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AUGUST 2016

2016 OSCAs County Under 15s Bunbury Festival Schools Competitions winners Winners Congratulations to Alex Rennie – Bedfordshire Young Cricketer, Congratulations to all schools that have taken part in this year’s cricket Eversholt Cricket Club and School player – who was tournaments: The winners were: Bedfordshire Cricket is pleased to announce the selected to play for the London and South East regional team in the County Year 8s/Trueman Cricket League – Lincroft School Oakley, Bedford county OSCAs winners for 2016. These awards are a prestigious Under 15s Bunbury Festival. The Festival saw the best thank you for outstanding services to cricket. Thanks to 60 Under 15 players in the country come together for the week-long all clubs who sent in nominations. It was a very strong fi eld event staged at in Oxfordshire. This annual event – all deserving recognition for their e orts. Local category winners will receive has been running for 30 years and has been an important milestone a day out at Essex CCC watching a fi rst-class game in early September. They for the growth and development of English cricket. During that time, will also be put forward to represent Bedfordshire at the ECB National OSCAs at under 15 trials have produced 684 fi rst-class cricketers and 70 have Lord’s on Tuesday 4 October. gone on to play for England. Alex joined Bedford CC, Bedford School Heartbeat of the Club Sian Parker Langford Cricket Club and now Essex CCC’s Rahul Sheemar at the Festival. Get the Game On Phil Lewis Dunstable Town Cricket Club Leagues Anthony Smith Bedfordshire Young Cricketers Lifetime Achiever John Wisson Elstow & Southill Park Cricket Clubs NatWest CricketForce Samad Parkar Lutonian Cricket Club O ciating – Umpires and Scorers Mohammed Bashir Luton County Year 5 & 6 Mixed – Westfi eld School, Bedford (pictured) Midweek League, ECB City Cup & Bedfordshire Umpiring Young Volunteer Joshua Malkani Flitwick Cricket Club & Bedfordshire Cricket

Sharks win Luton ECB City Cup Competition

Pictured: Alex Rennie receiving his London and South East cap from ex-England batsman James Taylor

Bedfordshire Young Cricketers success County Year 5 & 6 Girls – Downside Primary School, Luton (pictured) County Year 4 – Farley Junior School, Luton Bedfordshire Young Cricketers are enjoying a great season! Recent successes include: Zane Haroon – 6 for 7 Beds U13s v Buckinghamshire Jason George – 5 for 47 Beds U17s v Shropshire Harry McBrearty – 5 for 9 Beds U17s v Oxfordshire Ali Ul-Haq – 5 for 36 for Beds U14s v Northamptonshire Hayden Melly – 100* for Beds U11s v Beds U10s Patrick Brooke – 114 for Beds U15s v London Schools Congratulations to the Sharks, who have won the competition for the second Sam Richardson – 5 for 5 (including a hat trick) Beds U12s v year running against the Tigers. A Luton Select XI will now play away to Leicester London Schools in the national quarter fi nal on Bank Holiday Monday 29 August where the boys will be hoping to defend their national title. The competition o ers promising local cricketers the opportunity to begin a fast-track career to the professional game and the best player in the national competition will be awarded a contract with the MCC Young Cricketers Chance to Compete Under 13s – Lincroft School Oakley, Bedford (pictured) Viegli Bedfordshire County T20 Cup Competition Finals Day Bedfordshire Cricket’s county-wide 20/20 cup competition has now reached the fi nal stages. The Finals Day (including Semi-Finals) will be on Sunday 4 September 2016 at Dunstable Town CC. The semi-fi nal matches will be Dunstable Pictured: Zane Haroon U13s Town Cricket Club v Flitwick Cricket Club and Southill Park Cricket Club v Thurleigh Cricket Club. The winners will receive prize money of £1000, with £500 to the runners-up, £250 to semi-fi nalists and £100 to the losing regional fi nalists. Please come along and support your County Competition. Eversholt win county ECB U15 The fi rst Semi-Final starts at 10am. Club Championship Chance to Compete Under 15s – Challney High School for Boys, Luton (pictured) Congratulations to Eversholt Cricket Club Under 15s who recently beat Luton Town & Indians CC in the County Final on 1 July. They e Young ir C h r Summer Camps progressed to the National Knock-Out Competition; having a bye in s i d c Bedfordshire Young k r the fi rst round and losing to Old Northamptonians in the second o e f t

