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Plush Cricket Club - End of Season Newsletter
Unfortunately. the 2010 cricket season is now over but what an incredibly
successful season it has been both on and off the field. The Final Results for
the season are better than 2009 (in brackets) and speak for themselves:
Won - 29 (21) Lost - 7 (9) Drawn - 0 (2) Cancelled - 7 (11)
We WON division 3 of the Dorchester Evening League having only lost 1 game so we
now look forward to the tougher challenge of division 2 next season. We were
unbeaten in all games until the end of May, which is the 2nd successive year we have
achieved this stat.
Well done and thank you to all the players who made themselves available week-in
week-out and played really well. In virtually all games we fielded at least 7 players
aged between 16 and 23 and these younger players did us proud - Jonny Stuart, Will
Rumsey, Rob Smith, Luke Raines, Mike Driscoll, Declan, George and Owen Chubb.
Thank you also to Vice Captain, Roger Edmonds, who assisted and captained on
many occasions. Well done Will who hit his maiden century and then top-edged the
ball into his face - he now has a permanent reminder of when he hit his first ton! !
Our Sunday cricket also went fantastically well winning most of our games. It was
our 1 st year in the 3 counties league (40 over cricket) and we finished equal 3rd in
this 10 team league. We started really well and were 2nd most of the season but we
lost our last 3 games. Well done to all the players lets win it next season. We
finished the season off in style by beating local rivals Gaggle of Geese and
Puddletown. Due to the good weather we played through until the end of
September! !
Big thanks goes to our long standing fixtures secretary, Phil Ralph.
Our annual cricket tournament held in July was again a huge success. We had a
great day with some superb cricket and a tense final won, by touring team, Phene
Philanderers. A massive thank-you to all the 'helpers' and the local pubs that supported
our day. The following day we held our annual clay pigeon shoot, ably organised
by Andy Langlands and his team of professionals from Northampton. It was a lovely
day which started with bacon butties (thanks Ralpher) and there was some good
shooting. We attracted quite a few teams and the event raised about £1,000.00.
These 2 fundraisers (along with the subs and match fees) will enable us to complete
the floor screed, disabled access ramp and full decoration within our pavilion. We
now want to raise more in order that we can construct our own practise net.
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Graeme Stephens 07899 663773