Summer Sports - Cricket
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romsgrove Cricket Club was formed in 1842. Its first ground was located near Bromsgrove town centre at the Recreation Ground, with its first ever game
being played against Bromsgrove School, a fixture still played today. The club then moved to a new ground (New Road, Aston Fields) in 1907, having paid the princely sum of £700 for the purchase of the land. The club remained at the New Road site
until 1970 when they had the opportunity to sell the ground for development. This gave them the chance to move to their present site at St Godwald’s Park, a nineteen acre greenfield site which was officially opened by Lord Cobham on June 9th 1973, with the first match being played against an MCC XI. The hockey club was formed in 1895, with
the tennis club added five years later. The club only changed its name to Bromsgrove Cricket, Hockey and Tennis Club in 1969. Like many a well run club, its success is
down to the drive and ambition of certain individuals, both on and off the field of play. The current cricket club President is Rex Ingram who, along with other committee members, notably Nick Taylor, Nick Husbands and Robert Green, are responsible for the day to day running of the clubhouse and pitch facilities. All are volunteers and either past/current players or people who
have children playing at the club. In the case of Nick Taylor, he moved to
Bromsgrove from Cirencester in 1997. He played for the club and then joined the committee in 2000. In the same year, together with a fellow committee member, he formed the Worcestershire Sunday Club Cricket League, which provides useful competition for young players trying to make the transition from junior to adult cricket. Nick stopped playing about seven years
ago, when the hamstrings cried “enough” and, since then, he has done some umpiring and been on the committee, looking after the membership, sponsorship, production of the annual handbook and being generally involved in raising funds. Nick believes, very strongly, that cricket
clubs like Bromsgrove play a very important part of the fabric of a community, in particular by helping young people to develop social skills. Nick Husbands has been the cricket chairman for the past ten years. He took on the job at the same time as being 1st XI captain and the club’s leading strike bowler. He believes that the continued success of the club is down to a forward thinking committee and a good number of volunteers; “We are more of an orchestra than a one man band.” The cricket club currently runs four
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Like many clubs, material costs are a big factor in our decision making process. I spend every pound of the club’s money as carefully, if not more carefully, than I spend my own!
L-r: Nick Husbands, Nick Taylor and Rob Green PC APRIL/MAY 2015 I 85
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