We're Nearly Famous

A fun coaching session on Monday night was captured on camera and in notebook by a journalist from the Local Secrets website www.localsecrets.com which features community news and activities in Cambridge. Robert will be helping us in our recruitment drive by publishing a feature in the run up to the Ashes. He has also promised to bring his 13 year old daughter along to nets in the spring. Hope your lippy was perfect!

I have circulated a flyer to post on any appropriate noticeboards to attract any girls or ladies. If you need it again I can email it to you directly.

Coaching
Thanks for another great turnout on Monday. A slightly extended session gave us chance to get batting as well as putting into practice our newly acquired fielding skills. Our newbies are progressing well but I seem to be regressing. (The journo chap couldn’t work out who the captain was. Hrrrmph! Well I wasn’t wearing my tiara of course.) Beth I am afraid you’ve been replaced as opening bat. Annette looks up for the job. Richard managed to coach on despite a creaky back. Hope it's on the mend.

If you have any requests for particular skills, drills or thrills, do let me know as I am sure Richard is happy to accommodate us in any way. (Except the thrills maybe - 'cos of his back!) I fancy a bit of batting skills refresher next week.

We are booked to play up to 11th Dec as I thought Christmas might come early. However, the hall is available Monday 18th, all three lanes, 8-10pm so if we wanted another session we could have a final game before Christmas. Lemme no!

Indoor Tournament – Sunday Dec 3rd
I am wringing details out of Richie gradually. It’s in Ely and teams are six-a-side so we could have two teams entered just to give everyone a go. Let me know if you are free and keen to play.

AGM Friday 1st December
I am looking for volunteers to be Vice Captain. You need to know something about cricket (ideally more than me) and be happy getting people organised for games/nets. You need a spreadsheet and a low cost phone/SMS system. I can recommend Skype.

Cricket is the New Football
The International Cricket Council claims women’s cricket is well on the way to becoming the “fastest growing female sport”. http://www.ecb.co.uk/womens/international/women-take-the-lead,10516,EN.html There are now 42 countries worldwide with structured girl’s or women’s cricket competitions. (They don’t say who and I am struggling after the obvious commonwealth countries!)

However, football claims to be the most popular and the fastest growing women’s sport in the UK with 1800 teams and 55,000 players. There is a great article on the BBC website about a game when Kerr Ladies from Preston, a team of factory workers, beat St Helen’s Ladies 4-0 at Goodison Park. This was Boxing Day 1920 and a capacity crowd of 53,000 (!!!! What?) watched with another 12,000 stuck outside the turnstiles, unable to get in. You can read how the FA responded to the popularity of ladies football by subsequently banning it on this link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6143032.stm

Any comments, suggestions, feedback please post below or email me.

C u at coaching Monday 20th November 8pm.