John Muir was presented with the Clubman of the Year award by John Parker at the Hog Roast evening on Friday 3 October.

This is what he looked like at the end of the evening!!

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1st XI

Batting Bowling Captains

Mannu Rawat Stuart Lipo Stuart Lipo

2nd XI

Batting Bowling Captains

Simon Treadwell Aswin velusamy Debbie Hill

3rd XI

Batting Bowling Special

Mark Cowdrill Andy Davies Lee Latif

Sunday

Batting Bowling Special

John Dow Anthony Muir Andy davies

Fielder of the Year

Ryan Bone

Young Player of the Year

Ben Swingler-Brown

Clubman of the Year

John Muir

Many of you will know that Elgan Howells spends a lot of his spare time supporting John Parker and Ken Boxall in the preparation of the wickets and outfield at our Chandlers Lane ground. Deservedly, Elgan recently won the Hampshire NatWest OSCAs Young Volunteer award in recognition of his work. In addition to a certificate, Elgan was a guest of Hampshire CC at last week`s pro 40 game against Sussex at the Rose Bowl.

Well done, Elgan.

Monday 25th August, Start of play is 10am, end of play around 8pm.

We are looking for 4 teams of 8 players (obviously if there are more, the team will be bigger) 15 overs a side. The teams will be selected at random.

Music during the games. Coloured Shirts (to be decided at a later stage)

Cost per person is £8 (inc bacon roll on arrival and burger at lunch time)

Bar open all day and evening

Contact Stuart Lipo

Cricket is becoming a year round game with Indoor cricket becoming more popular, At Yateley we entered 2 teams in the indoor leagues at Dummer last year. However as our membership grows we may have the opportunity to add additional teams this year.

The leagues run from October to April
Each division has a designated night.
Matches start at either 7pm, 8pm, or 9pm and last for 1 hour
Matches are approx 3 weeks in every 5.
Teams consist of 6 players, 4 of whom must bowl.

If you are interested in joining one of our teams next year please tell me ASAP and I can try to sort before the August 14th deadline.

Last year our 2nd side consisted mainly of colts with often 1 adult, So U15 colts are very welcome
Hope to hear from you
John Muir

We have received verbal agreement from the ECB that our grant application has been successful subject to formal planning approval from Hart District Council. The official offer and terms and conditions will be received by 23 May when we will be authorised to instruct our supplier, Agripower, to commence work. We are in contact with Agripower to ascertain the likely start date. We are now very hopeful that we will be able to play on the second ground in 2009.

I, Chris Jacobs, will continue to be our ECB liaison officer and Ken Boxall will be our technical project manager. We have engaged the services of a specialist consultant, Jon Smith of GEO Turf Consultants, to advise us.

The total project costs are £90,740, Having transferred £7,685 from our development fund the amount still to find is £15,000. As you know we have a number of fund raising activities on the go. The Race Night was very successful in raising £1,600 and we are hopeful that the forthcoming Fun Day will be even better.

We'll be keeping everyone abreast of developments with frequent posts on this website. post

We have a fund raising target of £15,000 for the planned new ground next to the football pitch at Sean Devereaux Park. The Race Night was held for this purpose and there will be other events in the coming months.

The total cost to develop the new ground is £90,740. Where this is going to come from is explained the documents below. As a ClubMark accredited and Hampshire CCC Focus Club we are able to apply to the ECB for grants. We have submitted an application for £68,055 and, having jumped through lots of hoops, we are now in the final stage of the process. In theory we should get the result within a month.

For those interested in the details the following documents can be downloaded by clicking on the links below, although I wouldn't recommend the last two unless you suffer from insomnia:

Summary of project as provided to the ECB, including objectives, conduct and costs: ProjectSummary.doc (41K)

Breakdown of the costs: ProjectCosts.doc (45K)

Supplier selection: SupplierAnalysis.doc (40K)

Drawing and site plan: SitePlan.pdf (2.3MB)

ITT sent to potential contractors: InvitationToTender.pdf (448K)

Detailed programme of works: ProgrammeOfWorks.xls (197K)

If anyone wants more details please contact me.
Chris Jacobs.

Thanks for all who supported the Race Night, which was a great evening. We raised £1,634.44 towards the new ground fund. This was a fantastic effort by the organisers, Debbie and Stuart Hill. Thanks guys.

Thanks also to all our race sponsors:

Waitrose of Yateley
Dee’s News
Saturn Exhibition & Film Services Ltd.
Command Consulting Ltd.
John Parker
Yateley Angling Centre
Border Carpets
Cinnamon Bay Indian Tandoori Restaurant
David Cutler of Yateley MOT Centre Ltd
Firgrove Vetinary Centre

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Hi Guys,

Hope you all are very well and looking forward to fantastic new season in the Thames Valley.

I really would have loved to been playing this year, its going to be good for a lot of the youngsters and the club in general.

Just wanted to let you know, I haven’t given up playing cricket, I have joined a team here in dubai, they play 25 over matches, and wait for mr parker the play on concrete wickets, it’s a batsmen’s paradise no need for a grounds men ha ha …mostly tho they all play yahoo cowboy shots but I guess the armatures from the sub continent are always like that…

Work and lifestyle in Dubai is fantastic but boy is it starting to get hot now, I actually am praying for a bit of rain…

Well I just wanted to wish you all the very best of luck in the new season, tell the boys even tho I am not there playing this year, I will be following them all season and I expect someone to take up my position of talk S**T to anyone who would listen on the pitch, especially the oppo batsmen. Wish them all the best from me

Fingers crossed I will be back next season

Regards
Saj Shafi