I'm looking for some help. As a labour of love I have spent spare time in the last 12 months writing a book on Yorkshire cricketers from the mid 70s to date purely for my own pleasure. I have included many of my own pictures and I have to say it's coming on nicely. To the point of this post. As I live over 200 miles from Yorkshire's libraries all my reseach has to be done on the internet - not normally a problem except for a certain PA Jackson who bowled for the second XI in 1981 and 1982 taking 45 wickets.
Does anyone remember his first name?
Thanks for any help
Martyn
This message has been edited by AlexRoberts on Aug 13, 2009 7:06 PM
That will no doubt be Paul Jackson, bowled Left-arm spin I believe for Yorkshire but then bowled a mixture of left arm seamers or spinners in the Yorkshire League with Rotherham Town and Doncaster Town if I'm not mistaken.
What do you plan doing with your finished research Martyn?
Is there any way you could make some of it available online? Seems a shame to do all that work and not share it with others in some way.
Yes Steve you are quite right and thanks for your comment. In fact you sound like my wife who keeps saying the same thing. My only concern is that my main interests when starting the book were to discover details on many of the 'lesser lights' of Yorkshire first and second team cricket. Hence I have spent 100 times more effort researching the likes of Neil Lloyd, Peter Ingham or Phil Hart for example(with varying success and more details would be much appreciated) than I have Darren Gough or Younus Khan whose histories are well chronicled and freely available elsewhere. As a consequence, the book may look a little skewed to some eyes unless I spend a lot of time rewriting profiles of the big name players. Anyway it's a work in progress - who knows what it'll look like when I'm done.
Martyn
I think you'll find that perspective makes it considerably more interesting for many of us!
The very last thing we need is another flabby volume about GoughVaughanHoggy et al.
For the record. I'm definitely NOT your wife..
Thanks for the suggestion, I tried the Wikipedia links for a couple of minor players then realised that I had written much of it over a year ago - that's what gave me the idea for my own compendium - one that can't be edited by Joe Bloggs.What brings this full circle is that I notice that there is no entry for one PA Jackson !
Changing the subject - I had a notion as a young child in the 1970s that Alan Ramage was a potential star. Can anyone who ever saw him choose three adjectives to describe him... OK I know I'm pushing my luck now... but this is one I'm really interested in.
ramage came from brotton in cleveland. joined marske cricket club and started as a good young batsman, but as he grew into a tall strong young man turned into a fast bowler. the same physique earned him a contract as a centre half for middlesbrough football club. but as a fast bowler he took all 10 wickets in an nysd league game against guisborough. he was joined at yorkshire by another marske junior paul jarvis and it was a proud day for marske when the pair opened the bowling for yorkshire at scarborough. i feel football took away some of alans commitmemt and he sort of fell between the 2 stools. another interesting lad from marske at that time was a left hand bat called neil nicholson. from danby on the north yorkshire moors he was prolific in league cricket. was given a few games for yorkshire and eventually played bradford league cricket.
three adjectives to describe Alan Ramage? injury prone, quick and footballing central defender - think Arnie Sidebottom without the talent or heart that Arnie had.
Ramage had a younger brother who could play a bit as well from memory but think he may have played at Saltburn rather than Marske.
Marsker obviously knows Marske old boys better than I do but they did have a havit of turning out a few decent youngsters who interested Yorkshire - perhaps the fact that the Yorks 2nds played there once a season is not unrelated?
As well as Paul Jarvis there was his elder brother Andrew (tall left arm quicky) and John Whitehouse who played for England schoolboys but never pursued a first class career. They all played around same time as Paul Jarvis and Neil Nicholson from memory.
As fast as they come on his day was Ramage. A shame those days were few and far between when it mattered. A bit like Harmison without getting it right on the days that mattered a bit more.
Did he not spend some time at her majesty's pleasure for something or other a few years back?
other players from nysd league and yorkshire include brian bainbridge off spin 50s chris old fast 70s phil berry off spin 80s bill athey batsman 80s john woodford allrounder 80s (a bradford lad).