Howzat for winning club!
A WEST Malling cricket club is celebrating a string of successes including promotion for the 2013 season. Town Malling Cricket Club’s Sunday 1st XI team has been promoted every season since it joined the lowest tier of the Kent Village Cricket League in 2007, and will play in division one this year. A TMCC 2nd XI, comprising largely of TMCC juniors,will start this year in di- vision seven. Most prominent among the
club’s successes is a junior sec- tion of approximately 100 chil- dren, with cricket available for boys and girls at under 9, under 11, under 13 and under 15 lev- els. Members of TMCC qualified as England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) coaches and em- barked on a programme to pro- mote junior cricket in schools and through summer coaching courses, which culminated in TMCC Juniors being conceived. In the five years that TMCC’s juniors have been playing, they have been winners and runners up in the Mid-Kent Youth League and appeared in cup fi- nals and semi-finals. TMCC’s youth development team has grown to four ECB Level 2 coaches and a large group of volunteers. The club has continued to in-
Historic sign restored at last
Members of Town Malling Cricket Club played Lashings in 2008
vest in the youngsters, funding coaching development courses, new equipment and kit, and a bowling machine. The current run of success is
afar cryfrom theteamJake Smyth joined as a teenager in 1999. Now 26 and living in Swan Street, West Malling, Jake re- called that the club had no cov- ers for the square, no nets, no training sessions and no junior section. TMCC was formed in 1827 at
The Old County Ground, where cricket has been played since 1705. In 2005, TMCC held a two-week festival to celebrate 300 years of cricket at the ground, driven by the commit- tee, spearheaded by late chair- man Mark Worrall OBE, and crowned by a match against the all-star Lashings team.
Plans for 2013 include indoor coaching, starting in February, and outdoor coaching from mid-April. There will be a youth leader course, in conjunction with Tonbridge and Malling Council, to provide 14 to 16-year-olds with a range of skills, including basic coaching, first aid, umpir- ing, scoring and a groundsman’s course. Jake said: “Next season will be
my 14th with TMCC and the club is now practically unrecog- nisable, thanks to the tireless work of the late chairman,Mark Worrall, the committee, the vol- unteer groundsmen, and the Sat- urday and Sunday captains. “None of the club’s achieve-
mentswith its juniors would be possible without the on-going support of the parents and that of our sponsor, Caxtons.”
ANOLDsignpost in the centre of Wateringbury has been restored, two years after the decorative top disappeared. The finial on the metal finger-
post near the traffic lights went missing in October 2010, but a search of the area and a close watch on Ebay failed to find any trace of it. KCC, which owns the sign, offered to replace the roundel in aluminium rather than the more expensive cast iron of the original, which dated back to before 1922. Delays occurred after Water- ingbury Local History Society ob- jected to the use of aluminium, but this was withdrawn when it was discovered the sign was not listed, despite marking the site of the medieval Wateringbury Cross, and that the missing part had been an aluminium replace- ment for the original iron one. Thanks to £350 from county
Cllr Richard Long’s member’s highways grant, a replica roundel was commissioned from Royal British Legion Industries.
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