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[15.04.2008] From the Chairman: BSCC Season 2008
Brent Arnel returns for 2008
Alex Blake called into England U19s
[27.03.2008] Natwest Cricket Force 2008: Contribute to your Club
The link below shows some of the great success that other clubs have had in previous years and we are very keen to run similar events on an annual basis. www.ecb.co.uk/ecb/cricketforce The cricket force projects have great scope in the future and this year represents a great opportunity for us to get involved so any and all offers of help would be greatly appreciated, some refreshments will be provided as well. Best regards,
Billy ps: if you know any Natwest employees we can get an extra £200 in materials for each day they turn up. [09.01.2008] BSCC
AGM: Just a reminder to you all that the BSCC AGM will be held next Monday 14th January 2007 at 19.30 in the long room at Foxgrove Road. The last few years have seen some wonderful progress for our cricket club and much planning has already gone into implementing a structure that will continue to improve our offering, so I hope many of you will be at the AGM on Monday to offer your input to help to continue driving us forward in what promises to be a very exciting time for the club on and off the pitch. [09.07.2007] Cricket Week This years CRICKET FESTIVAL is rapidly approaching, so it time to start booking those days off and getting the dates in your diary. Listed below are the fixtures for the week so please let the days captain know your availability. Aside from the cricket thanks to the hard work of Jeff Pitcher we will also be running a 'Quiz night' on Thursday, hosting an acoustic performance on Friday night and lastly but certainly not least celebrating the week with a Beach party/BBQ/Disco on the Saturday evening. The support of the section is what makes the cricket festival so please do make every effort to play a game and get to the club during the week and in particular on Thursday and Friday evening. The Saturday do is always a great night as well and I hope that everybody will support the club and attend, your team captains will have tickets as of this weekend so get those tickets ASAP, friends and family are all welcome, the more the merrier. Monday July 30th Tuesday July 31st Wednesday August 1st Thursday August 2nd Friday August 3rd Saturday 4th August [28.03.2007] Pre-season Cricket Supper I
am delighted to say that thanks to the hard work of Jeff Pitcher
& Peter Wiseman we are having a Pre-Season Cricket Supper
on Friday 27th April at Sydenham Sports Club. It is our intention
to get the new season off to a cracking start with this social
event allowing us to welcome new members to the fold, including
our new Overseas Player(s)/ Coach. It also provides a chance to
celebrate last years achievements (and allow me the chance to
regale all with tales of last years success) before our first
pre-season games and the England Cricket World Cup final victory
the following day. [14.03.2007] BSCC Cricket 2007 Season: 'About the club' Update, Open jobs As you know the season is fast approaching and I am happy to say we are looking in good shape for the upcoming season. With the ashes and World cup generating interest Winter nets have been well attended and I am particularly encouraged by the number of new players who have been there regularly. There are still 4 weeks left at Dulwich before we head outside so I hope that even more of you will dust of the kit and join us before we commence our outdoor programme towards the middle/end of April, I will confirm pre-season details later. The committee have been hard at work over the off season and I am delighted to say we have appointed new Sponsorship and Membership co-ordinators in Adrian Thomas and Jeff Pitcher, so if you have any ideas on this front please get in touch with those guys ASAP. I can announce that we have signed a deal with Green King IPA to sponsor the senior playing sides. Whilst Sharp Focus are onboard to sponsor the Junior Section. In addition the committee welcomes Chris Whitaker who will be the Junior Committee Representative acting as liaison with the newly formed Junior committee (chaired by Mark Edwards). It has taken a whole committee to replace Dennis Grice who I am sure you will all join me in thanking for his sterling work with the junior section over the years. Chris has also been working hard to gain our CLUB MARK accreditation and we are hopeful that we will have that signed off shortly, highlighting our commitment to welfare, safety and our junior section in general. There remains however some open positions on the committee which I am looking for volunteers to fill Junior Co-Coordinator; A Senior cricket club member to help out with Junior section Committee in particular to offer that extra cricket knowledge amongst a committee of parent volunteers who have already taken on responsibility for all the admin in terms of match managing, fixtures, social, publicity, league reps, play cricket reps 3rd Team Captain: It is essential that we have someone in place before the seasons starts, with new members and returning players from last years 3rd & 4th team squads I envisage a very positive campaign of the 3rd team. If you would be interested again please let me know Hopefully you will all have seen details from James Evans regarding the new kit for the season so we will look the part as well, if you havent ordered yet get your orders in now, my thanks to James for all his hard work. If you have any questions about the upcoming season or feel you can help in any way please contact me. I will be in touch again before the outdoor season starts! Cheers, [29.01.2007] Winter Nets Just
a brief reminder that Senior Winter Indoor Cricket Nets start
this Wednesday 31st January at Duwlich College, running between
19.30-21.00, immediately following Junior nets. [23.11.2006] Cricket Coaching Courses run by BDCC December
holiday courses and spring 2007 coaching courses have recently
been announced. [17.07.2006] Cricket Week A
quick reminder that this years cricket festival is rapidly approaching,
so if you haven't booked those holidays from work to play a mid
week game for your team, start thinking about doing so now. A
list of all the weeks games and the relevant contacts is shown
below, players are welcome to play in multiple games and outside
their usual teams. [26.05.2006] Errrr, hello again!!! :o)
Regular visitors to these fine pages may have noticed a brief interruption to the service. Totally and utterly my fault I’m afraid (although our wonderful ISP haven’t exactly helped). Didn’t pay the bill simple as that!
