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MEMBERS’ NEWSLETTER MAY 2016 www.primaryclub.org

The cricketers’ charity for the blind and partially sighted

Inside: Women’s VI , Hassan Khan, and your Club’s new website

INSIDE: VI cricket in the news –p 2; recordbreaking lunch –p 3; how you help –p 4/5; A season of VI cricket –p 8 pc2016-nopixSC_Layout 1 16/05/2016 09:55 Page 2

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The Club sends its congratulations to Luke Sugg from the Editor’s letter Visually Impaired team who was named England Disability Cricketer of the Year at the ECB Awards. The generosity of members of The Primary Club never ceases to amaze me. Whenever I speak to people about the projects that you ensure will survive for Thanks to Liam Cromar for his excellent article - ‘Golden ducks another year, it is clear that your money is having a for a cause’ - about The Primary Club and its activities for significant impact on lives around the country. ESPNcricinfo. You can read it online at bit.ly/liamcromar For example, the Club has been helping to fund the Royal National College for the Blind’s visually impaired cricket team known as the ‘Bulldogs’ since 2012. Your support has enable them to buy a cricket mat, trolley The Bournemouth Echo ran an excellent interview with Jean and team kit, and has allowed the players to compete in Sparrowhawk, who at 83 is a member of the Dorset Dolphins matches season after season. Without this money, and is thought to be the oldest player in the VI national league. taking part in the Development League would simply not "I got to know the Dorset Dolphins, crossed their threshold in a have been possible. 'poor me' mindset but left with a zest for life,” she told reporter Since last year’s newsletter, our website has had a Will Frampton. "And now I have met these amazing people, significant wash and brush up, and now looks as smart and I am going sky diving and water skiing." as a Ted Dexter suit (see opposite page for details). Please do take a look and return for regular updates and news throughout the year. The curse of Rule 5(c)

This year’s atmospheric cover Despite the near miss best efforts of Messrs Ballance and Stokes, image shows the Tri-County VI the curse of rule 5(c) has NOT struck again. The rule, under which tournament, held at , members are asked to add £2 to their annual donation for each which was run as part of Surrey primary achieved by an England batsman in a home test match, Cricket Board's disability day. claimed no victims in 2015. This has happened only once before (in 2004) since we limited it to home Tests in 1998.

● Alex Johnson However, please do feel free to add £2 (or multiples!) to your annual donation!

All UK Women’s Team per over to do so. Despite a nervy maiden over just before the end, they reached the target after 19 overs to claim victory in The Blind Cricket England and Wales women’s programme their first ever match as a team. produced its first match in September 2015. A squad of 13 players from all over the country played an international game This occasion was the completion of phase one of the women’s against Price & Myers, a team of structural engineers, at programme, which was funded by the Primary Club. The Brentham CC in West . ongoing goal is to grow the women’s game in this country and eventually play against international opposition. Price & Myers, wearing simulation spectacles, started well and the score moved on steadily. At the 10 over drinks break the visitors were 73 for 2 but the women’s team got into their stride All UK Women’s Squad: from then on, took regular and fielded exceptionally Lois Turner (Surrey VICC, ) well to restrict their opponents to 118 for 8. Susannah Barnett (Worcestershire Elizabethans) Elyse Bezuidenhout (Gloucestershire Growlers) After an excellent tea provided by Brentham CC the ladies set Linda Boulding (Kent Spitfires) about chasing down the Price & Myers total requiring six runs Storme Dunford (Surrey VICC) Emma Gilfoyle (Durham VICC) Leanne Harvey (Surrey VICC) Kathryn Jelfs-White (Somerset VICC) Camile Kamera (Berkshire Stags) Becky King (Berkshire Stags) Evie Klamar (Dorset Dolphins) Amanda Large (Lancashire Lions) Heidi Linegar (Somerset VICC) Georgie Ridgeway (Derbyshire Owls) Helen Robinson (Durham VICC) Ruth Stacey (Berkshire Stags) Hannah Young (Berkshire Stags) pc2016-nopixSC_Layout 1 16/05/2016 09:55 Page 3

