New Website

Keyworth CC now has a new website

www.keyworthcc.net

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Pre Season Nets

KCC Winter Nets begin on Tuesday 21st February at Trent Bridge in the Hadlee Hall at 8-9pm. We have a lane booked every Tuesday night until 10th April. £3 for adults, £2 for juniors."

New Website

We're upgrading our website for the start of the 2012 season.  Updates may be a little patchy here until we're up and running.

Mary Hinchliffe

It is with fond memory and sadness to share that Mary Hinchliffe passed away on Saturday 17th December aged 96.

Fellow KCC legend, and grandson, Stuart Meek says; "it was a pity she did not have one more swing of the bat to get her to her 100, but she had a great knock anyway".

The Funeral service will take place on Monday 9th January 2012 at 12.00 mid-day at Wilford and the 'wake' at a venue to be confirmed.

Mary loved her Cricket as many of you know, and was the doyen of all 'tea ladies'. With her cheery smile she made many friends over the long time she was associated with the club.  She was one of our Honorary Life Vice Presidents having had a husband, son, father, grandfather, brother, cousins, nephews, grandsons and grandsons-in-law all playing for KCC. Some achievement!

Mary was also well known to many villagers from her time serving customers at Pike's Greengrocers on Debdale Lane. Born into the dynasty of the sporting Keyworth family of Pikes, Mary was the daughter of Edgar Pike, an outstanding Keyworth wicket keeper from 1899 to 1929 and the grand-daughter of Andrew Pike who also played for the club back in the 1800s.

Mary married Tommy Hinchliffe a professional footballer with Grimsby Town, Huddersfield Town, Derby County, Nottingham Forest and of course Keyworth United, and much like their grandson 'Meeky' was an aggressive batsman who loved hitting a six.  Tommy died in 1978 leaving Mary a widow for a long time.

Their son, John Hinchliffe, quite naturally also played cricket and football for Keyworth as indeed have Meeky and his cousins Richard and Steve Thomas. To that, add former Forest, Mansfield Town, Chelsea and Northampton Town goalkeeper Kevin Hitchcock who married Fiona, Meeky's sister, and in 1988 set the club individual batting record with 165 not out, an innings in the family tradition that included twelve sixes.

Mary will remain forever part of the history of Keyworth Cricket Club and a person who did much to welcome the wives and families of the players, and encourage a healthy social atmosphere within the club.

Barry Baker
President - Keyworth CC

Tidings of Joy

A new trophy cabinet is top of the KCC Christmas List.  Captain Tinno led the boys to win the Monday Night Sportivate Indoor League.  Well done to the team: Dave Hiller-Sister, Benji, Liam, Butch, See-Soar, Tommy Randall and Rob Williams.
 

Mick White

Very sad to report that Mick White passed away earlier this week.

Mick was a true KCC legend, looking after the Field of Dreams as our Groundsman for over 30 years, and creating a surface that was the envy of many a visiting side.

Mick became a Vice President in 1981 and for a number of years was one of our Honorary Vice Presidents.

His funeral will take place at Wilford Hill on Friday 25th November at 3.20 pm

Our thoughts are with Mick's family and friends.

Winners

The First picked up a full house of Division D awards on Friday night at Cotgrave Welfare.  Skipper Tinno collected the League Trophy, the only thing he hasn't dropped all season.

Bobby and Iggy collected the bowling and batting average awards, but were too busy arguing about the relative size of their trophies to pose for photos.

The usual gourmet feast was devoured by the KCC fatties.  A welcome introduction was warm potatoes to complement the traditional cold meat platter.

Season End Celebrations

Over 70 players, parents and supporters celebrated the success of our 2011 season at our Presentation Evening on Friday evening.

We were grateful to have Notts CCC and England U19s star Jake Ball on hand to present the Junior awards.

Club Awards
Club Person of the Year - Simon Tuckwell
Frank Palmer Outstanding Performance - Rob Beake
Alan Copson 6 Hits - Ian Graham 

1st Team - South Notts Division D Winners
Player of Season - Simon Tuckwell
Batting Award - Rich Drury
Bowling Award - Rob Baker
Fielding Award - Ben Elliott
Champagne Moment - Simon Tuckwell

2nd Team
Player of Season - Rob Beake

Batting Award - Rob Beake

Bowling Award - Liam Elliott

Fielding Award - Sam Nice

Champagne Moment - Liam Savage

Junior Awards
Barry Baker Junior Player of Year Award - Tom Blacklock
John Cottee Junior Clubman Award - Pete Hennessy

Under14s

Batting Award - Ben Healey
Bowling Award - Dominic Steiner
Fielding Award - Harry Normington
Champagne Moment - Harry Normington
Most Improved Player - Isaac Brown

 

Under 13s - Newark Colts League Winners

Batting Award - Tom Newell

Bowling Award - George Flewitt

Fielding Award - Tom Blacklock

Champagne Moment - Jack Cairns

Most Improved Player - Jack Cairns

Under 12s - Newark Colts League Winners

Batting Award - Tom Blacklock

Bowling Award - Jack Phoenix
Fielding Award - Joe Baines

Champagne Moment - Miles Chamberlain

Most Improved Player - Miles Chamberain

Thanks also to our friends at Keyworth United FC for allowing us to hold our event at the new Platt Lane pavilion.

