By Max Chesterton

Family ties: Cleator three generations
PICTURE: Robert Hall

THE story of cricketing fathers and sons is by no means an uncommon tale, but the odds of playing against three generations of the same family in the same game is certainly rather more unique.
At Cleator Cricket Club in Cumbria that was exactly what happened when 72- year-old Alan Wishart turned out for the seconds alongside his son Steven and his 12- year-old grandson Ben.
With a family connection at the club stretching back to when Alan’s father first padded up inside Cleator’s pavilion in the aft...