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Club Archive Finds
Recent weeks have brought a new batch of photos and momentos to light. These include two mint club handbooks from 1930 and 1931, a photo of the ground from 1961 and team photos from 1983. Check them out and remember that we are always looking for new material to add to the site.
Lancs Cup Exit
St Annes lost their Lancashire Cup tie against Egerton on Sunday. They restricted the home side to 137 - 8 before collapsing well short of the target, all out for just 80.
St Annes Extend Lead
The first XI extended their lead at the top of the league to six points after their winning draw against Darwen at Vernon Road on Saturday. St Annes batted first and set a target of 246 for the visitors to chase with centuries for both Atiq (103) and Twisty (108). Yogi was the star as St Annes set about dismissing their opponents taking six wickets for 79 as Darwen reached 209 - 8 in their innings. The second XI scraped a losing draw at Darwen scoring 123 - 7 chasing Darwen's target of 231 - 6.
A Message From Frank Chrispin
Dear all,
As you may know I am staying with my daughter in Suffolk for a little while due to illness. I am missing you all but keeping in touch with the results through the website and calls / messages /cards from Brian, Alec, Harry and Barbara and Ted - thank you and keep them coming! While in hospital I was given a bat by my consultant which had been specially signed by Alvin Kallicharran. I am probably not going to get much use out of it, at least this season, but it is nice to look at.
Good luck for the rest of the season,
Best wishes
Frank
Thanks Greg
The Junior Cricket Committee would like to thank Greg Whitehead who last month completed the Blackpool 10k in a very quick time and in doing so raised money for Cancer Research and for St Annes junior cricket. His generosity is well received and his contribution will be used to purchase the trophies for the junior presentation night. Thanks Greg.
Cricket Academy
St Annes CC will be running a summer coaching programme for 8 - 15 year olds at Vernon Road on Wednesday and Thursday 29th - 30th July and 12th - 13th August. Sessions run from 9am to 3.30pm. For more information click here.
St Annes Lose Again in T/20
St Annes lost their final Twenty/20 game against Blackpool on Tuesday and finished bottom of their group with nil points. Batting first they scored 113 - 8 with only professional Dinuka Hettiarachchi (26) and Twisty (19) scoring runs. Blackppol reached 114 with just one wicket down.
Juniors Earn Trials at Lancashire
The Committee, coaches and all at St Annes CC would like to give our congratulations to Mitch Bolus and Matt Taaffe who have both been selected for the Lancashire Under 13 final trials. This is a great honour for the club to have two of our youngsters selected so well done to both lads and we wish them all the best at the trials.
Russ
St Annes to Host Cup Final
St Annes CC are delighted to have been selected to host the Lancashire Cup Final for the second successive season. The final will be played here on Sunday September 13th 2009. The club hosted the match at the last minute last summer after problems with the original venue.
Sponsorship
St Annes Cricket Club juniors are getting ready for the new season with new playing shirts thanks to sponsorship received from insurance company AEGON. The shirts have been provided for all the age groups and have been very much welcomed by the club. “We are extremely grateful to AEGON for their kind sponsorship. It goes to demonstrate their interest in local junior sport and it has also given all the lads a boost prior to the season” said Junior Cricket Chairman Russ Bradley.
The company have furthered sponsored the first and second teams and Beverley Pownall, Communications Manager at AEGON, said: “AEGON is committed to supporting the development of young people through grass roots sport in our community, and we’ve been delighted to provide funding for shirts for St Annes Cricket Club’s junior and senior teams”.
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Eve Standing
Read the Chairman's tribute to Eve who passed away this year.
Tesco Vouchers
The club will be collecting Tesco vouchers for schools and clubs, in store from 2nd March, for junior cricket. All the money will go purchasing junior cricket equipment ie. kwik cricket equipment, cricket balls, bats etc.. Please keep us in mind when shopping in Tesco and any vouchers can be left behind the bar or passed to any of our coaches.
Russ
2009 Captains
The captains for the other senior teams have now been confirmed. They are: -
2nd X1 Neil Bradley
3rd X1 Paul Williams
4th X1 Tim Rawstron
Andy Kellett
Junior Nets
2009 outdoor junior practice sessions are as follows:
Under 10, 11 and kwik cricket will commence on Monday 20th April (6pm to 8pm) and will run until Monday 24th August. Please note there are no sessions on bank holidays.
Under 13, 15 and 17 will commence on Wednesday 15th April (6pm to 8pm) and will run until Wednesday 26th August.
2009 Fixtures
All the 2009 league fixtures have now been published with the Fourth XIs finally being added. Start planning your season here. St Annes have been drawn against Lancaster in the first round of the cup with St Annes first XI at home on a date to be arranged. The third XI will play in Palace Shield Division 5 and the Sunday League team in Division 2.
Forthcoming Attractions
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Quiz Nights
On the agenda for Saturday nights during the cricket season are a series of music quizzes to be organised by Steve Grindlay.
TV Sports
There is a new season of football to look forward to as well as and other events.
