Lashings go down a storm at Shaw

Photo: Paul Sterritt and Steve Beech

SHAW XI captain Kane Fullalove (front, left, holding bat) and Phil DeFreitas, of Lashings, line up with their teams.

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CRICKET: SHAW Cricket Club was awash with stars - Lashings All Stars, to be precise - for a special fund-raising game.

The visiting team, including former internationals Devon Malcolm, Mohammed Yousaf, Gordon Greenidge and Phil DeFreitas, put on a show on and off the Holebottom Clough field.

And even though the visitors won the Twenty20 game comfortably — Indian ace Wasim Jaffer smashed 115, including six sixes and 14 fours in the 82-run victory — the day went down a storm.

Shaw president Mark Stafford said: “It was fantastic, and I didn’t hear one negative comment.

“Lashings players mixed, chatted and had their photographs taken with spectators. They were very accommodating. Nothing was too much trouble for them. They were a real nice bunch.

“I spoke to Phil DeFreitas afterwards and he told me how much he had enjoyed playing here, so too the other players. I know he was genuine as well.”

All gate receipts went to Harry Andrew, the Shaw legend paralysed from the neck down after falling off a ladder at the ground last year. He was present with his wife Sheila, and both had pictures taken with the Lashings stars.

There were other familiar faces too, including former Shaw professional Barry Wood, once of Lancashire and England.