So what’s been going on so far this season? Chuffing rain - that’s what’s been going on.
The first XI have had a steady start, an “incomplete” against newly promoted Tunbridge Wells after making 275-4, a winning draw at Folkestone and a wash out against Bexley. They’ve also started well in the Evening Standard comfortably beating Weybridge from the Surrey Premier League, the game was notable for the fact it lashed down all day giving us 2 hopes of playing any cricket, “Bob” and “No”. Still Islesy, standing in magnificently for Bedders, called perfectly as the coin spiralled up into the murk at the the newly created Weybridge CC boating lake.
It’s been a tough start for the twos but a magnificent 159no from the Matthew “Smirnoff” Grice has to be a highlight. There has also been good runs from El Tel “who’s a daddy” McDowell and Ian Jordan’s Landscapes. Early season wickets from Adam Row-land (it’s a Grange Hill thing) have also shown the kind of form that will need to be continued.
Other notable performance have come from Richie Edwards in the 4s with 101* v the outrageously named - Blackheath City of London Wanderers 2nd XI. Dom Murtagh (as always) has had the runs for the Merlins, but he’s OK now. Darth has also been using the force for the Wizards and “light-sabered” his way to 60 against Addiscombe.
So keep an eye out for further updates! If you have anything that you think should or shouldn’t be here let us know at webmaster@beckenham-sydenhamcc.co.uk
Cheers [05.04.2006] Junior section announcements JUNIOR
SECTION COORDINATOR URGENTLY WANTED! Due to work commitments
and other activities, Dennis Grice will soon be unable to take
charge of the junior section and we need to find a new Junior
Section Coordinator. Contact details: Please can all current colts/parents provide Dennis Grice (dennis.grice@halliburton.com) with their e-mail addresses so that they can be informed of upcoming events. Play
cricket membership: Can all colts who are not yet registered on
the clubs Play Cricket site please become members. Make sure all
your personnel details are contained therein, including e-mail
addresses. You can register by following this link - http://beckenham.play-cricket.com/login/register.asp Helpers needed urgently: To help manage and organise the U13's. We have a large number eligible (U12/13) and without additional help only a few will be able to play matches! Helpers and managers: Introduction to scoring course tonight 5th April and 12th April at Cricket Lane. 19:30 start. Club
shirts for colts: Price to be advised depending on
numbers. If you are interested in getting a club shirt please
contact Jason
Bilimoria or Dennis
Grice with you order and sizes.
