officers editPresident John Barclay Vice President Chris Lowe Vice President Charlotte Edwards Vice President Vic Marks Vice President Sir Tim Rice Vice President Derek Underwood 5 Executive committee editChairman Nigel Hancock Vice Chairman Phil Reeves Secretary Geoffrey Levett Treasurer Phil Reeves Membership Secretary Matthew Stevenson Peter Hardy Nick Tudball Derek Barnard Barry Kitcherside Rafaelle NicholsonPresidents since 1945 edit1 1945 1946 F A Mackinnon The Mackinnon of Mackinnon 2 1947 1959 Hubert Preston 3 1960 1961 H S Altham 4 1961 1962 Lord Birkett 5 1963 1968 A A Thomson 6 1969 1973 Lt Gen Sir Oliver Leese 7 1974 1975 A M Crawley 8 1976 1983 E W Swanton 9 1983 1998 G H G Doggart 10 1998 2008 C D A Martin Jenkins 11 2008 onwards J R T BarclayChairs since 1945 edit1 1945 1946 A Weigall 2 1946 1947 Capt J A Bayliss 3 1947 1953 G A Copinger 4 1953 1960 A R Whitaker 5 1960 1965 Dr R W Cockshut 6 1965 1966 L E S Gutteridge 7 1966 1983 C C W Box Grainger 8 1983 1992 R N Haygarth 9 1992 2003 D Allsop 10 2003 2008 W R Allen 11 2008 I R Jackson 12 2008 2012 D E Barnard 13 2012 2021 N Hancock 1 14 2023 to date P M HardyReferences edit The Cricket Society MCC Book of the Year The Cricket Society Retrieved 8 July 2018 Barclay s World of Cricket 2nd Edition 1980 Collins Publishers ISBN 0 00 216349 7 p588 The Cricket Society MCC Book of the Year The Cricket Society Retrieved 9 July 2018 Book of the Year shortlist announced MCC Retrieved 9 July 2018 People The Cricket Society Retrieved 8 July 2018 External links editThe Cricket Society web site Brief history to 1979 Cricket Society cricket team Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Cricket Society amp oldid 1180921188, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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