Words of praise for Bredon Cricket Club from Jacci Hunt, Worcestershire women and girls pathway co-ordinator.
Her comments followed the Under 17 Girls match against Buckinghamshire that was played at Hill Close on Sunday and featured our own Rachel Fenney.
Sunday (July 9) will be a proud day for Rachel Fenney, her family and everyone at Bredon Cricket Club.
She will playing a county match for the first time at her home club when Worcestershire Under 17 girls take on Buckinghamshire.
Although she has played for the county for nine years, this will be the first time a county girls match will be hosted at Bredon.
The 45-over game starts at noon at Hill Close.
Last year, also playing against Buckinghamshire, she reached the highest score by a Worcestershire girl in age-group cricket for five years.
Please try to make it along to watch and support Rachel, who is a Second XI and Sunday team regular for Bredon.
Her dad, Ian, also plays for the club, as do her brother, Tim, her uncle, Clive, and her cousin, Dom.
Bredon Under 12s have made it to the 2017 plate final in the Cotswold Hills Under 13s competition following two knock-out victories last week.
Following a rained off fixture the previous Sunday, Bredon welcomed Cookhill to Hill Close on Wednesday evening.
The visitors won the toss and asked Bredon to bat, and the home side responded by posting an imposing 302-2, with circumspect defence and positive running between the wickets a feature of what was the team’s best batting performance of the season.
Cookhill batted well in their reply, but were held back by tight bowling and fielding from the Under 12s and finished up on 250-7.
Then, on a warm and sunny first Sunday in July, Ashton-under-Hill were welcomed as the visitors for the semi-final.
In a well-contested local derby, Bredon were once again put into bat, and continued the form from earlier in the week by reaching a score of 300-1.
For a time Ashton were up with the rate, but Bredon held their nerve and bowled and fielded with great skill in the second half of the innings to restrict the visitors to 236-6 and make it to their first final.
The plate final is on Sunday, July 16. Venue and opponents to be arranged.
Glenn Buckley
Sorry, everyone, but Friday night’s junior cricket coaching (July 7) is cancelled because the clubhouse is unavailable.
All Stars Cricket will take place at the usual time, but will be held at the playing fields in Bredon (see map below).
Everything back to normal on Friday, July 14.
Bredon Cricket Club First XI’s winning ways continued today with emphatic win over Enville at Hill Close.
The Staffordshire visitors rarely looked like overtaking Bredon’s 276 runs, and they were all out for 109.
