A new book by Tony Day “Keeping Score – the Story of Village Cricket in Lympstone” will be published by Lympstone History Society next month, and launched at the Annual Cricket Match at Harefield on the
evening of Thursday 12th June.
In his latest book about Lympstone, Tony traces the ups and downs of successive cricket clubs in the village, from late Victorian times to the present day.
You’ll meet the cricketers – the poacher and the professor, the landowner and the labourer, the fisherman and the farmer, the barrister and the bartender. You’ll enjoy the falling out between the Rector and the owner of the Great House who was the cricket club’s first President. And the on-field rivalry with neighbouring Exton. You will also read of the day that Lympstone played against a team from Afghanistan! Two Lympstone cricketers went on to represent their country. Others were serious club cricketers. Many were happy enough to get bat on ball before retiring to one of Lympstone’s inns. But whatever happened to the bumps in Humpy Bumpy Field?
For most of the past 20 years, Tony Day has been sitting at the scorer’s table for Lympstone Cricket Club, watching and recording almost every ball. Now he has turned his humour and observant eye to the history of cricket in our village. His gifts as a storyteller ensure that we’re sitting on the boundary alongside him, a beer in hand!
“Keeping Score” will also be available at the exhibition in the Village Hall prior to performances of Lympstone Legends on 13th and 14th June.
