Colne CC Archives

This page contains all the news items that appeared on the web site over the last few months.

SENIOR PRESENTATION

Colne Cricket Club senior presentation took place at the Alma

Inn on Friday 20th October.

With the following players picking up the silverware.

1st X1

Batting Matthew Wilson (426 runs at 22.42)

Bowling Matthew Walker (16 wkts at 21.37)

Outstanding performance Jeff Ellis 97 n/o vs Haslingdon

Fielding Stuart Lemon

Highest League score Matthew Wilson 93 v Nelson

Most improved Sean Lemon

2nd X1

Batting Aron Pollard (477 runs at 47.7)

Bowling Gareth Ormerod (37 wkts at 21.3)

3rd X1

Batting Luke Bentley (287 runs at 33.4)

Bowling Martin Kegg (19 wkts at 17.3)

Contribution to Club Award

Gareth Ormerod

Clubman of the year

Alan Sutcliffe

DAVID SWARBRICK

Although leaving Colne I am hoping to return in a few years especially being
so close to the club record number of victims.  I have had some great
memories from my 15 years here with the 2 Worsley Cup finals, being up there
with the best moments of my life, I have taken this decision because I would
like to spend more quality time with my young family and with another baby
on the way, it seems even more of an appropriate time to leave.  I find that
with working Monday-Friday alongside double headers means I cannot spend the
time that I would like with Nina and Joshua.

I am very aware that through these same reasons I have not been able to show
the commitment that I would have liked in terms of practice or spending more
time on the club.  I still wish to play cricket but only once at a weekend. 
With Nina working on a Saturday, it means the only quality time we would be
able to spend as a family would be a Sunday, and with the Lancashire League
predominantly being a 'Sunday' League it would mean playing very few games
in the season.  I also feel that it would be a perfect time to blood a new
wicketkeeper and it would be very unfair to keep replacing him with me
whenever I was available.




Club Season               Inns       N.O      H.S.       Runs       Av
Colne 1995-2006      198         32         82         2147      12.9

Catches        Stmps       Total Victims
    251             68               319

10 August 06

Broth-Heads Vanquish the Barmpots

A hastily arranged friendly between the juniors at the club saw the largest ever display of pie-chucking ever seen at the Horsfield on Wednesday night. The two sides led by Luke Bentley & Alex Barker smashed 289 runs from just 37.2 overs as one pie after another had its crust well and truly thrashed. Each bowler in turn went at around 8 per over as the batters reigned supreme. Several times the ball could be heard screaming ‘Ouch’ as it whistled to the boundary. Poor Adam Procter having tried an over of what can only be loosely described as ‘pace’ then resorted to non-turning spin and at the commencement of his third over requested from Skip Bentley if he could bowl underarm – Luca’s response was if he did he would be visiting the Great Pie Chucker in the sky.

The Barmpots finally totaled 144 for the loss of 8 wickets

The Broth-heads were certainly daunted by the total they faced but they hadn’t accounted for 4 overs from ‘Reg’ Kegg. He sent the whole lot down – Pork, Meat & potato, steak & kidney, even fruit-pies. Not since Oddies opened in Market St have so many pies been seen in town. What seemed like a difficult task was achieved with 2.4 overs to spare.

The umpiring amidst this carnage was of the highest order.

Barmpots – Shrek 3 - 32, Jonno 4, Bacca 31, Bob 1, Lucas 9, Squeak 7, Reg 26, Elly 0, Alex 14, Mince 1 ---- Total 144

Broth-Heads  -- JP 13, Luca 10, TC 7, Belmont 1, Fancy 33, Frosty 0, Coco 21, Lew 20, Test Match 10 --- Total 145

Unfortunately the bowling figures could not be revealed, as children under 15 have access to this web-site and such sensitive information has been deemed as harmful.