Dunstable Town Cricket Club
We don't just like cricket; we love it

There will be a pre-season players meeting at the Clubhouse on Friday 16th April. Please come along and find out what's happening this season and have a drink with your team mates. Start 8.00pm

Subs are now due please.  See treasurers page on ways to pay.

The Colts Sign-up night will be on Friday 9th April.  Come along and sign up for the Colts squads for the 2010 season. Start time 7.00pm. All welcome, faces new and old.

Three DTCC Colts, Avi Patel, Mehul Godhania and Jack Kilduff have been selected for the 2010 Beds U11 team squads. The boys were selected after 6 weeks of district trials and 8 weeks of county nets.  They are part of a 14 man squad.

Well done you boys !  Here's to a great season.

The 6th Cricket Force day is Saturday 27 March and Sunday 28 March 2010.

Ever year, there is a lot to do to get the Club and ground ready for the coming season and we need the help of every club member to do it.

Last year a record 25 people enjoyed the early spring sunshine, really improving the facilities and getting ready for the start of the season. We need at least the same number this year if we are to do all the things that need doing.

You don't have to do the whole day, just a few hours morning or afternoon would be a great help and of course there's the usual free T-shirt for the early comers ! 

Come along and show your face - We'd love to see you... yes even you... come and join us - don't leave it to the rest, do your bit.

Contact Martin Cutler or Steve Rennison and let them know you're coming, or just turn up on the day.

We are re-launchng a former old favourite - the DTCC 100 Club.  For just £5 a month you can join the 100 Club and have the chance to win real money in the monthly draw. 

Download an application pack now....click here to download

100 Club

(logo designer wanted !)

A good quiz night and once again the Chairman's side stumbled. Another new winning side, this time comprising a group of Keogh's - well done.

On Sunday 13th, the Dunstable U16 Colts achieved the fantastic achievement of winning the Indoor League and Cup double. In a thrilling final, despite only making 86, they managed to dismiss Langleybury for just 54.

Marvellous....Super effort that.

Evening of 31st December of course !. Doh.....

Come down and see out the first decade of the 21st century in style.

From 8pm till late.

Fancy Dress Optional

See Pauline for more details.

Santa comes to Lancot Park. Afternoon of Sunday 6th December.

See Pauline for more details.

Come down and tuck into the traditional Christmas lunch. Turkey and all the trimmings. See Pauline for more details.

The Colts Presentation Night will be held this Saturday 7th November from 6.30pm
More details from Richard Kilduff.

Followed by the Fireworks !!

As you know, Robbie Keogh has been playing a lot of his cricket at the Northants CCC cricket academy this year.  A member of the Northants U17 squad,  he scored 680 runs including 1 century and 4 fifties.  Just to prove he's an all-rounder he also took 27 wickets, 14 catches, and 2 direct run outs.

I am very pleased to report that his superb efforts have been recognised by the hat-full of awards he's received this season:

Not surprisingly they've signed him on for next season .

Another rising star on his way and a fine example and credit to the DTCC colts.
 

Well done Rob.

Fireworks Night – Sat 7th November

We are holding a Fireworks Night on Saturday 7th November. Explosive fun for all the family !

Entry just £3 a head or £10 for a family ticket

Awards Night and Dinner Dance. Price £23.50. See Adam Stearn for details.

A great night with the Clubhouse full... and the Chairman's side didn't walk off with the prizes (the Treasurers side did). Well done "the Allsorts".

“Antiques Roadshow” – Sun 20th September

Was well attended and a good time was had by all. 

Apparently Tibb's case is not as old as first thought.

On Bank Holiday Monday 31st Aug, the Club will be hosting a cricket match in memory of Colin Ennever who passed away last year. Proceeds to MacMillan Cancer Support.

Raised over £3,000

MacMillan Cancer Support

President’s Day is fast approaching!  This will be Brian Chapman’s first as President and he would love to see as many people as possible at the club to help him mark the day. 

Brian is particularly keen to see any ‘old faces’ that may not have been associated with the club for some time and may have lost contact.  If you happen to be in touch with anyone who used to be involved with Dunstable Town, please extend the invitation to them.

Both the President’s and the Club teams are already being organised and as usual the President’s XI will consist of many familiar faces.  Play will commence at 2.00 pm and tea will be available after the interval at approximately 5.00pm.

So that we can judge how many to cater for at tea please contact Adam Stearn to let him know if you intend to come along.  Please send an email to secretary.dtcc@gmail.com or alternatively call (01525) 375732 and leave a message.

On behalf of the President, we hope you can attend and that you will enjoy meeting old friends and current members for an enjoyable afternoon.

