A page dedicated to those hard working Yorkshire League/ club officials who are no longer with us.
Do you know anybody who deserves to be in our hall of fame. Drop us some details via the contact us section, with names, roles undertaken, a few details and, if possible, when they sadly passed away.
Lets not forget them.
Chris Houseman passed away on the 30th January 2008 following a long and dignified battle with leukaemia. Chairman of York Cricket Club for over 15 years and President of the Yorkshire League from 1997 to 2002, Chris was a true champion of Cricket in Yorkshire.
JOHN Herbert, a well-known York cricket administrator died in Harrogate District Hospital in 2002. He was 60.
Mr Herbert had been suffering from leukaemia for five and a half years, but died after contracting meningitis.John moved to York in 1967 after being appointed to a special needs teaching post at Tadcaster Grammar School. Later he taught at Horsforth and at Wetherby High School, where he was head of department for special needs.
He joined Acomb Cricket Club, playing for the first team in the York and District Senior Cricket League and was club chairman for a time before moving to York Cricket Club where he played and was a committee member.
Mr Herbert also played in the first team for York Hockey Club and he acted as press correspondent for York CC and York HC, writing many articles for the Evening Press and also reported for BBC Radio Leeds and York Hospital Radio.
He was secretary of the Northern Cricket Society for a time and press officer for the Yorkshire Cricket League.
In addition to his sporting interests Mr Herbert was a Methodist lay preacher, a member of Wetherby Musical Theatre Group and played the violin in Wetherby High School orchestra.
He moved with his wife and family to Bude in Cornwall in 1991 and taught there for seven years.
They moved back to Wetherby in 1998 and he taught literacy to adults on a part-time basis at Bradford Cathedral Centre. In later years he continued to work as an administrator on the local cricket scene.
Cleethorpes Cricket Club had been shocked to learn in 2009 at the sudden death of one of the clubs most successful captains and former player John Sunley.
John was a regular member of the Cleethorpes side when the club joined the Yorkshire League in the 1980's. Club President, Ray Mawer, said that "John was one of the most naturally talented cricketers he had come across, and he had been a terrific assett to the club".
He went on to say that he would rate John in the top five players ever to represent the club.
John played for the Meggies from 1961 until 1987 scoring 13590 runs at an average of 29.48. During this period he hit eight centuries, and seventy half centuries, and in 1977 completed 1000 runs for the season at an average of 44.17.
Apart from holding 272 catches he also claimed 387 wickets with his ability to move the ball both ways at a brisk pace. Once, in a match at Hull, he took 4 wickets from four balls.
He was a regular member of the Lincolnshire League side which had great success in the Rothman Cup, and represented the League XI against the International Cavaliers at Chichester Road in 1970 when he became the second victim of a Fred Trueman hat -trick.
Cleethorpes Cricket Club Chairman, Mike Drew, said " John will always be remembered as a stylish batsman, exceptional fielder, a more than useful change bowler, but most of all as a real gentleman in the world of cricket".