Captains Incapacitated!
2012 has started with both 1st XI and 2nd XI captains in the hands of the medical profession. In mid-January Bear is having surgery on his dodgy back. The predicted recovery time should have Bear fit(?) and well for the first game of the season. RTP is recovering from major abdominal surgery and is on a course of chemotherapy. Its early days with the chemotherapy at the moment but the side effects have so far been minimal. Best wishes to both for a speedy recovery.
AGM
The AGM at the very end of November was a low key affair. All the Club officers were reelected en-bloc.
Presentation Dinner
The annual presentation evening and awards were hosted as usual by The Courts Hotel. Numbers were a little down on the usual total but nevertheless a good time was had by all.
Dan Raisbeck reported on the Sunday XI's season of mixed fortunes with some wins and losses but with sufficient of the former to achieve promotion. Rob Head produced the performance of the season when he hit a century and was named the player of the year.
Rob Newmarch was able to report on the 2nd XI's successful season. Good all round performances with bat and ball meant the team topped the division by some distance. Richard Appleyard was the most successful batsman aly supported by Alex Comer and Howie Wilton. Dan Raisbeck came closest to the magic three figures but got himself out in the nineties. Jason Head was the outstanding bowler leading the attack all season and ending up the leading wicket taker in the division. With a '7-for' and a '5-for' Jason was the 2nd XI player of the year.
Kevin Curtis summed up the 1st XI season as one of 'might have beens'. There was almost another trip to Taunton for the 20/20 finals but nobody was able to support Sheps in his effort to overhaul the Timsbury total in the semi-final. The team might also have challenged for the league title but for a few games that were lost by very tinght margins indeed. However overall the season had been a positive one with a place in division 1 being easily retained. Mo was the 1st XI player of the year and Simon Curtis the 1st XI players' player.
Chairman Andy Hayne reflected on yet another good season for Temple and noted the success of the U15 XI alongside the good performances of the senior elevens. Andy dwelt on the strength of the Club, both on the field and expecially off the field, and praised the hard working and, most importantly, stable team that makes the Club what it is. Howie Wilton was named the Club member of the Year.
Somerset 20/20, 29th June 2011 - Temple v Bear Flat
Temple batted first on a wicket that was always going to give the bowlers something. Sheps played on early doors. Bear, still struggling with a bad back, hit one straight up. Temple's innings was limping along at around four an over. At the other end Avinash was beginning to come to terms with the wicket and hit some mighty blows over long off and mid-wicket. With support from Bellie and Lumbo, also not 100% having damaged his calf, the final few overs saw something of a sprint and the Temple innings closed on 120.
Between innings the substantial group of Temple supporters were joined by our own Officer Dibble and another member of the Bath Community Support Team who appeared to be less than impressed at being dragged out to the top of Combe Down.
Simon and Mo kept the lid on the Bear Flat reply with Mo picking up a couple of wickets. The introduction of Perky and Avinash resulted in a number of loose balls (and some entertaining keeping from Tom) and Bear Flat started to haul themselves back into the contest. The Bear misfielded one at cover and Bellie sweeping up on the boundary picked up, threw and ripped his achilles! Razor (young rather than old) came on as 12th man. The turning point was the introduction of Podgy Bob to the attack. Bowling straight and full Podge picked up a couple of wickets in his first over and more later on to win the game for Temple.
Just one more win and its off to Taunton again.
23rd July - MEXICAN NIGHT
Temple Cloud CC are celebrating Mexican style with Chili - Tequila - Corona
- and much more. Ponchos and sombreros will be the essential fashion accessories
for the evening! Everyone is welcome, seniors, youth, friends, family and
general handers-on. Howie will do the draw for the bat signed by Alfonso
Thomas, probably around 8:30pm. For those of you who have not yet bought
a ticket there are plenty available and can be had from Howie or Spike at
£2 each.
12th August (revised date) GOLF DAY at Farrington. Golf will start at 1.00 and evening meal will be at 7.30 the cost for playing and eating will be £27.50. Book with Steve as soon as you can as numbers are limited.
