To help raise funds for the club and to provide a good evenings entertainment “One Night Stand” come to Lingfield Cricket Club and present…

"DEUCE"

…a Murder Mystery evening.

Can you solve the murder…?

• Lingfield Victoria Club
• Friday 16th March
• 7.30 for 8pm start
• £10 pp (or £70 Table of 8)
• ‘Ploughmans supper’ and dessert
• Contact Robert Mitchell (832727) for details and to book.

Our indoor nets this year will take place at Hazelwood School on Monday evenings from 8.30 to 10.00. They will start on 19th February and continue until the end of April. The charge will be £3.50 per week. They are available to all players who hope to play senior cricket this season in particular to the Under 15s to over 50s range.
We are hoping to employ an outside coach to assist and improve our cricket.
Please pass the message on.
New members will be very welcome.

LINGFIELD CRICKET CLUB
JUNIOR CRICKET COACHING

By popular demand Lingfield Cricket Club is to repeat their indoor coaching programme for young players for the fourth consecutive year.

The courses will be conducted according to different age groups, in order that the most appropriate coaching may be given relevant to age and experience. They will take place on Saturday afternoons beginning in the January and continuing until the end of April. The price is £3.50 per week.

For the Under 9 age groups the NCYPE sports Hall at St Piers will be used. There will be two groups operating on alternative Saturdays. Young players will be divided according to age and experience so that beginners and existing players get the opportunity to develop.
Anyone aged 5 upwards will be welcome to join in. Beginners and players under 7 will start on 20th January, and the Under 8s and Under 9s who have already played some cricket will start on Saturday 27th. Sessions will run from 2.15 to 3.45pm. Both boys and girls are welcome and all equipment will be provided by the club. All courses will be run by England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) qualified coaches and will incorporate a balanced structure of technical coaching and games.

The other age groups – Under 11s through to Under 15s will use the excellent facilities at the East Surrey Cricket Centre at Hazelwood School, near Hurst Green between 5.30 and 7.00 p.m. where they will have the use of 4 new indoor nets, complete with bowling machines and videoing facilities. These sessions will be start on 20th January for Under 15s and 27th January for Under 12s.
Again ECB qualified coaches will be in charge and when hard balls are involved suitable protective equipment will be made available to those who require it.

Lingfield Cricket club has one of the strongest and best organised junior cricket programmes in the area. They are the only club in the region to have been awarded the Clubmark accreditation by the ECB under the Sport England auspices.

Lingfield have been accepted into the Fuller's Brewery Surrey County League for the 2007 season. As a result of this we shall no longer enter a team in the East Sussex League. We shall, however, continue to compete in the Stoner Mid Sussex League with at least one team in that competition.
The Fuller's teams will play at the Lingfield ground and the Stoner teams will use the Newchapel ground.

With the league title won as well as several other awards the final month of the season was one of almost continual success. We recorded wins against East Dean, Crawley Falcons, Wadhurst, Brighton & Hove, Bolney, and Mayfield.

The full trophy haul for 2006 is:-

  Stoner Mid-Sussex League Division 1
  Stoner Mid-Sussex League Division 3
  Sally Miller plate finalist
  East Surrey Colts League under17's
  East Surrey Under 17's Cup Winners
  North & Mid Sussex Under 9's winners

See match reports of Saturday's matches.
Balcombe 2s are comfortable winners against Lingfield 2s in the Sally Miller Trophy final at Forest Row.

It was another successful weekend for Lingfield cricket. Of the seven senior matches they recorded four wins and a draw, most importantly winning the three games that mattered most.
The 1st XI stay top of the League, the 2nd XI keep in third place and look set for promotion as well as reaching the Sally Miller cup final

21st to 25th August.
Open to players from 5 to 10 years.
Surrey run course at Lingfield CC.
£15.00 for 5 days. 1.5 hours per day.
Contact Henry Mitchell (832737) for more details and to book places.

10 under 11 players from Lingfield will be going to the Oval on the first day of the test match against Pakistan, and will be carrying out a lunch time cricket skills demonstration, led by Henry and Thomas Mitchell

In a slightly disappointing way to finish the league season, Lingfield under 17's remain unbeaten after Woodmansterne conceded the fixture and thus clinch the League Title.
They are also in with a chance of doing the double as they will face Selsdon in the final of the cup to be played at Lingfield on August 3.

A big win ( by 99 runs) over Colmans Hatch keeps the 1st XI on top of the league. Captain, Simon Hooker takes 7 for 15!!
The 2nds and 4ths lose to Keymer & Hassocks, and St James, while the 3rds draw at Glynde & Beddingham.

Having had a 100% record in the northern section of the North & Mid Sussex Cricket League, Lingfield beat Cuckfield, winners of the southern section in the final. In doing so they gained revenge for having lost to the same club in the final last season.
Well done team!

We will be discussing the playing future of the club on Tuesday 18th July at 8.00.
We will debate whether we should be applying to join a stronger league, and the extra time and travel this might involve

We are starting the implementation of our plan for girls cricket at Lingfield.

On Monday evenings from 6 to 7.30 there will be coaching for girls aged 8 to 13. We plan to run a girls team regularly from next year.

Surrey coaches will be helping us with this venture

Saturday
Heavy rainfall interrupted the 1st XI Cup match at Newchapel with Lingfield in a very handy position at 89-1 off 18 overs against Edenbridge. A sudden downpour meant that a rather soggy Mark Lloyd was left stranded on 49 !! Weather permitting match will be replayed Sun 14th May.

The long trek to St Peters for the first 3rd XI League fixture of the season was in vain as the game was abandoned without a ball being bowled.