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Sun shines on Hit the Top Club Finals Day
Apr 21, 2011
Cricket for Change hosted the ‘All London Club Finals’ at the Cricket Centre, Plough Lane, Wallington during the recent long Easter holidays. Once the teams had all turned up to the ground on a warm April, introductions and the format for the day was explained to everyone.
There were two ‘Bromley Bears’ teams, two ‘Wallington Wanderers’ teams, a ‘Hayes Harriers’ team, a team from ‘Gidea Park’, ‘South Loughton’, ‘Essex V.I.’ and two teams from ‘Westlea’. They were all split into two competitions – a V.I. tournament and a Mixed Ability tournament and with the sun shining we got into the first few games.
Throughout the day, the players were saying how much they enjoyed playing new people from different clubs as a lot of the players play in their County teams and so it was good that they could play against people with different types of abilities. From talking to the parents as well the biggest difference noticed was the improvement in the standard of cricket from the year before.
On the V.I. pitch we had a mini-County tournament going with Kent, Essex and Middlesex. With Essex having some very experienced players smashing the ball over the boundary, Middlesex and Kent showed the great enthusiasm they had with some good young talent coming through. In the Mixed Ability league here was some fantastic cricket, with 4’s and 6’s being hit, wickets being taken, run outs and the odd one handed catch too! As we neared the end of the day the results started to come in.
In the V.I. competition, the final was between Essex and Middlesex. Essex got a few too many runs on the board as Middlesex struggled, so making the Essex the victors.
Kent weren’t left empty handed but they took home the ‘Sporting Achievement’ reward for being the team of the day. They had a very young team led by an inspirational Captain and they kept their spirits high for the whole day - well done Kent!
In the Mixed Ability competition the winners were ‘Wallington Wanderers’ winning all of their games, with ‘Gidea Park’ coming in close second only losing one game.
As the medals where given out and the day wound down, the day had proved to be a great success with the players in all teams managing to play lots of cricket with the spectators enjoying watching.
A huge well done to the organising C4C team!
