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We have organised a 1st Team friendly for the 14th April 2012 with Cramlington CC, following on from our friendly game with them last year, the match is the week before the season starts on 21st April when we are away to Berwick CC who finished 4th in the Premier league last season.

Saturday 10th March saw our square get its first cut.

Thursday 14th March saw the outfield get its first cut and the square get its first session of cross over rolling.

Friday 15th March saw the square fertilised as we are expecting rain on Saturday and a new scorers workshelf installed in the score box.

Saturday 16th March saw the outfield get another cut (looking good) 

Saturday 3rd March saw our groundsman on the square setting it off, using the 3, 4, 5 method, this year we had some square metal plates made with holes in the centre for our string line pegs to sit in. They will save us time in years to come setting off our cricket square.

Big thank you to one of our members Mick Watson who owns M.I.W Fabrication for making the pegs with the plates on top. Top quality job.

Not be long before we fertilise and then the cross over rolling starts.    

The rugby club has the Newcastle v Sunderland match on TV on this Sunday.

There is also a Poker Night on March 10th at 7pm £10 buy in lets see if we can get a number of our members to attend. 

Hirst High School have exams in the sports hall all next week so they have cancelled our cricket nets, please pass this onto the players who were not at the last net.

We have completed the improvements to our scorebox with a larger viewing area extended by 3ft, 1st Inns area moved to accommodate viewing area and we have purchased new numbers to match in with our numbered boxes and we have installed improved internal lighting. Just shows that we as a club are allways looking to improve our facilities.

All works was carried out by skilled members of our club.

Following a survey on our website and in partnership with Ashington Rugby Club, there is a joint Poker Night planned for Saturday 10th March with a 7pm start. Ashington Rugby Club has recently purchased 4 new Poker tables, which will accomodate 10 people per table.

The set up is there is no in game betting the buy in is £10 and everyone gets the same set amount of chips, there will be a prize fund for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th places, the prize fund amounts will depending on the number who attend the event.  

The Cricket Club would like a number of our members to attend this event, it's a great night drinks brought to the table by the bar staff so you do not have to leave the your seat. Please pass this onto your friends the more the merrier come along have a drink, game of poker and a laugh and at the same time support the club's. If you are planning to attend please inform your Chairman.

We have started working on our score box by extending the viewing area for the scorers, the window viewing area frame with sliding glass track has been installed and the glass is on order.

We have ordered some new numbers for the First Innings area to match in with the size of our mechanical numbers.

We are also installing a new 5ft Florescent light to brighten up the scorebox area.