Georgie Whittock Selected for Somerset
Georgie Whittock has been selected to play for the Somerset U15 Girls reserve team. This follows successful games with the Somerset U15 Girls North District team where she claimed a couple of wickets and a run out. Congratulations to Georgie and let's hope her example will encourage more girls to join the Club.
The 2010 Presentation Evening
The annual presentation evening took place on Saturday 6th November at the Court House Hotel. A record number of people (60) sat down to dinner which was, as ever, up to the Court's high standards.
After the meal Mr Martin Veater was the Master of Ceremonies introducing the various speakers and adding a few comments in his own inimitable style.
Rob Newmarch was first up and delivering his speach in the style of a school master's report to a gathering of parents reflected on a year of inconsistency. The better performances had tended to come against the better sides. This season's position of 7th meant that the 2nd XI would be in division 8 of the restructured Somerset League where it was hoped it would return to more regular winning ways. The 2nd XI player of the year was Richard Appleyard.
Kevin Curtis then reported on very successful season for the 1st XI. Everyone who played for the XI was mentioned and thanked for their efforts. Winning every match played to a conclusion and being in a winning position in the other two, and amassing more points than any other team in the Somerset League is going to be a hard act to follow in Division 1 on 2011.
Tom Iles was the Players' Player of the year and was presented with his trophy by Gordon Jackson.
1st XI Player of the Year was Alex Comer for sterling work at the top of the innings with over 600 runs for the season.
After Kevin had finished speaking Martin Veater made a presentation to Gordon Jackson to commemorate Gordon's 70th birthday and to recognise all the tremendous work that Gordon had done for the Club over many years. Martin, on behalf of all Club members, presented Gordon with a specially commissioned painting of the Pavilion.
The Club chairman, Andrew Hayne, then spoke about what an exceptional season the Club had enjoyed. During the winter the Pavilion had been given a makeover with new lighting, new doors, new lighting and new decoration. At the start of the season the new practise net facility and the refurbished pavilion were officially opened in a ceremony well attended by players, friends, family and supporters. On the field the 1st XI had carried all before them with a level of success that anyone will find hard to match. Andy went on to thank all who had contributed to such a successful season. The achievements of what is after all a small village cricket club would not be possible without the dedication of the youth team managers and coaches, the dedicated groundstaff and the membership in general. Long may it continue.
The final award, the Clubman of the Year, was awarded jointly to Kevin Curtis and Matt Shepherd for their efforts in refurbishing the Clubhouse.
Somerset 20/20 Final v Ilton, 30th August 2009
On a dull morning at the County Ground Bear called correctly and Temple opted to bat first. Lumbo (P) got things off to a cracking start with 4.4 off the first three balls. Sheps then played out a maiden from the Ilton spinner and in the third over Lumbo holed out to an up and under to mid-off. This brought The Bear to the wicket; after playing himself in the second ball disappeared over square leg for a six. A number of quiet overs followed so that at the end of the eighth over the Temple score was 46 for 1.
Over number nine was something of a watershed as Bear hit 6 6 6 4 . 1 to boost the scoring rate. Sheps was out in the eleventh over in very similar fashion to Lumbo. Bear, now joined by Lumbo (M), kept the scoreboard ticking and brought up his 50 and Temple’s 100 with a six into the back row of the Marcus Trescothick stand. Lumbo joined in the six hitting and at the end of the seventeenth over at 130 for 2 Temple looked well placed.
Over eighteen saw Bear out LBW for a very fine 78 but helped by four wides the score rose to 140 for 3. Temple will want to forget over nineteen with three wickets going down for the addition of just two runs. Bellie and Tom had the job of making the most of the final over. Bellie hit 4 2 4 1 and Tom 2 1 to leave Temple with 156 for 6 at the end of the twenty overs. Father and Steve were muttering “twenty short” but given the inaccurate nature of the pair’s predictions at previous matches the Temple crowd were quietly (well not so quietly) confident.
