BRIGG TOWN CRICKETERS ROUND OFF THEIR SEASON

Brigg Town cricketer Phil Dewfall getting ready to bat when the team was still operating from the Recreation Ground. Paul Harrison sneaked onto the  picture, right, as we closed the shutter.

Brigg Town Cricket Club ended the season on a disappointing note with defeat at Hibaldstow on Saturday.
The result came as no real surprise as Brigg are at the foot of the division three table in the Lincolnshire County Cricket League, while Hibaldstow are champions.
Town's 18-match league programme produced four victories, three 'no results' due to bad weather and 11 defeats. However, they did enjoy some success in the league's cup competition.
Brigg now face relegation back to division four, from which they secured promotion just a year ago.
All home matches were again played at Brocklesby Park this summer. 
Cricket is among the sports included in ambitious redevelopment plans for Brigg Recreation Ground which are still going through the planning process at North Lincolnshire Council after being submitted towards the end of last year and subsequently modified.
While Brigg were playing their final game of the 2015 season we were umpiring a division one match at Heslam Park, Scunthorpe. Among the spectators was former Brigg Town Cricket Club player 'Gig' Smith - now in his mid-70s - was had earlier visited Hibaldstow where Brigg were in action.  We had a brief chat with 'Gig' who many regard as the club's greatest-ever all-rounder. In 1979 he famously took two hat-tricks in the same innings against Caistor.
Brigg Town Cricket Club was strong in Victorian times and lasted until the early 1940s before fading from the scene. It was re-formed for the 1974 season by a small band which included Bryan Robins, then a Town Councillor, and Brian Parker, now a Town Councillor. 
Home matches down the years have been played at Brigg Rec, Sir John Nelthorpe School, Brigg Sugar Factory and (briefly) Vale of Ancholme School, now the Vale Academy, using a pitch close to the Design Centre/Sports Hall, off Grammar School Road, almost opposite the chip-shop.