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Community Foundation’s London Luton Airport Ltd Fund and Lord’s Taverners, Cricketers on tour B are running throughout the summer break. The Summer Camps are FREE and This year, representative age groups have attended open to boys and girls aged 8-16. The fi rst Camp at Lower Wardown Park at Cricket Festivals throughout the country: Under 10s – the end of July was a great success with over 30 children attending each day, Malvern College, Worcestershire, Under 11s – Royal showcasing their skills. Boys and girls of all ages enjoyed the good weather Hospital School, Ipswich and Under 12s, 14s and 15s London Schools Cricket and expert coaching from the Bedfordshire Cricket coaches. The next Camps Association, , Northamptonshire. The Under 13s are going to are at Crawley Green Sports and Social Club 15-19 August Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire on 12-15 August. and Upper Wardown Park 22-26 August. The times are for 8-12 year olds 9.30am-12pm and 13-16 year olds 1-3.30pm. To register your place on a Summer Camp, please email [email protected] or call 07493 867729. Luton Town & Indians ECB U13 Club Championship Bedfordshire Cricket Facilities at Allen Park continue to Academy improve

The Bedfordshire Cricket Academy (BCA) delivers specialist coaching, training and skills to aspiring cricketers. It o ers one-to-one coaching sessions, master classes and skills development sessions. All sessions take place at Bedford College Sports Hall and are run by fully qualifi ed ECB coaches. Bookings can be taken from Wednesday 7 September – call 01234 291823. One-to-one coaching sessions Congratulations to Luton Town & Indians Cricket Club Under 13s for their Running on Monday evenings 7.30–9pm from 3 October to 28 outstanding performance in this year’s ECB Club Championship, making it to the November, Thursday evenings 6–9pm from 6 October to 10 National Group Final. Having won the County Final against Bedford CC, Luton November and during the half term break on Monday 24 October and Town & Indians had a bye in the fi rst round of the national stages, beat Middleton Cheney, Northants CC in the second round and Wellington CC, Shropshire in Tuesday 25 October 9am–5pm. More sessions will run starting in Queen’s Park Cricket Association has recently been given approval the Group Semi-Final, before losing to Walmley CC, Warwickshire in the Group February 2017. The 40-minute sessions are open to all ages and costs are: one from Bedford Borough Council to prepare their own wickets. Tariq Final. session £32, 2 for £60, 3 for £88, 4 for £116 or 5 for £144. Iqbal, spokesman for the Queen’s Park Cricket Association, said: Master classes “It will take time before we get it looking like Lord’s, but I’m very confi dent that with the determination and commitment that we have Junior cricket coaching master classes will run from Wednesday 26 to within the club and the extra e ort going into the wicket, we will Friday 28 October 2016 (half term) AND Wednesday 15 to Friday hopefully start to see an improvement in our pitch scores from now 17 February 2017 (half term) 9.30am-4pm for boys and girls from onwards.” Since 2013, the facilities at Allen Park have attracted school years 4 to 7 inclusive. Activities will include: the basics of batting and funding in the region of £750,000 from key organisations such as bowling; developing power into your cricket shots; developing pace and spin the England and Wales Cricket Board, Sport England and Bedford into your bowling; and taking part in an indoor tournament. The cost is £110 for Borough Council as well as local fundraising. Improvements have the 3 days (with £5 sibling discount). included a new cricket pavilion, a caged cricket area, re-laying Cricket skills development sessions squares and the outfi eld, and new sight screens, covers and A course of 8 sessions for 9 to 13-year-olds will run on Monday evenings scoreboard. 6-7.30pm from 3 October to 28 November. Sessions are: The All- rounder; Facing the Fast Men – Playing Pace; Spin it to win it & the Need for Speed Bowling; The Gun Fielder – developing your fi elding skills; Mastering National Cricket Playing Survey – Mystery – Facing Spin; Spin it to Win it & the Need for Speed – The Sequel; The Athletic Cricketer; T20 Talents. The cost is £100 for the 8 sessions (single it’s over! sessions not available). Thanks to everyone that completed the survey this year. It was a very encouraging response with over 23,000 entries nationally, close to a 30% increase on last year.

