“The Cradle of Cricket”

Senior and Under 17 Training sessions start this Wednesday 6 April at the Ridge, and will begin at 5:30pm (since it still starts to get dark relatively early...).

Let's see a good turn-out – please try to be there on time, or as soon after 5:30 as possible!

This year’s pre-season working party will be this coming Sunday, 27 March, starting at 10am. It looks like it won’t even be raining!

One of the jobs this year is to fit the new netting over the net lanes; so would be useful to have a few standalone stepladders - if you have one, please bring it along...

As always, the more volunteers turn up, the quicker it will all be done, but we should all be done by noon, so please come and lend a hand if you can!

It is with great sadness we report the recent death of Bill Enstone who represented the Hambledon club for over 35 years as a player, umpire and Club treasurer. Bill was a great team player, bowling his leg-spin and batting in the lower order. After hanging up his boots he became the Club umpire for numerous years and then moved onto the committee as the Club treasurer.

His funeral will be at the Sustainability Centre burial site on Tuesday 8th February at 11am, with the wake at the Hogs Lodge.

Below are the updated details for winter nets this January to March 2022, coming out at relatively short notice because of the recent uncertainty over the Omicron Variant of COVID-19.

In the light of recent decisions by the government not to impose any more restrictions, and the news that Crookhorn College are happy to welcome us to their site, the nets can go ahead.
 
Please note the following, as well as the information in the previous announcement:

• Boys, girls, men and women are welcome to the sessions detailed in the document
• Just in case Covid rules change in the next couple of months, there is no scheme to pay for all the sessions in one lump sum as in previous years, we will just collect a flat fee per session in cash from each person - £4 for youths, £5 for adults
• Coach leads are as follows:
  • Girls – Jenna Mcfadzean
  • Under 9 – Andrew Sharpe
  • Under 11 – Nick Scutt
  • Under 13 – Steve Toogood
  • Under 15 – Saleem Chaudhry
  • Adults – Mark Le-Clercq and Kevin Wingham
  • Ladies – Kate Rowland
  • If there are any Youth cricketers who would like to assist with these sessions for the DOE volunteering time, please let us know
• If there are any parents who would like to assist as well, please let us know
• The first session is on Sunday 16 January – please can you reply to this email and let us know if you will be attending, so we can plan the sessions

We look forward to seeing you all there at the various Sundays over the next few months, so we can all get ready for a great summer of cricket.

In related news:

• We hope there will be some Coaching, umpiring and scoring courses announced soon – please let us know if you wish to attend any of them to further your cricketing knowledge
• Blue Hambledon kit is available too, please ask if you wish us to bring some for you to the net sessions

Unfortunately, with the continuing COVID-19 situation, the indoor league has taken the decision to cancel more fixtures, while hoping to recommence at the end of January:

With the sustained high levels of new Covid cases in the last few weeks and the ever present likelihood of close contact pinging rearing its head, it has been decided to cancel the indoor fixtures for 16th and 23rd January.

We hope to resume on 30th January and the committee will be meeting next Monday to discuss that.

I am sorry about this and I am aware that some clubs were very keen to start but we feel it is too early at the moment.  When we do, we want to be confident that the scheduled fixtures are likely to be played and we are not there yet.