Championship Celebrations

Two opportunities for your diaries to celebrate our League Title:

KCC Senior and Junior Presentation Evening
Friday October 28th, new Platt Lane Pavilion, 7.30pm

SNCL Presentation Night
Friday November 11th, Cotgrave Welfare,

Goal Of The Season

News reaches us of an early contender for Goal of the Season.  A 45 yard lob no less from our very own Rob Beake playing against his beloved Spurs in a charity match back home.

http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/legends-latest-060911.html

Championship Thriller

What an amazing day, as the Firsts secured promotion and then the League title.

Tinno was able to select a strong side on paper for the trip along the A52 to Bottesford but, as usual, there were plenty of walking wounded. Strongy claimed he was about three weeks away from fitness, but was given little sympathy from Drurs; “that’s about two weeks ahead of where I am every week!”. Friday’s Golf Day had also taken its toll, especially the Chef’s Pie, which was threatening to run through the Millers’ top order, more effectively than the home side’s attack. Tuckers had made it in just before 3am, but was still angling for 40 winks under Bottesford’s new covers.

Benji was a notable and controversial absentee, thinking with his trousers rather than his head, sacrificing a shot at a promotion medal for a dressage rosette.

Rendu’s First Law of Cricket states that he who lives closest to the away ground will always arrive last. And so it proved as The Rocket sped in at 1.20 with just time to get changed, put his trousers on the right way round, and take the new ball.

All was soon going to plan as Rocket and the new DJ Sammy reduced the home side to 11-3; Sam sending an off stump cart-wheeling and Tom taking a smart catch behind. Bobby made the next breakthroughs to peg the home side back further to 62-5. Both were caught by Drurs, one a tracer missile that was still rising. Some good hitting halted our progress until Tuckers took an astonishing catch on the boundary, feet inside the line, but hands over, somehow managing to keep his balance. Bobby nipped out a couple more and at 103-8 we were well on top to the delight of the large travelling away support.

However, the pressure of taking all 10 wickets was beginning to show with all manner of tantrums and dropped catches. Bobby was trying to tinker with Iggy’s field, which as usual had been set by protractor and compass. IG was sent sulking to fine leg, Day Hiller’s chin was around his knees after bowling a wide, and Rocket was steaming as we completely lost track of which batsman we were allowing to take a single. With so many egos to manage, Tinno did the sensible things and disappeared to the long-on boundary to let the other would-be captains sort it out for themselves.

In fairness, Bottesford’s no.5 marshalled the tail brilliantly on the way to a fine unbeaten 85. The last over arrived with one wicket still required, and Rocket delivered a great leg stump yorker to secure the final bowling point... little did we realise how valuable this would turn out to be. Back-page Bobby stole the headlines with 5-43, supported by Sam 2-21, Rocket 2-31 and Day 1-43. The home side’s 177 felt about 50 below par, given the docile pitch, but about 50 too many, given our dismal track record of chasing small totals.

The final entrant for KCC Mastertea 2011 was solid but not spectacular. Egg mayonnaise cobs were the highlight, but any kind of fruit and veg would have been a bonus. Looking back... Long Whatton (Grandma’s recipe Marmalade cake), Southwell (thick sliced gammon cobs), and Willoughby (plated salad and baguettes) were all contenders, but nothing came close to Caribs’ banquet that had the Skip and Chairman drooling on a visit to watch the Stiffs. First round exits went to Bramcote’s outside caterers, and the Youth Policy’s Bob The Builder pasta shapes. Most unlucky was Tom who had to eat chilli for a full fortnight after being rained off when it was his turn. The Skipper’s retro highlight was haslet sandwiches at Bridgfordians, though whether he realised he was eating rolled pig’s head is open to question.

Back to less important on field matters. Bradman was in a bristling mood, irked by only appearing in the ‘also batted’ column in the averages through lack of appearances. IG quickly brought up his 50, with Dale on 2 at the other end off 3 balls. XX went for XI with the score on 67. Dropping IG once is a mistake, but twice is criminal, and Bottesford’s butter fingers ended the game for them as a contest. Another wicket looked unlikely until the Postman amazingly missed a full toss and was out LBW for 18. The Chairman couldn’t get eye contact from the Skipper on the way in, who knew that a red-inker would see Drurs to the top of the mere-mortals’ averages.

