David Griffin opened the new season’s programme with a very welcome return for his third talk in three years.

David is a former policeman, served on the Derbyshire CCC committee for three years and is now the County Club’s historian and photographer. He recently had published “The Jewel in Derbyshire’s Crown” – a definitive history of cricket in Queen’s Park.

This time the subject was “Overseas players for Derbyshire” – some registered as overseas players, some who were born overseas but not classed as overseas players and some who were not even known as overseas players! The illustrated talk covered players from the 19th Century to the present day, from the obscure to the well-known, from loyal long-serving to “one match wonders” and from Ollivierre to Wright, Kirsten and Madsen. As always, David was incredibly knowledgeable but witty, passionate and very well received.

Neil Swanwick