Club Summer camps call
Cricket Shropshire is once again looking to help promote cricket camps at clubs across the county this Summer.
Summer camps arranged
Cricket Shropshire has teamed up with six clubs across the county to run two-day Summer camps for youngsters in August – and places can now be booked.
There is also a one-day camp planned in Donnington, Telford.
All the camps for 5-11-year-olds (except Condover which is for 8-11s) are free, will run from 10am-3pm each day and be delivered by ECB-qualified coaches alongside club coaches.
The club camps are:
- Column CC on August 4 & 5.
- Calverhall CC on August 6 & 7.
- Sentinel CC on August 12 & 13.
- Condover CC on August 18 & 19.
- Cound CC on August 18 & 19.
- Whittington CC on August 21 & 22.
The one-day session at Donnington Playing Field, TF2 8AQ in Telford is on Friday, August 6.
Please fill in the form HERE to register your child for one of the sessions.
If anyone has any queries they can contact us via info@cricketshropshire.co.uk
Fishes swarm to Furrows League win after big partnership
A brilliant partnership between Iain Anderson and Michael Myatt helped Newport to another victory in the Furrows East Shropshire Mid-Week League when they travelled to Wrekin College.
The pair came together with Newport on 120-5 and each hit rapid half centuries to help boost the Fishes’ total to 247-6 from their 20 overs.
Earlier skipper Baadall Parag hit 32 and Bobby Gill 22 while Barnaby Rhodes picked up three wickets for the students and Matthew Marshall two.
In reply, the students were bowled out for 133 with Ewan Woodhouse unbeaten on 20 and Sebastian Ball making 22.
Forton eased to victory when they travelled to Albrighton with openers Joe Roberts (47) and Sam Gill (45) the main contributors to their total of 178-4.
Sam Wood was the standout bowler for Albrighton with 3-18.
A devastating opening burst from Charlie Sykes (4-20) reduced the hosts to 25-4 before Hardeep Kumar led the recovery with an unbeaten 53 from 45 balls.
But Albrighton still fell 33 runs short of their victory target on 145-8.
Church Eaton Knights continued their fine form – they’ve lost only one game so far – with a victory over Priorslee.
Plenty of Priorslee batters got starts – seven got into double figures – but Shantanu Golar and Binoy Mannekkattukudy Kurian with 21 and 20 respectively were the top scorers as they finished on 137-8 from their 20 overs.
Will Ross, Matthew Burslem and Richard West all picked up two wickets for the Knights.
In the reply, Michael Holdcroft hit 42 off 25 balls and West 23 as Church Eaton claimed victory by seven wickets in the 17th over.
Thanks to Furrows for their continued support of the league.
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