Main points of the March 2017 meeting of Bredon Cricket Club’s committee were:
New club entrance, clubhouse priorities for the winter, and anyone up for a Caribbean evening?
Click here to read the minutes in full.
Use the form below if there is anything you would like the committee to discuss:
If you shop at Tesco in Evesham or Bishop’s Cleeve this weekend, please remember to ask at the checkout for a little blue token.
You can use it to vote for our nets renovation project at the special ballot boxes in the supermarket. Use the one marked Bredon Cricket Club!
There are two other worthwhile projects vying for funding, but we really want to win the £5,000 top award (we are at least guaranteed a £1,000 grant).
Tesco’s Bags of Help scheme makes awards to community projects through money raised from the 5p bag levy.
There is a new entrance to Bredon Cricket Club’s car park.
The usual double-gate entry is closed because of severe wear-and-tear damage to the driveway surface.
A new entrance has been created through the single gate at the far corner of the car park.
Please take care arriving and leaving while people get used to the new arrangement.
CricketForce Day 2017 is approaching fast, and we need volunteers to help get Bredon Cricket Club in tip-top shape for the new season.
Please download the poster above by clicking here. Display it where you have permission and encourage people to come along to Hill Close on Sunday, April 2, for our big ECB-backed tidy-up.
CricketForce Day encourages both club members and the local community to get together for a few hours to prepare everything for the start of play on April 22.
Martyn Draper will again be organising things, so ask for him when you arrive at Hill Close.
Tea, coffee and bacon butties will be provided for volunteers.
Please help us spread the word about our cheese and wine season curtain-raiser on Saturday, April 8. Display this poster where you have permission to do so.
Work is due to start on a revamp of the club’s practice nets on Monday, April 10.
The project should be completed and the nets back in action within five days.
The work, costing several thousand pounds, is being funded by an ECB loan (and is subject to the money coming through on time).
The club are currently applying for grants to cover the loan.
We have already been allocated at least £1,000 from the Tesco Bags of Help scheme.
Refurbished practice nets, and a coach to help improve performances on the pitch, were the two priorities identified at a players’ meeting in January.
The club are delighted to deliver on both before the start of the 2017 season.
University of Worcester sports student Tom Walsingham has been appointed part-time coach to Bredon Cricket Club.
He will work with the senior and junior teams, as well as our volunteer junior team coaches, with the aim of bringing greater on-field success.
Tom is currently studying for a BSc (Hons) in cricket coaching and management, and will graduate in 2018.
His coaching experience includes spells with Braughing Cricket Club and Reed Cricket Club in Hertfordshire, where he worked with juniors and young players up to the age of 20.
He is an assistant coach with Activate Sport, an organisation that provides summer activity camps for children.
He also works with District Sports, a coaching and management services company, as an after-school coach in a range of sports for key stage one and two children.
And he has coached with the Andrew Flintoff Cricket Academy, teaching youngsters aged five to 16 the fundamentals of the game.
Tom is a qualified emergency first-aider, has a current DBS certificate, as well as cricket coaching level 2 and sports leaders level 1 qualifications.
Club chairman Neil Hall said: “We are delighted to welcome Tom to the club, where I am sure he will make an enormous contribution to the development of cricket at all levels and ages.
“Please make him welcome.”
Main points of the February 2017 meeting of Bredon Cricket Club’s committee were:
New entrance to club for a trial period, four junior teams to enter Cotswold Hills League, refurbishment priorities for the clubhouse.
Click here to read the minutes in full.
Use the form below if there is anything you would like the committee to discuss:
Vote for new nets for Bredon Cricket Club whenever you visit Tesco at Bishop’s Cleeve, near Cheltenham, or in Evesham.
The branch is one of those taking part in Tesco’s Bags of Help scheme, in which grants of £5,000, £2,000 and £1,000 – all raised from the 5p bag levy – are awarded to community projects.
Other local projects vying for funding are Cheltenham Rugby Club, who are seeking funding for a multi-use games area, and an organisation (unknown) building an outdoor learning centre.
They are both worthwhile projects, but we really want to win the £5,000 top award (we are at least guaranteed a £1,000 grant).
That is why we need your help. Please vote for Bredon Cricket Club whenever you do your shopping in Tesco, Bishop’s Cleeve, or Evesham.
You will be given a token when you pay at the check-out. You can then drop it into the appropriate transparent ballot box (see picture above, and thanks to Glenn Buckley for providing it!).
Online customers can take their customer delivery note into store and show it to a member of staff , who will then provide a voting token.
We are hoping to receive more information from Tesco about which other branches in our area are taking part in the Bags of Help scheme.
Twenty20 cricket is coming to Bredon Hill!
Village teams from Bredon, Overbury and Ashton cricket clubs, and the Crown, Kemerton, will meet in an exciting round-robin tournament over the four Sundays of August 2017.
The competition is being called the Bredon Hill Bash and will culminate in a finals day at Hill Close on Sunday, August 27, at which the first and second placed teams, and the third and fourth, will play to decide the placings.
A local cricket fan is sponsoring a top-quality trophy for the winners.
The finals, in particular, will be a fun day for all the family. Local musical duo The Brethryn will be performing, and there will be a barbecue. The club’s licensed bar will also be open.
The competition is being organised by Jake Denton, landlord of the Crown at Kemerton, who is a former Bredon Cricket Club player.
Jake’s fond memories of his own cricketing experiences around Bredon Hill inspired him to organise the competition.
He regrets that the village cricket games he used to play on Sundays now happen much less frequently.
“One of the main problems is that people are so busy now,” he says. “A game of cricket can start just after lunch and not finish until early evening. People just don’t have the time.
“That’s why I thought the shorter, 20-over format of the game might be better.”
Twenty20 cricket has exploded in popularity in recent years.
Each of the two teams has a single 20-over innings.
A typical game is finished in about three hours.
It produces a more dramatic spectacle in which batsmen tend to go all out for runs.
For Jake, though, the priority is reigniting the appeal of village cricket, including the socialising that accompanies it.
Bredon Cricket Club certainly support that aim, and will be giving the competition our full backing.
Jake is still finalising details of times, rules and so forth, but we will keep you up to date on this website.
