It is good to see a wonderful community asset like our clubhouse being put to use all year round.
On Sunday mornings it is a welcome staging post for the village’s mini-rugby players, who refuel on hot dogs after a hard morning’s training at their nearby Westmancote pitches.
Some of them are junior members of the cricket club too, so this feels very much like a home from home for them!
Oh, what a wonderful year! And thanks to everyone who made it possible.
Sunday, October 2, is the day when Bredon Cricket Club’s players have their say.
A meeting at Hill Close clubhouse will tackle some key issues facing the club.
There will be a review of this season’s performances, and a discussion about teams and captains for next year.
Also on the agenda is membership of the club committee, organisation of the junior section, jobs for the winter and so forth.
The meeting gets under way at 7.30pm.
Bredon Cricket Club continues to make friends across Worcestershire and beyond.
Time and again we are complimented on the quality of our ground, and the warmth of our welcome.
Here is a taste of some of the kinds words that have come our way this season. This is an extract from a letter to our chairman, Neil Hall, from Zain Sharif, of Kempsey Cricket Club.
Hi Neil
Just a short note to thank you and all at Bredon Cricket Club for your hospitality and friendly welcome at yesterday’s NVC match.
Appreciate that the result didn’t go your way (our standard batting collapse started much later than usual!) but we would like to extend our gratitude to all at the club that made the day enjoyable for us.
Yours is an enviable setting to which we aspire to – some day, somehow!
It is plainly evident that you have a core of ardent, enthusiastic and hard working volunteers in all areas of the club from the match track to the spotless changing rooms/ablution facilities. They are a credit to your management team.
Wishing you a successful season’s remainder.
Zain Sharif
Kempsey Cricket Club
We like to socialise as well as play cricket!
Our newly renovated clubhouse bar boasts one of the warmest welcomes in Bredon… as well as the keenest prices.
Specials include Peroni beer at £2 a bottle, and Prosecco at £3.80 a glass.
Spitfire beer is also currently on offer. Just £2 a bottle!
The clubhouse is open on Thursday evenings and Friday evenings during the summer, and from 4pm on matchdays.
We are proud of our beautiful ground at Hill Close, and want to keep it looking at its best.
That is why we are having an end-of-season tidy-up next month.
We will concentrate on the coppice at the eastern side of the ground. It is a lovely informal playground for the children, but litter gathers there over the course of the season and we would like to clear it.
The hedges around the ground will also be trimmed, and our covers and sightscreens repaired.
None of this will be possible without volunteers, so please lend a hand if you can. If you can bring along hedge-trimming gear and brushes that will be all the better.
We will lay on tea, coffee and bacon butties in the clubhouse.
The end-of-season tidy-up is on Saturday, September 24 (the end-of-season dinner is later the same day), and we meet at Hill Close at 9.30am.
Chris Washbourne is organising. Please use the form to let him know if you can attend.
What a wonderful day for a game of cricket… and not a bad setting is it?
Bredon Second XI beat Kidderminster Fourth XI at Hill Close on Saturday. The match report is here.
Next weekend the First XI face Evesham, the Second XI are at Bromsgrove, and the Third XI are at Bromyard.
We have a growing collection of lost property from junior players at the club.
When you turn up for coaching on Friday evening please contact Under 12s coach Mark Notley to check if there is anything belonging to you.
The school summer holidays are under way, but there was still a terrific turnout for Bredon’s junior cricket coaching session tonight.
There are two friendlies on Sunday. The Under 11s play Tewkesbury at Hill Close while the Under 12s are away to Alcester and Ragley.
Meanwhile, Bredon’s First XI host Bromyard tomorrow, while the Second XI are away at Bartestree and Lugwardine.
The Third XI host Worcester at Birlingham.
Good luck to all our teams this weekend.
Sorry, folks, but our family fun day scheduled for Sunday, July 31, has been cancelled.
Our busy social programme for the season has made it impossible for the club to handle this event.
We will try to organise it for a later date if possible.
Hope no one is too disappointed.