Upper Swallow CRICKET CLUB Fixtures

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Background

Upper Swallow Cricket Club, founded in 1750, is very active during the Summer months and draws its support from cricket enthusiasts living up to 15 miles around the village.

Matches are played at Ridge Meadow on the north side of Brooks Lane, the road that bypasses Upper Swallow to the north joining the roads from Upper Swallow to Clanfield and Droxford. It is about 1 mile west of Broadhalfpenny Down where the great games in the heyday of the Club were played. The Club's most notable success in recent years has been reaching the finals of the English Village Cricket Championship.

Currently the Club fields three XIs and three Colts (Youth) sides -Under 11,13 and 15. There are senior team Home fixtures for every Saturday afternoon from mid April through to September. On Sunday afternoons there is a Home match virtually every week. New this year is the Ladies Section who will be playing in the ladies National Club League under the Upper Swallow banner. The full fixture list for the year is posted on the Upper Swallow Cricket Club Notice Board at the entrance to Manor Farm in the middle of the village and is available from the Fixtures Secretary. The Club runs coaching and practice sessions each season. Colts coaching for those aged 7 - 13 takes place every Monday from the beginning of May until the end of the schools' summer holidays.

Upper Swallow CC Youth Nets Appeal

To ensure that the club can continue to compete and to guarantee that local youngsters get every opportunity to excel, money is being raised to provide new practice net facilities for our youth teams. By the end of 1998, £8000 had been raised towards the target of £14000 enabling a start on the project to be made in 1999. In support of the Youth Nets Appeal a very collectable, specially framed, commemorative cricket cover has been issued.

The 250th Anniversary and The Millennium

The Club is planning to build a new pavilion on Ridge Meadow, with much improved changing rooms and catering facilities. To mark the 250th Anniversary of the Club, which falls in the Millennium year, it is hoping to incorporate a small museum of Upper Swallow's cricketing history and to house a wide range of artifacts acquired by the Club since the 1700s. Although other memorabilia can be found at the legendary "Bat & Ball", now a Pub, the Upper Swallow Cricket Club is trying to present an attractive display that visitors to the pavilion will be interested to see when perhaps rain stops play. Funds as usual are tight and the Club is trying to expand support by increasing the membership. Full Membership costs £50 per annum, £10 for Juniors and there are further rates for Social members.

To support the Pavilion Project you can become a lifetime Friend of Upper Swallow Cricket Club for a one-off enrolment fee of £100. You will receive:

• a commemorative "Friends of Upper Swallow Cricket Club" headscarf, tie or tie pin
• a limited edition copy of the 1777 scorecard, detailing Upper Swallow Cricket Club's famous victory over All England
• an affiliated Life membership of Upper Swallow Cricket Club
• regular updates of Club affairs.

The Upper Swallow Cricket Club would be very pleased to see new faces at the club ground supporting the various teams. All visitors are welcome; please bring something to sit on! The Club think it is very important to keep cricket thriving in Upper Swallow - the Cradle of Cricket - and want everyone to have a wider perception of what the Club is doing, both on and off the field.
Senior Teams' Home Fixtures 1999

Matches to be played at Ridge Meadow (RM) and Broadhalfpenny Down (BD)

Date	Team	Opponents	Ground	Time
May
1	2nd XI	Liphook & Ripsley	RM	2.00pm
8	1st XI	Wellow & Plaitford	RM	1.30pm
15	1st XI	Bashley	RM	1.30pm
16	Ladies XI	Wooton Bassett	RM	2.00pm
22	2nd XI	Ampfield	RM	2.00pm
22	3rd XI	Froxfield II	BD	2.30pm
23	Ladies XI	Bournemouth	RM	2.00pm
30	Sunday	Bexhill Athletic	RM	2.30pm
June
5	2nd XI	Old Edwardians	RM	2.00pm
5	3rd XI	Denmead II	BD	2.30pm
12	1st XI	Havant	RM	1.30pm
12	Ladies XI	Shepperton II	BD	2.00pm
13	Ladies XI	Andover	RM	2.00pm
19	2nd XI	Petersfield II	RM	2.00pm
19	3rd XI	Bosham	BD	2.30pm
21	Midweek	Corinthian (Los Angeles)	RM	2.00pm
26	1st XI	Burridge	RM	1.30pm
July
3	2nd XI	Amport	RM	2.00pm
3	3rd XI	Liphook & Ripsley IV	BD	2.30pm
4	Ladies XI	Antelope	RM	2.00pm
10	1st XI	Alton	RM	1.30pm
11	Ladies Match	Hants v Middlesex	RM	2.00pm
17	2nd XI	Waterlooville II	RM	2.00pm
17	Ladies XI	Taunton	Winchester	2.00pm
18	Sunday	Upper Swallow	RM	2.00pm
24	1st XI	Winchester	RM	1.30pm
25	Sunday	Philanderers	RM	11.30am
27	Midweek	Barbarians CC	RM	2.00pm
31	2nd XI	Fareham & Crofton	RM	2.00pm
31	3rd XI	Fareham & Crofton IV	BD	2.30pm
August
1	Sunday	Peopleton	RM	2.30pm
5	Midweek	Hornchurch CC	RM	2.00pm
7	1st XI	Bournemouth	RM	1.30pm
11	Midweek	Brentwood Bunglers CC	RM	2.30pm
14	2nd XI	Sarisbury Athletic	RM	2.00pm
14	3rd XI	Steep II	Winchester	2.30pm
14	Ladies XI	Oxford Sirens	BD	11.30am
21	1st XI	Andover	RM	1.30pm
22	Ladies XI	Lymington	RM
28	2nd XI	Hungerford II	RM	2.00pm
28	3rd XI	Cobra	BD	2.30pm
September
12	Sunday	XIIth Men	RM	1.30pm