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1st X1 v Stobswood

We won the toss and elected to bat at home on what looked like a road.

Colin Thornton and Matty Tanney both opened the batting and scored 60 odd each.

Adam Peacock smashed a 63 ball 100 the quickest century in our clubs history as Ashington racked up 272/2 off 45 overs, Stobswood finished 89/8 in reply.

Ashington Rugby CC 29 Points

Stobswood 1 Point

Match Ball Sponsor David Dent

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2^nd XI v Rock Away

Skipper Stu Rosser won the toss and elected to bowl on a greenish but decent looking deck not hesitating to invite Rock to bat 1^st

Craig Jobson and Owen Mason took the new ball and it was 15 year old Mason who removed both openers inside the 1^st 10 overs with the pitch showing signs of uneven bounce.

Whilst Jobson bowled without luck and a couple of catches went down the Ruggers were on top and Mason was replaced by the legendary Gary Mordey after finishing with 2 for 15 from his 5 over spell.

Bottomley batting at 3 top scored for Rock with 39 but with Jobson picking up 2 wickets later in his spell to finish with 2 for 23 off 9 and Mordey finding the groove after an indifferent start wickets began to fall regularly.

Spinner Jonny Acaster picked up where Jobson had left off not giving much away finishing with 2 for 11 off 5 and Mordey cleaned up the tail finishing with 4 for 26 to leave Rock 79 all out off exactly 28 overs.

A good performance with the ball with wickets shared around and in the field despite the early dropped catches - notable contributions in the field by Tom More, Owen Jarvis & Chris Harwood.

Harwood & Rosser opened for the ruggaz and both found scoring difficult early on particularly Harwood against an accurate leg side line.

However they were able to successfully negotiate the new ball and avoid an early collapse (a fate that had befallen us on our last visit) and as the change bowlers came on, despite both being given lives off no balls, started to get on top.

Rosser was 1^st to break the shackles with a couple of nice drives through mid on & midwicket adding a six that sailed onto the road to his account and eventually Harwood followed suite with several boundaries through square leg.    

Harwood hit the winning runs in the 21^st over finishing 32 not out with his late acceleration probably costing Rosser (40 not out) a half century.

Overall however a 10 wicket win a very satisfying outcome for the 1^st competitive game since promotion with sterner challenges surely to come starting with Monkseaton 1^st XI on Saturday.

Rock 79 All Out = 0 points

Ashington Rugby 2s 83 for 0 = 30 points

Match Ball Sponsor Paul Milburn

This week's bulletin contains guidance from the ECB, a National Programmes Update and information about NatWest CricketForce.

We have been working closely with both the UK Government and the Welsh Government to provide clarity in what the easing of lockdown restrictions mean for recreational cricket across England and Wales.  We know that our communities, players and volunteers will have missed the social, physical and health benefits of participating in our great game and we believe we have an important role to play in supporting the nations recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.  Importantly, we also know that we have a collective responsibility to ensure the safety of our communities by ensuring compliance with both the latest Government guidance.  The aim of the accompanying documents is to share with you the information we currently know about what the return to cricket at the end of March will look like, in order to help your planning. This is based on our ongoing conversations with the Government and key partners to date and information published on Gov.uk.   For England, we have produced a Roadmap and accompanying documents in order to provide you with the headline information on what activities are permissible during each step of the Roadmap.  We will continue to update this document and will share those updates with you over the course of the season.   For Wales, we have worked closely with Sport Wales and Cricket Wales to provide the accompanying guidance.   We will continue to update the relevant information as and when we receive more information on the latest position across both England and Wales. Guidance National Programmes With the launch of the priority window for previous parents of All Stars and Dynamos Cricket on Tuesday we have seen an amazing response, with 13,000 sign-ups so far, which is an amazing response before we've even launched publicly. If you are yet to upload your courses to ClubSpark, then we'd encourage you to do this over the weekend to benefit from the surge of interest.   From Monday at 2pm we will be officially launching both National Programmes, with the start of our central paid media campaign and activity across both Communications and Digital, and we'd encourage you all to start your local promotion from Monday afternoon. Do visit the resource hub for lots of imagery and assets to help with your advertising.   We acknowledge that there are still some ongoing issues for certain clubs working through their Stripe verification, and we know that this is a difficult process. There are now over 1,500 clubs that are verified, and we'd encourage you to continue working through the step by step guide if you're having any issues. NatWest CricketForce Get Set Weekend For many years, NatWest CricketForce has been a focal point for clubs as you prepare your grounds and reconnect with your players and volunteers to get set for the season ahead.     Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 restrictions, this year we will not be able to run NatWest CricketForce as a physical event. However, NatWest is running a new look virtual CricketForce with their Get Set Weekend.   We’d like to use this opportunity to invite everyone to join in and get involved on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th April. We’re asking you to gather together, reconnect and sign-up to the Get Set Weekend online; where you can register for the Big Quiz featuring legends and England stars, and a special Get Set Panel event, hosted by Michael Vaughan, to help prepare for the new season. There will also be Back Garden Training features for teams posted throughout the weekend.   For more information or to register click here.

Our club is looking to have a inter club game on Sunday 11th April starting at approx 1pm playing around 30 overs.

We would have had it on the Saturday however the Rugby Club has a golf day booked and quite a few of our members are attending that day.

We are also looking at booking a personal trainer to limber us up ready for the season starting blowing away the cobwebs as they say.

We will be also looking at a number of outdoor nets before the season starts on 17th April. That is all depending on the COVID-19 position.

Friday 26th February saw our groundsman give our cricket square its first cut of 2021 with a rotary mower.

Friday and Saturday both lovely sunny warm days we give our square a total of 8 cross over passes with our roller.

It is 7 weeks till the season starts. (fingers crossed)

In the 2021 season we are looking for match ball sponsors, it will cost £25 to sponsor a match ball. We are hoping to be able to get a sponsor for all 1st and 2nd team games. We have a total 44 league games. 

We already have two members who have made a £25 donation to sponsor a ball.

Come on members sponsor a ball and support your club, you can choose which match you want to sponsor.

All of the income will benefit our club financially and go towards the costs of the cricket balls.

If you want to support our club please do not hesitate to contact your Chairman.

After only 3 weeks Dan Hartshorn scooped the prize pot of £360.

There was only two left in Ricky Gibson selected Man Utd who drew at West Brom and Dan slected Chelsea who beat Newcastle in the midweek games.

Not bad for Dan he just joined 3 weeks ago.

We have a new round starting on the weekend if you want to join give Chris Harwood a ring.