Devon County Seniors Cricket Club

We have 23  for this trip to the 'FIREHOUSE COUNTRY INN'  Curry Rivel, Somerset, our FIRST event of 2020...Opens at 12 noon!

  Ian & Sandra Western,  Dave Cotton, Bill Bailey-Lewis, Mike Abbot, Pete & Anne Shephard, Jan Walker, Barry Flicker, Dave Gambie,  Stuart & Katie Lott, Geoff Coish  (13)...meet Exeter Court Hotel at 10-45am...IF GOING DIRECT PLEASE LET ME KNOW!

Travelling DIRECT: Phil & Mary Arbourne,  Jo & Graham Darke, Andy & Celia Rose, Tom & Jane Overthrow, Brent & Jan Howerd  (10)

 Go into  'From the Kitchen'  on the Pub website   www.thefirehousesomerset.co.uk   and you will see the choices, FOR EXAMPLE:

STARTERS

Firehouse Soup of the Day... Potted Smoked Mackerel with beetroot salsa & horseradish creme fresh... Somerset pork, smoked bacon & sage sausage roll... Baked goats cheese waldorf.

MAIN COURSES

Slow braised Shoulder of Lamb... Salmon & Dill fishcakes... Minute Steak... Firehouse macaroni caved aged cheddar cheese... Skiny stone baked pizza.

DESSERTS

Sweets x 4

£14 for TWO courses...£18 for THREE courses...please settle your bills individually BUT please send your MENU choices to me...  petershephard3@gmail.com...NO LATER than January 20th please!

AND just to spice things up a little, there will be a 20 questions QUIZ, all about local cricket & celebrities, with CHAMPAGNE as the first prize & a bottle of wine for second...kindly donated by one of the guests.

Most have sent in their MENU CHOICES, only a few stragglers left...you have till the 31/01/2020...thanks!

 We have our own 'full analytics & 'visitor statistics'. This has been monitored by our Administration Control Panel through the Webmaster...HITS JUST OVER 212,500 ... VISITS OVER  137,000... these have been recorded daily from 18/10/2017  -  19/01/2020

BRAUNTON CC are putting on 'A night with David Gower' at their Club in North Devon on Friday January 24th. Tickets are £20 to include a HOG ROAST, doors open at 6pm, entertainment starts at 7pm...please contact Bobby Paterson, Club Secretary...07860-247266...paterson.robert@icloud.com...Club landline 01271-814834.

THURSDAY May 7th            DEVON v Somerset (home)

THURSDAY May 14th          DEVON v Wiltshire (home)

THURSDAY May 21st          GLOUCESTERSHIRE v Devon (away)

THURSDAY May 28th          WALES v Devon (away)

THURSDAY June 4th           DEVON v Worcestershire (away)

THURSDAY June 11th         DEVON v Hampshire (home)

THURSDAY June 18th         NO MATCH

THURSDAY June 25th         SOMERSET v Devon (away)

THURSDAY July 2nd           WILTSHIRE v DEVON (away)

THURSDAY July 9th            DEVON v Gloucestershire (home)

THURSDAY July 16th          DEVON v Wales (home)

THURSDAY July 23rd          WORCESTERSHIRE v Devon (away)

THURSDAY July 30th          HAMPSHIRE v DEVON (away)

THURSDAY Aug' 6th           NO MATCH

There is a growing number of Senior Cricketers unable to get any weekend cricket, so the 'Friendly XI'  already have a number (8) of fixtures ready for the coming 2020 season. An Australian XI, Devon Ladies, Erratics, South Brent, Filleigh, to name but a few, and others are in contention... some of these will be at the front end of next season.

 Sunday April 19th DCSCC v Somerset Friendly XI at  Bovey Tracey CC...1pm start

Filleigh/Ilfracombe Seniors v DCSCC at Filleigh CC on either Saturday April 25th or Sunday April 31st...1pm

South Brent CC v DCSCC at South Brent on Sunday May 3rd 1-30pm

Canterbury 'Veterans' Melbourne, Australia, at Bovey Tracey CC on Thursday July 2nd @ 2pm

Erratics v DCSCC...awaiting confirmation.

Occidental Cricketers World XI v DCSCC (provisional) Sunday July 19th at Shobrooke Park 1pm

DCSCC v Abbotskerswell...awaiting confirmation.

DCSCC v Somerset Friendly XI...looking at June 18th (away)