Keighley Cricket Club’s Jack Emsley, who was only made a life member of the JCT600 Bradford League last month, has died aged 84.
Emsley, who received the honour as one of 16 former winners of the Sir Leonard Hutton Trophy, given for services to the league, was a long-standing committee member at the Lawkholme Lane club.
His friend and fellow committee member Paddy Anderton said: “Jack started playing during the war and was an all-rounder.
“He did make appearances for Keighley’s first team but was mainly a second-teamer.
“Jack bowled off-spin and once took seven for 27 at Bingley – and we never heard the last of it.”
Anderton, who shared the second-team captaincy with Emsley, added: “Jack was club secretary for a long time and was willing to turn his hand to anything to help, such as tidying up or painting.”
Emsley, who won the Sir Leonard Hutton Trophy in 1984, had been living at Herncliffe Nursing Home, near Holy Family School, in Keighley.
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