Chappers' first President's Day

On Sunday 5th July, the Club again hosted the Lancot Trophies competition for the U10 an U12 age groups. 

The weather was again very good to us, and the standard of cricket played was very high.

This years winners were Old Albanians and Radlett,  with Redbourn being in the unenviable postion of being losing finalists in both age groups.  This year we also had a girls team from Hemel Hempstead playing.

A vey big thank you to each and every club player and member who helped out on the day, as umpires, league managers, running the BBQ, running the bowling competition, doing the raffle, running the cakes stall,  managing the car parking, selling programmes, setting up, clearing up etc. There are just too many names to mention, and if I tried I'd miss someone out.

A very special thank you to Richard and Andy Kilduff, Steve Cantellow, for their many efforts behind the scenes to make this day happen. Thanks too to Hilly for preparing the ground.

Thank you all for your great commitment to the Club, in providing a great showcase for Dunstable Town CC, and most importantly providing a great day's enjoyment for tomorrows future cricket stars.  

LANCOT TROPHIES

SUNDAY 5th JULY
 

Why not come down the Club on Sunday 21 June and watch the T20 Finals Live on Sky TV.

Will England be there ?  Even so there's still plenty of cricketing action to see. 

The Women's final at 3.00pm and Mens at 5.30pm.

Sun 21st June

Saturday 20th June we are hosting a Village Open Day at the Club for all residents of Totternhoe to help bring in a few new members, playing or non-playing. Also watch the 1st Rugby test live on Sky TV.

We need some help from members and players who are not playing that day. So come on down and help the event go well. 

RUGBY LIVE ON SKY

1ST TEST

SOUTH AFRICA VS BRITISH & IRISH LIONS

Sat 20 June  2pm
 

On Saturday 4th April 2009 we held our 5th Nat West Cricket Force event.

On a lovely spring day around 25 players rolled up their sleeves and set about doing a number of important jobs to prepare the clubhouse and ground for the forth-coming season.

Many thanks to all 25 who answered the call and put in a few hours , or in some cases, many hours of hard work painting, cleaning, scrubbing, painting, washing, painting, weeding, and painting.  Bacon butties, cups of tea, and good humour helped the time pass quickly and the warm weather was a big improvement on last year.

We:

• Creosoted the front gates
• Painted the front fence
• Cleaned and weeded the car park
• Cleared out the low level gutters
• Scrubbed and painted the veranda railings
• Scrubbed, cleaned and painted the staircase
• Weeded the patio
• Painted the wooden fences around the clubhouse
• Painted the reception hallway
• Removed the Honda advertising hoarding
• Painted the main ground sightscreen frames
• Removed the small white posts from outside the clubhouse
• Weeded around the clubhouse
• Painted the white columns
• Painted the low soffets
• Cleaned the BBQ
• Painted the storage garage doors
• Weeded the Nursery Ground Patio
• Scrubbed some of the benches
• And more stuff that I can't recall right now.....or didn't see

Thanks to the following:

Adam Wilson, Adam Stearn, Chris Stearn, Paul Gilbert, Andy Gypps, Alex Robinson & Jenny, Ian Moody, Andrew Farrow, Dave Skinner, Steve Rennison, Ian Keogh, Robbie Keogh, Steve Cantellow,
Martin Cutler, Mat Wood, Graham Hill, Neil Barker, Tom Simpkins, Rob Simpkins, Richard Blake, Richard Kilduff, Andrea Kilduff,
John McDougal. Matthew Puffett, (sorry if I missed anyone else).

And in the evening we were treated to some great live music from Si's Boys and the Smoking MoJo's in remembrance of Jonathan Brinklow who passed away 10 years ago.

The lesser-spotted Farrow
at his first Ground Force event....

....and not a manservant in sight !

All ready to go for 2009

Andy Watts has been elected to the Beds League Management Committee as Vice Chairman.

Well Done Watty... oh, and good luck.

For the 5th year running the Club facilities have scored the highest marks in the Herts League Facilities for 2008.

Congratulations to Graham & Roger for the Ground and to Pauline and co for the Clubhouse.

Click here for full details...

Rob Simpkins and Andy Watts joined Sir Ian Botham's latest Charity Walk on Saturday 11th October 2008 in Windsor Great Park. Blessed by the warm October sun and 20 degrees C (where was that in the cricket season?) the boys walked their 10 miles to raise money for Leukaemia Research.

Well Done "You Old Boys"... 

You can still sponsor Watty on-line at http://www.justgiving.com/andywattsdtcc

To read more about Beefy's walk click here

Link to Leukaemia Research website.

