Summer Sports - Cricket
A hive of activity
do running repairs, but have not needed to do much this winter as we managed to keep it in good order. We have a work day before the start of the season, which is connected with the NatWest Cricket Force weekend, where we ‘wake up’ the clubhouse etc. and get ready for the season.” “We have a couple of biggish jobs we need
to do in the next couple of years. Firstly, the relaying of the drains that run down the side of the square as these are currently only soakaway drains which have been steadily squashed over the years by the roller.” “Secondly, our outfield is mostly moss!
This will be quite a major undertaking and may have to be done in stages, but will improve the outfield considerably.”
Home from uni and helping with the rolling
All work at the club is voluntary and all funds have to be raised through match fees, bar income and fund raising. “We would love to improve our facilities, but funding seems very hard to come by. We have applied twice for funding for permanent outdoor training nets, but both times have been turned down. It seems the bigger clubs are in more need of ‘more’ money than us small village clubs! Hence why we have to get things on credit! But the club is going from strength to strength and, maybe one day, we will lucky and get some funding. It would be good to be able to extend the changing rooms, have a girls/umpire changing room and a bigger machinery shed.” “Here’s to our dreams.”
FOOTNOTE: An unheard of event happened in 2014 when John and his wife took time out of the cricket season (“usually I don’t like to leave the cricket club during the season!”), when they went on a much deserved two week cruise with friends to Norway. It was there that John took the photo, which was the overall winner of Pitchcare’s 2014 Photo Gallery competition, whilst going up a fjord to Andalsnes. “Our friends joked as we took over 3,000 pictures, but if you don’t take any you might miss the good one, and this was one of the really good ones taken on a Nikon Coolpix P510.” “We are looking forward to upgrading the
camera with the lovely prize for winning this competition.”
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