The Ilton innings started slowly with 3 off Milky’s first over followed by a maiden from Rob Hayne. Then fourteen came from Milky’s second over in spite of some fine fielding from Pinky. Rob bowled another tight over and picked up a wicket but over five added ten to the Ilton total. Lumbo (P) replaced Milky and Pinky replace Rob but Ilton continued to progress so that at the end of the eleventh over the score was 91 for 1.
The next five overs swung the game back Temple’s way. Lumbo (M), replacing his brother, and Pinky conceded just 23 runs with no boundaries and Pinky picked up a wicket with a low full toss. Now it was game on with the Ilton score at 114 for 2 and 43 needed off 24 balls.
Mark bowled over seventeen and picked up two wickets at the cost of seven runs. One wicket initially had the Ilton crowd cheering for a six only to be out-roared by the Temple crowd as the ball fell into the safe hands of Milky at long-off. Over eighteen was Pinky’s last over which went for two, an outside edge for four (the only boundary hit off Pinky’s bowling) and then four leg-byes. The final three balls were W W . to round off an exceptionally fine spell by Pinky. The Ilton score stood at 132 for 6; twenty-four needed off twelve balls.
Mark conceded ten off the penultimate over to bring the asking rate up to fourteen off six balls. Rob Hayne returned for his fifth and final over to restrict Ilton to just ten and so the trophy was on its way to Temple for the second time in three seasons.
Bear with the bat and Pinky, Rob and Mark with the ball had the most eye-catching stats but the whole team and the sizable Temple crowd all played their part. Ilton too deserve credit for providing what was an excellent morning’s entertainment.
The Temple team and the supporters repaired to Stowey Road
for a barbeque and a glass or two of liquid refreshment. A team representing
the 1st XI just beat a team representing the 2nd XI in a game of stumps
but there might have to be a steward’s enquiry into premature drinking
during the handovers. Your correspondent left early in the evening with
every expectation that the celebrations would go on long into the night.
Somerset 20/20 v Wrington, 26th July 2009
With a damp wicket and outfield Temple invited Wrington to take first knock. After a couple of quiet overs Milky removed numbers 2, 3 and 4 and finished his five over spell with figures of 3 for 15. At the other end Mo bowled straight but without reward. LumboP and Perky were the change bowlers and Perky had almost instant success just trimming the bail off the wicket. The weather, which had never been very good, now took a turn for the worst and the players left the field for about 30 minutes.
When play restarted the Wrington opener Clements pick up where he had left off accumulating singles and with support from the number 7 started to up the run rate. Some scrambling in the last few overs, plus some fortuitous inside edges off Perky saw the innings close on 95 for 6, a very reasonable score given the conditions. Clements batted through the innings for 40*.
Sheps comfortably pushed the first ball of the Temple reply for two and some contented murmurs of “we’re away” were heard. But it was not to be; Sheps was out a couple of balls later. Bear and LumboM moved the score along for a while. Bear in typical fashion hitting some superb shots but not before being granted a life when dropped in the deep. The full toss came to Wrington’s rescue when Bear hit one straight to mid-wicket; out for 22. The Temple innings then stagnated as LumboM, Bellie (to a great catch) and Milky all got out. Jaymer and LumboP restored a semblance of order and with, at times, adventurous running started to chase down the 96 needed to win. The run rate had climbed towards six an over and tension was beginning to creep into the game. The Temple supporters were a little happier after LumboP hit a massive six over long-off but it was very much still ‘game on’.
Jaymer succumbed to one piece of adventurous running too many to bring Tom to the wicket. A couple of singles and twos a piece and then another massive six from LumboP pushed the game towards Temple. Then, off what was probably the worst ball of the over, LumboP was caught at backward point for a crucial 28. The equation was now down to 10 off 2 and Wrington had to decide whether to defend the boundaries or try to cut off the singles. Tom made this academic by smashing the second and fourth balls of the 19th over for 4 to take Temple to Taunton for the second time in three years. Tom finished on 16*.
Both teams and the umpires deserve great credit for producing
such an exciting and keenly contested match in conditions hardly conducive
to playing cricket.