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Annual Northants recounted many cricketing stories. Many notable cricketers and ex-cricketers were “I wanted to explain how vital your fundraiser breaks in attendance including Alex Wakely, the grant of £3,000 has been to our Northants Captain. cricket club,” writes Sheraz Chohan, records Club Secretary of Lancashire Lions During the meal, professional auctioneer VICC. Michael Savage hosted his fifth highly John ‘Bomber’ Harris harangued the successful Primary Club Lunch in guests into making purchases, and “This money allowed us to work on Northamptonshire and raised a record afterwards conducted a very successful our two cricket teams, training sum in the process. This event is now auction of cricketing memorabilia. sessions, coaches, travel and firmly established in The Primary Club equipment/facilities. Thanks to all of calendar as the premier annual fund Area Reps John Spalton and David this and the members of the club we raiser. Bentley attended on behalf of The had our most successful season to Primary Club. David gave a brief address date and created many landmarks The prospect of competing with the on the background of The Primary Club, for the club and a handful of its previous year's successful function - while John spoke about a forthcoming players. which featured as guest British Blind Sport dinner. speaker – did not daunt Michael for a “Our development squad was minute as he secured the services of It was a thoroughly enjoyable occasion successful in winning the Brian another former England and Middlesex and raised £5,700 for the Club. Michael is Johnston Memorial Trust batsman to address the guests this year. already planning for next year's bash on development festival in Leicester November 9 at the same venue. and also finishing second in the Nearly 90 people packed the dining room BCEW development league. Our at the Northamptonshire Golf Club to Tickets and details from national side also had a very enjoy an excellent lunch prior to the [email protected] successful season – they finished address by Clive Radley MBE who or 01604 755260. second in the national league, their highest ever position. New Club website The new and improved site is the work of “They also reached the finals of the volunteer Paul Doyle (though he very Twenty20 cup and the semifinals of Since the last newsletter, The Primary modestly describes it as a ‘team effort’). the BBS Cup. We hope to build on Club’s website has had a major overhaul these successes next season. and is now well worth regular visits to “I love the newsletter,” he says, “and I keep up with all that’s happening at the really want the website and our Twitter “The club has also started to offer Club and in the wider VI sporting world. account to continue telling the story of goalball and this is proving a very The Primary Club the rest of the year popular sport with over 15 regular round, to the audience of people who are participants. The goalball squad yet to join as well as to current attended their first ever novice members.” tournament in December with the A team finishing third getting a bronze The site includes news, back issues of the medal and the B team finishing newsletter in pdf format, the Club shop, second earning silver medals. We and the opportunity to donate online, as have engaged a further 10 well as details about getting involved participants this year of which half with The Primary Club Casuals and recent are women. projects funded by The Primary Club “All of our development targets have Please do go to www.primaryclub.org and been reached for 2015.” have a look around! pc2016-nopixSC_Layout 1 16/05/2016 09:55 Page 4 All your donations help t

Stockport, National Blind Tenpin Liverpool, Bowling Association Cleethorpes, and Glasgow. It was The National Tenpin Summer Doubles Finals was once again held unusual to have at Wigan Bowling Centre and all the teams stayed at The Britannia two teams from Hotel. various clubs as this has never A dozen teams had been competing in their various groups all happened before. season and won their places to the finals. They played six games against each other on the Saturday and in the evening there was a “I am assured from presentation meal and prizegiving. Up to the time they get their our members that they all had a good weekend and really enjoyed the bowling and Useful Vision making new friends,” says Some of the children and families from the Pauline Useful Vision weekend at the Windermere Greenhalgh, Manor Hotel. “Thank you for funding this trip,” Voluntary says Eilish Thompson, Charity Administrator, Fundraiser at the “all of the families had an amazing time.” National Blind Tenpin Bowling Association.

“We do thank all of your members at The Primary Club for making it possible for us to do this for our members as without the money award no one but the scorers knew who had won the coveted first that you so generously donate towards these finals we could not prize so you can imagine the joy on the faces of the winners as afford to carry on doing it. We also couldn't do it without the help they realised that their team had won. of all our voluntary committee and helpers who all give their time for no other reward than to see the happiness on the faces of our The teams are scattered throughout Britain and this is the only bowlers as they wend their long way home on the Sunday time they ever get to meet teams from other clubs. morning.” At these finals there were teams from Swindon, Sunderland, Torch Fellowship

“We had a great holiday last year, funded in part by the The Primary Club,” says Sue Richards of the Milton Keynes Torch Fellowship, “staying at the Torch Holiday and Retreat Centre in Sussex. There were 13 of us in total, six with a visual impairment and several with mobility difficulties. We all enjoyed bowling, an audio described theatre trip, playing indoor giant Jenga, visiting gardens and experiencing a variety of unusual small animals up close and personal!