Umpiring We will be sharing the great insight from the survey with you in due course and working with you to consider what the key messages are for cricket development goes Dutch Coach Education 2016/17 in our county. Coach Support Worker courses will run in October (Cedars in Beds! Academy, Leighton Buzzard) and January (Bedford College) and there Jan Hilhorst from Holland tells will be two ECB Certifi cate in Coaching Children courses, Crimebeat Bedfordshire Cricket how he one starting in October (Wednesday evenings at Dunstable Cricket Crimebeat is a youth crime prevention charity travels to the UK each summer Club) and the other starting in January (Saturdays). There will also of the High Sheri ’s Association in England to umpire at cricket matches in be Coach Education Workshops on o er from October to December. and Wales. It aims to reduce crime, anti- Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. For details go to: http://www.bedscricket.co.uk/page/ social behaviour and provide young people, “Born in Australia of Dutch parents coaching/coach-education-programme-2015/ particularly from socially deprived and high crime areas with support, assistance I was a sports fanatic from a young coach-education-programme-2015-2676/ or contact and guidance. In Bedfordshire, cricket camps are organised throughout the age. Moving to The Netherlands Brad Matthews on 07884 060907 or brad.matthews@ summer in areas that are identifi ed by Bedfordshire Police as having a youth when I was 15, I found a cricket bedscricket.co.uk.v crime problem. The camps provide opportunities for explaining the importance club in my home town of Bilthoven near Utrecht. In the 70s, there were about 80 of community and citizenship to the attendees as well as giving the opportunity clubs in 10 divisions with about 300 teams in the national competition. That number to learn and play cricket, often for the fi rst time. Some of the young people has now more than halved. I mainly played for Hercules of Utrecht and we played at Umpire and scorer courses introduced to cricket through these camps have also gone on to play cricket for the second highest level. After captaining the 1st team and playing for over 15 years, If you are interested in becoming an umpire and/or a scorer, the county sides. The initiative has also enabled more funding for youth cricket to I captained the seconds and the thirds trying to win games by letting the 18-year-olds Bedfordshire Association of Cricket O cials is planning winter come in to Bedfordshire in general. The current High Sheri of Bedfordshire, do all the running about! When I could no longer get out of bed on a Sunday morning, training. There will be two fi rst-level (UL1) umpire courses (each Charles Whitbread, recently held a charity cricket match in the grounds of his I gave up playing after 44 years of competition and took up umpiring which I enjoy sixteen hours): three all-day Sundays, September 18, 25 and October family home at Southill Park, when the Lashings All Stars legends took on the immensely. Being competitive meant I wasn’t satisfi ed with just a couple of courses 2 in Luton, and eight Wednesday evenings between January 18 and High Sheri of Bedfordshire’s XI. The event raised in the region of £32k for and some experience umpiring, so I joined a Level 2 umpiring course at the ECB. As March 22 in Bedford. There will be a course for scorers at Flitwick Crimebeat which will help to support the summer camps initiative, o ering more I had friends living in Hertfordshire, the Herts Association of Cricket O cials (ACO) in the New Year; details in due time for those expressing an interest. children the opportunities that the scheme has successfully achieved for many o ered support with my assessments. As a result, I having been coming over to If you are interested in attending any of these courses, email paul. already. umpire games in Herts for the last 4 years. I also became a member of the Herts ACO [email protected]. and started assisting in Level 2 courses in the hope one day to be a fully qualifi ed tutor and help raise standards of umpiring in The Netherlands. Through Herts, I have also umpired for games in Bedfordshire on a Sunday. The Royal Netherlands Bedfordshire County Cricket Association (KNCB) which was founded in 1888 has an exchange programme Club A liation 2016-17 starting up with Essex for men, women and youth teams and also wants to help our Please note the new club a liation year starts on 1 October Cricket Club August umpires. So now I fi nd myself a member of the ECB ACO, Herts ACO, Beds ACO, 2016 and A liation Packs will be emailed out to all clubs during Fixtures Dutch ACO and about to be working with Essex ACO. I hope I still have time to stand September. Please note savings can be achieved on fees if both Sunday-Tuesday 14-16 11am: Hertfordshire at Flitwick CC out in a fi eld and watch some cricket!” forms and payment are returned by 30 November 2016. Further details at: http://bedfordshireccc.play-cricket.com/

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