News Round Up – January 2023

The club wishes the village and all the readers of the “News” a very happy and prosperous New Year.

The weather is the main talking point at the club and the effect it has on “winter jobs” that need doing in preparation for next season. There is painting to be done and general housekeeping and tidying to be done, the work never stops. Also, a lot of chat about more good news for the club with Matty Fisher being selected for the England Lions squad to tour Sri Lanka at the end of January. He is only one of four players to be in both red and white ball squads. Good luck Matty.

Junior nets have started in earnest at Galtres Centre at Easingwold on Friday evenings 7pm -8.15pm with the senior nets starting on Sunday 22^nd Jan 7pm – 9pm at St Olave’s School. The first couple of weeks will be restricted to first and second team players and then opened up to the rest of the seniors plus selected juniors who have played in last year’s senior teams.

We are fortunate that we have some good juniors on “The Hub” and Pathways coaching programmes which will hopefully stand them in good stead for representative honours in the coming season. The club will continue its strategy of building from within and maintain our youth policy offering the best form of coaching that the club can provide. With current District and county players in our junior ranks we believe that we are on the right course. This is in contrast to some other clubs that pay large amounts of money to players using sponsorship as its main income source which we believe is unsustainable at recreational cricket level.

As reported before Christmas the under 10 group were doing well in an indoor competition at Copmanthorpe. We are pleased to report they went on to win the competition, remaining undefeated through the tournament.

The club holds its annual dinner on Friday 27^th January at Sandburn Hall. This will be the first dinner since the Covid restrictions and hopefully will be well attended.