[13.01.2006] Happy new year Its that time of year again, Winter nets will commence on Wednesday 1st Feb at Dulwich college between 19.30-21.00, immediately following Junior nets. As usual a small fee will be charged and as usual all are welcome. In fact the new committee and the new skippers in particular are extremely keen that as many as possible do attend. Additionally if you have any friends keen to get involved please invite them along. We are keen to recruit as many new players as possible this season and will also be co-ordaining a programme to do such, hence new members are very welcome. Two more points of admin. Firstly overseas players. Garry Sheen will not be our overseas player for the 2006 season due to injury and your committee has been working to secure a replacement. If anybody would be able to accommodate an overseas player please let me know as this will alter our scope. If I do not get a swift affirmative response to this email I will assume that nobody can help. Finally we are looking for somebody to join the committee to co-ordinate application for Kent Foucs qualification. Nationwide there is £50million availble for youth cricket development but that is only availble for Focus clubs, if the club is to move forward we must get this accrediatation, which amongst other things, requires a 10 year development blueprint, and a senior and junior coaching set up. Please volunteer to help if this is an area you feel you can help with. See
you at Dulwich in a few weeks time, [25.10.2005] BSCC AGM: Tuesday 29th November 2005 The BSCC AGM will be held in the Long Room at Foxgrove Road on Tuesday 29th November, starting at 19.30 promptly. Click here to download the agenda. I must stress how important it is that turnout is good. Considering the difficulties we had running sides in the final few weeks of last season it is essential that we as a club all come together to discuss the situation and solutions and put into place officers who will implement such. I can assure you that the merged club has every intention on continiung to operate the two grounds and in a similar league set up, thus support from all members at all levels, regardless of which ground you play your cricket is vital. I will send a further reminder the week before the meeting but please put this date in your diary and make every effort to attend. BSCC Club Dinner: Friday 25th November 2005 As usual we are proposing an end of season cricket dinner, unfortunately the Cricket Lane venue is booked up for all the Fridays which were considered viable. As such we have provisionally booked the long room at Foxgrove road on Friday 25th November. I need your feedback as to whether we should proceed with this, so please email ASAP with you availability/likelihood of attendance. It is possible we may also look into a pre-season dinner at Sydenham before the commencement of next season as well. Cheers,
Billy [11.08.2005] No prize on offer - other than tragic geek of the week, - but spot the deliberate mistake below.... [09.08.2005] Wow. Don't know about you but I'm still recovering from Sunday morning. The sunday morning at the end of cricket week is painful at the best of times. This year however, the fog filled head, the mouth like Ghandi's flip-flop, and the wallet suffering the ravages of a mauling from the beer monkey, also had to put up with Englands nerve wracking win over the Aussies at Edgbaston. Certainly the best test match I can remember, (being only 6 years old and living in Delaware, Pennsylvania at the time, 1981 and all that gubbins kind of passed me by). Anyway, well done England and fingers crossed for the rest of the series, but back to matters closer to home. An excellent win for the 1s this weekend away at Folkestone, including fine 1 not out from Nevil Wharton. A winning draw for the 2s against Lordswood including a welcome return to form from James Evans with 110 and 60 from brother David, (he's not actually a monk, oh you know what I mean - its something in the genes anyway!). The 3s had a losing draw against Bromley Town which included a debut senior half century (I think) from William McVicar, no doubt the first of many. The 4s had a tight, low scoring win over Wilmington with captain fantastic Mike Konold leading the way with 33. As for cricket week... Monday v the Stoics. A poor start to the cricket week festivities for the club being bowled out for 139 (Jerry "the pitbull" Pitblado 23, O Hameed 21) in reply to the Stoics 188-7 dec. The Stoics innings included figures of 3-1 for W McVicar the "3" being a hat-trick. Tuesday v Barbados Overseas. B&SCC batting first made 135ao including 47no from Mark Dawson, which BOCA chased easily losing 6 wickets in the process. Wednesday v Addiscombe. Addiscombe fielded a pretty tidy side here, and after inflicting a fair old drubbing on B&SCC in the main fixture - going past BSCCs 123 for just the loss of 2 wickets, a beer match twenty20 was hastily organised. Certainly the smallest and probably the youngest player I have seen at Foxgrove bowled very tidily indeed and was desperately unlucky not to pick up the walking wicket Webster first ball. Thursday v The Woodcutters. The Woodcutters posted a respectable 212-9 (which did however include 3 run-outs). B&SCC rompted to victory with 74 from Dom Murtagh, 50 from Dawson (I am unreliably informed the last 4 took 1 hour) and 46no from Darcy including a 6 on Foxgrove Road to win the match. Friday v MCC. B&SCC bat first and make a mamoth 293-4 in 45 overs with a ton from A Ellis, C Anderson 79* and 62 from the Sheenbar. The boys from headquarters did not fair too well chasing being dismissed for 126 with "lil" Lewie taking 3 for 20. Several people have asked me for more player profiles. I agree. Send me the photos and your lookalike ideas and I'll sort it. ttfn [18.07.2005] - sorry it's been a while since my last update! Primary
Club of England Vs Primary Club of Australia You may be interested in a game of cricket this Wednesday, to be played at Beckenham Cricket Club, Foxgrove Road between the Primary Club of England (captained by Derek Underwood) and the Primary Club of Australia. This is the first meeting of the two clubs since 1982, and marks the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Primary Club (a charity benefitting the blind), formed at the club on the event of four members getting out first ball during a game. Entry is a £10 donation, there will also be a BBQ and some fairly decent cricketers on show Rodney Hogg, Ross Edwards for a start and we're hoping for some serious moustaches too. All proceeds will go to the Primary Club - see below for details. Play starts at 11.30am, and should continue until around 7.30pm. All are welcome, and it should be a fantastic day out. The Juniors are on fire! Not
literally, obviously (I hope). The U11s have won the North Kent
Junior League U11B Division. Great work fellas. There will be
more info on this shortly hopefully with some words of wisdom
from the "Jose Mourinho" of Beckenham & Sydenham
- Chris Whitaker, the other junior sides are also more than holding
their own and again further reports are to follow. But as for
the U11s, congratulations to all the players on securing the league
title last friday night! They took on a big challenge of playing
their last two league games on the same evening but with a good
squad and a lot of help from Paul Martin, managed to pull off
a win at Chislehurst and a narrow defeat against Old Wilsonians.
