When Peter Jubb took over as treasurer of Cheltenham Cricket Club, Lindsay Parsons was manager of Cheltenham Town, Peter Scudamore was champion jumps jockey and opening batsman Tony Wright was captain of Gloucestershire.

Jubb, who will be 60 in November, became Cheltenham’s treasurer in January 1993 and in a nice symmetry, 30 years on, almost to the day, he will step down from the position at the club’s AGM at the start of the new year.

And Jubb, a former player who first turned out for the club in 1990, has certainly seen a lot of changes over the past three decades.

“It’s run like a small business now, it’s not just a cricket club,” he said. “Thirty years ago, it was run as just a cricket club. Now you’re sweating your assets.”

That means more money coming into the coffers, of course, something that obviously appealed to Jubb who used to work for the C&G Building Society.

Cheltenham Cricket Club have been a big part of Jubb’s life for a long time now, but the one-time Cheltenham Grammar School pupil first cut his teeth in the adult game playing for Cheltenham King George.

“I first started playing for them in the mid-70s when I was about 14 or 15,” recalled Jubb.

“It was a big step up but Mike Edwards, who was my first cricket captain, helped me bridge the gap.”

Edwards, who also ran the club’s youth section, is very well known in Gloucestershire sporting circles – he’s a big supporter of rugby and horseracing as well as cricket – and Jubb is a big fan.

“He wasn’t the best cricketer, he’d be the first to admit that,” he said, “but the enthusiasm he engendered spread to the rest of us. He’s been a big influence on me.”

Jubb then spent six years playing cricket for Dorchester in his early and mid-20s before returning to this part of world in the late 1980s, playing his first game for Cheltenham in 1990 at a time when the club could lay claim to being the best in the West.

“Mike Bailey was captain and we won the Western League three times in four years,” recalled Jubb, who like Bailey was an off-spinner.

“I captained the 3^rd XI but I also played a few games for the 2nds and I also played a few games for the 1sts,” before adding modestly, “I was only a fill-in, Mike [Bailey] and Eddie Robinson, a left-arm spinner, bowled most of the overs.”

Nevertheless, Jubb was a decent off-spinner, although he was plagued by back problems which would eventually force his premature retirement.

“I bowled my last ball in January 1999,” he said. “I was on tour with Dorchester and it was in Sydney, I took a wicket with my last ever ball.

“I bowled this bloke, I don’t know how he missed it, but I never bowled another ball again.”

Jubb’s playing career at Cheltenham coincided with future Zimbabwe internationals Alistair Cambell and Grant Flower being at the club and he added: “I played with some good players, I remember getting Alistair Campbell a job at the C&G.”

Jubb worked at the C&G for 30 years before retiring which in turn gave him more time to devote to cricket.

“I thought, ‘I’ve taken a lot out of cricket, now it’s time to put something back’,” he said.

And he did, joining the Gloucestershire Cricket Board’s board of directors and then serving for three years as chairman.

“As chairman I sat on the executive board of the county cricket club,” he said. “I’ve been a lifelong member of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club so I was quite proud to sit on the main board.

“It was a time when John Bracewell and then Richard Dawson were the head coaches.

“I’m still chair of the trustees of the Gloucestershire Cricket Trust but that’s something I’m looking to give up.

“I’ve put a lot back into the game after taking a lot out, I think the slate’s clean!”

There won’t be too many arguing with that, of course, but while cricket is his number one sport, he has plenty of other sporting interests.

“I’m a season-ticket holder at Cheltenham Town,” said the dad-of two who is married to Sharon.

“I first started going in the early 70s, 72/73. We lived in Evesham Road and my next door  neighbour was Fred Bishop who was president of the club at the time.

“I’ve been following them for 50 years. I remember going to places like Wellingborough and Folkestone, now we’re going to places like Sheffield Wednesday, Ipswich and Bolton, it makes me very proud.

“I loved the days out at Wembley and the big cup games, I think if you followed the club in the non-league days it makes it even better.”

Jubb is also a big horseracing fan and has been a member of the Yes No Wait Sorries syndicate run by Chris Coley for the past 10 years or so.

“We’ve had some good horses – Jarveys Plate, Poetic Rhythm,” said Jubb. “Poetic Rhythm won the Challow Hurdle at Newbury in December five years ago, that was as good a day in racing as you’ll get.

“It was a Grade 1 race and it’s still the only Grade 1 winner that trainer Fergal O’Brien has had.”

And while Jubb obviously enjoyed that win, his name, understandably, wasn’t in the headlines that day.

However, his name has been centre stage at other meetings courtesy of the aforementioned Mike Edwards.

Jubb takes up the story.

“It was around my 40^th birthday, it wasn’t actually a 40^th birthday present but he named one of his point to point horses Master Jubb.

“He said you can have the colours so I had the red and white stripes of Cheltenham Town.”

So how did Master Jubb perform?

“He won a few point to points but he never won under Rules,” continued Jubb. “He was good on the first circuit but ran out of puff on the second circuit, a bit like the person he was named after!”

Jubb, known to everyone as Jubby, is extremely easy to interview and is well known to a lot of people involved in sport around the county.

He’s a life patron of Cheltenham Rugby Club and is great friends with one-time top rugby referee Chris White – they went to school together – and is very proud of everything that White has achieved in the game.

“I played in Cheltenham’s first ever mini rugby game back in November 1974 alongside Chris White and his twin brother Andy,” Jubb recalled. “Chris and Andy both went on to play in the centre for the club’s 1st XV.”

Chris White was a decent player back in the day but he went on to make his name in the game as a top class referee, of course.

“If England hadn’t reached the World Cup final in 2003, he’d have refereed a World Cup final,” said Jubb.

“But despite everything he’s achieved he hasn’t changed a bit. He’s so humble, he’s got time for everyone, that’s some skill.”

Cheltenham Cricket Club are going to miss Jubb’s skill when he puts away his calculator in January, of course, but it’s fair to say that when he took on the job he certainly never expected to be in it for so long.

“I took over from Keith Nutland who was treasurer of Cheltenham Borough Council,” explained Jubb. “He had passed away so there was no-one I could turn to for advice.

“Laurie Nicholls, who was secretary at time, said, ‘Jubby, just do it for a year and then we’ll find someone else to take it on’!”