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Bedfordshire Youth Cricket League (BYCL) Finals The BYCL Development League and County League Finals took place in August – congratulations to all winning teams and well done to every one taking part. The results were: BEDFORDSHIRE Under 9 Development (Bedford CC v Olney Town CC) Winners Bedford CC CRICKETBEDFORDSHIRE 2017 OSCAs county ECB City Cup Competition – Viegli Bedfordshire CAMBRIDGESHIRE winners Luton progress to National T20 Competition ESSEX Bedfordshire Cricket is pleased to announce South Semi-Finals Finals Day the county OSCAs winners for 2017. Thanks HERTFORDSHIRE to all clubs who sent in nominations. It was Congratulations to the Luton Select XI who recently played Bedfordshire Cricket’s county-wide T20 competition has now a very strong fi eld – all deserving recognition Leicester in the National Quarter Final and came out on top in reached the fi nal stages. The Finals Day (including Semi-Finals) HUNTINGDONSHIRE for their efforts. Local category winners celebrated in style a low-scoring game with Leicester falling 19 runs short. Luton will be on Sunday 10 September at Southill Park Cricket with a day out at Essex CCC watching a fi rst-class game on 30 will now play in the National South Semi-Final at Dunstable Club. The semi-fi nal matches will be Ampthill Town Cricket NORFOLK August, followed by lunch and a certifi cate presentation. They Town CC on Sunday 10 September (11am start). Well done Club v Queens Park Westfi eld Cricket Club and Blunham will now be put forward to represent Bedfordshire at the ECB to the team and good luck for the Semi-Final! The competition Cricket Club v Dunstable Town Cricket Club. The winners National OSCAs at Lord’s on Tuesday 4 October. offers promising local cricketers the opportunity to begin a will receive prize money of £1000, with £500 to the runners- EAST SUFFOLK fast-track career to the professional game and the best player up, £250 to semi-fi nalists. The fi rst Semi-Final starts at 10am. Young Volunteer – Abdus Salaam – Luton Wicketz Heartbeat of the Club – Asif Khan – Lutonian CC in the national competition will be awarded a contract with Refreshments, bar and BBQ will be available throughout the Get the Game On – Jeremy Jones – Flitwick CC the MCC Young Cricketers. day and there is plenty of parking at Southill Park CC. Please come along and support your County Competition. SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER Leagues – Shamus Uddin – ECB City Cup Under 11 County (Luton Town & Indians CC v Olney Town CC) Lifetime Achiever – Mike Thomas – Ampthill Town CC Winners Luton Town & Indians CC Foreword NatWest CricketForce – Andy Boocock – Dunstable Town CC Offi ciating – Umpires and Scorers – Steve Cobb – Bedfordshire Coach Education 2017/18 As we near the end of the season, one might think it is getting close to putting our feet up time! If only. Cricket, Bedfordshire County Cricket League The last few weeks have been fraught with planning and creating priorities for 2018 and from September work on these plans will begin in earnest. From the expansion of All Stars Cricket, the creation of a new regional league structure for Women’s Cricket, regional work supporting leagues and looking at formats, to our work with the City Cup and the ongoing work in disability cricket, as well as schools work with Chance to Shine and various other partners – the work is never ending. The biggest challenge through all of this is always resource. As many of you will know County Boards touch a lot of cricket and are pulled Bedfordshire Cricket is pleased to announce its Coach in numerous directions. Over the last few months we have been talking about how we can create a more Education programme for 2017/18: effi cient way of delivering support across Cricket and be more proactive in supporting the club network. One major step forward • ECB Coach Support Worker on Saturday 20 January occurred recently with the agreement of Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Suffolk and Hertfordshire to work in a 9am-4.40pm at Bedford College unifi ed way. Working is still ongoing but this provides a very exciting future for Cricket in the East and one that we look forward to sharing with you all in the future. • ECB Certifi cate in Coaching Children’s Cricket starts 11 October (Wednesday evenings 6.30-9.30pm at Dunstable Matt Blakeley, Regional Head of Participation & Growth (East) Bedford reach NatWest U13 Town Cricket Club) Under 11 Development (Queens Park CC v Henlow CC) Winners Queens Park CC Pictured: Beds OSCAs winners with left John Faragher, Essex CCC Chairman and National Club Championship • ECB Certifi cate in Coaching Children’s Cricket starts 27 Martin Darlow, Beds Cricket Chief Executive January (Saturdays at Bedford College 9am-4.30pm) Finals Day • Coach Education Workshops at Bedford College: CRICKET EAST FACT FILE Saturday 18 November 9am-11am – Practical Solutions • Cricket East comprises the fi ve County Cricket Bedfordshire