50 years of Ivor's scorebooks now online

It was a labour of love for Ivor Chaplin, spanning more than 50 years, and now you can immerse yourself in more than half-a-centuries worth of Brentham 1st XI matches as Ivor's scorebooks have been fully digitised.

Faithfully transferred from print to digital by Paul Smith, every 1st XI League, Cup, and Friendly game scored by Ivor since 1968 is now available to relive in full detail at http://www.ivorsscorebooks.uk/

Ivor has been Brentham Scorer for 53 seasons and scored over 800 League matches. His astonishing achievements over the years has been recognised by one award after another.

He is an Honorary Vice President of both the Middlesex County Cricket League and Brentham Club. In 2014, he was awarded the Middlesex Outstanding Service Cricket Award as well as the UK Outstanding Sports Official prize. He was nominated in 2005 and 2014 for a cricketing OSCA, presented at Lord's, finishing runner up on the latter occasion. Perhaps the most prized opportunity was being invited to score at Lord's for a MCC v CCC match in 2015 to add to his appearance at Lord's with Brentham in 1972.

This digital archive takes all those scorebook and stores them for all to see and celebrate Ivor's work.