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Big thank you to the small number of members who supported their club;

Dean Hardy, Dean Greaves, Michael Adamson, Craig Jobson, Michael Hudson, Ryan Pringle, Cory and Paul Milburn.

Covers assembled, sight screens built and out on the field and some ground work undertaken. Practice cage built the following week.

Due to the poor weather conditions we have booked South North Cricket nets for Wednesday 3th April starts at 7 till 8:30 members are urged to attend to make use of a good facilities.

Sunday 31st March our cricket square was fertilised and the outfield areas which we did work on at the end of last season but due to the bad wet weather the grass has not taken, we scarified, seeded, fertilised, top dressed, brushed in and the covered with germination sheets.

Monday 1^st April our cricket square was watered to help the fertiliser take quicker and then rolled. That makes it 5 periods of cross over rolling since we have been able to get on the square.

Monday 25th March saw two hardy soles decide to start work on our ground, last year we had it looking great at this time, however with the weather this year it has knocked everything back at least two weeks.

We gave the square its first role the ground was just right and we cut our outfield in two directions. We then set out sqaure out using the 3, 4, 5 method normally we would have our corner pegs in however these we removed to allow for our square to have the top 1” removed at the end of last season. After we got underway about 3 hours in it started to snow and blow a gale however our guys kept at it until these jobs were done altoghter it took 6 hours.

Our grounds man said it was a first doing this work with the snow bleaching across the field.

We have placed our order and require members who still owe money to put their hands into their pockets and pay up. Bring the money to our training session on Monday night to Ashington High School.

Umpires sorted for our friendly, thanks to quailfied club members Jim Peacock and Ken Ward who will don their whites for the game. If the weather ever relents so the groundsman can even get on the field to get a game on.

Due to the Newcastle v Sunderland match being moved to the Sunday 14th April we will now play our friendly on Saturday 13th April. Still a 1pm start and a 35 over match. 

We are looking to purchase some additional club clothing for those members who are new to the club, or have grown out of their old clothing. We have a list for the majority of our members however we still need a few to come forward with their items so we can continue with the order.

We do not have much time and we need the outstanding items ASAP please forward your list to the Chairman, along with your payment.