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Many congratulations to Simon Goacher who has passed his ECB Level 2 coaching award.
OWCC look forward to welcoming Simon back during the summer for Saturday morning coaching.
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OWCC are collecting Sainsbury's Active Kids vouchers. Please save any that you are given and pass to Ian Pilgrim or Caroline Maxwell at Saturday morning coaching.
The club will then exchange the vouchers for sports equipment.
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Congratulations to the following OWCC boys who will be representing Bromley District during 2010
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David Smith |
Bromley U14 |
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Sean Beckett |
Bromley U12 |
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Jacob Gold |
Bromley U12 |
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Joshua Lawrence |
Bromley U12 |
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Louis Pryor |
Bromley U12 |
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Luke Saint |
Bromley U12 |
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Jack Whitaker |
Bromley U12 |
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James Brick |
Bromley U10 |
The following boys have been selected for the 2010 Emerging Spitfires winter training squad and we wish them good luck for this.
Velsen Devarajulu ~ U14 Emerging Spitfires
Jacob Gold ~ U12 Emerging Spitfires
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Many congratulations to Caroline Maxwell who has come 2nd in a national photographic competition run by the ECB. Caroline wins for the club a 80ft x 35ft flat sheet climate cover worth over £1000 - every groundsmans' dream!
Bromley Times Newspaper Article
..........well done too to Barry for posing just at the right time!
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Best of luck to Ian Forbes who has been put forward by Kent Cricket Board for a National OSCA in the category "Lifetime achiever". The Awards ceremony will take place at Lords on 5th October.
National Nat West OSCAs nominations HERE
Full details of Ian's nomination form highlights HERE
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Congratulations to all the OWCC 2009 Award Winners
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Well done to OWCC 1st XI who became Champions of Div 5 for 2009.
Congratulations to Pasan who got his 4th century of the season during the match.
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Congratualtions to Kenny Maxwell
Full details of all club players' stats can be viewed on the play cricket website HERE
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Well done to Michael Mitchell who gained his second century of the season (100 n.o) in a friendly Sunday afternoon game on 30th August against New Beckenham Warriors.
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Congratulations to Velsen Devarajulu who was a member of the winning Kent U13s at the Taunton Festival last week.
Full details may be viewed here on the Kent Cricket Board Website
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Very many congratualtions to the OWCC U11 team who have become NKJL DIV 1 champions.
More details to appear after their presentation evenings.
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Well done to Pasan Weeraratne who scored two centuries on the weekend of 4th July. Saturday saw Pasan score 152, hitting 11 sixes and 13 fours for the 1st team win over Tunbridge Wells. Sunday brought another century for the Sunday League Team.
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Well done to Michael Mitchel who become our second U18 to make a century this season. Michael made 106 in the Sunday friendly game against Crofton on 21st June
It was Michael's first hundred for the Club, beating his previous highest score of 98 which, coincidentally, had come against Crofton 12 months ago.
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Saturday 30th May was a good day for the club seeing 3 of our players make 100. Pasan Weeraratne made 133 n.o for the 1st XI, Tom Morley made 113 n.o for the 3rds and Velsen Devarajulu made 106 n.o for the 5th XI.
Very many congratulations to Velsen as he becomes the first Old Wilsionians' Colt to achieve a century. His name has been submitted to the Lord Taveners and will be included on their Wall of Fame shortly.
Lord Taverners Awards Hall of Fame
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Sunday 17th May saw the first 6-a-side of the season.
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Will you be the first colt to score 100 runs in a Junior League match for OWCC?
Congratulations to Kenny Maxwell
THE LORD TAVERNERS CENTURIONS AWARD
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Congratulations to the following boys who will be representing Kent & Bromley District during 2009
| Velsen Devarajulu | Kent U13 |
| Joseph Gold | Bromley U14 |
| Sean Beckett | Bromley U10 |
| Luke Saint | Bromley U10 |
| Jack Whitaker | Bromley U10 |
| Jacob Gold | Bromley U12 Development Squad |
| Joshua Lawrence | Bromley U12 Development Squad |
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All of us at Old Wilsonians' would like to congratulate Nick Bier on achieving his ECB Level 3 coaching badge. Our U16s will have the benefit this season of Nick's knowledge during their Tuesday night training sessions.