“Many thanks again for the wonderful contributions we have received from The Primary Club over the years, enabling our visually impaired members to have some memorable holidays.” ●Durham VICC recent indoor training session. The venue is Fynedoune Community Coolege in Sacriston. pc2016-nopixSC_Layout 1 16/05/2016 09:55 Page 5 to fund these projects...

Stags vs Heroes Hassan Khan As part of Binfield CC’s 150th In a fascinating interview in the anniversary celebration week, the Guardian newspaper, Andy Bull Berkshire Stags VI cricket team took interviewed VI cricketer Hassan Khan on a Tedworth House (Help for from the moment when he woke up Heroes) XI. blind as a three-year-old in the small village in , where he lived with With 15 overs a side, the match was his family, right up to the present day played in a friendly spirit and and his experience as a major part of enabled the Tedworth House team England’s VI cricket team. to experience VI cricket for the first time. first and wearing Hassan, known as a particularly simpecs (glasses that simulate impressive short square leg specialist, visual impairment), Tedworth is now a project co-ordinator for the House scored a commendable 135 Thomas Pocklington Trust after he and runs from their 15 overs with batsmen The match was followed by an excellent his family moved to London 20 years retiring after two or three overs at the BBQ lunch provided by Binfield CC. ago. crease and the Stags using 11 different Thanks go to Ian Foster and Andrew bowlers. Stacey for umpiring the game with The feature shows how cricket flexibility of the rules for both sides. completely changed Hassan’s life. As a In reply the Stags, using a reversed pupil at Linden Lodge School for the batting order, reached 133, resulting in a visually impaired in Wimbledon, he two run win for Tedworth House. used Test Match Special as a way of improving his English and it was a teacher at the school who first Scottish Blind Golf Society suggested that he go along to a session at the Metro VI club. Hassan A Strokeplay event at Drumoig with The Primary Club banner looking lovely in the was amazed at what the club was sunshine! doing and immediately hooked. In 2006 he made his England debut against Sri Lanka in Colombo.

“It is thanks to cricket that I am in this position,” he told Andy Bull. “It was only because I saw people who were able to live on their own, who were able to hold down good jobs, that I felt able to do it myself.”

You can read ’ How blind cricket made an England star of Hassan Khan’ by Andy Bull online at bit.ly/hassankhan

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A sneak peak at some Please do follow us at of the tandems that @ThePrimaryClub (and have been serviced you can also follow the using funds from a Primary Club Casuals at Club grant. @PCCasuals) Also well worth following is @UKBlindCricket pc2016-nopixSC_Layout 1 16/05/2016 09:55 Page 6

Wormsley to Projects roundup host BBS cup final The 2016 British Blind Sport Primary Club Heindrich Swanepoel Memorial Cup Final will take place at Wormsley the Getty family’s Estate in Buckinghamshire on August 20.

The tournament is the world’s longest running annual disability cricket competition and was first held in 1979. Previous final hosts include The Nursery Ground at Lords, Edgbaston, The Ageas Bowl in Southampton and the County grounds in Northampton & Bristol.

Wormsley is regarded as one of the most picturesque grounds in England. As well as hosting the BBS “These are some of the shirts with Club Cup Final the weekend will include a Badges along with three sets of walkie celebration of the lives of two of talkie radios bought with the funding blind cricket’s most high profile your club so generously gave us,” supporters, cricket commentator explains Sheila Fisher from Bristol Blind Brian Johnston and Test Match Bowls Club. “In case you were wondering Special scorer Bill Frindall, both a what the radios were for, it’s to let major part of cricket at Wormsley. visually impaired players know what position their woods have on the green The 2015 BBS Cup final, played at during a match. Hope all your Members BroadHalfPenny Down, saw have a great summer.” Warwickshire Bears edge out ● Action from the Womens VI Cricket Programme, London Metro by just two runs in the partly funded by The Primary Club highest scoring final in the competition’s 37 year history.

