Dorset Cricket Board

It is with great sadness that we have to inform you of the loss of Tim Hill.

Tim first appeared in Dorset in 1990, working at Bryanston School in Blandford Forum, where he taught history and became Master i/c cricket. He soon took on the role of Dorset Schools’ Cricket Association (DCSA) Treasurer in 1993.

One of Tim’s first suggestions on arrival was that Dorset, having never done so, should host the Under 15 Bunbury Festival. Having convinced others to do so, a bid was successfully made and Bournemouth became the 1995 venue.

He went on to become an ESCA South Selector and, five years later, became an Under 19 National Selector. Another year passed and Tim was on the ECSA Executive.

In Dorset, he helped out with some of the Dorset Schools’ CA activities and remained with ESCA, this time as a West Under 19 selector.

He represented schools cricket on the newly formed Dorset Cricket Board Ltd. As others around him fell away for various reasons he, almost single-handedly, kept the DCSA alive, fulfilling the roles of Chair, Secretary and Treasurer as well as competitions organiser. He would appear at nearly every ‘finals day’ for each competition, normally including something in his closing speech that only he could think about, let alone say! But, he could get away with it, simply because we all appreciated just how much work he had put in to get us all to the stage where a closing speech was necessary.

Tim never appeared to rest. Late nights, early mornings and many miles leading up to competition days. He was always doing something and always thinking about something else at the same time.

Tim got things done – somehow! His contribution will be easily underestimated and I’m sure that for some time now there will be those who suddenly realise, when a ‘hole’ appears somewhere along the line, that ‘Tim used to do that’.