Somerset 20/20 v Evercreech, 2nd July 2009
Evercreech won the toss and elected to bat on a very green wicket, so green it was difficult to see where it was from the boundary edge. Milky and Mo bowled a couple of tight overs and then the Evercreech batsmen started to find the boundary. Perky replaced Simon and ended up being the pick of the bowlers with 4 for 20 off his five. Lumbo (P) was the other bowler. Temple gave away nothing in the field and the innings closed with a run out off the last ball - who could foresee how critical that would be - on a total of 133 for 8. Father confidently declared this as "20 short".
Bear and Sheps got the Temple innings underway in contrasting styles, Sheps pushing singles to give Kevin the strike and Kevin playing the big shots, especially the outside edge through a non-existant slip, to keep the scoreboard ticking along. Sheps was the first to go deflecting the ball onto the wicket while trying to hit to leg. Kevin followed not long after for 38. At this point the innings started to stagnate as the Evercreech bowlers targeted leg stump and offered very little to hit. A number of people perished caught in the deep as they tried to up the run rate. The second half of the innings was held together by Lumbo (P) with 32 but in spite of this Temple needed 14 of the last over to win.
Three singles and a wicket brought the equation down to 11 off the last two balls. This was a huge ask as boundaries had been in short supply for some time and every fielder was on the line. Jamer managed to get the fifth ball all along the ground to the boundary at backward square leg, perfectly placed between the two fielders in that area. Last ball, six to tie the scores. Jamer, who had been getting stick earlier in the evening for never hitting sixes, facing. The bowler dropped it fractionally short and Jamer in a fair imitation of Kevin Pietersen, was outside the line of off-stump and clattered it over square leg to tie the scores on 133 each.
And this is where the run out on the last ball of the Evercreech innings proved so critical. Temple, with 133 for 7, won the tie by virtue of losing fewer wickets. As Father said, "we've seen some wonderful games of cricket this year". This was certainly one of them.
Outdoor Nets
The new outdoor nets are up and running and the newly seeded areas are beinging to grow. Congratulations to everyone involved.
Groundwork
The 'corner' is slowly being brought into play. The breezeblock wall has been partially removed and a new wall built to deliniate the new boundary of the ground. The trees, hedge and brambles have been cleared. A number of very large chunks of concrete have been unearthed and these will have to be removed when the ground is firmer. The new nets are scheduled to be laid in early April.
Funding for all this development work has been obtained from various quarters including Biffaward.
CLUBMARK
Temple Cloud Cricket Club has been awarded the ECB CLUBMARK to recognise the contribution the Club makes to local cricket and youth cricket in particular.
From the ECB Web site:
The ECB continues to work with Sport England on the pioneering club accreditation scheme ‘Clubmark’ to develop a vibrant and healthy club cricket infrastructure.
Cricket clubs can play a key role in the successful delivery of Building Partnerships – cricket’s strategic plan for 2006-2009 - by supporting the delivery and implementation of the following programmes:
o Focus Club Community Cluster Programme
o Affiliated Club and League services
o Workforce development
o Player development
o Facility development
o Competitions development
o AChance to shine programme
The ECB Clubmark and community cricket clubs play a central role in all of these programmes and Clubmark will provide the standards that clubs involved in these programmes will aspire to.
In addition, it is expected that clubs who achieve the ECB Clubmark will be recognised and rewarded for their hard work and commitment to club cricket in England and Wales.
By registering to work towards ECB Clubmark, clubs join a growing number of cricket clubs across England and Wales that are prioritising junior development, creating a benchmark for high quality community club cricket.
There are a number of people and organisations who support clubs through
the ECB Clubmark process, including the County Cricket Boards, County Sports
Partnerships and local Sports Development Units among others.
County Cricket Development Managers can help clubs through the process of achieving ECB Clubmark Accreditation.
ECB Clubmark gives clubs an opportunity to write and implement new procedures as well as acknowledge existing practices. Cricket clubs are required to present evidence and demonstrate implementation across four different themes, culminating in the production of a Club Development Plan.
The four themes are:
o Duty of Care and Safeguarding
Children
o The Cricket Programme
o Sports Equity and Ethics
o Club Management
