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JUNE 2016

ECB Coach Award winners 2016 Lashings All Stars v Bedfordshire Cricket is pleased to announce the 2016 Coach Award winners. High Sheri ’s XI These awards are a fantastic way to say thank you to our coaches and to celebrate their outstanding services to grassroots cricket.

Bedfordshire Cricket, in association with Crimebeat, is running the following cricket summer camps. The focus of these events is having fun and there will be di erent cricket activities each day. • Monday 1 to Friday 5 August at Biggleswade Lee Butterworth: Jason Wood: Jack Gibbins: Outstanding Contribution Coach of the Year Young Coach of the Year Town Cricket Club 9.30am-3.30pm (ages 8 to 16). £5 The Lashings All Stars are coming to Bedfordshire on Thursday 23 June per day. Please bring a packed lunch and plenty to drink. 2016! Lashings All Stars v The High Sheri ’s XI at Southill Park will raise In recognition of their achievements, Lee and Jason have won a day out at an • Monday 8 to Friday 12 August at Leighton important funds for the High Sheri ’s charity Crimebeat. Lashings legends will England international this summer and Jack will be rewarded with an invite to an Buzzard Cricket Club 9.30am-12pm (ages 8-12) and include Herschelle Gibbs, Saqlain Mushtaq, Gordon Greenidge, Geraint Jones, ECB national coaching event. Congratulations to this year’s winners! 1-3.30pm (ages 13-16). £5 per session. Please bring plenty and very special guest Henry Blofeld! Gates open to the public at 12.30pm and to drink. the match starts at 3pm. Entry with scorecard and free parking is £6. Entry with scorecard, free parking and matchday programme is £10. To purchase tickets Luton ECB City Cup To register your place, email brad.matthews@bedscricket. for this unique event, go to: http://www.bedscricket.co.uk/news/ matches start this co.uk. lashings-is-coming-to-bedfordshire-14751/. A junior coaching session with Lashings legends, will take place on the morning of the match from month midday. Tickets for the lunch cost £75 each and price includes drinks reception, The Luton competition will include players from throughout Bedfordshire in luncheon, Lashings All Stars v High Sheri XI Cricket Match, tea and post- three teams – Luton Pumas, Sharks and Tigers. All teams will play each other match signing session. To purchase a ticket for the lunch go to: http://fi les. in T20-style midweek matches. The fi rst match is due to take place on Friday pitchero.com/counties/42/1463755360.pdf 10 June at 5.45pm at Luton Town & Indians CC between the Tigers and the Sharks. The fi nal (the two top teams) will take place on Friday 22 July at 5.45pm at Luton Town & Indians CC. A Luton select XI will then go forward to play a select XI from Leicester in a quarter-fi nal which will take place at the end of August. The ECB City Cup (formerly Lord’s Taverners City Cup), which is being run locally by Bedfordshire Cricket and funded by the Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation’s London Luton Airport Ltd fund, includes teams from across the country. The best player will be awarded a Pictured: Kids having fun at last year’s camp at Biggleswade Cricket Club contract with the MCC Young Cricketers. For further details, email [email protected]. From Bedfordshire Young Cricketer to Premier League winner! Ben Chilwell is currently a left back for Leicester City, who recently completed one of the most remarkable triumphs in sporting history by winning the 2015/16 Premier League title. The England Under 21 star is viewed as one of the best young players in the country, but before achieving success in professional football, the 19-year-old was a Bedfordshire Young Cricketer at Under 11-15 and Pictured: In 2015, the Luton select XI won the national competition achieved a place on the Emerging Player Programme. Ben, we wish you every success in your future football career. Viegli Bedfordshire T20 Under 11s wear baggy caps with Competition gets o to pride! fl ying start The 2016 Viegli Bedfordshire T20 competition got underway at the end of May with Southill Park beating Ickleford. Round 1 matches need to be completed by Friday 3 June. The competition, sponsored by Viegli, a specialist telecoms company based NatWest ECB U13 and in Bedfordshire and Kent, will be played in 4 regional zones on weekday evenings, culminating in a fi nals day on Sunday 4 September at Dunstable Town U15 National Club Cricket Club, incorporating both the semi-fi nals and fi nal. Prize money will be Championship £1,000 to the winners, £500 to the runners-up, £250 to the semi-fi nalists and £100 to the losing regional fi nalists. For details of fi xtures and results go to: http:// The fi rst rounds of the Bedfordshire Under 13 and bedst20cup.play-cricket.com/ Under 15 National Club Championships started early May with 13 U13 teams and 12 U15 teams taking part. The U13 semi-fi nal line-up is Luton Town & Indians CC v Eversholt CC and Bedford CC v the winners of Dunstable CC v Flitwick CC. The U15 semi- Wicketz update Alex Wakely, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club Captain and ex fi nal line-up is Luton Town & Indians CC v Dunstable Town CC (Dunstable won Wicketz Hubs are now moving outside Bedfordshire Young Cricketer (pictured left back), recently visited an their quarter fi nal against Blunham CC in a very exciting, closely fought match for the summer! The Luton sessions are: Under 11s training session and presented them with baggy caps. He winning by 2 runs scoring 149 runs) and Harrold CC v the winners of Eversholt told the lads to “wear the baggy blue with pride” and wished them Mondays 4-5.30pm at Upper Wardown Park (new time from 6 June) CC v Leighton Buzzard CC. The County Finals are scheduled to take part at good luck for the 2016 season Ickwell Cricket Club on Friday 17 June at 6pm (U13) and Friday 1 Thursdays 6-7.30pm at Crawley Green Social Club July (U15). The winners of the county stages go through to the National Knock- Fridays 6.30-7.30pm at Lower Wardown Park Out Competition with the U13s having a bye in the fi rst round and play winners of e Young ir C the Northants competition away on Sunday 17 July and the U15s have a bye Bedfordshire Young h r Wicketz Summer Camps are FREE and open to boys and girls aged s i d c r k in the fi rst round and play at home to the winners of the Hunts V Northants game o e f

