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Unique Double At Mexborough

October 1968

South Yorkshire Times, October 5, 1968

Unique Double At Mexborough

FEW schools in the country could boast a sporting ‘double’ to match the one established by last season’s soccer and cricket captains at Mexborough Grammar School.

To add to the honour of soccer captain Edwin Salkeld’s selection as captain of the English Senior Schools F.A. team last season, they can now boast of cricket captain Richard Lumb’s (picture) recent selection by the Cricket Society as the “most promising cricketer of the year.”

The Society is a body composed of members of the M.C.C. Committee.

Eighteen-years-old Richard, of The Ivanhoe Hotel, Sprotborough, who was told of the award in a letter from the Cricket Society last week, has now left school after spending two years in the sixth form and two seasons as 1st X1 cricket captain.

Last season he played in all but one of the Yorkshire Colts’ games and is already looking forward to returning to the nets at Headingley in February.

Playing for Leeds in the Yorkshire League he headed the league’s batting averages and has won the Yorkshire Federation under-19 cricket trophy for the past, two seasons

Hit 223 not out

During the summer he went on a tour with the England schoolboys team and, opening the innings against Scotland at Jesmond he hit a record-breaking 223 not out.

Richard who hopes to make a career in cricket, has been brought up in a cricket-loving family, his grandfather, Mr. Joe Lumb having been Doncaster’s representative on the Yorkshire County Committee for the past 20 years.

Although Richard’s main interest is cricket he still finds time for other sports, particularly golf which he plays at Rotherham Golf club, where he is a member.

One would expect to have to look a long way to find a comparable sporting record in the area, but in fact one need look no further than Richard’s former teammate, Edwin Salkeld, who also played in Mexborough Grammar School’s 1st XI cricket team and indeed represented South. Yorkshire Schools’ Cricket Association, but who has gained most of his major sporting honours playing football.

Seven years

Edwin, who lives in Roberts Avenue, Conisbrough, and who is still in the school’s sixth form, has captained a school soccer team in each of his seven years at the school, culminating in his appointment as 1st XI captain last season.

He has represented Don and Dearne School’s at under fourteen and fifteen levels, Yorkshire Schools under fifteen and Yorkshire Senior Schools.

Last year he achieved the dream of most schoolboy footballers by being selected for the English Schools F.A. under-18 team for the game against Wales and later being appointed captain of the under nineteen team for the Wales and Scotland matches.