Amersham CC

The pre-season Quiz Night and first social event of 2010 will take place at the club on Friday 26th March commencing at 7.30pm for an 8.00pm start. Our quizmaster for the evening will be David Atkinson and we would like to invite you to make up teams of 6-8, don't worry if you can't get a table together as we will do this on the night. The cost of the evening will be £10 which includes fish or chicken with chips and a free drink. Please do all you can to support the evening and let me know how many are coming and what meal you would like.

Nick Piper

I am pleased to report that Ashley Turney, who has only been with us and playing cricket for 2 seasons has been selected for the Bucks U14 County squad.

This is a terrific achievement - well done!

Philip Ketteringham

I'm pleased to report that two of our Amersham Colts have progressd through the County Trials for the upcoming season:

Philip Lloyd has got through to the U11 County squad and George Cooke is the squad reserve from the U10's.

Congratulations to them both and we hope that they both have successful seasons and carry the Amersham CC success with them.

Philip Ketteringham

The dates for the senior nets (Under 15's & older) for ACC have now been agreed from 18:00 - 20:00 on the following dates - please contact David Atkinson atko@challoners.com or Dan Colquhoun dco@challoners.com for details.

7th Feb
14th Feb
21st Feb
7th March
14th March
21st March
28th March
4th April
11th April

These are changing for the 2010 season as follows - I will update the download page accordingly

AGE PREVIOUS MAX SPELL / DAY UPDATED MAX SPELL / DAY
U13 4 / 8 5 / 10
U14 & U15 5 / 10 6 / 12
U16 & U17 6 / 18 7 / 18
U18 & U19 7 / 21 7 / 18


For these purposes a fast bowler should be defined as a bowler to whom a wicket keeper in the same age group would in normal circumstances stand back to take the ball

I am pleased to report that yesterday evening, the appeal lodged by Ian Rogers and the Club against his suspended one match ban for next season was upheld and he now continues to have a completely unblemished record for discipline during his career.

I am pleased that both the Club and Ian can put this behind us and that he can now carry on pushing the batting record even further out of anybody else's reach.

Philip Ketteringham - 18/11/2009

In a nail biter, Amersham beat GX - full details are here: http://www.amershamcc.co.uk/scorecard/fixtureID_111310/Saturday1stX1_v_GerrardsCross_12-Sep-2009.aspx

The honours board on the site has nnow been updated with the winners of the awards for 2009.

The senior awards will be, in part, decided by performances during the final matches this weekend.

My text of the awards evening follows:

Amersham CC Colts 2009 – End of Season
Welcome Ladies & Gentlemen, Boys & Girls.

This is the final Colts function of our 153rd year of the club – A year that seems to have been blighted on many Monday evenings by bad weather, which has been a great shame – I think that we only managed to have a handful of BBQs at the beginning of the season.

It can’t really have surprised us that numbers fell during the holiday period – I expect most of you sought more pleasant weather abroad.

Numbers were down again slightly this year – exams & other sports taking their toll.

Next year will prove a challenge as we have lost David Mackintosh as a manager, who has been a very loyal supporter of all our activities, but we wish him well in his semi-retirement. We need more helpers for our coaches and other volunteers, so I hope that some of you parents here can put yourselves forward for some tasks in 2010.

Some of our coaches do not now have sons who are still Colts at the club and we cannot expect them to carry on forever. Any Dads or Mums out there who can help out would be most welcome – coaching qualifications are not a necessity.

One thing that may help is that we have been asked on a number of occasions over the past couple of years to have our training sessions on a Sunday morning and we will make that move for the younger ones – the exact split will be announced over the winter.

I would like you all to thank our other helpers and ground staffs this year for all of their efforts in what has been a busy season, not only on Monday evenings, but also for the preparation of wickets & pitches for all of our matches.

One further event for this year were the Summer Camp weeks and I hope that these were enjoyable – my thanks to David Sidebottom & Stuart Rogers for running these and I hope that these can be repeated.


Apart from the age group competitions from U19 to U17, the Colts have also been representing the Saturday Senior teams and the Sunday X1’s, the introduction of the Sunday 2nd X1 being down to the efforts of Peter Davies, Alan Breckenridge & Huw Thomas

May I wish you all a good evening and winter and I will hand over to your coaches and age group managers for the presentation of the awards etc for the year.

One last point from me is that we will be collecting the Tesco vouchers for Sports equipment again, for which the promotion will be starting soon – please save them up for us.

And finally, if you can, please come along to High Wycombe CC at 12:30 this Saturday to support our 1st X1 who are in the final of the Bucks Cup for the first time in our history.

I’ll now hand over to your coaches for the presentation of the awards.

Amersham 2nd XI are promoted after clinching runners-up spot in Division 4a, with a 4 wicket victory over Chesham.

We have learnt from his son Simon, that sadly, Terry Clarke passed away yesterday evening at Stoke Mandeville hospital.

We extend our condolences to his family.

Even though he had suffered from poor health for a number of years, he still regularly made it down to the club for a glass of red on a Saturday & Sunday afternoon and will be sadly missed as a friend & stalwart supporter of the club over many years.

The funeral arrangements are a Private Cremation Service and a Service of Thanksgiving at Chenies Church on 16th September at 11.30 am.