Trent Bridge Cricket Team

Winter nets 2010 begin on Thursday 7th January and continue every week until the start of the season.

 6-7pm - Sobers Hall - Trent Bridge.

  2 lanes booked, so plenty of opportunity for everyone to have a decent bat and bowl.

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 Fixtures for 2010 will be released at the end of January. 

 The full roll call of players who contributed to the Evening League title is as follows:

Tom Paterson, John Wakeling (8 matches)

Simon Cleaves, Richard Clulow, Rob Goodwin, David Knox, Neil Vanderwalt (7 matches)

Jamie Dickinson, Barrie Rainsford (5 matches)

Richard Cooper, Steve Edwards, Nigel Murray, Tim Taylor (4 matches)

Mike Tew (3 matches)

Chris Botherway (2 matches)

Alex Holmes, Chris Roddis-Ferrari, Michael Temple, Simon Vanderwalt (1 match).

Congratulations to everyone involved.

A highly successful 2009 for Trent Bridge Cricket Team was celebrated at the end of season awards at Hooters, with unofficial ‘pro’ John Wakeling dominating proceedings.

 An established force at Notts Premier League level on a Saturday for Papplewick, ‘Wako’ was a regular for TBCT in their victorious Nottingham Evening League campaign as well as committing himself to the programme of Sunday friendlies.

 After two disappointing summers with rain wiping out the majority of fixtures, this season at least saw TBCT complete all 20 matches, even though the weather at times intervened again. The team claimed 14 wins in all, including seven out of eight in the evening league, as opponents found themselves swept aside by an avalanche of runs from the opening pair of Wakeling and Neil Vanderwalt.

 Wakeling finished with a club record season’s haul of 770 runs at an average of 128, including two hundreds and six half-centuries and a high score of 135 not out. His total demolished the previous best of 541 by Mike Tew in 2002.

 Just for good measure, Wakeling also claimed the bowling award with 20 victims at 13.00, with a best of 4-17. With those two trophies under his arm, there was only one winner of a newly created MVP award - Wako finishing on 13 points, with Jamie Dickinson second on five. A late submission from other potential candidates for the awards that Wako should be excluded, on the basis of ‘being too good’, were ignored by the committee.

 Lewis Goodwin beat off competition from youngsters like Dicko and Tim Taylor to win the Young Player of the Season, after featuring in five matches and picking up a wicket against Colston Bassett.

 Finally, Sportsman of the Season went to Neil Vanderwalt, who enjoyed his most consistent summer with the bat in scoring 453 runs at an average of 41, including a massive unbeaten opening partnership of 235 with Wako against Hoveringham. However, a tendency to get out just before reaching 50 had been noted by all, and will need to be rectified at the bar next season.

Constant rain for nothing short of the entire week meant that the last Sunday fixture for TBCT was called off on the saturday before!

A rain stricken start and finish to the season has been frustrating for players, eager to play some decent cricket. TBCT however have, for the first time in the club's history, won ALL Sunday fixtures played in this 2008 season.

Six out of six will be encouraging for the lads who make another club first by touring abroad to Mallorca this year. The weather on the continent has been mostly dry so here's hoping for no more rain affected play to finish the season.

 A fovourite fixture of TBCT was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to constant rain!

TBCT remain unbeaten on Sundays with 1 game left against Car Colston on Sunday 7th September.

Trent Bridge eased passed Wilsons to book a spot in the quarter finals of the evening league cup.

The next opponents will be PKCC with the fixture date and venue to be announced.

A new TBCT recored was set against Wilsons, albeit one the holer is not proud of. Jamie Dickinson was the first (and hopefully last) TBCT player to be hit for 7 off one ball.

A simple defensive stroke and quick single lead to an attempted run out which missed the target. The racing ball was unhelpfully tipped onto the helmet by Vanderwalt keeping wicket. A further single meant 5 penalty runs + the 2 scored, 7!

 Breaking News:

Trent Bridge Cricket Team have been promoted to Division One of the Nottingham Evening Cricket League for the first time since joining in 2003.

They will play seven fixtures in 2008 against AIM, Dunkirk, Experian, Hucknall Baptist, PKCC, Rolls Royce and a grudge match against local rivals Southbank 'A'.

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