Without wanting to sound like a Gywneth Paltrow acceptance speech...Chris
would like to thank all the coaching staff of Garry Sheen, Matt
Grice and Jeremy Pitblado at B&SCC and the Chairman of the
Colts Section Dennis Grice for all the effort they put into running
a terrific colts section. Plus of course all the parents who help
out each week with scoring, transport and organisation...... [03.06.2005] Primary Club A quick note from Andrew Dixon - Primary Club Trustee. May I just remind you all about the Primary Club. The Primary Club is a Cricketers Charity that started at Beckenham 50 years ago. You can see information about the Club on the board in the lobby. It distributes approximately £150,000 each year to organisations around the country which are involved in providing sporting opportunities to the blind and visually impaired.
There
are application forms behind the bar and the HonSec/First Xl Scorer
will be happy to provide more information! I do hope many of you
will consider that this is a good time to join. NB You can also visit the primary club online here or click the logo above and read more about the fantastic work they do. [25.05.2005] Play-cricket site updated Our play-cricket website has been updated to include new logos, a link to this site, some photo's and most importantly the new(ish) name! You can access the site here. Play-cricket provides us with our results, fixtures, league tables and general info on our club but it also has the facility for you to post your comments on existing topics dear to your heart or start new threads on the forum page. You can also upload any photos you may wish to share. Chris W has already put some good ones of the 4s up there (thanks). [19.05.2005] Have you paid your subs? It's that time of year again. You should buy now have paid your subs if not please do so as soon as possible. There are now several ways to do this, cheque, direct debit or simply use your card when you're next at the club. If you want to set up a direct debit you can download the mandate form here, or go to the membership section to view the options and prices. Being a bit slow I found it all quite confusing (I'm sure I won't be alone) so to explain.....As a full adult playing member I pay £188. This breaks down as £50 basic membership, £130 adult playing supplement and £8 cricket affliation fees. If cricket is not your "first" sport at the club (ie your're a squash or hockey member too) you may not need to pay the basic membership. Any questions, please contact Graham Watts in the General Office (020 8650 0266). If you are still confused, go have a small lie down. [12.05.2005] Player Profiles You may or may not have noticed that Isley has been busy on the Player Profile section which is now up and running! Have a look and think about your team mates. Send any photos of players and potential lookalikes to Duncs or Isley. Any complaints about lookalikes will be considered and more than likely ignored! ;o) [04.05.2005] Beckenham & Sydenham Players taking on the pros For those that didn't spot it yesterday Richard Bedbrook and Johan Malcolm from the 1st XI were in action yesterday for Wiltshire and Denmark respectively. Bedders even managed to get Keysey out for a duck! See how they got on here. [26.04.2005] Lancashire
Cricket Tour Cancelled The Lancashire Tour has been cancelled. For info regarding payments already made contact contact Fordy at the club. [19.04.2005] The new season is here!
Training commences this Thursday at Foxgrove road as soon after 6pm as you can get there and come rain or shine we will be meeting up for practice of one kind or another. An interest in extra fixtures for the third and fourth team has been expressed and if enough of you are keen we will see what we can do but first and foremost we must fulfil the three fixtures we already have arranged. Finally let me take this opportunity to wish you all a very successful season at BSCC and I look forward to seeing many of you at the club on Thursday evening. Jason
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