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Our clubs first five 2021 games are as follows;                            

                     1st Team  Division 3                2nd Team  Division 5 North

17th April        Stobswood (H)                          Rock 1st (A)

24th April        Benwell & Walbottle (A)             Monkseaton 1st (H)

1st May           Alnmouth & Lesbury 2nds (H)    Ulgham 1st (A)

8th May          GEMS (A)                                 Warneford 1st (H)

15th May        Blyth (H)                                  Bedlington 2nds (A)   

We will draft up our clubs fixtures sheet and send it out via email to all members.

Big thank you to Wilkinson's of Ashington, who awarded our club a £40 voucher from their Helping Hands Community Fund. 

We purchased a large 6 Ltr slow cooker and a 1.8 Ltr rice cooker and steamer, just what we needed to help with our tea's on a cold day.

Thank you Wilkinsons for your support.

After two rollers we now have a winner that lucky person is Callum Milburn, walks away the prize pot of £630, not bad for a £10 entry, with a nice sum riased for our club.

Three people were left in, one had Wolves to beat West Brom and they lost 3 -2, the other had Leeds to win and they lost 1 -0 at home.

Callum had Spurs to win and they did 2 - 0 thus giving him the prize pot.

If you would like to join give Chris Harwood a ring. 

COVID-19 update on cricket in England and Wales

This statement applies to changes in England following the Prime Minister’s announcement on 4 January of new national lockdown restrictions.

Wales continues to remain in a national lockdown since 19 December with all cricket activity suspended with a review expected later this week.

In England, ECB can confirm that unfortunately all indoor and outdoor privately owned cricket facilities will now need to close for all but elite cricket activity and disability cricket outdoors.

Cricket clubs in public open spaces such as parks can continue to provide outdoor spaces for individual permitted activity.

The Government has confirmed that:

You can exercise in a public outdoor place:

• by yourself
• with the people you live with
• with your support bubble (if you are legally permitted to form one)
• in a childcare bubble where providing childcare
• or, when on your own, with 1 person from another household

Public outdoor places include:

• parks, beaches, countryside accessible to the public, forests
• public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)
• the grounds of a heritage site
• playgrounds

Any public outdoor place used for permitted individual cricket exercise activity should be suitable and safe for the type of cricket activity taking place. You must ensure that you have sought and gained permission to use facilities in a public open space and that it is safe to do so. If a club or local authority have closed cricket facilities within a public open space they should not be used.

There is a risk that during the winter both natural turf cricket squares and non-turf surfaces can be damaged when wet, frozen or snow-covered. These conditions also increase injury risk to participants.

Furthermore, essential safety equipment such as netting may have been removed. Therefore, facilities should not be used unless they are safe and will not be damaged. Where cricket can take place, adequate measures must be taken to keep warm and minimise injury risk, including to other members of the public sharing the open space. You should be considerate to other users of the public open space.

You can also continue to go to work if your work cannot be undertaken from home. So people employed or volunteering to work on grounds maintenance over the winter can continue to do so subject to suitable COVID risk assessment and control measures being in place. Further information on winter maintenance of cricket grounds under COVID can be found on the Grounds Management Association website.

We are now down to only 3 members left in with a shout in winning the prize pot of £640, it is FA Cup week this week so no teams can be selected until the next round of premiership fixtures.

Watch this space, for NEWS.

ALL STARS AND DYNAMOS CRICKET 2021

ACTIVATOR KEY DATES

Thank you for your ongoing patience, passion and commitment in what has been a difficult year.  Whilst we are disappointed that Dynamos Cricket couldn’t run in 2020, and All Stars Cricket activity was limited, 2021 presents a fantastic opportunity that we are extremely excited for.

Prior to the festive break and New Year, we wanted to share some of the timescales for activity in 2021:

• January 2021 – Centre registration opens  for All Stars Cricket & Dynamos Cricket
• Mid-February – Participant registration opens
• March – National Programmes Activator training
• April – Major marketing activity
• May 7 – First All Stars Cricket & Dynamos Cricket sessions
• Late July – School Holidays All Stars Cricket & Dynamos Cricket activity.

We hope you have a fantastic holiday season, stay safe, and we look forward to sharing more information with you in the New Year. 

It's a Rollover.

Following the last two members left in the LMS and both selecting Leicester to win at home against Fulham and they lost 2 -1, it is now a second rollover with the prize pot now standing at nice £640.

Remember to get your team to Chris Harwood before Friday's night game.