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for 300 in 40
overs away at
Hurley wasn’t so
much fun but it
was soon
forgotten.
By contrast,
the 1st XI
enjoyed a far more successful season. Our 2020
side has been an incredibly young team, packed
with teenagers who have come up through our
successful Colts section. The season started
with a very narrow loss to the ultimate league
winners Knotty Green but wins over Pinkneys
Green, Hurley and Bourne End followed before
a spectacular tied match was salvaged against
Denham. A couple of defeats to Coleshill and
Monks Risborough at end the season did not
dampen the enthusiasm and encouragement that
has greeted the progression of our young
players who will be even better in 2021.
Player availability was notably up in 2020,
perhaps driven by lack of family holidays.
Whatever the reason, we were able to add
several evening T20 matches against local rivals
and also fielded a Sunday side for the first time
in a number of years.
Highlights of the season included spin-king
Mark Woolley’s incredible 6-for-35 bowling
spell in a losing cause against Holyport and the
return of the annual 6-a-side Tournament on the
Bank Holiday weekend in August which was
planned and organized by two of our teenagers:
Henry Barber and Kenzie Christopherson.
Victors on the day were Team Super-Heroes but
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also the MIND charity that benefited from the
fundraising activities that took place on the day.
None of this would have been possible
without the tireless work put in on the Ground
by Chris Judge and his band of willing
volunteers who have performed miracles to get
the place ready for cricket this year, in the
absence of our regular groundsman.
Finally, we held an end-of-season awards
ceremony after the final League matches with
the winners listed below:
1st XI Player of the Season: Chris Mason,
2nd XI Player of the Season: Mark Woolley,
Chairman’s award: Henry Barber and Kenzie
Christopherson, Young Player: Lochie
Christopherson.
If you are interested in playing cricket
yourself next season or on behalf of your sons
or daughters, you can get in touch with either
Nick Barber at nick.barber@sjpp.co.uk (adults)
or ptgcccolts@gmail.com (juniors). Jon Wilson,
jon2wilson@gmail.com
P&TG Football Club
It has been an eventful few months for the club,
and we are incredibly excited that not only
could we return to competitive football, but
following small scale test events we could also
welcome back a limited number of supporters!
The club have extensive Covid-19 risk
assessments in place, which are in agreement
with FA and government guidelines. In fact our
hygiene and set up goes beyond government
guidelines and are already considered to be
doing far more than most facilities in the area,
with a fully functioning cleaning and track and
trace system in place, which allows us to have
up to 300 paying supporters in the ground on
first team match days. We welcome our
neighbours to read FA & government guidelines
so they don't continue to use police and
taxpayers resources going forward.
We had a historic start to the season at the
club. On Tuesday 15th September we hosted
our first league game of the season under
floodlights vs Abingdon Town. Its been a long
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