Winter Programme 2024/25
Meetings are held in the Charles Palmer Suite at the County Ground, Grace Road, Leicester and start at 13:30 or 19.30 as stated below
Thursday 10th October 2024 19:30 start time | Mark Ramprakash. President & Batting Coach, Middlesex CCC, ex Middlesex, Surrey & England [report] |
Thursday 7th November 2024 19:30 start time | Lawrence Booth. Editor, Wisden Cricketers Almanac & Journalist with The Mail |
Thursday 28th November 2024 13:30 start time | Angus Fraser. Ex Middlesex & England bowler & former Managing Director, Middlesex CCC |
Thursday 9th January 2025 13:30 start time | Alan Fordham. Head of Cricket Operations, ECB. ex Northants opening batsman |
Thursday 6th February 2025 19:30 start time | James Taylor. Leics CCC, Notts CCC and Leics CCC Coach |
Thursday 6th March 2025 19:30 start time | Phil Neale. Worcs CCC, Lincoln City AFC, Former England Cricket Operations Manager |
Short reports will be available after each meeting.
Winter Programme 2023/24
Meetings are held in the Charles Palmer Suite at the County Ground, Grace Road, Leicester and start at 13:30 or 19.30 as stated below
Thursday 5th October 2023 13:30 start time | Daryl Mitchell Ex Worcs CCC Captain and opening bat PCA Chairman [report] |
Thursday 26th October 2023 19:30 start time | Dean Headley Ex England, Middlesex & Kent CCC opening bowler [report] |
Thursday 16th November 2023 19:30 start time | Kevin Howells Radio 5 cricket reporter and presenter [report] |
Thursday 30th November 2023 19:30 start time | Devon Malcolm Ex England, Northants & Leics CCC opening bowler [report] |
Thursday 4th January 2024 13:30 start time | Wayne Larkins Ex England, Northants & Durham CCC opening batsman [report] |
Thursday 1st February 2024 19:30 start time | Pat Murphy Radio 5 Sports reporter Journalist and author [report] |
Thursday 7th March 2024 13:30 start time | Neil Mallender Ex England, Northants CCC opening bowler Test umpire [report] |
Short reports will be available after each meeting.
Winter Programme 2022/23
Meetings are held in the Charles Palmer Suite at the County Ground, Grace Road, Leicester and start at 19.30
Thursday 6th October 2022 | Paul Farbrace. ex Kent & Middlesex CCC Keeper and England assistant coach. [report] |
Thursday 27th October 2022 | John Holder. ex Hants CCC bowler and 1st class Umpire. [report] |
Thursday 10th November 2022 | Ben Smith. ex Leics & Worcs CCC batsman. now Northants Batting Coach. [report] |
Thursday 24th November 2022 | Graham Gooch. ex England & Essex CCC captain. [report] |
Thursday 12th January 2023 | Bill Athey. ex England & Yorkshire CCC batsman. [report] |
Thursday 16th February 2023 | Paul Nixon LCCC Head Coach with James Taylor LCCC Batting Coach [report] |
Thursday 16th March 2023 | Fred Rumsey ex Worcs CCC bowler with Stephen Chalke [report] |
Short reports will be available after each meeting.
