FORMER BRIGG SPORTSMAN TRAVELS THOUSANDS OF MILES TO BRING GOOD LUCK

Which sportsman travelled halfway around the world to play for a Brigg team?
The answer is Simon Church, from whom we still receive emails from time to time as he uses Brigg Blog to see what's going on in the district where he used to live.
We can't recall the exact year when he flew back to the old country and played for Brigg Town Cricket Club but think it was 2002. He will be able to confirm.
"Chozzy" who emigrated to Perth, West Australia in 1987, also attended an ex-pupils' reunion in the drama hall at his old school, Sir John Nelthorpe, on a Saturday night in the height of summer..
But his old club managed to fit him in with a game that afternoon - for old time's sake - and he brought them some good luck, as the Brigg 1st XI won at South Kelsey 2nds in Lincolnshire League division three.
Two of his former team-mates, Garry Dunderdale and Gig Smith, who had both retired from playing by then, turned up to lend "Chozzy" their support.
He amazed his former colleagues by wearing a jumper over his shirt on a day which was sweltering by British standards but nothing more than warmish as far as the weather goes Down-Under.
Back row, left to right: Garry Dunderdale, John Fitzgerald, Gary Smith, Andy Allan, Matt Mosey, Callum Lester, Gig Smith.
Front row, left to right: Mick Wescott, Adam Dunderdale, Simon Church and Lee Fielden. 
We were playing for Brigg that day and took the picture we've just chanced upon again after all this time.
The venue was the former Nettleton Mines ground at Holton-le-Moor, near the Hope Tavern.
This may well have been the Brigg v Kelsey game in which Adam Dunderdale took seven or eight wickets and scored a century, leaving his team-mates to put their feet up!