Dave Gavrilovic, Vice Chairman of British Blind Sport & Competitions ● An East London Vision Bowls event run with the use of Secretary of the charities cricket money from The Primary Club section said: “It is a great privilege to get the chance to stage our knockout cup final at such a beautiful ground where so many famous faces have enjoyed playing and watching cricket over the past 25 years.”

Tim Munton, Managing Director of Wormsley Cricket Ground added, "We are delighted to have the opportunity to host the final at Wormsley. It's a great addition to our cricket calendar during August which includes hosting an England under ● T20 Final: Sussex 19's ODI against Sri Lanka and the while finals of the Minor Counties PLEASE Lancashire Championship four-day CONTRIBUTE! bat competition and one-day knockout Trophy.” The editor welcomes contributions. Any personal For more Information about cricketing oddity, especially involving a primary, would the ground go to be welcome. Photos would be a bonus! www.wormsleycricket.co.uk pc2016-nopixSC_Layout 1 16/05/2016 09:55 Page 7

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A year in the life of Outlook Trust “We have had plenty of adventures with visually impaired children taking part in water actives such as sailing, canoeing, raft building, kayaking, a VI cricket club having fun leaping off rocks into the lake, capsizing boats, and generally An insider’s look at the ups and downs of 12 months having lots of fun!” says Jeff Davies, a Trustee at Outlook Trust. at Hampshire VI cricket club “In addition we have tandem cycled Hampshire Visually Impaired Cricket Club Our T20 Cup campaign started by easing and climbed in the Lake District as (HVICC) was formed in 2008 with the main past Kent and then skittling Berkshire for well. Children have blossomed, aim of providing training and competitive just 46; we took just six overs to book our gained confidence, made new friends matches for anyone interested in playing place in the final. Tight bowling held with children with similar disabilities cricket in the Hampshire area, regardless Metro Devils to 146 for 6 but we fell short as well as learning a range of new of age, gender or ability. We also provide by 12 runs and collected the runners-up skills. local coaches with experience of the game medals. of blind cricket and operate an open “2015 was a really successful year for training session policy, whereby anyone So we start the new season ready for the the Outlook Trust for the visually wishing to try the sport is welcome to do challenge, with new players in the team impaired. All six Windermere so. and benefitting from excellent winter weekends and the sailing week on the training delivered by Head Coach, Ieuan Solent were full. Some weekends HVICC's 2015 season was one of mixed Wathen. If you would like to see what we were oversubscribed. We provided fortunes. We started by winning the get up to in training, visit us at activity opportunities for 75 people Surrey Invitational Tournament played at www.blindcricket.hampshire.org.uk and last year. the Kia Oval, which was a great click on the link to a That's Solent TV experience for the players, who never video; you will also be able to see a link “We have painted our bus and started

thought they would play cricket on such for some Lord Taverners' videos featuring to refurbish yachts and two Wayfarer Editor: Alex Johnson, email: [email protected] Design: Steve Cowell, email: [email protected] hallowed turf and change in the away HVICC,which show how blind cricket is dinghies to increase and improve the dressing room, surrounded by the played. equipment and resources for our signatures of cricket legends. youngsters. All of this would not be possible without League games were a struggle – early the dedication of our band of volunteers “Providing these opportunities and lifeless pitches lead to draws in games we who run the club, make the cricket teas, maintaining and improving assets is would have hoped to win and when the drive the minibus and ‘friends’ of the club an expensive endeavour but worth pitches livened up, we were not able to who raise, donate or grant money to the every penny. On behalf of The capitalise. However the last league game club. Without The Primary Club and their Outlook Trust and particularly our was a real thriller for all involved – playing continued support, for which we are very special participants may I Dorset for the Peter Marshall Cup, we immensely grateful, we would not be able extend our sincere thanks to The posted a challenging 193 to win and to facilitate the wonderful game of cricket Primary Club for their generous Dorset took it down to the wire; a run out for our blind and partially sighted players. support. Without this support we and three dot balls in the final over saw us would not be able to continue.” win by just one run! Jacki Killeen, Treasurer

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A Club grant to the Sensory Support Service in Bromley, London, has helped provide a range of sporting activities including swimming sessions and trampolining, as well as funding a children’s picnic

The Primary Club, PO Box 12121, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 2ZF Tel: 01799 586507 Email [email protected] Website: www.primaryclub.org Registered charity no 285285