Oxfordshire Cricket Handbook 2018
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Oxfordshire Cricket Handbook 2018 1 Handbook 2018 (Original).indd 1 08/03/2018 08:22:57 Handbook 2018 (Original).indd 2 08/03/2018 08:22:58 Contents Chairman’s Notes .................................................................................... Business Manager’s Notes ...................................................................... Core Staff ............................................................................................... Sponsorship Opportunities ...................................................................... Youth Player Pathway .............................................................................. Senior Cricket ......................................................................................... Veteran’s Cricket ..................................................................................... Club Cricket ............................................................................................ Women & Girls ........................................................................................ School & Street Cricket ........................................................................... Disability Cricket ...................................................................................... Oxfordshire Events .................................................................................. All Stars Cricket ....................................................................................... Awards Evenings ..................................................................................... ACO & CA .............................................................................................. Obituaries ............................................................................................... How To Join Oxfordshire Cricket .............................................................. Key Dates ............................................................................................... Key Fixtures ............................................................................................ 3 Handbook 2018 (Original).indd 3 08/03/2018 08:22:58 Chris Clements Chairman During the year we experienced a large personal agenda, both are equally as number of staff changes whilst at the same important and the Board of Directors time our work programme has expanded, need to ensure that both have appropriate mainly due to national priorities. Given investment. Without participation and those two factors I believe the outcomes growth the game doesn’t have a future, from 2016/7 were very commendable conversely pathway cricket meets the both on and off the field. needs of the current audience and that must not be forgotten. Owen Lewis joined us in November as our Business Manager but unfortunately we The ECB continue to go through a period lost our Performance Manager in January of change. They are clearly placing their and one of our Cricket Development bets on participation and growth as the Officers in May. This placed a heavy major vehicle to protect the future of burden on the organisation who had to the game and I would urge all of you accommodate the additional loading of to acquaint yourself with the Cricket All Stars Cricket and Women’s Softball. At Unleashed initiative. Other changes the end of the year we lost the services include a new governance structure. The of our long serving administrator Lesley old MoU arrangement is being replaced Pykett. Carla Wood worked for us for 5 by a County Partnership Agreement months on Women’s softball during the which is currently being worked on. summer months. The good news is that due to the October also marked the end of Lewis generosity of our parents and the good Anson’s work experience year. We work going on in attracting sponsoring enter 2017/8 with a new Performance and funding, the ECB are no longer our Manager, Matt Barnes, who joins us from biggest stakeholder. Our ECB funding will Northants cricket and a new All Stars co- largely remain flat during the period until ordinator, Zoe Pugh. During this year of 2020. We will continue to assess the heavy churn, our workforce did a great pros and cons of regionalisation. Disability job in keeping the ship on course whilst and Coach Education are obvious delivering the programme. We enter the candidates and we are pushing on with new year with a leaner and affordable these. We are very fortunate to have workforce. One of our winter tasks is to Dick Giles as our man on the ground for check that everything we are doing is the Disability programme. The Board will valued, where it is not, we need to stop continue to keep a watching brief of on it. Keeping the balance between Pathway the development of the leagues in which (representative) cricket and generating Oxfordshire Clubs play. There is plenty of participation has always been high on my scope for leagues to retain their identity. 4 Handbook 2018 (Original).indd 4 08/03/2018 08:22:58 What is most important is the product will try to increase that investment in the they offer and the number of teams and years ahead. We continue to provide players playing the game at all ages, sex support to youth players through our and abilities. hardship fund and will be setting up an MCC foundation programme, based at On the field our players and coaches MCS, to support the development of should be proud of what has been state school players. achieved. Congratulations to our +50B team for winning the national competition With regards to Welfare no significant for the second year running. A very young issues required Board intervention. After Minor Counties team equipped itself well several years in post Michael Geeson- in the 3 day game, our Women are now Brown has retired from post as the extremely competitive and we need to County Welfare Officer. Lesley has kindly support them in their desire to have a agreed to carry on in her deputy welfare stronger fixture list. role. All of our youth age groups competed well A special mention to the workforce, in a and represented their County with pride. year where we didn’t have a Performance However, we are a little concerned with Manager for 9 months and a CDO for 5 a growing number of code of conduct months they responded by demonstrating issues that needed to be dealt with and real flexibility and commitment. we will be taking a firmer stance on this matter going forward. Where possible we 5 Handbook 2018 (Original).indd 5 08/03/2018 08:23:01 Chris Clements Chairman We entered the year looking at a plan We congratulate Berkshire Cricket on which suggested we would make a achieving the Minor Counties double in £20k loss and we exited the year with 2017. A remarkable achievement and a surplus. Half of this benefit came from one that Oxfordshire Cricket need to the core staff’s ability to displace external aspire to. costs. We cannot continue to expect this level of commitment and should take a In the year we lost three very valued 2 year view of our finances at the end of members of the Oxfordshire Cricket FY18. community: Simon Porter, Chris Bishop and Steve Wheeler. I think we all share Thanks to the Board for their their ongoing fond memories of all of them. Hopefully support, in particular a huge thank you to their hard work will live on for many years Peter O’Neill who retires after 21 years of to come. We are in possession of the service to Oxfordshire Cricket in various Simon Porter fund (thanks to Rosalyn, roles. Peter has supported me personally Genevieve and Eloise) and that will be throughout my 12 years as Chairman used jointly to support our hard working and I cannot thank him enough. I am very groundsmen, and the youth hardship proud of the calibre of the Oxfordshire fund. Board and it compares very favourably Best wishes for 2018 with others throughout the country. Chris 6 Handbook 2018 (Original).indd 6 08/03/2018 08:23:01 An Oxfordshire Collection 7 Handbook 2018 (Original).indd 7 08/03/2018 08:23:04 Owen Lewis Business Manager cricket. At an average of 33.3 kids per centre, this put Oxfordshire at the very top of the national table. In 2018, we aspire to recruit 100,000 kids into the programme nationally. This won’t be possible without having brilliant people supporting clubs and new centres and we are delighted to welcome Zoe Pugh to the team as our All Stars Cricket Champion. There has never been a better time for Oxfordshire clubs to start, reinvigorate or expand their junior section. The second ECB priority was Women’s 2017 was a great year for Oxfordshire Soft Ball Cricket Festivals. We held 5 in Cricket. Not only the 230th Anniversary Oxfordshire with the help of Carla Wood of our first county game, a milestone which were great fun and provided commemorated with the specially brewed an exciting introduction to new female 1787 ale by our new Senior sponsor players of all ages. This resulted in two Chadlington Brewery, but it also saw new women’s teams forming at clubs two new ECB priorities as part of Cricket where there had been nothing previously. Unleashed, cricket’s game-wide strategy. In 2018 the programme will expand, offering more festivals and taster sessions The ECB launched All Stars Cricket, to both Women and Girls. Neither of providing 5-8 years with a great first these initiatives would have had this experience of the game. The benefits to impact without the support of Oxfordshire clubs stretch much further than just new clubs and volunteers who dedicate so junior members, it is a great development much time to developing cricket. tool