On Wednesday 6th July is the last of the kwik cricket events to host at Spring Farm Park. If anyone is able to volunteer their services to help out setting up the pitches and ensuring the games run to time, it will be very much appreciated.
The festival will commence at 9.30am and will be finished by 3pm.
If you can spare some time please contact Peter Reynolds on 07711-144497.
The Rainham CC annual Open day will take place on Saturday 11th June from 2pm until 6pm at Spring Farm Park. The Open Day will comprise of cricket coaching for anyone new to the game or anyone that would like to come back to play. We will also have some fun games to play. our 2ns XI will be at home in a top of the table clash against Ingatestone II.
Following up our Open Day we will be showing the England v Russia opening match of their Euro 2016 campaign starting at 8pm.
This should be a good day and evening so please come along and experience the unique atmosphere of Rainham Cricket Club
The Rainham CC Kwik Cricket Tournament is open to all junior schools in Rainham and this year we have a good entry of 7 different schools taking part and 9 teams to date on Thursday 9th June.
We require volunteers to ensure the games run to time, setting up the pitches and to provide refreshments for all participants, visitors and volunteers.
The tournament will commence at 10am and should be completed around 2.30pm, so if anyone could lend a hand please contact Peter Reynolds as it would be most appreciated.
We are again hosting the Havering Kwik cricket tournaments on 24th and 26th May.
If anyone could help out then please contact Peter Reynolds.
The boys tournament will be on 24th May starting at 9am through to 4pm and the girls tournament will start at 10am through to 3pm. The main duties will be to ensure all games are played to time, so any help would be much appreciated.
The ever popular quiz night will take place down the club on Saturday 14th May from 8pm. Your Quiz Master, the great brain of Brearley, will host the quiz in his normal exemplary fashion.
This is always an enjoyable night so please bring along family and friends to take on the general knowledge might of Rainham Cricket Club and sample the delights of the cheap bar, even though Budweiser has gone up 10p! Hopefully this wont keep Jas and Harry away.
The first social event of the season kicks off with the six a side cricket tournament and the table tennis tournaments at the same time on Sunday 1st May.
It’s an 11am meet for a midday start, so please let Jono know if you wish to play. The cricket six a side is a seniors competition, but under 13s and over will be allowed to play.
There will be 2 table tennis tournaments one for the under 14s and the other for over 14s. Again let Jono know if you wish to play. a £2 entry fee per player per tournament will apply.
As usual trophies will be presented to the winning six a side cricket team and the winners of the table tennis tournaments.
There will be a tea for all players and a BBQ available for everyone, so please come along and enjoy a nice social day with a bit of cricket, table tennis, food and plenty of drink from our well stocked bar.
We are looking for volunteers to carry out Tea Duties on Saturday and Sundays at Spring Farm Park or our 3rd team home matches in Billericay. If you are interested please let Jas Hothi know or any of the committee and let Jas know if you would like to volunteer for senior matches, junior matches or both , as well as the day you would prefer.
Last year we had around 5 volunteers, which ensured our volunteers only had to do the teas once a month, so the more the merrier.
This is a very important role within the club, so if anyone could offer their services it would be very much appreciated.
Well done to all the volunteers that took part in the Nat West Cricketforce weekend. All the list of jobs were achieved with the revelation of a new umpires room being created. The nets are ready for the new season, the back tidied up, as well as the container, tables sanded and wood stained,the patio and clubhouse jet washed and the kit room has been plaster boarded thanks to the efforts of Mickey Clifford, Steve Jackson and Harry Light.
The bar and kitchen are ready to be used and the clubhouse in general looks cleaner and tidier, so as club members we should all keep it that way throughout the season.
Volunteers that attended on either day, not already mentioned were Abdal Altaf, Charlie Puncher, Tyler Bunn, Ronnie Jackson, Fraser Oates, Hayden Musham, Ethan Musham, Jamie Eacott, Will Knowlden, Lee Carter, Brearley, Debbi Blackman Little, Jamie Little, Bobby Little, Raj Hothi, Ben Little, Joe Attfield, Jono, Alex Sullivan, Flynn Treanor, Pete Allen, Eddie Spear, our table shiners Graham Burr, Jason Downton, Jas Hothi.
Special thanks to Sharon Adkins and Suzanne Treanor for providing the food, Paul Oates for providing the leaf blower and cleaning the patio and to Keith Light for organising the works and putting in a double shift. Apologies to anyone I may have missed out.
Our Nat West Cricketforce weekend will take place this year on 19th and 20th March from 10am each day to ensure our facilities are in good order prior to the season commencing. Examples of the type of work that will be required during the weekend are as follows, so if you could spare a few hours on either day it would be much appreciated:
Paint gent toilets, clear shrubs and weeds from rear of clubhouse, paint equipment room, paint and clean external brickwork, clear, clean and repaint lines in external nets, sand and stain clubhoes tables
If you have any paint brushes or cutting tools to remove the weeds and shrubs please bring them along.
Food & drink will be provided on the day, kindly preapred by Suzanne Treanor. Nat West cricketforce tee shirts will be provided for the first 25 volunteers, which will save you getting your own clothes dirty. It’s normally an enjoyable weekend so come along and ensure our club is ready for the new season.
Dedicated cricketing Capatin, Brearley, was unavailable for this match (clashed with an Arsenal match), so Jas Hothi took charge of a very young team consisting of Joe Attfield, Charlie Puncher, Jamie Eacott, Ben Little & Raj Hothi to take on the indoor experience of Matt’s Melons.
Rainham bowled first with Jamie & Raj keeping it tight with Jamie being rewarded with an early wicket. First change bowler Ben Little also took an early wicket in his first over to leave the Melons on 17 for 2. A run out from Joe and a clean bowled from Charlie in his only over were the only other wickets to fall, but more consistent form all bowlers restricted the Melons to 81 after their 12. overs. Pick of the bowlers were Jamie and Ben taking 1 for 10 and 1 for 12 respectively
Joe and Ben opened the innings with Ben being the first to fall with the score on 19. Joe was batting steadily but lost partners Raj and Jamie with the score on 32 after 5 overs. Joe alomost made the retirement score of 25, but his wicket fell with the score on 42 in the 8th over. Charlie and Jas took the score to 62 in the 11th over when Charlie was stumped. Things were not looking good until last man standing and stand in Captain, Jas, took charge and hit the winning runs off the final ball to end the season with a victory for the ‘C’ team and take his personal tally to 33 not out.