Start of Season Activity
On Saturday 10th April from 9am onwards there is a working party at the Club to do lots of tidying up and preparation for the new season. A number of hard working members have done a wonderful job on refurbishing the Club. It now needs YOU to turn up and clean, dust, scrub or whatever to finish the whole thing off.
On Thursday 22nd April from 7:30pm onwards there will be a showing of last year's 20/20 final at the Club. At the same time contact details and, very importantly, CRB check forms will be completed. Come along and enjoy Kevin biffing the Ilton bowling and also help to get a lot of the basic administration out of the way.
On Sunday 25th April at 2:00pm there is a pre-season friendly against Purnells at Stowey Road. Pop along to see the first cricket of the season and partake of some liquid refreshment; beer or tea depending on the weather!
On Saturday 1st May the first league matches take place. Let your captains know if you are available for selection.
On Sunday 2nd May there is the grand opening of the new nets and the refurbished Club linked with a match in the afternoon between the 1st XI and the Chairman's XI. Put the date in the diary and BE THERE.
Thursday evening are senior practice evenings. Make sure you get in at least a couple of nets before the start of the season. We have some splendid new facilities; let's use them.
Project 2010 - Your Help is Needed!
The Club project for 2010 is to update part of the Club House. The ladies' toilet is to be refurbished and the whole of the bar area improved with a new ceiling, new lights and a repaint. New double doors are to be installed and a large TV is to go on the wall at the changing room end in readiness for the football. New carpets and seating will round off the work.
Steve and Kevin are driving the project forward. If you have any ideas you want to have considered give the guys a call, but do it quickly because work will start any day now.
Steve and Kevin are also the guys to contact if you can offer some time and skills to the project. The more people that help the quicker the work will get completed and the cost better kept under control. So get on the phone now!
Progress report March 3rd
A big thank you to Sheps who has done all the carpentry work. To Timmy for all his efforts. Father's painting and removals(table tennis table pending). Daniel, Jason and Rob all their clearing and burning. Appy for the new patio doors. Gordon for all the cleaning up and rubbing down. Pearson and Sheba and Stowey for the new ceiling and lights. And to Captain Kevin for all the arranging and works foreman.
The place looks like a building site but we are on the homeward stretch. We will need very soon everybody to help in clearing up and washing down. Please make your self available for when this is going to be.
The efforts of everyoneinvolved has been fantastic; hopefully everybody will be happy with the results.
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
