Doris Wilmot

With Sadness I have to announce that Doris Wilmot recently passed away at the age of 79.

Doris Wilmot is probably not well known amongst the newer cricketers, those who have been with the Cricket club just these last 10 years or so. But anyone who knew of this Cricket club or were any part of the club prior to that, would have known Doris and her husband Jim.

Jim and Doris were an institution at BRSA, as we were known then. They ran our club at a guess for around 20 years, a guess because when I came to the club at 11 in 1982, it was not something that I knew too much about! But from when I was playing in the senior sides, 1986 onwards, I got to know them. Doris and Jim were always good to me and many others that I have spoken to, but you didn't want to get on the wrong side of them, because they were old school and didn't suffer any nonsense! They were both people of strong character and kept BRSA going through some very tough times indeed.

Jim was also our umpire and from what I could surmise he had a three ball LBW rule, if it hit your pad you weren't out, but if it hit your pad the third time, that's it you were back in the pavilion sonny boy! And from what I gathered none of our batsman were good enough to play 'Old Bill Major' and none of our bowlers were as good 'Old Bill Major' - funnily enough the year before last, we played Wormly, who had 'Old Bill Major' (not as old as I'd expected either!) in the team, and we won!

And in the great tradition of cricket clubs, the matriarch of our club of the time, Doris Wilmot, prepared our teas. And you cannot say anything more highly about a person at a Cricket Club, than for 20 years she gave up her spare time and made the teas - Cricket as we know it would collapse into the un-gentlemanly chaos of soccer, if no-one made the teas.

Paul Hewitt