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Hi all, So it's upon us, the 2011 season.
The following fixtures are arranged, please make a note of them. I'm hoping that we'll be able to play Weston super Mare as well and arrange an alternative ground for home fixtures with Phoenix and Wells.
Bank Holiday Monday 2nd May training match at LCC
Sunday 8th May vs Wells (away)
Bank Holiday Monday 30th May training match at LCC
Sunday 5th June vs Hawkesbury (away)
Sunday 10th July vs Hawkesbury (home)
Sunday 7th August vs Hawkesbury (away)
Bank Holiday Monday 29th August training match at LCC
Sunday 4th September vs Wells (away)
Sunday 11th September vs Bristol Phoenix (home)
We'll have an AGM on Thursday 14th April at the club at 7.30pm. Please email me with items for the agenda, if you have something you want to discuss. I'll send the agenda out a couple of days before.
Next Saturday 9th April is Club Force Day at LCC. I expect the club chairman will write this week with details but if you're available to help prepare the club for the season, please do come along in the morning.
From Saturday April 16th we'll be training each Saturday at 10am. Monday evening training will start at the beginning of May when there's more light.
I'll also post all these details on our blog at http://www.lansdownladies.posterous.com.
See you soon,
Lucy.
hi all,
It's 2011. I know, it's ridiculous.
So it's time to drag your cricket bag from the cupboard under the stairs, clean the dried mud off your spikes and stroke your bat.
It's time for winter nets, the time of year where we grump about the cold and dark at the start of our sessions and emerge blinking into the light as March takes hold. That's when the heart breaks open and is filled with the dappled light of warm summer afternoons in the outfield or at the crease and the mouth is replete with the taste of barbecued chicken wings and bakewell tarts washed down with warm tea.
Come on, you know you want to.
Thursdays from February 24th, 8-9pm, Beechen Cliff School. Five sessions, £5 per session or £20 in advance for all five.
Hope to see you soon,
Lucy x
The dinner last night was excellent, the clubhouse looked brilliant and the players were smartly turned out. The speech you write is often not the speech you give. So here's what I wrote - it's not entirely what I said.
Our team awards went to Ali Turner for the season's Most Improved Player and Sarah Veal for Player of the Year. I knew Ali couldn't be there so I had already planned with her husband that I would call her during my speech and he would give her the award while I was on the phone. She later turned up at the club for a lap of honour.
Sarah Veal couldn't be at the dinner because of illness so Karen Thomas accepted the award on her behalf.
My timing is really off.
This week, England begin their Ashes campaign carrying with them the tools to command the series and win in Australia for the first time since the Eighties.
Next Saturday, we have our club dinner and awards night and, as captain, I will be giving a speech.
This Tuesday, I am flying to Timisoara, Romania and I'm not back until late friday night.
It's a huge week for cricket and I will be in Eastern Europe, a place not known for its enthusiasm for the game. Is there a chance that my hotel will have internet access so brilliant that I will be able to watch the test match on Sky Player - will Sky Player work from an international IP address? Will I be able to listen to Test Match Special as I go to sleep?
Will I, in the dead of night, creep down to the hotel bar to discover other English patriots hunched around the one television in the hotel that is showing the coverage?
Will I find that Romania has a cricketing underbelly and its roots are in the revolutionary city of Timisoara?
And the speech. I'll have to write it on the 'plane on the way home, should I photocopy the pages from the scorebook? I have a recollection that last year, I wrote my speech on a train home from London and delivered it that night. Work has this funny way of intervening in my cricketing life. How lovely it would be to sit around all week, pontificating on the season and crafting some amusing stories to share with the club next Saturday.
Instead I shall be hurtling over central Europe, struggling to recall the exact state of the game, early in the season when we took this catch, or that wicket. When we tasted glorious victory or bitter defeat. When we felt the sun on our backs.
After my post yesterday, I had a nice chat with @HomeOfCricket, otherwise known as Old Father Time at Lord's.
He kindly confirmed that the MCC Rules do not state that women are required to wear dresses. He even emailed me the rules and I can confirm that there are stipulations about styles and types of clothing but that it is acceptable for women to wear trousers.
So it is the Marston's promotion that is stipulating that laydees wear dresses. I await their response and when I have it I shall share it with you gladly.
