Ray Knowles started his playing career as a youngster at Armthorpe Welfare in the old Doncaster League. A talented wicket-keeper batsman, he went on to play for and captain Askern, Warmsworth and Rossington, where he played until retiring in 2003. Shortly after that, he was approached by Frank Richardson to take up umpiring, and stood initially in the SYSCL and then on the Yorkshire League panel. During this time, using knowledge he gained as a police officer, Ray became an expert on child welfare issues, and soon became acknowledged as the county’s leading expert on the subject. He was appointed as County Welfare Officer, in which role he investigates safeguarding complaints, gives advice to club safeguarding officers, and delivers Safe Hands training across the county. He was a founder member of the committee of the Yorkshire South Premier League as the League's Safeguarding officer. 

Brian Fletcher has been actively involved the administration of cricket in South Yorkshire for almost 50 years. After being nominated as delegate to the South Riding Cricket League for Whiston Parish Church CC in the early 1970s, he soon became a member of the League Management Committee. Brian became the first chair of the new rules revision committee in 2000, continuing this role until it was merged with the cricket committee in 2018.  

He was elected SYSCL President in 2014, and held this post until the merger with the YSPL. Brian was the President of the Yorkshire Cricket Council in 2017 & 2018. 

Richard Storer joined Hallam CC when his profession as an English Teacher took him, to Sheffield, and, by 1987, he had become secretary, a position he still holds today. Under his guidance, the club has expanded from two senior sides and three junior teams to six senior sides, two Sunday sides, a midweek and indoor team, and 14 junior teams. Richard was influential in Hallam becoming the first club to gain the Clubmark accreditation in Yorkshire and also in the redevelopment of derelict land at Crimicar Lane.  

Richard’s passion and commitment to junior cricket has seen him play a vital role in the development of a vast number of current players across South Yorkshire. Without his selfless dedication to Hallam CC, the club may not have survived the 1990’s, when the amalgamation he drove with Waterworks CC laid the foundations for what Hallam CC has become today.