Our latest magazine, no.144, September 2024 has been despatched to all members today, 8th October. Another 17 pages of all things CMS, collecting and meetings information with contributions from far and wide…expertly brought together by our (very!) hard-working editor, Alex…
Interest is already building for the first of our ‘winter’ auctions, to be held at the County Ground, Derby. The auction includes a number of items from the personal collection of Brian Close, with over 300 lots in all, attracting…
The historian at Molineux has found this excellent bat signed by Worcestershire CCC players, World Stars cricketers and some Wolverhampton Wanderers FC players. I’m guessing that it might be as part of the Rest of the World Tour in 1970….but…
Our Bristol meeting afforded us the opportunity to present the CMS Award of Excellence to David Battersby in recognition of his work about Pakistani cricket, in particular the Pakistan Eaglets. The photo shows David receiving his award from guest Andy Stovold. (David…
This website has been set up to provide a place where historical or hard-to-find or interesting or research cricket material can be deposited on-line.The site will have scans of scorebooks, individual match scoresheets, scorecards from books and other material compiled…
Nicholas Sharp takes us through a fascinating history of a ball & shoe from the 1760’s, moving on to pick out some highlights from a huge collection of scorecards.
An insight into Nicholas Sharp’s extensive Ranjitsinhji collection, after an initial foray into the story of how he acquired a Duleepsinhji bat (Harrow size!) used in the 1929season.
James takes us through just a small section of his extensive ceramics collection, explaining how he spends time researching each item – which certainly comes to the fore as he guides us through just a few cabinet shelves filled with…
In this video, Andy discusses Ashes memorabilia in his collection. Among a varied and wide-ranging list of collectables, we are treated to an inkwell, ceramics, signed photos and a table lighter all of which having an Ashes connection.