OVER AND OUT!

Have no fear Evo isn’t calling in a door. However, the e-bulletin of the Association of Cricket Officials goes under the name and the editor came calling when he heard about match 700. The article is below

Evo reaches 700-match scoring milestone

When Nicholas Evanson, better known across the club as “Evo”, first took up scoring for Torquay Cricket Club in 1989, just three weeks after the Hillsborough Disaster, he could hardly have imagined that he would still be in the scorebox more than three decades later. Now scoring for Torquay and Kingskerswell Cricket Club 1st XI, Evo has marked more than 700 league matches without missing a single one. That remarkable run includes scoring just three days after a failed resuscitation attempt on his own father, a measure of both his commitment to the club and the place scoring holds in his life.

Evo receives one of the gifts presented to mark his 700th match from Harry Passenger, captain of Torquay and Kingskerswell Cricket Club 1 st XI.

As the club website’s Chief Blogger, Evo once wrote a 12-part, 12,000-word account of his life in scoring. In it, he also helped raise awareness of autism, a condition he had only recently been formally diagnosed with. As he puts it: “They reckon many scorers are on the spectrum somewhere.” Evo began scoring as a way to stay close to a sport he loves, even though he was never likely to compete on the field. Over time, it has become far more than a Saturday role. It has given him routine, purpose and a place within the team. In fact, two teams. For five months of the year, whatever the highs and lows of club cricket, Evo knows exactly where he will be every Saturday. His own summary is simple: “Scoring is my life.” And, for a Strictly fan, there could only be one fitting sign-off: keep scoring.