Welcome To Bedfordshire County Cricket Club
A WELCOME FROM THE PRESIDENT
It's a great pleasure to welcome you to the official website of Bedfordshire County Cricket Club as we enter the 2012 season. On this site we will try to keep you in touch with all the news from the club. That will include regular match reports during the summer.
There have been no changes behind the scenes during the winter with Ian Smith being re-elected as chairman, Pip August as secretary and Mark Wynn as treasurer.
Oliver Clayson will again captain the side during the 2012 season with Steve Stubbings, who organised a very successful training weekend for the players at the beginning of April, acting as vice-captain.
The indefatiguable Mike Archer doubling up as team secretary and vice chairman. Where the club would be without him I cannot imagine.
I am delighted to be able to serve again as President and I hope to see as many of you as possible during the season. I had the good fortune to watch England play in Sri Lanka recently and it was good to see three players who played for Bedfordshire as 16-year-olds, Monty Panesar, Alastair Cook and Graeme Swann, figuring so prominently.
For those of you who don't know, the Minor Counties Championship is split into two divisions of east and west with the winners of each playing off in September. Bedfordshire play in the eastern group with Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cumberland, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Staffordshire and Suffolk.
Because of cost and insufficient time each county plays only six games which means that each season you do not play three counties in your division on a rota basis. Obviously this is unsatisfactory, but no solution is apparent to anyone.
There is also a one-day competition in which you can be drawn against a county from either division. This season we are in a group with Cornwall, Devon, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire.
Bedfordshire have won the championship twice - in 1970 and 1972. We shared the title in 2004 after a rain-affected final against Devon. We won the Eastern Division in 1997 but were beaten in the play-off by Devon.
Bedfordshire won the one-day tournament in 1999, beating Cumberland by eight wickets in the final at Lord's, and also reached the final in 1983 and 1996, losing on both occasions to Cheshire.
We do of course rely heavily for financial support on members. If you are not currently a member, I hope the interest you have shown in viewing this website will prompt you to join.
MIKE GREEN
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FORMER PLAYERS ASSOCIATION
A former players association was founded in 2002 and the club would like to hear from as many old players as possible. The annual subscription is £15, free if you are already a member of the county club itself.
For further information contact either Pip August at 35 Amberley Gardens, Bedford,MK40 3BT or Mike Green at 15 Riverside Towers,St Mary's Street, Bedford, MK42 0AU; e-mail mike.green.riverside@btinternet.com
We would like to hear from you whether you played only one match or one hundred.
Incidentally the eleven chosen to make up the best Bedfordshire side of the 20th century was: George August, Wayne Larkins, Brian Disbury, Roger Cox, Norman Cooley, Glyn Owen, John Oliver (captain), Arthur Coomb, Trevor Morley, Graham Jarrett, Martin Ashenden.
The side chosen to represent the Nineties was: Wayne Larkins, Neil Stanley, David Clarke, Andy Roberts, Richard Dalton, David Mercer, Phillip Hoare (captain), Chris Bullen, Bobby Sher, Matthew White, Gary Sandford.
My team for the last three decades is Wayne Larkins, Alan Fordham, Ray Swann, David Clarke, James Knott, Richard Dalton, Andy Roberts, Graeme Swann, Keith Jones, Shaun Rashid and Matthew White
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Bedfordshire are organising a reunion for the players and their wives/partners who played in the two one-day finals at Lord's during the nineties.
It will be held at Dunstable on Sunday July 8th ( the first day of the championship match against Northumberland). The club will be laying on a buffet lunch.
The players who represented Bedfordshire in the games against Cheshire and Cumberland were: Wayne Larkins, Richard Dalton, Neil Stanley, David Clarke, Chris Bullen, Andy Trott, Phillip Hoare, Ricky Williams, Bobby Sher, Gary Sandford, Matt White, Andy Roberts, David Mercer, John Hughes, Will Sneath and Ian Fantham.
The club is hoping to contact all of these players but are short of a few contact details. If you played in these games and see this notice, please contact either Mike Green at mike.green.riverside@btinternet.com or David Clarke at davidclarke32@btinternet.com
MIKE GREEN
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