Opening Up Warwickshire Cricket Board Newsletter January 2015 Taking Guard T20 ‘Cashback’ Welcome back from everyone here at the WCB! We know it has been a while, but we would like to introduce you to our new Following the Birmingham Bears being and improved newsletter. We aim to publish one copy at the crowned T20 champions last season, end of every month so we can keep you up-to-date with all the Warwickshire CCC is delighted to exciting cricketing activity taking place throughout the County. announce that for the entire 2015 season, Under 16’s will be entitled to FREE entry to The cricketing world in Warwickshire seems to be busier than ALL T20 matches! ever. In this edition we will talk about the great new T20 scheme ‘Cashback’, England Women’s Cricket, Half-Term To add to this, we are introducing a ‘Cash Coaching Courses, Chance to Shine Projects (schools/street), for Clubs’ scheme that means every time you purchase adult tickets for a match, Club Funding Schemes and finally, introduce you to some of the simply state the club that you are from on new faces at the Board. The DoE newsletter will remain, but the phone or website and these tickets will may sometimes be incorporated into this one too. be added to your seasonal tally. At the end We hope you enjoy reading and find all this information useful. of the season, we will then add up the total number of tickets purchased in your All feedback is welcomed! If you have any comments and/or clubs name and send you a cheque for a suggestions on how we can improve our newsletter, or if you percentage of the total ticket revenue. This have any information that you would like us to feature in will be £3 (nearly 17%) of every adult upcoming editions, please email [email protected]. ticket purchased. Feel free to visit our website for more regular updates: For more information on this scheme www.warwickshirecricketboard.co.uk or follow us on twitter please get in touch with Alex Perkins: @warks_wcb. [email protected] Building Partnerships Becoming a ‘Friend of Warwickshire’ costs just £3 a month and is a great chance to join together with other Warwickshire followers and cricket lovers to show your support for the future generation of young cricketers coming through the Warwickshire youth system. For more information on this please click here or email [email protected]. England Women’s Selections Key Dates Earlier this month the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Thursday 5th February 7:30pm announced the England Women’s touring party that will be Forum for all league officers in Warwickshire, to be held at heading out to New Zealand in February 2015. We are delighted Edgbaston. to say that two of our Warwickshire Women; Amy Jones and Monday 9th March, 6.30pm. Rebecca Grundy (pictured below) have been included in the 15- WCB AGM. All affiliated club player squad (full squad below, to the right). personnel are welcome to attend this AGM which will be held at Edgbaston Stadium. Grundy had been struggling with a groin injury but has made a great recovery and now is looking to build on the impressive Monday 16th March, 7:30pm The Youth Competitions meeting, to introduction to international cricket that she made in the 2014 be held at Edgbaston. ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh (ECB, 2014). Friday 27th - Sunday 29th March We wish them all the best for the tour and look forward to Natwest CricketForce hearing how they get on! For more news on England Women’s 2015 weekend cricket please visit the ECB website. www.ecb.co.uk/news/ Saturday 16th May womens. (please also see below for NZ playing schedule). 10:00am Warwickshire CCC community open day at Edgbaston stadium. Below: England Women’s Full Squad for NZ Name County Charlotte Edwards Kent Katherine Brunt Yorkshire Kathryn Cross Lancashire Lydia Greenway Kent Rebecca Grundy Warwickshire Warwickshire’s Amy Jones (Left) and Rebecca Grundy (Right) Jenny Gunn Nottinghamshire Date Format Venue Danielle Hazell Yorkshire st 11.2.15 1 ODI * Bay Oval, Mt Maunganui Amy Jones Warwickshire 13.2.15 2nd ODI * Bay Oval, Mt Maunganui Heather Knight Berkshire 15.2.15 3rd ODI * Bay Oval, Mt Maunganui Laura Marsh Kent 19.2.15 1st T20I Cobham Oval, Whangarei Natalie Sciver Surrey 20.2.15 2nd T20I Cobham Oval, Whangarei Anya Shrubsole Somerset 24.2.15 3rd T20I Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln Sarah Taylor Sussex 26.2.15 4th ODI Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln Lauran Winfield Yorkshire 28.2.15 5th ODI Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln Danielle Wyatt Nottinghamshire Table 1: Half-term Coaching Course information Half-Term Courses Venue Dates Time We will be holding three coaching course this half-term for children Edgbaston 16th - 20th Feb 10am - 3pm aged between 8-13 years of age (table 1). Waverley School 16th -20th Feb 10am -3pm These Programmes will be delivered by our very own team of highly skilled Bounce, Nuneaton 16th - 20th Feb 9am -2pm coaches, with the aim of providing great value for money, as well as high quality cricket coaching for all the young participants. The courses provide the perfect Chance to Shine: Schools opportunity for parents who are looking to keep their children active Chance to Shine believe that every young person in the country ‘...should have during the holidays or for children the opportunity to play and learn through cricket.’ Here at the WCB we strongly who are looking to get involved in agree with this statement and are working in partnership with Chance to Shine to try and spread the power of cricket throughout Warwickshire. cricket, develop their game or simply to have some fun! Thanks to the Chance to Shine Schools' cricket campaign, over two million children are playing cricket today. This is amazing but why stop there? Cricket The Coaches aim to cover all the brings people from all walks of life together, teaching life skills that will stay with essential elements of the modern them forever. We want to continue to see this number rise, inspiring schools and game through various skills, drills and communities and spreading a great appreciation and love for our sport. For more enjoyable games . information on Chance to Shine please visit: www.chancetoshine.org For further information please visit: During December and January the WCB have been visiting numerous schools www.warwickshirecricketboard.co.uk around the county with England Women’s cricket star Tammy Beaumont. Tammy support with coaching, training teachers and delivering assemblies has been /schools/holiday-coaching/ outstanding. Her enthusiasm and love for the game has seen her become an immensely popular figure within various schools around Warwickshire. She has or email [email protected] offered expert advice to children, signed countless autographs and answered hundreds of questions. We are very grateful for all her help and are pleased to say that she will continue to play a major role in the development of cricket NATIONAL CRICKET WEEK throughout Warwickshire. Yorkshire Tea National Cricket Week will be held from 22-26 June in 2015. Over 1,500 schools signed up last year and with your help we are hoping to beat this number in 2015. Schools and clubs can once again sign up for the week on the Chance to Shine website (http://www.chancetoshine.org/ ncw_signups) to receive their tea samples. Above: Tammy with Barford St Peter’s C.E. Primary School South Asia Community Members of the Parks league have taken up the offer to attend a first aid course Chance to Shine Street provided by Warwickshire Cricket Board in an effective effort to improve, (formerly known as develop and raise the standards of Leagues within the community with grass- StreetChance) is bringing roots cricket members. cricket to thousands of young people in inner-city This effort has also led to 16 candidates taking a Level 1 umpires course to areas. It uses the game to improve the standard of umpiring and allow the umpires to consider a potential promote social cohesion and career change alongside the lifelong qualification. create opportunities in diverse communities Youngsters have been invited to attend a ‘Coach Support Worker’ course which affected by anti-social will take place at Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form and College on Monday 16th behaviour and youth crime. and Tuesday 17th February. Currently we have the Young Members of the community, are also being offered the chance to become Adults Indoor League qualified coaches in our Level 2 coaching course which starts at Archbishop underway, which started Ilsley on Saturday 7th March. back in October and is now in its second half. Chance to Currently, we have the WCB Shine: Street have hosted 2 Indoor Cricket League which takes Casual Competitions at place every Sunday across two Edgbaston, for the first time venues; Edgbaston Indoor Cricket since it inaugurated in Centre in the evenings and Birmingham, events which Archbishop Ilsley School in the proved to be a huge success afternoons. Al Ansar : Previous WCB indoor Cricket Winners for all concerned. Street Birmingham has its Word on the Street usual half term tournament which takes place at Saltley Local cricketer Usman Khan (pictured below, right) is producing a monthly Leisure Centre. This community newsletter called; ‘Word on the Street’ with lots of exciting articles upcoming event will be on about the cricket going on in inner City areas of Birmingham and Coventry. If Tuesday 17th February you would like a copy, or if you have any questions, please contact Eaton between 12:30pm and 7pm. Gordon at [email protected].