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For more information contact Pure Telecom on 01743 244 933 or [email protected] www.pure-telecom.co.uk @puretelecom /puretelecom Contents of the Pure County Cricket Challenge Cover Feature (Ross Aucott in action) ...... Front Cover Officers 2018 ...... 5 Sub Committees & Capped Players ...... 6 SCCC List of Members ...... 7 SCCC Fixtures 2018 ...... 8 President’s Report ...... 9 Chairman’s Review 2017 ...... 10 Making The Secretary’s Report ...... 12 Captain’s Report 2017 ...... 14 Chairman of selectors Bryan Jones looks ahead ...... 16 Right Connection Ian Roe, Shropshire’s Development XI coach, looks forward ...... 17 Shropshire v Worcestershire – Friendly ...... 18 Shropshire v Staffordshire – Unicorns Trophy ...... 20 With Shropshire’s leading Cheshire v Shropshire – Unicorns Trophy ...... 22 Shropshire v Wales – Unicorns Trophy ...... 24 business communications provider. Herefordshire v Shropshire Unicorns Trophy ...... 26 Wales v Shropshire – Unicorns Championship ...... 28 Shropshire v Herefordshire – Unicorns Championship ...... 30 Shropshire v Oxfordshire – Unicorns Championship ...... 34 Cornwall v Shropshire – Unicorns Championship ...... 38 Devon v Shropshire – Unicorns Championship ...... 42 Shropshire County Cricket Club v An Invitation XI ...... 45 Shropshire v Wiltshire – Unicorns Championship ...... 46 ResourceBank Challenge Event ...... 47 Shropshire v Birmingham Bears – T20 Challenge Match ...... 49 Pure Telecom Hospitality Day ...... 52 Shropshire CCC Pure Telecom XI v Invitational XI Pure Telecom XI ...... 53 Spotlight on last year’s Pure Telecom Hospitality Day...... 56 However large or small your business is, Pure Telecom provides End of an era – Colin Barthorpe ...... 58 a total comms solution, specialising in business mobiles, SCCC Championship Career Averages ...... 60 SCCC Championship Batting Averages 2017 ...... 61 hosted phone systems, broadband and new for April 2018... SCCC Career Averages ...... 62 SCCC One Day Batting and Bowling Averages 2017 ...... 63 A range of Cloud services, Data Security & Colocation services SCCC Income and Expenditure ...... 64 SCCC Balance Sheet ...... 65 For more information contact Pure Telecom SCCC Rules ...... 66 on 01743 244 933 or [email protected] Produced by Creative Digital Printing Solutions | Shrewsbury | 01743 263 030 www.pure-telecom.co.uk @puretelecom /puretelecom 3 President’s Report

Unbeaten, but a little fortunate! That probably sums up the Championship challenge in 2017, but our convincing win against Wiltshire in the final match will have given Steve Leach tremendous satisfaction. Proof, if he needed it, that we do have the wherewithal to top the Championship very soon. Availability was once again a problem - and many thanks to all the players who made themselves available. I sincerely wish more of the county’s top performers would do likewise. Our away fixtures looked very exciting on paper - Wales, Devon and Cornwall - but we had rain on all of these trips - which had a disastrous effect on my retirement fund! Nevertheless, our hardcore supporters had a lot of fun and I thank them for their continued support. In November, we lost two players from our Championship team of 1973, Brian Perry and Eric Marsh, both of whom were personal friends who gave 120 per cent effort for their county. My condolences to their respective families and friends. Meanwhile, your committee continue to plan for next season. I understand that the cricket committee have had one or two ‘professionals’ offering their services to play for us. Rest assured, your committee will select with due care and attention to what we require. Bill Bromley, President

FRONT COVER The front cover picture of this year’s handbook is Ross Aucott in action for Shropshire against Birmingham Bears at Bridgnorth last June Photo: Tony Marsh/CricPix

