Welcome to our first edition of Wizzy News for the season. For those who are new to the club a very warm Wisborough welcome, and a particular welcome to Wizzy News – our weekly roundup of news and events at Wisborough Green Cricket Club.
Regular readers will know the format of Wizzy News – a bit of news about cricket, information about what’s going on in the community, and a good old chuckle about this and that. We don’t take ourselves too seriously at the club and we enjoy having a dig at players and personalities at the club, so if you’re important enough to be a target of our humour please take it as a compliment. Please click here for back copies of our Wizzy News newsletters which have all been posted in the ‘newsletter’ link on our web site.
Welcome to the 2026 Season at WGCC!
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Tarni Dixon Chair, Wisborough Green Cricket Club
Livestreaming of Senior home matches
Over the winter we acquired the technology to livestream games and have been testing on . match
Friday night training
Just a quick reminder about timings and where the various age groups train on Friday evenings :
Parking
Parking along the Kirdford road remains an issue for us during Friday night training. Last year an ambulance was unable to get through and had to drive across a section of the green to reach a sick patient in one of the properties in Wyatt Close, we clearly cannot have a repeat of this. We ask you to park at the Village Hall or Songhurst Meadow and walk to the green from there.
BBQ
After four years of running the BBQ on Friday nights, Mark Meurer and his merry band of BBQ’ers are hanging up their tongs. We would like to thank Mark and his team for their time, energy and laughter, so greatly appreciated and what an outstanding contribution to Friday nights this has been.
This year each junior age group will be tasked with running the BBQ in turn, and if the chatter in the age group WhatsApp groups is anything go by the competition for the best age group BBQ will be fierce …
Age group specific information
We’ve got lots of useful information on each of the age groups including links to register, fixture lists and lots more on our Juniors webpages – please click here
Upcoming Fixtures
Our League matches are kicking off this weekend – all of our age group fixtures are available on the ECB’s Playcricket website –please click here
Good luck to our Ladies hardball team at the Sussex Slam finals at Slinfold CC on Monday 4th May from 11:45am. Please do go along and support them if you can
- Second X1 are playing Bognor Regis at home on Saturday afternoon at 1pm
- Second X1 are away to at 1pm on Saturday
- Under 14’s have a training game with the under 12’s on Sunday morning
- Under 12’s are up against at home on Saturday morning
- Under 10’s are up against Storrington away on Saturday morning
Team selections
Kit
We have lots of information on our ‘Ordering Kit ‘ web page including a link to the Gray Nicholls Store online store where kit can be purchased. The web page includes some useful videos on how to choose the right junior bat , how to choose the right bat size and how much you should spend on a junior bat. We have also included details of helmet sizes and a pads size guide.
We would like all players to wear our Wisborough Green hats when they play matches which enhances our identity as a team. Hats can be purchased at the BBQ on Friday evening – juniors £10 , ladies £12 and senior men £15
Stem/neck guards
One important change this year is that all junior players playing hardball cricket will be required to wear stem/neck guards when batting in a match or during training. This is now mandatory and will also be rolled out for all those under the age of 18yo within the Adult League. Sussex Cricket have made it very clear – no stem guard – no batting in matches. We have purchased a number of generic stemguards for players to use, but it would be a good idea for all players to acquire their own.
Can you help in any way ?
We are expecting over 200 juniors to enjoy playing cricket this year which is in itself a major undertaking. There is an increasingly smaller group of volunteers who put a lot of effort to keep the show on the road and we would welcome support from parents – particularly scorers , umpires , tea makers etc etc . If you are able to help in any way please do let us know. We could do with a lot more help – even if its on an occasional basis
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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