Iggy was playing a different game and cruised to another century. Drurs tempted his partner with the thought of a red-inker, but the one-man-team was dismissive; “sorry Drurs, I’m not bothered about a not out, I’m going to have some fun”, and promptly smashed 16 off an over; “they can’t bowl that filth at me and hope to get away with it!”. Drurs took matters into his own hands, hitting the winning boundary, to end on 15, leaving Bradman unbeaten on 116 off 99 balls, to average 97.83 for the season, if only it were to count!

With 20 points in the bag, promotion secured, and a barrel of Somerset scrumpy to slurp, we nervously awaited news of the Risley v Bridgfordians match. Drurs had sent Superjude on a scouting mission to Stamford Road and the omens were not looking good. At 5.30 the covers were on and no cars were to be seen... we deduced that Risley must have won easily against a Bridgford side with nothing to play for? Super Scorer Shelley checked with the League only to find that the game was actually being played at Risley!

The Senior Pros de-camped to the Chairman’s living room, which felt like the Green Room at the Eurovision Song Contest, anxiously waiting for the results from the Derbyshire jury. A text arrived ... 19pts to Risley. Good for us, bad for us? Confusion reigned, laptops were fired up, websites consulted, calculators primed, sums checked and double checked. Finally we were certain, Champions by 0.06 of a point!!

Onwards to The Sal where once again we showed that although we’re terrible losers, we’re even better winners. Though memories of the night will probably be as cloudy as the barrel of Somerset cider that Rocket donated behind the bar.

Congratulations and commiserations to Risley, it was a fantastic end to the season. We continue our yo-yo journey C-C-B-A-B-C-C-D-C much like one of Mr Tuckwell’s year 5 music lessons on the recorder.

T20

Our annual T20 Club Day takes place on Bank Holiday Monday. A Junior T10 game will precede the main T20 match.

Licensed bar, BBQ and more. All the fun starts from 1pm at the Field of Dreams.

Field Of Mud

Tinno had a sense of deja vu as his pitch inspection resembled his trip to the Leeds Festival the previous day. Sadly the Firsts home game to Bramcote was called off.

Stiffs In A Spin

With the Firsts rained off, The Postman and Chairman made their way to Carrington Caribs, via Trumpton, happy in the knowledge that the Stiffs were on the verge of posting a big score batting first. Sadly 60-2 on departure had turned to 73-8 on arrival as Caribs young spinner ripped through our middle order.

All out for 75 was about 50 short of a half decent score.Tea was without doubt the highlight of the day, and perhaps the season.

An enormous fruit platter was the 5-a-day centrepiece with juicy melon slices, joining kiwi fruit and freshly cored pineapple. Not to be outdone the cake tray sagged under the weight of retro angel cake and coffee sponge. The Youth Policy were also satiated with pizza slices and sweet popcorn. Leggy stocked up on Starburst and Parma Violets from the sweet tray to keep him going for the reply. A 10/10 was denied only by the absence of celery and dips.

Sam and Liam bowled tightly keeping the young openers to only 15 off the intial 10 overs. Liam made the breakthrough hitting leg stump, then Beakey made a great leg side stumping off Big Ted, appealing to our square leg fielder as the umpire had wandered almost to leg slip!

A scoreboard discrepancy nearly turned into an international incident, with Leggy wagging his finger like Shakoor Rana, as frustrations boiled over.

The odd run didn't matter as Caribs sent in their big hitter to finish the contest quickly, smashing three massive sixes off Benji, off good balls!

Toss Crucial In 14's Season Finalé

Gedling won the toss and decided to bat first at the Field of Dreams, needing to beat Keyworth to keep alive their hopes of winning the Notts Youth League Under 14 title and began cautiously scoring only 39 runs off the first ten overs thanks to good length and line bowling by Ben Healey (4 overs 1 for 13) and Issac Brown (4 overs 0 for 14).

Gedling’s star opener began to hit out and was retired on 51 yet during this Tom Rock from the KCC Under 12s bowled a 4 over spell up the hill in very tidy fashion, finishing with 1 for 15 and Gedling progressed to a total of 102 for 4 wkts at the end of their 20 overs, a total thought to be within the compass of Keyworth’s ability.

Harry Normington and Sam Machin matched Gedling off the first ten overs scoring 44 runs but the light was fading fast and they were having difficulty getting their shots past the alert opponents in the field. Both perished on 16 attempting to up the run rate and although Ben Healey (11), Zack Tudor (7) & Issac Brown (6) did manage to see the ball enough to strike some runs a ‘miners helmet with a lamp’ would have been more helpful than cricket helmets as all the lower order struggled to sight the ball and the run chase petered out on 81 runs for 9 wickets.

If the toss had gone the other way, Keyworth would surely have made Gedling fight for the precious points but there were many erstwhile performances to end a highly productive and promising season.