Herts League Winter Courses Available ....click here

Umpires and Scorers Wanted 

A new Herts League rule means that we urgently need umpires and scorers for the 2009 season for all teams on a Saturday.  (Sunday's too really).

If you're interested in standing in the middle or recording the game for posterity please contact us for more details.

Think you know the signals ? Follow this link, it's really twee 

Chappers is New President
Brian Chapman was voted in as the new Dunstable Town Club President on Friday 19 September.

Congratulations to Brian. 
Oh I could hide 'neath the wings of the bluebird as she sings...

Also at the EGM, Paul Kilduff was granted Life Membership and Andy Stephenson elected as a Club Trustee.

Paul Gilbert and Andy Gypps have finished their 30 mile walk along part of Hadrian's Wall raising over £1,700 for Cystic Fibrosis Charity.  Well done boys.

If you still haven't sponsored Paul or Andy, click here.

After 985 miles Russell Goode has finished his bike ride from Lands End to John O'Groats -  must be the longest post-round in the UK. Well done Goodie.

Cricket Force 2008

Sat 5th April 2008

A very heartfelt thanks to all the following people who answered the call and took part in the "Cricket Force 2008" event:

Andy Boocock , Martin Cutler, Paul Gilbert, Ian Keogh, Robbie Keogh, Andy Kilduff
Richard Kilduff, The Little Duffs, Ted McDougal, Steve Rennison, Rob Simpkins
Dave Skinner, Michael Skinner, Adam Stearn
 

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers" rolled our sleeves up and got stuck in to help the Clubhouse be ready for the new cricket season. We carried out a very, very deep clean of the Kitchen, cleaned the Bar-B-Ques, lifted and cleared beneath the paving stones on the balcony, cleared out the gutters, the showers, the net area, the cloakroom and store cupboard, painted the field gate, and moved the storage garage,  plus some other things I can't bring to mind just now. 

Poor weather and a much smaller turnout than past years prevented some other things from getting done. These things still need doing and will have to be scheduled in during the early season, most likely on a rota basis. So if you missed out, don't worry your chance is coming.

We hope that the rest of you appreciate the fabulous effort and commitment shown by these people and that you buy us all a beer next time we meet (I'll accept Michael's on his behalf).

Skinns

 

Readers Sovereign Trophy

A quote from the visiting Surrey League side team manager during the tea interval against the Beds Representative XI  recently. Yet another accolade for Hilly, Roger, and the Club - well done.

The Beds League Representative XI won the game ( Report  and  Scorecard)  and will now play the Essex League XI in the final of the Club Cricket Conference Readers Sovereign Trophy, at Southgate CC, The Walker Ground, Waterfall Road, N14 7JZ (020 8886 8381) on 22 August from 11.30am

So if you fancy a day out to watch the Beds Boys (inc our very own DTCC lads) take on the might of the Essex league, book that leave now..

On a bright, sunny evening, an estimated 2,000 people turned up to see Middlesex beat Bedfordshire by 54 runs in the 20:20 friendly game at Lancot Park on 20th June 2007.

Match Report from  Dunstable Today .

Have you got any photo's from the game ?  - Please send them to me and I'll do a montage on the website. 

 On Wednesday 20th June 2007 the Club is playing host to a Twenty 20 match between Bedfordshire and Middlesex.  The match starts at 5.30pm, with gates open from 4pm.

The teams will play in coloured clothing with a white ball.

This is a really great opportunity for the Club and we need to make the most of it. We need your help to make it all happen on the day; these things don't happen by themselves,  but with your help we can spread the load.

All club members are therefore asked to make themselves available please, either to assist before hand with preparations or for a couple of hours on the day, or clearing up next day. There's lots to set up before hand. On the day we need stewards, gate managers, servers in beer tent,  programme sellers, security stewards - a whole raft of things.

We'd all love to just watch but unless these things are done, there won't be anything to watch.

Please see Andy Watts, Adam Stearn, Dave Skinner, Ted McDougall, Steve Rennison, Ian Keogh to find out what you can do to make this day a really good one for the club.

"Ask not what your club can do for you; ask what you can do for your club"

Dunstable's Mayor Praises DTCC

Following the very successful Colts Presentation Evening, the Mayor of Dunstable Mrs Cynthia Gresham, has written to the Chairman in praise of the Club:

"Andy Boocock and his team managers and coaches are to be congratulated on the hard work, energy, and enthusiasm that they put into running the Colts teams. It is so encouraging to see so many young members of the Colts enjoying the sport and gaining so much from participating in a team game.

Thank you for making me so welcome and may I wish Dunstable Town Cricket Club continued success - a Club that is as great asset and credit to our Town."

Hear hear...