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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.!!!!!!!!

We are planning to book Ashington High School for a 6 week period from 18th February starting at 6pm for 1 hour. We intend doing quick cricket / 6 a side to get everyone moving around and involved.

Then in early April if the weather permits we are looking for outdoor nets twice a week until the season starts.

Members are looking forward to getting together and loosening up (well we will see after the first session how stiff they get afterwards) Instead of just bowling in the nets.

We held our AGM on Tuesday 22nd January which was very well attended see below the election of our club officials for the 2013 season. Meeting started at 7pm and finished at 9.25pm.

1^st Team

Captain – Dean Greaves

Vice Captain - Michael Adamson 

2^nd Team

Captain - Trevor Elliott

Vice Captain – David Wanless Jnr

Midweek Team

Captain – Scott Maddison

Vice Captain – Cory Milburn

Chairman

Paul Milburn

Secretary

Steven Henderson

Treasurer

Paul Milburn

Club Welfare Officer

Trevor Elliott

Meeting cancelled due to the bad weather (snow), the league committee carried out the cup draws and they have been added to our fixture sheet, you will need to come to the AGM to find out who we have in the league and the cups.

6 Days and counting for our AGM." See you there"

At the last minute we have been asked by Bob Simpson the senior umpires trainer to host the next 6 week course at our club, they were meant to be at Ashington CC but they have Zumba on instead.

This course starts on Monday 21st January running up to and including the 4th March in the Rugby Club from 7 till 9pm. Our Chairman will open up and support the umpires as without them we do not have a game we have.