Lavant Club 2016

Lavant Cricket Club, LCC, had another enjoyable and successful cricket season in 2016 with 17 weekend matches played, 7 wins, 4 drawn games and only 4 matches lost along with 2 games abandoned due to the weather. LCC travelled from East Meon in the west to Arundel in the east for their away games. For the first time in several seasons LCC won a Twenty20 game, winning 4 of their 6 games, all of which were played at Pook Lane. A total of 30 players took part this year. Several younger players contributed this year, particularly Alex Burford, Hugh Hudson, Danny and Peter Berkley, Mark Stevens, Kieran Nash, Viral Parikh and Harris Ali before he moved up to the Midlands. Steve Brooker continued his fine performance with the bat scoring nearly 500 runs, however Danny Berkley is chasing him hard for the top spot with the highest score of 105 runs. Dave Banks continued this year with another tremendous bowling performance taking 21 at 7.9 runs each, taking a on average every 22 balls. The cricket square was maintained in perfect condition by our three groundsmen, Peter and Robin Burford and Derek Portsmouth. As always, the immaculate score book was kept by Sheila Portsmouth. Robin Burford, the club skipper, presented the annual awards at the club dinner held at the end of November at the Fox and Hounds pub in Funtington. LCC 2016 Awards 1. Best bowling figures, Dave Banks 2. Best , Dave Banks 3. Best average, Steve Brooker 4. Highest batting score, Danny Berkley 5. Catching award, Danny Berkley 6. All rounder award, Ian Rawnsley 7. Chairman's award, Alex Burford 8. Duck Award, Steve Sands 9. Best scorer, Sheila Portsmouth 10. Clubman award, Graham Dale 11. Doubles snooker award, Dave Burford and Kieran Nash LCC play friendly but competitive cricket matches on summer weekends and occasional T20 matches during the weekday evenings. The club is always on the lookout for new players, aged 16+, so please get in contact if you'd like to play cricket either from the Contact Us page on our website www.lavantcricketclub.org.uk or follow us on Facebook, www.facebook.com\lavantcricketclub.

Issue 1 Lavant Cricket Club End of Year for Lavant News.docx Page 1 of 3 Figure 2 Skipper Robin Burford presenting the All Rounder Figure 1 Skipper Robin Burford presenting the awards award to Ian Rawnsley

Figure 4 Skipper Robin Burford presenting the Best Figure 3 Skipper Robin Burford presenting the Duck Award Battering Average award to Steve Brooker

Issue 1 Lavant Cricket Club End of Year for Lavant News.docx Page 2 of 3 Figure 5 Skipper Robin Burford presenting the Chairman’s Figure 6 Skipper Robin Burford thanking our scorer Sheila Award to Alex Burford Portsmouth with a Bouquet of Flowers

Figure 7 Skipper Robin Burford presenting the Snooker Doubles Award to Kieran Nash

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