Visitors Book
At every meeting since September 2011, Roger Stead has kept a record of our entire selection of visitor’s and asked them to write a comment in the society visitor book. Chairman, Howard Pollard, saw this record of the speakers who had attended our meetings, and thought our members should have a chance to look at and read some of these comments, hence this display on our website
Non-members are very welcome to come along at a cost of £5 per meeting,
Meeting Reports
Reports of Meetings 2021/22
Thursday 7th October 2021 | Derek Pringle. ex England and Essex bowler [report] |
Thursday October 2021 | Meeting Cancelled |
Thursday 11th November 2021 | Paul Nixon. Leics CCC Head Coach [report] |
Thursday 2nd December 2021 | John Emburey. ex England, Middlesex & Northants CCC spin bowler [report] |
Thursday 6th January 2022 | Sean Jarvis. CEO Leics CCC [report] |
Thursday 10th February 2022 | Mike Smith. ex England & Gloucs CCC bowler [report] |
Thursday 24th March 2022 | Meeting Cancelled |
Reports of Meetings 2019/20
Thursday 10th October 2019 | John Barclay, Director of Cricket at Arundel Castle C.C. [report] |
Thursday 7th November 2019 | Darren Maddy, ex England Leics & Warks C.C. all rounder [report] |
Thursday 21st November 2019 | Geoff Cope, ex England & Yorks C.C. bowler [report] |
Thursday 12th December 2019 | Colin Povey, former CEO at Warks C.C. [report] |
Thursday 16th January 2020 | Elizabeth Ammon, Cricket Broadcaster & Journalist [report] |
Thursday 13th February 2020 | Phillip DeFreitas, ex England Derby Lancs & Leics C.C. all-rounder [report] |
Thursday 12th March 2020 | Simon Hughes, Cricket Analyst Broadcaster & Journalist [report] |
Reports of Meetings 2018/19
Thursday 4th October 2018 | Chris Cowdrey. ex England, Glamorgan & Kent [report] |
Thursday 25th October 2018 | Chris Lewis. ex England, Leicestershire, Notts & Surrey [report] |
Thursday 15th November 2018 | Paul Nixon. Head Cricket Coach Leicestershire CCC [report] |
Thursday 13th December 2018 | Alan Butcher. ex England, Glamorgan & Surrey [report] |
Thursday 17th January 2019 | Malcom Nash. ex Glamorgan, famous for the 6×6 over. [report] |
Thursday 28th February 2019 | Ken Burney. talking about Wally Hammond |
Thursday 28th March 2019 | Stephen Chalke. Making another welcome visit to the LCS. [report] |
Reports of Meetings 2017/18
Thursday 5th October 2017 | John Abrahams – Manager England U19, ex Lancs CCC Captain [report] |
Thursday 26th October 2017 | Jeremy Coney – Sky / BBC Commentator, ex New Zealand Captain [report] |
Thursday 16th November 2017 | Dr. Dean Allen – Author: Empire, War & Cricket In South Africa [report] |
Thursday 7th December 2017 | Brian Scovell – Author, Biographer & Journalist at the Daily Mail [report] |
Thursday 11th January 2018 | Paul Horton – ex Lancs CCC now Leicestershire CCC batsman [report] |
Thursday 1st February 2018 | Simon Lister – Author: Fire in Babylon (West Indies Cricket) [report] |
Thursday 15th March 2018 | Steve Garratt – ex ECB 1st Class Umpire [report] |
Reports of Meetings 2016/17
Thursday 6th October 2016 | Mike Watkinson – ex England and Lancs CCC. Now Lancs CCC Cricket Manager [report] |
Thursday 27th October 2016 | Tim Jones – Worcestershire CCC “History and Heritage” [report] |
Thursday 17th November 2016 | Richard Tomlinson – Journalist and Author ” Amazing Grace: The Man who was WG” |
Wednesday 14th December 201 | David Millns former Leics CCC bowler [report] |
Thursday 9th February 2017 | Derek Randall – ex England and Notts CCC. [report] |
Thursday 23rd February 2017 | Alan Fordham – ex Northants CCC. now Head of Cricket Operations, EWCB [report] |
Thursday 9th March 2017 | Paul Allott – ex England and Lancs CCC. now SKY TV commentator [report] |
Reports of Meetings 2015/16
Thursday 28th March 2019 | David Graveney OBE – National Performance Manager ECB [report] |
Thursday 22nd October 2015 | Isabelle Duncan – Author of “Skirting the Boundary” a history of Women’s Cricket [report] |
Thursday 19th November 2015 | Matthew Engel – Author & former editor of Wisden [report] |
Wednesday 9th December 2015 | John Sadler – former Leics CCC & Derby CCC. now Batting Coach at Derbyshire [report] |
Thursday 7th January 2016 | Chris Watts & Stephen Richardson – ECB Anti-Corruption unit [report] |
Thursday 11th February 2016 | Jason Gillespie with Dave Callaghan. Head Coach Yorks CCC [report] |
Thursday 25th February 2016 | Chris Waters & Sidney Fielden. on Hedley Verity’s 10 – 10 [report] |
Thursday 24th March2016 | Wasim Khan MBE. Leics CCC Chief Exec. [report] |