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23 Nov 2014 15:05 #224881
by chairman
Nobody really knows when Thixendale Cricket Club was formed. The best estimate is around 1950, the summer when those “two little friends of mine†Sonny Ramadhin and Alf Valentine were bowling England to defeat.
Nestled in the tiny hamlet that gives the club its name, it has served generations of players in the idyllic Yorkshire Wolds but its future is now uncertain.
Despite the construction of a new timber pavilion five years ago, which at the cost of £64,000 replaced the old caravan used for a changing room, Thixendale CC folded halfway through last season joining the hundreds of other village and club teams disappearing from England’s summer game.
This week the England and Wales Cricket Board was forced to release early the findings of a survey of recreational cricketers which revealed that the number of players aged between 14 and 65 dropped from 908,000 in 2013 to 844,000 last summer, and five percent of matches were forfeited because at least one team was unable to pull together 11 players.
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23 Nov 2014 15:37 #224887
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It seems the basis of counting is quite unreliable as even if 1.2 million clubs only had 11 registered players that is about 13.2 million players.
It does not surprise me many Village teams are losing their way and that is partly because due to a peripatetic population and those farming villages that have summer harvests! Also it would not surprise me availabilities have been low during a major recession.
I know two seasons ago we experienced one of the wettest summers I can remember and many chose to make themselves unavailable rather than commit to and waste a day that is more likely, than not, to be washed out!
Lat season was not much better but within a half a mile radius from whre I now sit, there are 3 clubs with 2 a quarter of a mile apart!
They all play in different Leagues and are well subscribed.
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24 Nov 2014 11:20 #224993
by timmyj51
"Persuading players to give up the weekend to play 110 overs...is proving impossible."
110 for the Earl Grey tea gang...T20 for the hipsters.
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24 Nov 2014 11:26 #224997
by ketchim
This Fast Food crap must NOT be encouraged....
Americans are already OBESE : including that super size, me !
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