LEAGUES of years gone-by were recalled when Hyde Cricket Club hosted a seventies to nineties reunion on September 16.
Old friends, delighted to see each other again, told ever-taller tales about runs scored, wickets taken and bruises sustained as they recalled classic encounters and professionals such as Ezra Moseley, Curtly Ambrose and Franklyn Stephenson.

One player, Russell Hamer, had travelled all the way from Kelowna in the west of Canada to be at the event which was organised by Mike Greaves, one of three former first-team captains to attend.
The gathering also included Gary Wilkinson, who took 19 wickets in a weekend when Hyde won the Central Lancashire League championship in 1981; Mark Stringer, who was also pro at Denton St Lawrence; and former Stalybridge skipper Phil Spiby.
Mike, who was also celebrating his 70th birthday, used the evening to present a Trevor Trueman print to the club which had been given to him by Hyde as a 50th birthday present.
Based on a photograph, it depicts a typical summer scene at the Werneth Low ground, with the receiving batsman believed to be Lee Brown who recently retired as a Hyde player after 51 years.

Noting that the picture deserved to be in the pavilion rather than his Anglesey home, Mike added: “For me, the Lancashire and Cheshire League days were the best.
“In the Central Lancs, with all their West Indian fast bowlers, you wondered if you’d be fit for work on Monday morning.
“The L and C had good cricket and a good social side. One game that particularly sticks in my memory is the 1978 Walkden Cup final when we made 104 all out with professional Jim Allen incredibly failing to score — and then bowled out Lawrence’s for 96.
“It was a very hard-fought match, but both sets of players, and the Walkden Cup, ended up in a nightclub near Crown Point.”
Plans are already in hand for a follow-up.