55 LOCAL CLUBS AND SOCIETIES Kingsbridge Cricket Club A few facts...
Meetings: At the club ground at The Butts, West Alvington. Seniors and U14s meet on Wednesdays from 6pm and juniors meet Fridays from 6pm.
Number of members: More than 100, including junior and senior members.
Cost: Annual subs – senior cricket: adults £60, 16-18 £40; junior cricket including training £65, grasshoppers £35.
History: Kingsbridge Cricket Club is 129 years old. Originally it was based at Westville, the old grammar school. It’s been at West Alvington for more than 40 years.
Sponsors: First team – Maha-Bharat Indian Restaurant; second team – Timber Jack
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ingsbridge Cricket Club is a friendly club based on the
outskirts of town. It has a 1st XI and 2nd XI team competing in the Devon Cricket League (West), and a Devon Sunday League team.
The club also runs junior
training nights during spring and summer for those who want to play competitively or just for fun. It enters the South Devon Youth Cricket League each year.
Like many cricket clubs, it’s
suffered a decline in interest and numbers over recent years, although the recent World Cup win by the England squad could change all that!
Chairman Neal Peach said:
“Participation in cricket has been an issue since it stopped being shown on terrestrial TV and most people lost access to it. We had a surge of enthusiasm after the Ashes win in 2005, with Freddie Flintoff and co, but that waned when cricket was moved to pay-for-TV. I really hope the World Cup final, shown on terrestrial TV, will encourage people back to the game, especially after England won!
“It’s a fantastic sport for hand-
eye coordination, developing social skills, team work, travelling to different clubs, and mixing with different generations.
“There are not many team
sports where the age range in a team can be from 15 to 50 plus, all competing at the same level.”
The club continues to have good junior support and runs a popular U10s “grasshoppers” group and three junior teams – U14s, U12s and U10s. It also has two girls’ teams, U15s and U13s and a U19s team for national competitions.
Neal added: “We have strong junior support, especially the U10s grasshoppers which is more games based, catching and throwing, than standard nets. We’ve also got quite a few girls in the teams and at practice.
“Our teenagers play in the adult
teams too. Some of the team are be- tween 15 and 19 and then the next batch are 30 plus. There’s not much in between, as that’s the age group that moves away to uni and work.
“The ground is in a great location with fantastic countryside views. It’s a shame we’re not in town though as the uphill walk does put a few people off coming to watch and having a pint!”
Neal said the club attracts players
from Kingsbridge and surrounding villages that feed Kingsbridge schools.
It boosts its funds through bar sales and popular car boot sales at the ground on summer bank holiday Mondays – two in May and one in August.
League games run from the first
weekend in May until the last week- end in August.
For more information see
www.kingsbridge.play-cricket.com
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