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Mon 25 – Fri 29 July Bedfordshire Young Cricketer Daniel B bedsyouthcomps.play-cricket.com/ Lutonian Cricket Club, Lower Wardown Park, New Bedford Road, Luton LU3 1LP Clarke (pictured) scored an outstanding Mon 15 – Fri 19 August (102 ) in his match Luton Caribbean Cricket Club, Crawley Green Sports & Social Club, 311 Crawley against London Schools Cricket Cricket league for Beds SEN Green Rd, Luton LU2 9AG Association in May. The scores were Bedfordshire 218 for 6, London Schools schools Mon 22 – Fri 26 August 216 all out, Peter Barrington 5 . Luton Town & Indians Cricket Club, Upper Wardown Park, New Bedford Road, Other recent victories include: Luton LU2 7NX Beds U12 beat Bucks U12 by 69 Ages: 8-12 Times: 9.30am-12pm runs (Nicholas Challacombe 50) Ages: 13-16 Times: 1-3.30pm Beds U13 beat Cambs U13 by 4 The Wicketz Summer Camps are funded by Crimebeat, Bedfordshire and Luton wickets (Cameron Melly 61) Community Foundation’s London Luton Airport Ltd Fund and Lord’s Taverners. Beds U14 beat Lincs U14 by 34 runs For further information about Wicketz or to register your place on a Summer Beds U15 beat by 60 Camp, please email [email protected] or call 07493 runs (Patrick Brook 80*) 867729. Keep up the hard work lads and we look forward to more excellent performances Bedfordshire Cricket has set up a cricket league for Special Educational Needs in the future! Thank your volunteers schools in Bedfordshire. Two sessions have already run with a further three to take place at Dunstable CC, Luton Town & Indians CC and Flitwick CC. The aim The NatWest OSCAs - the Outstanding Service to of these sessions is to provide these students with further opportunities to play Cricket Awards – are aimed at recognising volunteers Schools Competitions cricket which they may not otherwise have had. At the sessions, we run and who give so much of their time to supporting cricket at o ciate the Kwik Cricket games and also o er some informal coaching. recreational level. All clubs, leagues and associations are It’s an action-packed few weeks for local schools as they battle it invited to nominate anyone who they feel deserves thanks out at the county fi nals below to be Bedfordshire’s representative at in 7 award categories (Heartbeat of the Club, Get the Game On, Leagues, Lifetime regional and national competitions: Achiever, NatWest CricketForce, Offi ciating and Young Volunteer – Under 25). 14 June - Year 5 & 6 Mixed and Girls Kwik Cricket Final at Flitwick Local category winners will receive a day out at Essex CCC watching a fi rst- Cricket Club class game in early September. They will also be put forward to be selected 28 June - Under 13 Mixed Chance to Compete at Mowsbury Park to represent Bedfordshire at the ECB National OSCAs at Lord’s on Tuesday 4 October 2016. Nomination forms and full criteria can be downloaded at: http:// 29 June - Under 15 Mixed Chance to Compete at Mowsbury Park www.bedscricket.co.uk/page/volunteers/oscas/oscas-2673/. 30 June - Year 3 & 4 Mixed Continuous Cricket Final at Bedford Please send in your nominations by 26 July at the latest. Cricket Club 11 July - Year 8 County Final at Dunstable Cricket Club 12 July - Year 7 County Final at Dunstable Town Cricket Club In partnership with Waitrose, England Cricket Team Sponsor, the ECB is Good luck to all those children involved. encouraging clubs to host a Club Open Day in July or August this summer. Last year, over 1200 clubs took part by opening their doors to their local community seeing thousands of people involved and over £650,000 raised across England Bedfordshire and Wales. ECB Club Open Days are all about supporting you to welcome new families and children into your club. You may attract new players, social County Cricket Club members, volunteers or even local sponsors. It’s also a fantastic way to fundraise June Fixtures and engage with your local community! Yorkshire Tea National Cricket Why take part this year: • £100 worth of food and drink from your local Waitrose Week 20-24 June Sun 5 Jun • Access to an online toolkit to help publicise the day – including posters, Schools all over the country will enjoy a week of cricket-themed activity in 11am: Lincolnshire CCC at Sleaford CC leafl ets and social media images. All can be personalised and feature the club both the classroom and playground during Yorkshire Tea National Cricket logo Week. Over 1,600 schools take part in this Chance to Shine event every year Sun 19 Jun • An event goodie box with bunting, balloons, aprons, T-shirts, cups and plates and turn their timetable over to cricket. Sign up and be eligible to receive free 11am: Buckinghamshire CCC at Luton Town & Indians CC • Chance to host an event for new families and children Yorkshire Tea samples. For details and to sign up please go to: http://www. • Increase the club’s presence in the community and attract sponsors chancetoshine.org/schools/schools-clubs-area/national- Further details at: What are you waiting for? Sign up today! Go to: http://www.ecb.co.uk/ cricket-week http://bedfordshireccc.play-cricket.com/ development/club-cricket/club-open-days/

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