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2009 Fixtures
The Northern League fixtures for the 2009 season are now on the website. Click Here to view.
Important Information for Senior Players
All senior players are asked to read the information on Child Protection prepared by the Child Welfare Officer. Please click here to read this now.
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Results
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Junior News
Cricket Academy
St Annes CC will be running a summer coaching programme for 8 - 15 year olds at Vernon Road on Wednesday and Thursday 29th - 30th July and 12th - 13th August. Sessions run from 9am to 3.30pm. For more information click here.
Under 13As Back To Winning Ways
St Annes U13A have continued their form and good start to the season by reacting to a loss against a strong Thornton Cleveleys A team by defeating Lytham A last night. Click Here for Match Report.
2009 Junior Fixtures
The fixtures for the new season are now available on the website. Click Here to view them. As always, check with your team manager as fixtures are subject to change at any time.
Junior Team Managers 2009
The junior team managers for 2009 are as follows:
- Under 10 Neil Bradley
- Under 11 Gareth Costin
- Under 13A Russ Bradley
- Under 13B Neil Bradley
- Under 15 Sean Bickerdike
- Under 17 Adam Taylor
All will be assisted by club head coach Atiq-Uz-Zaman, who will be in charge of both practice nights, and our other coaches/helpers: Javid Iqbal, Paul Williams, Dave Bartholomew, Matt Dougall, Nick McKenzie and 2009 professional Dinuka Hettarachichi. We will also be running the kwik cricket on a Monday evening from 6pm to 7.45pm with the great help supplied by Phil Williamson and Andy Taylor, with Dave Serella also very kindly offering his help for next season. Furthermore, any of our older junior players would be most welcome if they wish to help with the younger age groups.
Anybody, parent, player or member, who is prepared to help with scoring or umpiring would be most welcome. Obviously to umpire a good knowledge of the game and it’s laws would be required.
Russ
Junior Nets
2009 outdoor junior practice sessions are as follows:
Under 10, 11 and kwik cricket will commence on Monday 20th April (6pm to 8pm) and will run until Monday 24th August. Please note there are no sessions on bank holidays.
Under 13, 15 and 17 will commence on Wednesday 15th April (6pm to 8pm) and will run until Wednesday 26th August.
We are currently redeveloping the junior cricket section of the website to ensure that junior players and parents are kept up to date with events, fixtures and results. If there is anything that you would like to see in this section, please let us know. Send us an e-mail or pass your comments to Russ Bradley.
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Professional
 Dinuka Hettiarachchi is to be the club professional for the 2009 season. He is a 32 year old left arm orthodox slow bowler and right hand batsmen. He has played 1 test for Sri Lanka and is currently playing for the Chilaw Marians in Sri Lanka. Dinuka has an impressive 1st class tally of 560 wickets at an average of 21.16 with an economy rate of 2.80.
Flintoff to Play for St Annes in Key Fixtures
It sounds unlikely and very probably is but following a Northern League rule change it could happen! The new rule allows professional players to play as amateurs for the club where they started out as juniors. Chorley could field Tom Smith, Blackpool Steven Croft and of course St Annes could field Andrew Flintoff. So Andy, if you are doing nothing on a Saturday afternoon and you fancy a bit of a thrash you will always be welcome.
It should be noted that St Annes voted against this rule change but were the only club to do so.
Get Back In Touch
Ever wonder what happened to your former team mates? Now is your chance to find out with our players reunited forum. Just let us have a few details and we will try to get you back in touch with each other.
Gordon Garlick Professional 1954 - 58
 Read a review of a new book about former St Annes professional Gordon Garlick written by local author Gerry Wolstenholme. Apart from his time at St Annes, Garlick also played for Lancashire and Northants as well as at Fleetwood and Kendal in the Northern League.
Archive Updates
Did the Busby Babes Play at St Annes?
Read a reply from Matt Busby to an invitation to play at St Annes in 1955.
There are a a number of new additions to the photo archives following Russ Bradley's visit to the Blackpool Gazette and also thanks to Don Sigsworth and Michael Helme who passed on some team pictures from the 1960s, 1920s and 1930s. Also, Jim Collins has sent a photo of what is thought to be the YMCA cricket team here at St Annes in 1948 with a few unknown names - if you can help us to fill in the blanks click here to send us an e-mail with details. We are keen to expand the photo archive and would really appreciate your help. If you have any St Annes CC photographs that have not already featured, please let us have them so that these can be added. All photos will be returned to you once they have been scanned. E-mail details of any photos you have to
pics@stannescricketclub.org
1972 Cash Crisis
Things have changed a lot in the last thirty years and the club has prospered but it didn't always look that way. Read an article from the Gazette about the then proposed development of Highbury Road.
Thanks to Alec Maitland for submitting the newspaper clipping.
Did You Know That . . . ?
St Annes club member Reg Simpson, who passed away recently, was soccer legend Bill Shankly's first signing as a football manager when he took Reg from Preston to Carlisle United in 1949.
If you know of any interesting facts like this about club members let us know - e-mail them to us at facts@stannescricketclub.org.
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