News

Due to the number of members who said they would not attend nets starting 1st or 2nd week in January, with the time slots which were the same as last year 8pm till 9pm and 9pm till 10pm alternative weeks, for approximately 13 weeks.

We are looking for a venue to have around 6 to 8 nets starting around the last week in February, let your chairman know if have an idea of a facility.

We could use Ashington Sports Centre on a Sunday afternoon around 3pm till 5pm is an option as long as we have enough members willing to attend and the slots are still avaiable.

If any member would like to purchase club clothing as a present for Christmas you will need to do so by placing an order before the 30th November, to guarantee that the items will be ready for 25th December.

See down the right hand side of the screen the contact details of our supplier "Kits for All"

Any questions give your chairman a call.

We held our annual presentation awards race night at Ashington Rugby Club in the new function room on Saturday 12^th November 2016. Our chairman would like to give a big thank you to two members of the rugby club management committee, who supported our cricket with the race night they were Pete (the Voice) O'Brien our compare and Stu Wood for running the dvd's.  

The awards

1^st Team

1^st Team finished 2^nd in the Northumberland Premier Division our highest ever finish missing out by only 1 point the smallest possible margin. We had 14 wins, we drew 3 games all effected by the rain, we were one of only 4 teams in the league who did not start and have a game abandoned (thus missing out on additional bonus points). We took 68 batting bonus points 2^nd highest in the league and 74 bowling points 4^th highest. We finished on 437 points 24 more than 2015 season.

1^st Team 2016 - Players Player Award - Adam Peacock.

1^st Team 2016 Bowler Award – Cory Milburn 36 Wkts @ 15.78 average. Best figures was 5 for 39 against Warkworth CC, 2 – 5 wicket hauls.

1^st Team 2016 Batsman Award- Adam Peacock 634 Runs @ 48.77 average. Highest Score 124 against Kirkley CC, with 5 - 50s and 1 - 100 in 17 innings.

2^nd Team

2^nd Team finished 3^rd out of 12 teams in the 2 Division amassing 388 points winning 12 games, 5 drawn. We took 55 batting points and 54 bowling bonus points. This being the 7^th successive season in the top division for 2^nd teams.

2^nd Team 2016 - Players Player Award – Ant Elliott.

2nd Team 2016 Bowler Award - David Wanless Snr 25 Wkts @ 10.96, best figures was 5 for 30 versus Embelton CC.

Special mention goes to Ryan Pringle he also took 25 wickets but with a higher average of 13.84.

2nd Team 2016 Batsman Award – Kevin Hetherington 212 Runs @ 30.29 Highest Score of 43 not out against Tillside CC, with 5 not outs in 11 innings.

Special Points of Note

We had 5 players represent the Northumberland Cricket League at full senior level, Cory Milburn, Adam Peacock, James Richards, Scott Maddison and Dean Greaves. Breaking records again last year when we had 2 in the league team this year 5, great achievement by our club, well done the players.

A special award was given out by the Northumberland Cricket League to Dean Greaves  player who made his debut for the full league team at the ripe old age of 50 you will know him as the oldest swinger in town. He did not just make his debut he destroyed the West Tyne League team top order when he opended the bowling taking 7 for 31 which help the side win the match.

100’s during the season

1^st Team Adam Peacock 124 v Kirkley CC

1^st Team David Dent hit 126 v Warkworth CC in his very first home innings as a Ashington Rugby CC player.

2^nd Team Johnny Richards 105 v Corbridge CC

All 100’s were scored on our wicket at the Rec.

Remember Saturday 12^th November our annual presentation event, please make an effort to attend and bring along family and friends we would like to try to fill the new room as much as we can.

Members are asked to bring along prizes for the raffle and the winning race owners; bring either a bottle of spirts, wine, chocolates etc.

Our cricket club invests in our facilities and the evidence is here to be seen, on 27^th October our Groundsman gave our square its first cut since the end of season renovations and then followed this up with an aeration .

We have used our germinations sheets on the square and moved them around three times to cover all of out 15 strips, we find that the germination sheets allows for the grass to come through quicker which is what we wanted before the first frost hits us.

Our groundsman is very pleased with the results and how the square looks, he said it is the best grass coverage we had ever had.

Sad news Bomarsund Cricket Clubs Chairman Bill Ogilvie sadly passed away last night, often referred to as Mr. Bomar.

Ashington Rugby Cricket Club members would like to pass on our condolences to Bill’s family and Bomarsund CC.

Northumberland League Awards Dinner at Newcastle Falcons on Saturday 22^nd October saw Dean Greaves get a special award for his fantastic effort bowling for the league team against the West Tyne League at Backworkth CC. He opened the bowling and took 7 for 31 off 9 overs at one stage he was 7 for 18. It was also his debut for the league team not bad for a 50 year old.  

First team Captain Chris Harwood collect the Premier League runners up trophy and Cory Milburn the same for the R.E. Wood Shield Midweek team.

We had 19 members of our club at the event the most from any club, well done lads, what would it be like if we actually won something, there is always next year.

Saturday 17^th September saw our first team sitting one point behind leaders Tillside CC in the Northumberland Premier League, we entertained Ulgham CC at the REC, they elected to bat and we wanted early wickets and that is what happened our bowlers bowled very well indeed.

Cory Milburn bowled quick and took 1 wicket for 11 runs in 8 overs, Dean Greaves did his normal swing causing all sorts of problems he took 1 wickets for 6 runs from 6 overs, David Dent was moving the ball with his swing and Ulgham could not come to terms with this he took 4 wickets for 21 runs from his 7.3 overs, James Richards bowled tight and his 6 overs went for 13 runs, he took 5 wickets in 6 overs. Ulgham’s innings was all over in 27.3 overs ending up all out for 61. Fantastic effort.

Our run chase started badly losing captain Harwood early for 0 runs with our total sitting at 4 runs, this brought together Paul Milburn in at 3 with opener David Dent who both played just what we needed hitting the bad ball and playing the good balls back. D. Dent hit 31 not out including 5 fours, P. Milburn hit 25 not out he hit 3 fours and 1 six, we ended up hitting 65 in 16.4 overs picking up the maximum 30 points.

We could do no more, however we went from being pleased with our efforts to find out that Kirkley CC only took 8 men to their match with Tillside CC, who made short work of the Kirkley 8 men. Tillside also picking up 30 maximum points which meant they won the league in the last game by 1 point, we ended up runners up for the first time in our clubs history however we felt we missed out on the big prize.