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OWCC are in need of a tea lady / person to prepare the cricket teas on a Saturday afternoon at the Club. We are able to offer a small payment for this service. The position may be full time or part time if you are only able to offer your services for a limited number of Saturdays.
For further details please contact Mike Pike (Club Secretary) on 020 8659 6443 (H)
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In February 2009 the ECB issued safety guidance on the wearing of helmets by young players up to the age of 18.
For further details click here
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Many congratulations to Suminda Balage Don & Callum Steel who have recently passed their ECB Level 1 Coaching Award and will join our coaching staff this coming season.
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Jane Kempthorn has recently completed the relevent courses and is now Old Wilsonians' second Welfare Officer, Denise Pilgrim being our primary one. Please contact either Denise or Jane in confidence with any matters of concern.
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Once again the Colts Cricket Club is collecting Tesco for Schools and Clubs vouchers to enable us to purchase equipment for the club.
Please place any vouchers that you may obtain in the box on the bar at the club house or post to Caroline Maxwell at 67 Keswick Road, West Wickham, Kent. BR4 9AS.
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The link below shows which of the ICC Women's World Cup matches you can follow on Sky.
At the Super Six stage, England will go through as team B2.
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OWCC will be running two new teams for the 2009 season.
Saturdays will see the 5th XI play in the South Thames League and we have been fortunate to secure Ex-Blues ground (just through the trees from our ground) as our home pitch. Stuart Forbes has accepted our invitation to captain the team.
Sundays will see a second team playing each week. We will continue to play our normal friendly fixtures against our long-standing "friends", however a second team will be part of the competitive South London Cricket League.
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Old Wilsonians' Colts Cricket Club have recently been awarded a grant of £9,636 by the Awards for All Programme. Under this scheme £10k is the maximum awarded so we are extremely pleased to obtain such an amount, which under the terms of the programme has been spent on new equipment for the club.
Huge thanks must go to Doug Forbes who drew up and submitted the documentation and also to Steve Scott who acted as our referee.
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Congratulations to the following people who entered and won money in the County and Club Fantasy Cricket Leagues:
£110 ~ Darren Gosling
£33 ~ Paul Maxwell
£30 ~ Gary Saint
£25 ~ Paul Kendrick
£10 ~ Ian Forbes
£2 ~ Mike Pike
Let's hope more enter next year. Remember, the more than join, the larger the prize money!
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Saturday 13th September and Saturday 20th September saw the annual Colts and Senior awards evenings.
Many congratulations to all those who received awards for the 2008 season.
Click here for a full list of winners
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Congratulations to the 4th XI who gained promotion this season as runners up.
Well done to skipper, Andy Steel, and all the 37 club members, many of which were colts who played for the 4ths.
(Incidently OWs beat the league winners on both occasions that they met)
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Mike Pike was presented with an Alan Albury Award by Derek Underwood on Thursday 21st August at Kent CCC, Canterbury.
10 winners were selected from the many nominations offered.
The Alan Albury Awards are presented annually for long service to cricket in Kent (over 40 years).
Click here for further Awards news
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OWCC COLTS TRAINED BY PETER MOORES
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Many congratulations to Chris Spedding and David Spedding
who have passed ECB Level 1 Coaching
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Congratulations to Ian Forbes, Lawrence Gold & Clive Peckover who recently passed their
first level umpiring course
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All at OWCC wish Velsen Devarajulu every success for 2008 with Kent U13's
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Good Luck to Kenny Maxwell
Joshua Lawrence (U10) and Luke Saint (U10)
who will all be representing Bromley District during 2008
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