Fletching Cricket Club

Fletching Under 9s have had a very successful year winning every game played this year in their league, no mean feat as they had to battle against Lingfield, Cuckfield and Uckfield along the way. The games have been played using Barrington Rules which means that all the players get a bat and a bowl. This is obviously excellent experience for the boys, some of whom are 7 and 8 years of age.

 

Given the achievements of the squad, the club entered 2 teams into the Telecom Under 10 Trophy. This tournament is designed to bring the strongest clubs from the different regions of the county together to play the finals at Hove in early September. Last year we entered a young side and came 6th out of 8. Fletching is hoping to go one step further hoping that our recent experiences can only help to improve our performance this time around.

 

This year we had one squad playing at Glynde 2 weeks ago and they were very unfortunate to be beaten by Hellingly by 7 runs in their first game. Hellingly went on to win their other 2 games and therefore went onto book their place in the finals. The Fletching side won both of their remaining games but it was too late to have any effect on the game.

 

On Sunday 10^th August our other squad played in the southern region  and came up against a well drilled Preston Nomads team. Once again the number of dismissals that Fletching suffered had a real effect on their chances as they lost 4 wickets to Nomads one. This meant we had to work very hard to keep the score down. The game was very tight again and despite Archie Cooper taking a Nomads wicket with 1 ball to spare, Fletching could not quite win the game.

 

Fletching then played 3 other teams who they beat very well including a huge winning total of 120 runs against Nomads B.

 

Nomads only just won their qualification spot needing 4 to win off of the last ball against St Andrews Cricket  Club.

 

The Fletching squad genuinely deserved their place in the final and the Under 10s continue to train on a Thursday Evening until we have finished this tournament.

 

 

SQUAD – Jack Meacher

                  Jack Burkill

                  George Hervey

                  Charlie Harvey

                  Fergus Harris - Bunker

                  Ollie Bradley

                  Ollie Mann

                  Archie Cooper

                  Tom Atkin