9 Shropshire CCC v Worcestershire CCC 2nd XI FRIENDLY Sunday, April 2nd 2017 at Wrekin College

Worcestershire CCC 2nd XI won by 104 runs Worcestershire Shropshire G. Rhodes c and b Pennington 22 C. Home b Brown 14 O. Westbury c Mackleworth b Griffiths 5 S. Leach* b Rhodes 18 A. Kervezee c Mackleworth b Aucott 96 R. Clarke b Brown 0 A. Hepburn b Whitney 33 W. Parton lbw b Malik 22 J. Dell c Edwards b Morris 14 R. Aucott c Milton b Hepburn 12 A. Milton+ lbw b Morris 11 D. Pennington c Rhodes b Malik 6 Z. Malik lbw b Griffiths 11 J. Edwards lbw b Malik 6 B. Twohig 30 C. Mackleworth+ c Dell b Twohig 5 P. Brown b Home 0 S. Whitney not out 10 M. Davis c Leach b Griffiths 5 C. Morris c and b Malik 22 J. Hammond not out 0 L. Evans Extras 2b 1lb 9w 0nb 0pen 12 Extras 0b 1lb 11w 8nb 0pen 20 Total (9 , 50.0 overs) 239 Total (10 wickets, 38.2 overs) Fall of the Wickets Fall of the Wickets 33 33 140 168 185 191 227 230 239 30 30 51 74 82 94 95 101 131 135 Bowling S. Griffiths 10.0 2 37 3 P. Brown 8.0 1 37 2 J. Edwards 4.0 1 16 0 M. Davis 5.0 0 17 0 D. Pennington 4.0 1 13 1 G. Rhodes 4.0 1 16 1 C. Home 10.0 0 37 1 A. Hepburn 5.0 0 18 1 R. Aucott 8.0 0 46 1 B. Twohig 10.0 0 36 1 S. Whitney 6.0 0 50 1 Z. Malik 6.2 1 10 5 C. Morris 8.0 0 37 2

Karl Krikken, Shropshire’s director of cricket, insisted it had proved to be a good exercise after the county’s pre-season friendly with a talented Worcestershire second team ended with the visitors running out 104 run winners in glorious weather at Wrekin College. A Worcestershire side, captained by by George Rhodes, batted first and accumulated 239 from their 50 overs. The experienced Alexei Kervezee led the way with 96, from 94 balls, hitting a dozen fours in the process, while there were also contributions from Alex Hepburn (33) and Ben Twohig (30no). Shrewsbury’s Sam Griffiths claimed 3-37 while Charlie Morris also enjoyed some success with the ball, taking 2-37. England under-19 international Zen Malik then inflicted much of the damage, taking 5-10, and claimed 2-37 as Shropshire were dismissed for 135 inside 39 overs. Will Parton and Morris top scored with 22 apiece and skipper Steve Leach made 18.

18 “It’s been a good exercise,” said Krikken, whose side were without unavailable professionals David Wainwright and Alex Wyatt. “I thought we bowled quite nicely. “Worcestershire probably got about 30 too many, but ultimately for some of the guys it’s their first outing this year having been indoors while some of the Worcester lads have obviously been away and played. “It’s been a good experience for our lads because it’s something to learn from.” Shropshire included in the side for the first time Wellington wicketkeeper Charlie Mackelworth and Shrewsbury all-rounder . Krikken said: “I thought Charlie kept magnificently and I thought Dillon, coming back from injury, the four overs he bowled were superb. Griff bowled nicely and got three wickets and I thought our fielding was outstanding. The batting, we just basically needed a bit more patience.” Krikken extended his thanks to Worcestershire’s Kevin Sharp, the former Shropshire coach, for bringing his team to Wrekin College. Umpires: A. Harris & M. Moreton Scorers: S. Mears & P. Mellish

The scene at Wrekin College as Shropshire faced Worcestershire’s second team in a pre-season friendly.

19 Jack Edwards, above, keeps the scoreboard ticking over against Birmingham Bears at Bridgnorth and, below, Omar Ali in the field. Pictures: Tony Marsh CricPix.

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