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Feckenham Cricket Club


Everything’s Accounted For


Sixty-seven year old ex-accountant Stephen Daniels has been involved with Feckenham Cricket Club for fifty-five years, just four years fewer than the club has existed. Jake Barrow headed to the small village four miles south- west of Redditch to meet with a man who wears more than one hat!


the ECB’s pitch advisor for Worcestershire, as well as the secretary of the Worcestershire Association of Groundsmen. Roy McLaren, Tim Packwood’s predecessor as head groundsman at Worcestershire County Cricket Club’s New Road, was the man in the role before Steve, highlighting it as a position of responsibility.


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tephen Daniels uses the skills from his past career to help Feckenham Cricket Club with its financial management, but his skills extend beyond this, as he is


Through the pitch advisor programme, any club can request Steve’s advice, who then travels to their ground to impart his considerable knowledge. He also facilitates the granting of Performance Quality Standard certification.


Not long before his involvement, the grounds on which the current field stands were the domain of Dunstall Court, an ancient country house just outside the village. In fact, the village is known for this link with minor royalty. It has manors all around, and Geoffrey Chaucer was once ‘Keeper of


the Lodge’ at the Feckenham King’s Park. When the Irish owner sold the estate to move back to his homeland, the club took out a loan and requested to purchase their rented section for around 1000 guineas (about £22,000 in today’s money). “We were raising funds by having bingo nights up in the village hall, and raised the money to pay off that loan within about six years. That’s how the ground became ours.” “There are two streams surrounding it.


You’ll see the one running in the ditch there at the northern edge, and across the next


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