Welcome to Wizzy News for this week – our weekly roundup of news and events at Wisborough Green Cricket Club.
Girls and Women’s tournament on the Green this Sunday
We are looking forward to welcoming a number of girls and Women’s teams to the Green on Sunday .
Junior teams from Burgess Hill, Slinfold, Haywards Heath, Storrington, Felbridge, St James Montefiore, West Chiltington and Hustpierpoint will be joining us for a fun filled morning of cricket from 9 – 1pm and Ladies team from Storrington, Haywards Heath, Felbridge, West Chiltington, Billingshurst, Slinfold and Ifield and 2 of our own Wisborough Green teams will be competing from 2 pm – 6:45 pm in the afternoon.
It’s going to an action packed day of cricket with a penalty shootout and skittle alley activities for the kids in the afternoon . A bbq will be running througout the day so please do join us.
We are expecting a large number of people on the Green, and it would be great to have some local support. Please walk to the Green if you can and make use of the parking area at Wheelers Field in the Luth, Songhurst Meadow and the Village Hall.
Club 200 Draw
Congratulations to the following winners of the latest Club200 draw which was held on Presidents Day:
1st – Nat Ayling £250
2nd – Bex Samuelson £150
3rd – Charlie Webb £100
4th – John Newman £75
5th – Howard True £50
Please click here for information on how Club200 works. Its a great way to support the club and stand a chance of winning some prize money
Fundraising at Presidents Day
With everyone’s kind generosity and competitive spirit, net of the prize money the club made just over £1,000 on guess the total runs, guess the total boundaries and the raffle
Great effort – well done all 👏👏👏
Summer camps
The very popular Mavrix Summer camps for children age 4-12 will be taking place at West Chiltington Cricket Club in July and August – see below for details
Honours Boards
Congratulations to all those who have made it onto the club’s Honours Boards this week
Upcoming Fixtures
Hard copies of the Fixture Card are available in the Pavilion – please click here for an electronic version of the fixture card
All of our age group fixtures are available on the ECB’s Playcricket website – please click here
Another busy week on fixtures ahead :
- First X1 are away to Chichester Priory at 1pm on Saturday
- Second X1 are at home to Findon at 1 pm on Saturday
- T20 team are away to Chiddingfold on Wednesday evening and are at home to Petworth on Thursday evening
- Women’s Softball Team are playing in the tournament on Sunday afternoon
- Under 14‘s are way to Steyning on Sunday morning
- Under 13 girls are at home to Felbridge on Tuesday evening
- Under 11 girls are playing in the tournament on Sunday morning
- Under 11’s are away to Roffey on Tuesday evening
- Under 10’s are away to Balcombe on Saturday morning
Please come along and support our players if you can – they really do appreciate seeing familiar faces
Team selections
Team selections for this week:
Match reports
First X1 vs Barns Green
The one that didnt get away…..finally
• A few showers before the start meant we were delayed and at the toss BG skipper choose to have a bat
• Wisborough were on top early – picking up wickets at regular intervals
• Good bowling and catching across the board
• Wickets were shared – Will 3, Hugo 2, Jr 2, Joey 2 and Farmer wrapped things up picking up a wicket in his first over
• Seven catches held with Vickery’s and Joey’s being the highlight
• BG all out for 152
• Klein got us off to a flier (17 off 8 balls) before nicking off
• Vickery and Dixon added a couple of lusty blows before succumbing to a tricky pitch
• Tommy and the returning Hoppo batted well and got The Green to within 50 before Tommy was caught
• Farmer added 12 and Jr 4*
• Star performer with the bat was Hoppo bringing us home calmly and scoring an unbeaten 55!
• Griffiths returned from holiday in time for victory showers
Now we need to go on a run – building some momentum!
Please click here for the full scorecard
Dan Vickery – Captain
Second X1 vs Lancing Manor
Convincing victory
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Women’s team vs Slinfold
A fantastic first victory for the Women’s Hardball team
Full match report to follow next week
Please click here for the full scorecard
Under 13 Girls vs Horsham
A hard fought match against a Horsham side which included a number of Sussex players
Under 12 vs Horsham Trinity
Please click here for the full scorecard
Under 11 vs Fletching
A lovely evening’s cricket in a beautiful setting against a tough opponent
Under 10 vs Cuckfield
Match report by Seth Butcher Collier (age 10)
Following our Friday night cricket practice, I planned my batting pairs and batting order.
Come Saturday morning the weather was not the normal sunny start that we had become used to but rather overcast with chances of rain. Our spirits were high, and we all successfully found the cricket ground by hugging the tennis court.
We won the toss, and I chose for Wisborough to field first and put myself as wicket keeper for the match.
Cuckfield started with a strong pair, and we started with our strongest bowlers from the warmup that morning Henry and Fin.
As can be seen from the final scores Cuckfield took a fair few runs, however, our fielding is becoming tighter each match and Coach Peter even gave praise for effective ‘backing up’ although I did drop a couple of clangers whilst being wicky (pesky keeper gloves can be a hinderance as well as a help)
George took our first wicket, with Jack B showing some accurate throwing to set Fin up for another. Jack H took the opportunity to take a wicket creating a run out situation, with Henry taking our fourth.
Alexander and Henry showed their skills in stopping some fours.
We went into bat with a target of 319 to beat and facing some Sussex bowlers, Charlie secured 2 x fours and was a good pairing with Jack H communicating well with each other.
Overall, our communication is getting better whilst batting and we all took opportunities to score runs when in the past we would not have had the confidence to do.
So, although we lost the game it was good match which we all enjoyed.
Final score Cuckfield 319 Wisborough Green 215
Man of the match Seth Butcher-Collier
Captain – Seth Butcher-Collier (age 10)
Under 9 vs Storrington
Match report by Jack Braddock (age 9)
We played our first real match against Storrington. We batted first and did really well. Edward and Thomas did great batting. We had a big score which was terrific.
Then we fielded and we also did great. Edward, Archie, Henry, Alfie and me all got wickets and everyone did great fielding too especially Archie who caught 2 which was amazing. We had cakes too and winning our first match was brilliant.
Jack Braddock (age 9) – Captain
Spotted out and about on a cricket field
And finally …..
That’s it for this week.
If there is anything we need to know you know where to find us
Have a great cricketing week 🏏😊
Cheers
Wizzy