Seniors season to Common Problems; Saturday 13 January 9am-11am Boards based in the Eastern Region – Bedfordshire, – Multi Skills Workshop – The ABCs; Saturday 24 March Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, 2017 9.30am-1pm – The basics of fi elding- catch, throw, stop Norfolk and Suffolk. Beds Over 50s fi nished third in the Eastern Division of the Bookings for the ECB Coach Support Worker course and the • Our collective vision is to lead and infl uence the ECB 50+ competition, qualifying for the knock-out stages. ECB Certifi cate in Coaching Children’s Cricket can now be development of the game while inspiring everyone They played Yorkshire in the last 16 and were undone by made online. Full details are on our website at: http://www. to take part and grow cricket in an accessible and some very impressive spin bowling. Yorkshire were the 2015 bedscricket.co.uk/page/coaching/coach-education/coach- inclusive way. winners and batted fi rst, scoring 230 for 5 in their 45 overs. education-2676/ Page and Summerfi eld set about chasing down the total with • Affi liated to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), some early boundaries, but Summerfi eld fell lbw with the Cricket East’s goal is to support the sustainable future score on 48. Unfortunately, Garratt, Stevens and Canagaseby of cricket by increasing the opportunities and enhancing Under 13 County (Bedford CC v Dunstable Town CC) all followed suit very quickly and the runs dried up with some Luton the experience of everyone involved in the game across Winners Bedford CC Women’s Soft Ball Summer very accurate spin bowling from Burden. The task became the East. Congratulations to Bedford Cricket Club who reached Women’s Soft Ball Cricket Festivals have been taking place increasingly diffi cult and Beds fi nally ended their chase on makes a difference Finals Day in a competition which began with 1700 teams • Cricket East has more than 700 affi liated cricket clubs over the summer to celebrate the ICC Women’s World Cup 153-9, losing by 77 runs. Reaching this knock-out stage is – an achievement to be very proud of! The Semi-Final It’s been an extremely busy summer so far for Wicketz in Luton. and each year more than 40,000 children are coached and with England’s women crowned as World Champions, always one of the main goals of the season and this is the saw Bedford take on Dumbleton CC from Gloucestershire. Wicketz Summer Camps, funded by Crimebeat and Lord’s in schools and clubs. more and more enthusiastic women have been trying this second year in a row that Beds 50+, under the leadership Bedford lost the toss and were asked to bowl, a choice Taverners, ran throughout the summer break and were a great new, fast, fun form of the game. Participants can enjoy a of Alan Garratt, have achieved their goal. Another very • We are committed to all aspects of the game and which seemed to work in their favour as they restricted success attracting lots of children from different backgrounds glass of Prosecco, get a free T-Shirt and 15% off New Balance successful campaign. Scorecard http://over50cc.play-cricket. through the Cricket Unleashed Strategy aim to Dumbleton to a modest total of 73 off their 20 overs, and walks of life. As well as some fantastic cricket, we were sportwear. Cricket East is pleased to report that over 1000 com/website/results/3191888 underpin all fi ve elements of that strategy to provide a Dilan Sheemar taking 3 for 9, with the other wickets being also joined by a couple of external partners who delivered women and counting have now participated in a Women’s healthy and sustainable future for the cricketing family In addition, Beds Over 60s fi nished second in their Eastern shared between Mansell (2), Mehmi (1), Richardson (1) workshops to the boys and girls. Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Soft Ball Cricket Festival across the region. The summer isn’t in the East. Group behind Herts. They travelled to Cheshire for the last 16 and Walker (1). Bedford’s reply however got off to a bad Service came along to chat to the kids about the consequences quite over yet; there’s still chance to get involved. For more knock-out stage, to take on last years’ runners up. Losing the start as both Midgeley and Huggins were dismissed in the of starting fi res deliberately. We were also joined by Live Well information and planned dates near you go to: https://www. toss meant batting fi rst and Beds got off to an inauspicious fi rst over. Rohan Mehmi seemed to be getting the Bedford Luton, who delivered some fantastic workshops, explaining the ecb.co.uk/news/376461 start with 3 wickets down for 63, but a 102 run 4th wicket chase back on track, however when he was out for 16, the different food groups and showing the amount of sugar which Celebrating our partnership between Ken Davis and Frank Simpson repaired other batsmen continued to succumb to some very tight in some drinks! the damage and helped Beds reach a very respectable score Dumbleton bowling.