Youth Cricket Update

The under 13s won their final game of the season against Woolpit, a great end to the season ensuring a top half finish in a very strong league. Woolpit scored 125 in their 20 overs and we got them with a few overs to spare with 8 wickets in hand. Tristan Blackledge and Ryan McGowan put on a 100 partnership ending on 42 not out and 47 not out respectively. The under 13s did really well this season playing in more than 20 games, the most ever for a Brockley youth team. We don’t have the depth of squad of the other clubs but we certainly have the quality. The bigger clubs have often said they were surprised by us given we are a small club. The boys showed a lot of heart and great companionship and our results reflected this. They learnt a lot and had lots of fun along the way.

The other highlight of the year was the strengthening of the younger squad under Dave Bowler, Andrew English and Dan Boreham building on the great work over the last couple of years by Stuart Fisher. There are now more than 25 boys in this young age group and in a couple of years time these boys will be playing competitive cricket in the under 11s and under 13s and performing well. Finally congratulations to Ryan McGowan who recently made his county debut against Cambridgeshire in an age group up (under 14s). He opened the bowling and did really well.

Posted on 10 Aug 2010 by Phil Reed

Fun Day: 29th August , starting at 1pm

This is our major fundraiser for the year and we would be very grateful for your support on the day. Planned events include a youth cricket tournament, BBQ, bar, tea and cakes, egg throwing competition, tests of sporting skills (cricket, golf and soccer), children’s races, face painting, coconut shy and an auction of promises. We also hope to have some evening entertainment!

Donations of raffle and tombola prizes would be gratefully received along with lots for our auction of promises (please contact John Kearney on 01284 735438).

Posted on 10 Aug 2010 by Phil Reed

Match Day sponsorship update

Brockley Cricket Club
Match day sponsors 2010


Date Opponent Team Sponsors

Sat 24th April Felixstowe First Xl Mr and Mrs Ken Boreham
Sun 25th April Withersfield Sunday Xl Mr Bob Agambar
Sat 1st May Woodbridge First Xl Mr Brian Challis
Sun 2nd May Tuddenham Sunday Xl Mr Mr Gerald Meekings
Sun 8th May Sudbourne Hall Sunday Xl Mr John Kearney
Sat 15th May Brightlingsea First Xl Mr and Mrs Ken Boreham
Sun 16th May Earl Stonham Sunday Xl Mr Bob Agambar
Sat 22nd May Easton ll Second Xl Mr and Mrs W. Stansfield
Sat 31st May East Bergholt First Xl Mr Phil Reed
Sun 6th June Exning Sunday Xl Mr and Mrs Paul McCaffrey
Sat 12th June Easton First Xl Mrs Saxby
Sat 19th June West Mersea Second Xl Mr John Kearney and Mr P. Martin
Sun 20th June Mellis Sunday Xl Mr and Mrs Paul McCaffrey
Sun 26th June Ipswich First Xl Mrs Pat Beasley
Sat 3rd July Dunmow First Xl Mr Brian Challis
Sat 17th July Mildenhall Second Xl Mr Phil Reed and Mike and Lynda Mingay
Sun 28th July Cavendish W. Sunday Xl Mr and Mrs Paul McCaffrey
Sat 24th July Hadleigh First Xl Mr Malcolm Sykes
Sat 31st July West Bergholt Second Xl Mr P. Martin
Sat 7th August Haverhill First Xl Mr John Reed
Sun 8th August Edwardstone Sunday Xl Mr Bob Steggles
Sun 22nd August
Sat 14th August Hadleigh
Coggeshall lll Sunday Xl
Second Xl Mr Gerald Meekings
Mr John Reed
Sat 28th August Woodbridge Second Xl Mr John Kearney
Sat 4th Sep Elmstead G.H. First Xl Mr Nigel Brame
Sat 11th Sep St Osyth Second Xl
Sat 12th Sep Bury First Xl Mr Nigel Brame

The Club and first team is sponsored anonymously
The Second team is sponsored by The Beat Goes On Records
The Sunday team is sponsored by New Life TV
The Youth Section is sponsored anonymously.
The mid week team is sponsored by Barry Carpenter
The under 13s are sponsored by Barry Carpenter
The under 11s are sponsored in memory of the late Don Phillips

Posted on 13 Jul 2010 by Phil Reed

Brockley U13 latest results

Brockley U13 sponsored by Barry Carpenter played the cup final on Thursday and it was a close fought affair against Barnadiston. If you recall last time we only got 23 runs chasing their score of 110. Back then that game was our worst performance of the year and we haven’t played like that since.

Anyway, we got 107 which is a respectable score and they needed 18 overs to get them with the loss of four wickets. So this was a big turnaround. Our batting was very good even though we lost Tristan early. Rory Milbank scored very quickly. Finlay Smith and Matt Bowler stepped up and got runs and Ryan McGowan top scored with a good hard hitting 39 not out. Our bowling and fielding was very tight but they had some very good batsmen which in the end we couldn’t hold. They just beat us and their manager thanked us for a hard fought game. This he said they lacked in a lot of their other games during the season.

