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Net practice planned for Thursday 17th April 6pm start hope the weather is good.

Both 1st and 2nd team friendlies planned for Saturday 12/4/2014 have had to be cancelled due to the ground conditions (wickets not suitable too damp) not worth damaging the wickets before the season starts.

1st were due to play Morpeth at Longhirst and the 2nd team were due to play Cramlington at our ground (Rec).

Midweek practice to be arranged for next week and for the rest of the season, practice days to be decided by captains and groundsman.

A big thank you to 13 of our members attended our event on Saturday 5.4.2014.

All the jobs we had planned to carry out were completed, they were;

Concrete a new training practice pad and a ramp into our machinery container, assemble the mobile covers, sight screens, wash all of our cups, plates, cutlery, work surfaces and tables etc., hoover tea room and score box dust throughout.

A special thank you to Michael Adamson (Midge) who laid and polished the concrete.

Our club is again taking part in the Nat West Cricket Force Event on Saturday 5th April, starting at 8.30am till approx. 11.30am.

Club members are asked to come along and support your club.

Works to be undertaken are as follows;

• Lay new concrete practice base.

• Assemble cricket covers.

• Assemble cricket net.

• Assemble sight screens and put out onto field. 

• Clean tea room.

• Clean kitchen including washing all plates, cups, cutlery etc.

• Clean score box.

• Remove chicken mesh from around cricket square.

  Cricket Force Tea Shirts for all those who attend.

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On Tuesday 18th March our changing rooms major improvements started and should be ready for the season starting.

A quick list of some of the works.

• All new seating in all rooms which is boxed in with back rest on the walls, with heat vents.
• New locks, handles, door kick plates and numbering.
• All rooms to have none slip flooring (including umpires & first aid rooms).
• All room to have 3 coats of spray treated washable paint to all walls.
• All other wood work to be glossed.
• All new sockets and switches.
• New showers in the umpires room and room 7. 

Just to show the work which is going on in the background of our club, it has been none stop improvements for the last 3 to 4 years and this will give us a facility to be very proud off.

We have had a new sign made to go on the outside of our score box showing our club crest and name.

It looks really good and eye catching, see photo

Our grounds man was on our square on Tuesday 4th March, spiking and seeding a few small areas which needed attention, fertilising and the first session of cross over rolling.

We then had TSL over spraying our square for fusarium which we had on a few strips.

Saturday 8th March saw our square have its second rolling session and the outfield had its first rough cut with the large rotary, what a difference it makes. We intend to have our outfield cutter reassembled this week and get on cutting with this after it has had a good service and all the 5 gangs sharpened.