Match reports and other cricket writing from Dave Walker

 

Match reports

2001

• Helmsley

2002

• 28.4    Stainborough
• Yapham 12.5.2002
• 19.5    Whitley Bridge
• 1 in 12 Stainborough 25.2.2002
• 2.6      Jesters
• 16.6    RUFC
• 7.7      Police
• 21.7    Retreat
• 4.8      Hilton
• 25.8    Duncombe Park
• 1.9      Upperthong

2003

• 8.6      Rock
• 15,6    Druids
• 29.6    Romany
• 27.7    RUFC
• 24.8    Duncombe Park
• Sept    President’s Day

2004

• 14.5    Whitley Bridge
• 30.5    Rock
• Wealdstone 17, 18 July
• Elvaston 1.8
• Old Almondburians 22.8

2005

• Yapham May 2005
• Darton 6th June
• Druids 12th June
• Cambridge Meths 10th July
• 8.5      Yapham
• 15.8    Hilton
• Jacob’s Well 21st Aug
• Duncombe Park Aug 28th
• President v Chairman

2013

• 16.6    Upperthong
• 4.8      Sleepers
• ? the last casuals

Committee minutes

• spring 2000
• spring 2001
• autumn 2001
• feb 27 2002
• spring 2003
• 10.3 2004
• committee meet 3.11.2004
• committee autumn 2004
• spring 2005
• autumn 2006
• committee nov 2006 
• no date

Unpublished pieces

• Barnsley 6s
• Remains of the day
• Shoot-out at Lowerthong
• shootout (2)
• An Ageing Cricketer and His Son
• Ageing and retiring from cricket
• Where were you?
• The Hand
• Casuals Incidents
• old members invite
• Casuals formation
• autobiography (1) ultimately hopeless cricketer
• autobiography (2) nothing to play for – starts with AGM
• On Cricket Writing

Published Articles

Northern Cricket Society Journal

Mick Bourne commissioned any piece. I chose my experiences of cricket in the Bahamas, part of two weeks I spent with my family celebrating our daughter’s wedding. Booklet 2010, p8

Cricket in the Bahamas

Journal of The Cricket Society

 I met Derek Barnard when he came up to Huddersfield. Did he want some copy? “Send it me.” After the Pennine Cricket Conference 2009, I submitted a piece on friendly cricket and the journal accepted it. (2009)

Why Play Friendly Cricket?

Huddersfield Examiner

This was part of a series, illustrating the funnier side of getting older. I did one on cricket, based on the odd moments from Almondbury Casuals.  (2008)

Senior Cricket Moments

‘It’s a Great Day for Being a Boy,’ from ‘All in a Day’s Cricket: An anthology of outstanding cricket writing’ compiled by Brian Levison

Brian contacted kindly contacted me for a piece. I sent him a copy of ‘It’s Not Lord’s’ and he chose this. (2012)

Its a great day for being a boy

Almondbury Casuals CC

A gentleman’s cricket club, originating in the 1940s, but firmly rooted in the amateur traditions of the mid eighteenth century. ‘Cricket in Perspective 2’ covers history from 1981 to 2005, a follow up to Jim Netherwood’s ‘Cricket in Perspective 1’.  (2005)

Cricket in Perspective 2

Gentlemen, Gypsies and Jesters – A collection of chapters on wandering cricket clubs published by Fairfield Books. (2013)

Almondbury Casuals

 

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