Our Friday night game against Battisford we lost with only 2 balls to go. This I am not concerned about in the slightest. We let Finlay Smith, Tristan Blackledge, Rory Milbank, Jonny Frost, Jack Brill, Ed Briars etc all have a rest for this game. We won the toss and batted scoring 114 in the end. Angus Bridges, Joel Walters-Smith opened and put on 45 without a loss of wicket by the 8th over. Then they moved on to let others score quickly with Ryan getting in his 40s ably supported by Matt Bowler and Ben Haughton who batted well at the end. Missing so many of our regular bowlers was always going to be a challenge. We bowled everyone ensuring all did something. The highlight was Matt Jeffries coming on 1st change for his 4 overs bowling accurately and keeping their scoring down. Ben Haughton did a great job behind the stumps and all our fielding was excellent.

All in all we should be proud of ourselves.

Peter McGowan

Posted on 28 Jun 2010 by Josie

Youth Training Cancelled

Due to unforeseen circumstances there will be NO youth training this Friday 25th June at the cricket club.

Back to normal next week...

josie

Posted on 22 Jun 2010 by Josie

Brockley U13 v Mildenhall

Brockley U13 v Mildenhall

On Tuesday Brockley played Mildenhall. Mildenhall as usual turned up with a very strong team. They are by far the strongest team on the county. We had our strongest team though. We batted 1st but started slowly with only 6 runs by the 5th over. In the end though we went onto score a good 105 off our 20. Tristan batted well coming close to his 50 and Ryan McGowan came in at the end scoring 30 off 14 balls including a very impressive 6. We had a bad start in our bowling with Ryan slipping over on the wet pitch on his 1st ball so he had to go off for a while to recover. This didn’t stop us though and as usual our big heart as a team showed and we soldiered on. Tristan, Finlay, Joel, Jack Brill, Rory Milbank, Ed Briars and Ryan at the end all bowled extremely well getting wickets along the way pushing them to get the runs with only a couple of over to spare. We were just 20 runs short. After the game I was told we are one of the few teams that really pushes them to the end. Their coach was also very impressed with Matt Bowler our keeper. He thought he was a completely different person!

Anyway, even though we just lost, the boys should be proud of how they played. As usual showing lots of commitment and heart.

The next game is the cup final versus Barnadiston on the Thursday 24th June at Thurlow starting at 6pm. We then play Battisford at Battisford on Friday 25th June. Please let me know if you cannot make either these dates. We may have too many available so we may need to give a couple of players a rest.

And finally, we can take this Friday (18th) night off training given a lots of other commitments. So go and do something different, have a bbq, watch a football game or whatever and see you next Thursday at Thurlow.

Peter McGowan

Posted on 16 Jun 2010 by Josie

Brockley U13 v Haverhill

Posted on 16 Jun 2010 by Josie

8th June U13 v Haverhill - postponed

Today's U13 away match against Haverhill has been postponed due to the wet weather.

Posted on 08 Jun 2010 by Josie

Brockley U13 v Bury

Brockley under 13s sponsored by Barry Carpenter played Bury St Edmunds on Tuesday 25th May and Brockley won. This was a double victory as this was a West Suffolk league game and a Borders league game.

Brockley won the toss and batted first. We set ourselves an innings target of 125 with a minimum of 40 after the first 8 overs. In previous games we were a little slow at the start and had to do a lot of catching up come the end of the innings where we still had wickets in hand. Our openers Jonny Frost and Angus Bridges did exactly what was needed. By the 8th over we were bang on 40 without the loss of a wicket. Then Angus got out trying to push things along further for an excellent innings of 27. Tristan Blackledge came in and started scoring from his first ball and Jonny switched to a support role. Knowing we had more batsmen to come Jonny in the sixteen over got out trying to hit the ball out of the ground for a well deserved 20. Ryan McGowan came in and started scoring straight away. We ended the 20 overs with 2 for 130 (10 more than our target) with Tristan scoring 38 not out and Ryan 16 not out. This was a great result and gave the bowlers something to defend.

We were one player short and then we lost Finlay just before the start of the play to an injury so we were down to nine players (I don’t think we have had a full team!). This didn’t stop us though and every one stepped up and did their job. We used 6 bowlers in all. We ensure everyone does something. Ryan opened and bowled a very fast spell restricting their scoring. At the other end we were bold and opened with spin with Joel Walters Smith. This variety and his accurate bowling confused them totally and they weren’t scoring. Tristan as captain sensed the batsmen struggle and kept both these bowlers on for their full spells and it worked because after eight overs Bury were around twenty still needing one hundred and ten or so off twelve overs. Tristan kept the pressure on by bowling himself and Jack Brill for their full spells. Their bowling like the openers was good and accurate. Tristan tactically got it exactly right. Come the sixteen over he had bowled out his four main bowlers but by now their target had risen to a difficult fourteen an over. It was left to our part time bowlers to step up to the plate and perform. Angus Bridges and Ed Briars came on for these final overs and along with exceptional keeping throughout by Matt Bowler and Ben Haughton Bury could not score the runs. Bury ended with 3 for 113. It was tense right up to the very end. So it was great captaincy and a good all round team effort as usual.

So now we have five victories (two West Suffolk league, two Borders league, one Borders cup) and two near victories (close losses) (one West Suffolk league and West Suffolk cup) and only one big loss (one Borders league).

Well done again.

Next game 7th June (Monday) – West Suffolk League Woolpit Home

Then the next day:

8th June (Tuesday) – Borders League Haverhill Away


Peter McGowan.

Posted on 30 May 2010 by Josie

Youth Coaching Friday 4th June 2010

Youth Coaching WILL be running during the half term week.

Coaching will run as normal on Friday 4th June from 6pm.

Posted on 30 May 2010 by Josie

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