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Development by Eazytiger

We are Clubmark Accredited,an ECB Focus Club and proud participants in the Chance2Shine scheme-bringing cricket back into state schools

CONGRATULATIONS to Club Captain Graham Gaiger and Miss Annabelle Nash who exchanged wedding vows this weekend. The club wishes you both all the very best for the future.

The club was well represented at the WEPL League Dinner last Friday at Jury's Hotel, Bristol. The 2ndXI collected the Wiltshire 2nds Division winners trophy, whilst the 1stXI picked up the Wilts Runners up shield. The club also won the WEPL Club of the Month for July, where both teams were unbeaten throughout the month, a £75 kit voucher was the prize.

Annual Dinner-a massive 130 people attended the annual dinner on Friday.It really was an excellent evening-thanks as always to Ian Wheeler for organising it so well and congratulations to all prize winners-details to appear soon in the Club Details-Honours section. Photos in the Picture Gallery.The main senior award winners were -

1st X1- Rikki Jackson

2nd X1-Ed Fruen

3rd X1- Andy Genever

Sportsman- Steve Fortune

Clubman- Ed Fruen/Paul Clark(shared)

Young Player- Neil Clark

Ibiza Tour 2008 - The club have recently returned from a weeks tour of the beautiful island of Ibiza. Potterne played 2 games against Ibiza CC. The results however didn't go Potterne's way with two narrow defeats against a strong Ibiza team. Highlight of the tour was Neil Clark's superb 104 in the second fixture. Many thanks to Martin Makepeace and his team for 2 memorable days of cricket. More photos in the photo gallery.

WEPL Pitch Marks-the marks for the whole season have just been released by the League and we came an excellent 2nd in the averages with a fantastic mean mark of 15.4-well done to all those who work so hard on the ground,especially James Down,Neil Clark and Mervyn Underwood. 

Fantasy League 2008 - Congratulations once more to Rikki Jackson and his team Oliver's Heroes (7229 points) who won this years fantasy league. Under 13's cricketer Kieran Dickenson and his team Kieran's Crusaders (7185 points) pushed Rikki all the way to the post. Neil Doran and Alfies (6573 points) finished in third place. Prizes will be awarded at the annual dinner. Look out for next seasons competition.

2008 Averages- 2nd & 3rd XI league averages now available to view online. 1st XI coming soon.

potterne@play-cricket- Check out our section of the play-cricket website by following the link in the side menu. All season and career results, scorecards, averages and statistics can be found here as well as 1st and 2nd XI league tables. The 3rds league table can be found at the red WCCL link.

Forthcoming Social Events

1)Potterne CC Race Night-Friday 31st October-730pm in Potterne Village hall-tickets £5 including first drink-please put this date in your diary!

2)Potterne CC General Knowledge Quiz-Friday 21st November.730pm in Potterne Village Hall-entry £12 per team of 4.

3)Potterne CC Greyhounds Trip-Friday 6th Feb 2009.Tickets £15 including entry and coach-contact Graham Gaiger on 07860 955756.

POTTERNE CC CLUBMARK We possess the 'Clubmark' seal of quality,awarded by the Wiltshire Cricket Board. Clubmark is the ECB's national accreditation and is used to create a benchmark for high quality community club cricket delivered in a safe and well organised fashion

Club History

Potterne Cricket Club was formed, as part of Potterne Sports Club, in 1936. This isn't to say that the village hadn't been represented before that date - records of a match against Devizes in 1843 bear testament to the fact.

Few records exist of cricketing activities throughout the 19th Century, but an ignominious record was achieved early in the 20th. During a match in 1907 Potterne were bowled out for the score of 0, a feat that hopefully will never be repeated!

On March 27 1936, Potterne Sports Club was formed, covering cricket, football and tennis. The football section of the club didn't take off - the team wanted to play non-villagers, and that was against the club's rules. Interest died off in tennis, leaving cricket as the only sport represented by the club. This remained the case until the outbreak of the Second World War, when the Club ceased to function.

In 1947 interest in cricket was sufficient to enable the Club to start playing cricket again. Since then the Club has gone from strength to strength, and in this year has seen enough interest to run three teams on a Saturday for the first time in its history.

Now at the age of 72, the club is bigger and more successful than ever. The First XI are in the West of England Premier League Wiltshire Section , the Seconds in it's 2nd X1 equivalent,with the 3rds in Wiltshire League Division 7. We also have U11, U13 and U15 youth teams as well as U12 and U14 Girls sides. We have also recently completed our pavilion extension, making our facilities some of the best in the league. With the recent award of the ECB Clubmark accreditation and being made a Focus Club by the WCB the future looks bright at Potterne.

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