CRICKET LOVERS WELCOME BRIGG PERSONALITY

BY ANN BOULTON

The final meeting of the Lincolnshire Cricket Lovers’ Society winter season brings the return of a popular local speaker.

Journalist Nigel Fisher will be at Cleethorpes Cricket Club on Tuesday, February 19 at 7.30pm with more of his stories and reminiscences about Lincolnshire cricket.

Having played almost 800 games for Brigg Town CC in his 30 year career with bat and ball, Nigel turned to umpiring eight years ago and will undoubtedly have many stories of his experiences in the white coat.

His involvement in local cricket includes the posts of results secretary for the Lincolnshire County Cricket League and chairman of the newly re-formed Broughton Evening League and he continues to report on cricket for the Scunthorpe Telegraph, the Grimsby Telegraph and the Lincolnshire Echo.

For many years, he attended and reported on Lincolnshire’s Minor Counties matches and he also penned the very popular and long-running In A Spin column, taking a light-hearted look at the game at local club level.  In 2009, he set up the much-visited website Lincs Cricket Latest.

The evening is free for Cricket Lovers’ Society members and £5 for visitors.