STUMPS ABOUT TO BE DRAWN ON BRIGG CRICKET SEASON

Brigg Town Cricket Club will be visiting group leaders Cleethorpes tomorrow (August 29) in the final round of Challenge Cup qualifying fixtures - the Coronavirus emergency having delayed the start of the the campaign until the beginning of this month.

However, all Brigg's games have been played away from home so spectators have been unable to hear the sound of ball on willow in a club match this year.
Brigg Town CC, which folded in the 1930s, resumed in 1974 with Grimsby Saturday League home games at the Recreation Ground, off Wrawby Road.
Coun Brian Parker, the current Deputy Town Mayor, was instrumental in re-establishing club cricket in the town and became secretary in addition to being one of the team's batsmen.
The club has since used Sir John Nelthorpe School, Brigg Sugar Factory (off Scawby Road, Scawby Brook) and the Rec for home games at various times, and also played a handful at Vale of Ancholme School.
For a few seasons while the Rec was being refurbished, it took on a nomadic existence, being permitted to stage home fixtures at Brocklesby Park, Hibaldstow and Keelby.
The Thoresway club played Sunday friendlies at Brigg Rec for some years prior to the Town club being re-formed in the mid-1970s - Thoresway being a small settlement in the Lincolnshire Wolds near Caistor.
When Barnetby had a team in the North Lindsey League 40 years ago, it used the Rec for a brief period.
Brigg Urban District Council created the ground in the early 1950s and provision was later made for cricket, despite Brigg being without a senior club.

PICTURED: Spectators watching Brigg Town playing Haxey 2nds in a Lincolnshire League fixture during the 2018 season when Coronavirus-related social distancing was not an issue.