CROSSED WIRES

Hearing how Brigg Town Cricket Club members spent a very depressing and sunny August Saturday without either of their scheduled matches taking place brought back memories of similar sporting mishaps.
The cricket club called off its second team away match because of a shortage of players, only to find the team due to visit Brigg the same day had also defaulted on the fixture but failed to inform anyone.
So Brigg could quite easily have fulfilled the second team game…if they had known Hull YPI weren’t going to arrive at the Rec Ground for the first team fixture.
Back in the late 1970s, Brigg Town CC formed a second team on the eve of the season and took over the fixtures of Crowle in the North Lindsey League, as they felt unable to raise a side.
A few weeks into the season, Brigg’s players, and the umpires, were at the Recreation Ground, awaiting the arrival of the Holy Trinity team from Gainsborough.
A good hour after the scheduled start time, and just as everyone was getting ready to set off home, upset Holy Trinity arrived to reveal they had been to Crowle because no-one in the league had told them that Brigg had taken over Crowle’s fixtures!
A few years later, Brigg Hockey Club’s 4th X1 travelled to Woodhall Spa for a Saturday friendly, when matches at that level were still being contested on grass.
Meanwhile, the opposition had driven over to Brigg, as their fixture list gave The Rec as the venue.
Somewhere, in mid-Lincs, the two sets of travelling players must have met each other.
After phone calls were exchanged, it was agreed the match would be played at Woodhall, so their team drove all the way back home.
There was time for little more than half a match before conditions got too dark and the match had to be abandoned.
Just as well we didn’t have to consider the carbon footprint back then!