Books by Dave Morton

Dave Morton lived in Wibsey, Bradford, in the (then) West Riding of Yorkshire until the age of twelve. His father was a noted Bradford League cricketer, and early memories are of watching Harry Morton bat for Great Horton Cricket Club, and seeing the fine Yorkshire County Cricket Club team of those days strutting their stuff at Park Avenue, just down the road. Late in 1955 the family moved to the Midlands. After completing his formal education at Cambridge University, in 1966 Dave was finally free to move back up north, to a job in Manchester, where he has lived ever since. For the next thirty-six years, he played league cricket in the Manchester area, for Prestwich CC and Newton Heath CC. Following early retirement (from work, not from cricket), Dave joined Yorkshire CCC as a member in time for the 1994 season. He continued to turn out for his club second team until he was sixty, apart from missing a season to have a hip replaced. Dave is now one of the many travelling supporters who follow Yorkshire round the country. He has always watched a few Lancashire games, too, and in 2016 he became a member of the Red Rose county. Winters usually include an England tour, but it is four-day county cricket that provides the greatest pleasure.