EMWCC has enjoyed a successful and busy summer season despite some inclement weather resulting in the cancellation of several matches across all the teams.
All three Men’s teams achieved wins on the final Saturday of the League’s summer season. Two of our bowlers were acknowledged on the Hampshire Cricket Board’s Honours Board. Peter Burnand with 6 – 27 and Fred Trinder with 5 – 17. The 1st XI ended 2nd in their League and both the 2nd and 3rd XIs were mid table.
If you are a fan of cricket, there is no bigger club than the Marylebone Cricket Club, or the MCC as it is more widely known. On Sunday 1st September EMWCC played host to the mighty MCC at Easton, quite the honour and the first time in our 78 year history.
The players of the MCC were drawn from a wide number of clubs, as far afield as Wimbledon and Bournemouth, with local Richard Arscott captaining them, whilst the might of the EMWCC was led by our very own Nick Boulton. Amongst the MCC, local lad Joe Lewis looked comfortable in their number.
Starting at 11am the MCC chose to bat first and did their best to assert their dominance, but our bowlers had not read the script. Peter Burnand and Jaco McCowen bowled beautifully and smart fielding by Monty Randall broke the MCC’s opening partnership with a run out. Anyone having watched EMWCC play before would be aware that bowling wides or conceding extras can be a problem! However, in this game it wasn’t until the 34th over that the first wide slid down the legside. All credit to our players containing the MCC to 245 – 6 from 48 overs before they declared.
In response E&MWCC struggled to get going with the bat in the face of very accurate bowling, with wickets falling all too often. The anchor role was played by Nick Boulton, who was joined by both his sons Ollie and Sam but sadly they were not able to build a telling partnership and despite the tail wagging we succumbed to 136 all out.
Games of this type have another vital component, the lunch and the tea. The catering for the day was a collaborative event for which we are very grateful, but the starring roles went to George Burnand who had also assisted with masterminding the organisation of the whole day and the king of the BBQ posh dog, Stuart Upcraft.
It was a wonderful day in a perfect setting and the MCC players expressed a desire to repeat the experience, so hopefully we might be able to turn this into an annual event.
Although the weather wasn’t great on Saturday September 7th, 22 players including a number of Juniors and our Groundsman, Lee Padwick turned out for the annual interclub Badger Memorial Game. The ‘Badgers’ won the game by 20 runs. After the game there was a BBQ and the end of season players’ Club Awards were presented by Club Captains Mark Dickety and Seb Stannard.
Club Chairman, Adrian Lee has presented 17 year old Ollie Boulton with the Club’s quartered cap in recognition of the two centuries he has scored for the Club this season playing for the XI and XXII. It is gratifying for the many committed and hard-working coaches and managers within the Juniors’ section that the Club fielded seven or eight juniors most weeks throughout the summer, playing across all the Men’s teams. Sometimes playing in the same team as their dads, which is generally enjoyable for both generations, but can become a bit tricky when the boys try to advise their dads on tactics, shot selection etc!
This season the Club’s newly formed U15’s Boys team won the Regional North U15’s Cup played at Ropley CC versus Rowledge CC. Congratulations to team manager and senior parent coach Ben Gillings on this fantastic achievement with his team. The U11 Girls have finished the season both League and County Cup winners. Congratulations to all the girls and their Manager Charlie Gloyn.
| Adrian Lee | Chairman – EMWCC | leeadriancj911@gmail.com |
| Seb Stannard | Club Captain – EMWCC | seb.stannard@btinternet.com |
| Charie Gloyn | Ladies Captain – EMWCC | charliegloyn@icloud.com |
| Laura Skilton | Juniors Co-Ordinator – EMWCC | juniors@emwcc.com |
| Lynda Gray | Press Officer – EMWCC | ldaten453@aol.com |