Thursday 14 April 2011

Oh! What a day!

Around 200 volunteers, 40 guests and 60 children enjoyed a remarkable day improving and refurbishing the cricket club’s facilities. About £60,000 of work was completed on the day from painting the changing rooms, erecting some new sight screens to enlarging the patio outside the main pavilion.
The volunteers with gifts from the England & Wales Cricket Board

The local volunteers were joined on the day by former England captains Michael Vaughan and Mike Gatting, current England test player Ajmal Shahzad and Women Test cricketers Jenny Gunn and Katherine Brunt. Apart from helping the volunteer s Jenny and Katherine opened the refurbished changing room especially for the female members of the club.
Ajmal Shahzad, Jenny Gunn, Katherine Brunt & Michael Vaughan - moving the soil from the enlarged patio
The event was formally opened by former England opening batsman Dennis Amiss, the Deputy Chairman of the England & Wales Cricket Board who presented the club with a print signed by all the captains of the county championship competition. Michael Hopkins, chairman of Sawley & Long Eaton Park CC, also accepted gifts from Bowden Ltd of a Bowdry ‘water hog’ and from Stuart Covers a single wicket rain cover – both gifts should enable more cricket to be played on rain affected days.

Later in the day Jenny Gunn and Katherine Brunt opened the refurbished girls dressing room complete with two mirrors.

The club, who gained promotion to the Derbyshire County Cricket League Division 1 last season, look set for a successful season and bright future.

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