Summer Sports - Cricket
decent footballer too for the same organisation. He has a great story about playing cricket in SW19 on Men’s Finals day adjacent to Centre Court.” “Most important has been the support of my wife Jane over the last thirty years; an amazing person, a brilliant teacher and a cricket lover. She also has the best bowling analysis I have ever seen. I know because I was the scorer. Six wickets in seven balls, two caught and bowled, for Lancaster University Ladies.” Cricket, as the saying goes, courses
through Eddy’s veins. Founded in 1947, the club initially played in the Lancaster and District Cricket League and held games on the ground now occupied by the Vale of Lune Rugby Club’s number three pitch. Thanks to the foresight and hard work
of a group of members, the current picturesque ground at Boundary Meadow was purchased and the club played its
first game here in 1969, after joining the Palace Shield Competition [the major cricket league for Preston and surrounding districts in Lancashire] to play a higher standard of cricket. In its first season in this competition the club won promotion to the top division. In the late seventies, Jessie Lockwood and her husband Cecil became heavily involved at the club, attending every home game and offering particularly strong support to the junior section (Jessie referred to them as ‘her boys’). Initially set up and coached by the remarkable Jim Dyak, who had difficulty walking and used an invalid carriage, many fine local cricketers came through the ranks. After a period of decline in the early 1990s, the junior section was revived in 1995 by John Ball, initially coaching his own son and a group of school friends. The junior section has gone from
strength to strength and now runs four age group teams, has well over a hundred members and has eight ECB trained coaches supported by a team of helpers. A number of girls are involved, along with several members from ethnic minorities, and the club also caters for a range of disabilities.
The club is affiliated to the ECB
through the Lancashire Cricket Board (LCB), is an ECB Focus Club and achieved Clubmark Status in August 2005, having implemented the ECB ‘Safe Hands’ child protection policy and appointed trained Welfare Officers. The club is a founding member of the local Cricket Development Group and locally shares, with Northern Premier Morecambe CC, the status of Joint Lead Club in the ‘Chance to Shine’ programme.
Thanks to generous funding from the ECB, SITA Trust and a substantial
“After basic bodily functions, the first thing I do in the morning is check the BBC, the Met Office and Rain Today on the internet. The last thing I do before turning the light off at night is the same. I’m a weather junky!”
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