Quiz Question

[The Red Baron]

Not for Rovers, but did Ian Botham ever play against us for Scunthorpe.?

He did in a Reserve game.

[The Red Baron]

There was Phil Neale for Lincoln and Worcestershire.

Dave Mulligan?

I don't think Dave Mulligan was a cricketer, certainly not at first-class level. Phil Neale never played for us.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

There was Phil Neale for Lincoln and Worcestershire.

Dave Mulligan?

I don't think Dave Mulligan was a cricketer, certainly not at first-class level. Phil Neale never played for us.

Summat told me he played cricket in NZ, but obvs I got that wrong.

This one's stumping me! 

[The Red Baron]

It's not easy. Both played for us in the early 1900s.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Ah well, even I wasn't around then!

[Bentley Bullet]

Alonzo Drake?

[wilts rover]

The other one is an interesting guy.

Scored a thousand runs in a season for Nottinghamshire on 10 ocassions, was sold by auction when playing for Leeds City, served in the Royal Navy during WWI, retired to run a sports shop and passed away at the grand old age of 99 in 1991.

Willis Walker, goalkeeper 1912-1914

[drfchound]

Not for Rovers, but did Ian Botham ever play against us for Scunthorpe.?

I'm pretty sure I was at a game at BV where he came on as sub. PS I was at the Balderstone (Rovers) match.

A very good friend of mine drove the car from Chesterfield to Donny with Balderstone in it that night.
He was reported multiple times for speeding but they were all overturned.

[Highland Rover]

 Major Booth and Tom Birtles both played for Yorkshire pre-WW1 , think there a couple more who have played Minor County Cricket ....Lincolnshire springs to mind for one .

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Not for Rovers, but did Ian Botham ever play against us for Scunthorpe.?

I'm pretty sure I was at a game at BV where he came on as sub. PS I was at the Balderstone (Rovers) match.

A very good friend of mine drove the car from Chesterfield to Donny with Balderstone in it that night.
He was reported multiple times for speeding but they were all overturned.

Great story!

[Highland Rover]

One more .......Tommy Thorpe played for Rovers 1904-05 in goal and played 3 games as a middle order batsman for Northants in 1913 , one of the games being against Alonzo Drake's Yorkshire

[donnievic]

Not for Rovers, but did Ian Botham ever play against us for Scunthorpe.?

deffo played in a reserve game at Belle vie for them

[RedJ]

It's not easy. Both played for us in the early 1900s.

James Coppinger?

[The Red Baron]

Highland Rover (and Bentley Bullet) are correct- Alonzo Drake and Tommy Thorpe are the two in question. Messrs Walker, Booth and Birtles were all cricketers who played for Rovers, but in the Midland League, not the Football League.

[idler]

David Bairstow also played for Bradford City reserves against Rovers reserves about 1967/68.

[Pancho Regan]

Not for Rovers, but did Ian Botham ever play against us for Scunthorpe.?

I'm pretty sure I was at a game at BV where he came on as sub. PS I was at the Balderstone (Rovers) match.

A very good friend of mine drove the car from Chesterfield to Donny with Balderstone in it that night.
He was reported multiple times for speeding but they were all overturned.

Good story!

[ravenrover]

Wasn't it filmed by Look North or whatever it was back then? As for your friend Hound wasn't he also a local ref seem to remeber him from my Senior League days

[idler]

Wasn't it filmed by Look North or whatever it was back then? As for your friend Hound wasn't he also a local ref seem to remeber him from my Senior League days

It wasn't Bernard Shaw was it?

[drfchound]

Wasn't it filmed by Look North or whatever it was back then? As for your friend Hound wasn't he also a local ref seem to remeber him from my Senior League days

Wasn't it filmed by Look North or whatever it was back then? As for your friend Hound wasn't he also a local ref seem to remeber him from my Senior League days

It wasn't Bernard Shaw was it?

I won’t put his name out on the forum but his initials are PD.
His boss was a Rovers Director at the time and he went in his bosses car, a Triumph Stag, to pick CB up.
PD did go into refereeing.

[idler]

I do remember seeing the story on Calendar or whatever where a film crew showed them on the motorway and then arriving and playing. I think he was sat in the car still in his cricket whites.

[The Red Baron]

David Bairstow also played for Bradford City reserves against Rovers reserves about 1967/68.

He came on as sub for Bradford City in a League Match at Belle Vue, which Rovers won 1-0, in September 1972. In all he made 17 League appearances for Bradford City, scoring once. He played mostly at centre-forward.

[goalkick]

Did Keith kettleboro play cricket and football.

[Draytonian III]

Keith brother Alan did and coached at Worksop College, his nephew is Richard ex Yorkshire and Middlesex, now an international umpire

[The Red Baron]

Did Keith kettleboro play cricket and football.

He was a decent cricketer and played a good standard of League cricket, but not first-class.

[The Red Baron]

While we're on the subject of footballer-cricketers, who is the only current county cricketer who has played in the Football League?

[Draytonian III]

Peter Trego

[The Red Baron]

Peter Trego

Peter Trego has played in the FA Cup (Proper) but not in the Football League.

[Draytonian III]

Keith Barker, Hampshire ex Warwickshire

[Campsall rover]

Not for Rovers, but did Ian Botham ever play against us for Scunthorpe.?

I'm pretty sure I was at a game at BV where he came on as sub. PS I was at the Balderstone (Rovers) match.

I was at Belle Vue for a reserve match when Ian Botham played for Scunny.
I was also at the Balderstone game.

[The Red Baron]

Keith Barker, Hampshire ex Warwickshire

Correct- he played for Rochdale in the Football League.