Devon County Seniors Cricket Club

ECB guidance steps 1-5  for the return of recreational cricket...use this link  DCB website...

Live TMS radio & text commentary on every match on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra & BBC website. Highlights each day on BBC 2...This is the first time the BBC has shown home  'Test Cricket'  since 1998.

When cricket resumes, Shobrooke CC will be basking in the joys of a new electronic scoreboard, which will no doubt delight our scorers Geoff Coish & Pete Gascoigne & Co when they eventually find themselves there. The 2nd XI scorer, Lyn Crosland, has generously donated a mobile scoreboard to the Club. Operated via WiFi & with its own power supply, it can be set up in sight of the scorebox, and be visible all round the ground. Being mobile it can be stored safely at the end of each game. It is an optimistic sign that even Division C Clubs, are happy & able to invest in the future of Club cricket.

Paul Berman

New fixture scedule to be published early July...see BBC website for more details...

Director of Cricket at Sheffield Collegiate, Nick Gaywood asks "If the BARS can open on the inside, why can't we play CRICKET on the outside"... fair point?

Or has it been tarred by the Prime Minister commenting that a cricket ball is a "vector for disease" ...

Bring back club cricket!

On a normal summer Friday night, Sheffield Collegiate, the club which produced England batsmen Joe Root and Michael Vaughan, would be packed full of about 130 boys and girls trying to imitate their heroes. Instead the scene is a very different one, the coronavirus pandemic having brought about a peculiar-looking summer and the Government deciding, for now, to keep recreational cricket's return on ice.

“It's really frustrating,” Nick Gaywood, the club's director of cricket, says. “Kids are missing out on a year - maybe their last year in an age group or before they go away to university. It is just a real shame.”

Like other cricket clubs throughout the land, Sheffield Collegiate have adapted as best they can. The club has run regular quizzes; WhatsApp groups have shared fitness and cricket practice tips....

View original article at telegraph.co.uk

More than £600,000 has been allocated in emergency funding for Cricket clubs in Devon, during the Covid-19 crisis...see DCB website for more details...