Horley CC Cricket Nets start on Thursday 12 Feb and run until 2nd April, at Bloxham School from 8pm- 9:30pm. For more information please contact admin@horleycc.co.uk
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Horley Cricket Club has been awarded Clubmark status after two years of tireless work especially by David Beck (Chairman) and Claire Bottoms (Secretary) Horley Cricket Club has achieved Clubmark status. Clubmark is an ECB and Sport England mark of a high quality cricket club for juniors and adults and the Community. A stamp of approval that all clubs aspire to achieve, it represents high quality, safety, fair and focussed support for all. Clubmark should enable us to access more funding particularly for our new Pavilion plans. For full details see the Horley Cricket Club Site
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At the end of the Cricket season both teams won promotion with the First Team being promoted to Division 3 as Champions – the Second team will play in Division 6 next season.
Both the First and Second team have sponsorship for next season, the First team are sponsored by Plus One Personnel and the Second team by Leeds Building Society.
The Club attended the Cherwell League Dinner at the Kassam Stadium in Oxford to receive the trophy for the First Team and were also presented with the Club of the Year award for the second time in three years. Another triumph for the Club and of which we are very proud.
Reminder that the Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held this on Sunday 30th November at 11am in the Cricket Pavilion.
‘Beware the wind that whistles shrill, Beware the souls that haunt us still, Watch you with care the perils of night, Pull near your children; hold them tight.’ ( or not, if you were the parents of some of the horrors below.)
Horley Halloween shrieked into gloriously gory life at the Cricket last Friday. It was a night of children spattering blood and glitter, hooting with joy, marauding near the wickets as if Kenny would never know.
We feasted on fingers and drank deep of the bar, and then we spilt out across the village, rattling doors, jumping for bells. Our cries were shrill in the pleading face of every pumpkin; we were merciless in our demands.
It was brilliant.
Thank you to Horley CC, the horribly gruesome guests, and the biggest thanks to the patience and generosity of the Horley villagers. Your pumpkin-carving skills are awesome.
Our children are still sweet-stuffed, glaze-eyed by bounty beyond their greedy-fingered dreams.
Fabulous photos by Macer G and Will P.
What a great summer for cricket, we have lost hardly any matches to the weather – a vast improvement on last year!
The season is now drawing to a close, junior cricket is finished with all teams playing well and winning most of their matches, as anyone who passes our ground on a Tuesday evening will have noticed we have about 70 juniors attending our coaching and the talent and enthusiasm amongst them is a joy to watch.
Ladies cricket has also continued this season with some of the juniors now eligible to play our numbers are increasing and should continue over the next few years which is good for the club.
Senior cricket – the first team have won promotion to Division 3 of the Cherwell League and may yet go up as Champions. The second team are also on course to win promotion for the third season in a row and will hopefully play in Division 6 next year. All our senior teams consist of local players – in fact the majority of both teams have come through our junior coaching which is something we are proud of. We have now agreed a sponsorship deal with Plus-One Personnel who are sponsoring the shirts for the first team. We are also in discussions regarding sponsorship for the second team for next season.
We wrote in the summer issue about the improvements to the ground and we now have new fencing on two boundaries, and a notice board at the entrance to the ground. Our plans for the new pavilion are continuing, we have now been assessed for ClubMark and will find out in the next few weeks if we have achieved it- fingers crossed as this will help the club in finding funding streams to build the pavilion.
The Cricket Club is a thriving part of the village and we are happy to share it however we have had a lot of issues this year with dog pooh on the cricket field – an area is that is regularly used by all including children. This has become such an issue that whilst we do not particularly want to, if we see anyone not clearing up after their dog we shall have to report the owners to the Dog Warden. Please if you wish to walk your dog on our field ensure you pick up after it, there is a dog pooh bin near the entrance.
It has been a good year for the Club, lots of cricket, improvements to the ground, our Annual Dinner Dance is a sell out with over 100 attending, but let’s not forget the people who come along to watch our matches or to have a drink, we thank them for their continued support.
All our events and fixtures re on our website www.horleycc.co.uk or log on via the village website and we look forward to seeing you all soon.
Kind regards
David and Judith
In the Banbury Guardian on Thursday 21st August 2014, for further news go to Horley’s Cricket Club website www.horleycc.co.uk and also at http://horleycc.co.uk/new-sponsorship-agreement/
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