Cavaliers Cricket Club, Colchester, Essex, England

Introduction

Cavaliers Cricket Club has two teams in the PDQ Cars North Essex league (currently Division 2 and 5) and a team in the Evening League.

We are keen to welcome new players who enjoy their cricket whatever their standard. We are a very economical club with membership just £10 a season and match fees of £6. Please contact us by phone or e-mail; all the details are on the Contacts page.

News

19th May - Peter R, Jon R and Simon met with Steve Collis from the council and John Powell, Chairman of Colchester Rugby Club, today to discuss our tea hut plan. John was very supportive of our intentions and will take our proposal to their next committee meeting on 23rd June for formal agreement. In the mean time Steve has agreed that we should proceed with an application for planning permission.

Membership fees of £10 are now due, please pay your team captain at the next game. The following are fully paid up members: Darren, Jon R, Danny, Jon W, Simon, Jack K, Paul C, Phil W, Luke, Dan, Tony, Peter J, Martin P, Stuart J, Paul M, Martin V, Rasanga, Ray, Robbie, JJ, Deji, Bernie and Steve P - 17th May

21st April 2009 - We received a reply from the council regarding our request to install a new tea room. A copy can be found here.

A letter was sent to the council today to formalise our request to develop our facilities. A copy can be found here.

Web Site Updates

I have added Vinnie's century against Dedham in 2004 to the official records. Two matches were recorded in a scorebook that was assumed to be new and the records were discovered when we needed a book for the evening league.

The all time statistics have been brought up to date and I've added the ability to sort the list by any column by clicking on up or down arrows. The 2009 season statistics are being compiled on a database built by Luke and will be presented through the web site soon.

I have updated the league map map to show the locations of the teams we will be playing this year.

The fixture list has been transferred to Google Calendar. Everyone can view the club calendar's (one for each team) and if you have your own Google account you can copy fixtures into your personal calendar.

Laws of the Game

There has been some recent controversy around the issue of waist high no-balls. The Laws of Cricket state that;

Law 42.6 - Dangerous and Unfair Bowling

(b) Bowling of high full pitched balls

(i) Any delivery, other than a slow paced one, which passes or would have passed on the full above waist height of the striker standing upright at the crease is to be deemed dangerous and unfair, whether or not it is likely to inflict physical injury on the striker.

(ii) A slow delivery which passes or would have passed on the full above shoulder height of the striker standing upright at the crease is to be deemed dangerous and unfair, whether or not it is likely to inflict physical injury on the striker.