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We have organised for our sight screens metal frame work to be treated and painted week commencing 25th March, the same week our grounds man will take a week off work to spend time on the square and outfield.

We have also purchased some new plastic panels for our sight screen some of the old panels were vandalised near the end of last season.

We are looking for club members to come and work on the 6th April which is the Nat West Cricket Force Day, all those who attend will be given an Nat West Cricket Force T shirt.

Monday 25th February saw our clubs first session which was a 9 a side indoor competition with the old guard playing the young guns. Members seemed to really like it, who would have thought it Bench, Mick Watson, Dave Wanless Snr running quick singles (yes you heard it correct) and all 3 said they enjoyed the work out.

We were really pleased with the turn out hope to see more than 18 at the next session. 

The Rugby club have a Rock Band Night on Saturday 13th April the bands are "Sticky Fingers" and the "Logoz" it is only £3.00 per ticket which is very cheap. First band is on at 8:30pm.

It would be a good way to get together before the season starts and support the Rugby Club who is very supportive to our Cricket Club.

Contact your Chairman and he will get you the tickets, they are selling quick so get in early or miss out.

Culpitts have agreed to sponsor our club for another year following last year’s support, it means a great deal to our club to have local businesses support our club. We have of our 4 members who work for the company and it is a great gesture for Culpitts to support us again. We have offered our facilities to company to use as they see fit for their staff days. We are more than happy to help. 

Thank you Culpitts.

Our club has again signed up to the Nat West Cricket Force event to be held on Saturday and Sunday 6th and 7th of April with a 9am start. We need volunteers to carry out the below schedule of works which is (some of the below work will be started before this date);

Set up the cricket square using the 3, 4 5 method.

Cross over roll the square.

Fertiliser square.

Repair bottom of outfield (seed).

Set out boundary line.

Paint sight screens.

Build screens and insert panels.

Assemble cricket covers (including removing the frames from container roof)

Assemble cricket practice cage.

Fix hydraulics on roller.

Sort out machinery container.

Clean sore box and surrounding areas.

Clean kitchen and tea room (including wash all the plates, bowls, cups and utensils).

Purchase tea, coffee, washing up liquid, anti-bacterial cleaner, sugar, tea towels.

We have organised a friendly with Mitford CC at the "Rec" for either 13th or 14th April (this depends on what day Newcastle play Sunderland if they play on Saturday 13th we play on the Sunday or vice a versa) 

The arrangements are 1pm start a 35 over match, Mitford said they will bring the tea for 2 and we will provide the pitch and the umpires.

Game to be played on Sunday 14th April at 1pm

We have been given £150 of raffle tickets from the Rugby Club we keep 50% of the sale value, easy money for the Cricket Club as we have no outlay. These will be given out at our first training session on 25th February, we have a tight deadline we need them back by the next session on 4th March. Depending on the numbers attending we will give out between £5 and £10 to each person on the night, if anyone would like to take more ask your Chairman. There are some really good prizes.

1^st £10,000

2^nd Driving Experience for 2 at Bedford Autodrome from BMW UK

3^rd & 4^th £1,000

5^th A weekend break for 2 England v Wales 2014 Inc. accommodation

6^th iPad 16GB WiFi

7^th Signed RBS 6 Nations 2012/13 England shirt

Plus 31 other prizes including £250.00, 2 VIP tickets for various Premier League Football matches, various amount of champagne, fine wines, kindles, 96 cans of Guinness and many more. A total of 38 prizes.

We have booked and paid for the indoor training at Ashington High School in the barn, we are unable to start on the 18th February, as it is half term week, so we will be starting 25th February for 5 weeks ending 25th March, start time 6pm till 7pm.

We plan to use this as a type of 6 a side sessions where all members attending will bat bowl and field, it should be fast and furious, fielders will be rotated and each player will bowl 1 over and the batters will bat in pairs for 2 overs. All you need is your bat as we will be using (orange) wing balls, the club will bring the stumps and balls etc.

We need as many members to attend as possible to make it worth while, it will cost £2.50 per person, so we can cover our costs.

See you all there, try to get to the school 10 minutes early so we do not waste any time, as we need to set up as quick as we can with us only having 1 hour.!!!!!!!!