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Herefordshire County Cricket Club friendly cancelled

12:06pm Thursday 11th April 2013

HEREFORDSHIRE County Cricket Club's friendly fixture against the club's second Xl, scheduled for Eastnor on Sunday, has been cancelled.

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Herefordshire suffer blow as former Gloucestershire star Adshead ruled out

9:00am Thursday 4th April 2013

HEREFORDSHIRE wicketkeeper-batsman Steve Adshead could be out for the 2013 season, after picking up an ankle injury playing football.

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Eastnor Cricket Club to host international and Test stars in Lashings side

8:00am Thursday 4th April 2013

EASTNOR Cricket Club will host a selection of former cricketing superstars when the Lashings World XI come to Clenchers Mill Lane on Friday, August 2.

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Wormelow skipper Ben Owens hoping for top Worcestershire League Division Two season

8:00am Thursday 28th March 2013

WORMELOW’S new captain is aiming for a battle at the right end of the table for the current season.

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Mark Owen wins 23rd Herefordshire County men's singles title

2:00pm Wednesday 27th March 2013

MARK Owen has carried off the men’s singles title at the Herefordshire County Championships for the 23rd time.

England coach Ashley Giles helps out at Herefordshire girls cricket coaching session

10:00am Thursday 21st March 2013

ENGLAND coach Ashley Giles visited his sister last week - and helped train a group of young cricketers in Hereford.

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Former Herefordshire cricketer Steve Watkins backs county lads

10:00am Thursday 7th March 2013

FORMER Herefordshire cricketer Steve Watkins wants to see more local lads playing for the county and has saluted the plans for a new second team. The ex-Worcestershire and Wales Minor Counties all-rounder admits he caused controversy in the past after questioning Herefordshire’s selection policy. Watkins believes Herefordshire’s newly-created second team being run by Tom Bevan is ‘hugely important’ for aspiring young players in the area. “The new second-team is hugely important for cricket in Herefordshire,” said 54-year-old Watkins, a former Lady Hawkins’ School pupil. “It needs to be the way forward. We need to get the lads playing in Herefordshire up to the standard. “The better cricketers you play against, the better you can become. “There are not many clubs in Herefordshire who are playing at a high standard at the moment. “Kington are not playing at the level they used to and we only have a couple of clubs in the Birmingham League. “We have to drive up the quality of the players and the clubs in the county. “I would like to see a Herefordshire team packed with local players. “I wrote some letters to the Hereford Times a few years ago saying Herefordshire should be picking local lads. It caused a bit of the stir at the time and there were people who stopped talking to me.” Watkins, who lives in Withington with wife Stella, played for Herefordshire in their first-ever match in Minor Counties cricket. “We had nine Herefordshire players in the side when we played against Wales,” recalled the former Hereford City player, who later represented Wales Minor Counties and Wales Over-50s. “We were outplayed for five of the six sessions in that match but we won the game. “We won the game and only took about two or three wickets in the game. “It was a very big thing for Herefordshire to get into the Minor Counties and no-one expected us to win that first game. If you spoke to Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, it took them quite a while to get their first win.” Watkins, who grew up in Eaton Bishop, is actively involved in cricket as a level three-qualified coach. He has worked as a development officer with Cricket Wales since September 1999. When he first left school, Watkins went to work for South Herefordshire District Council. He later worked for Terry Court before returning to the council to work on the finance side. He was running Herefordshire Under-10s with Bob Hall when the county played against Cardiff and the Vale at Colwall. “A chap called Malcolm Price was a development officer for Cardiff and he said that the Welsh Cricket Board were going to have a vacancy He landed the role for South-East Wales in Gwent and Mid Wales. “We have five development officers in Wales and we are now employing 18 community coaches across Wales. I line-manage six community coaches and use Monmouthshire Council as a base. It can be nice not to live in the area. A lot of my job in the next year will be in Mid Wales. There’s a lot of work to be done there.” l WELSH club Croesyceiliog became Steve Watkins’ second home for 13 years. He was a club professional for the Cwmbran outfit from 1986 to 1999. “Croesyceiliog were a village side in the Gwent League and had been relegated to Division Two when I joined them,” recalled Watkins. “My first-ever game for them was near Ebbw Vale and I got 100 and took six wickets. But I was almost caught and I should have been out for a duck that day. We won the division that year and then Division One the next. I had great times at the club.”

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Former Kington skipper joins promoted Burghill & Tillington

3:00pm Thursday 14th February 2013

BURGHILL and Tillington Cricket Club have snapped up three new players for their debut season in the Worcestershire County League Division One.

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Herefordshire launch new second team to develop new Minor Counties players

10:00am Thursday 14th February 2013

HEREFORDSHIRE’S best club cricketers will have a chance to stake their claim at county level this summer.

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England coach Ashley Giles' sister Tracy Hodgson calls for girl power in Herefordshire

5:00pm Wednesday 6th February 2013

THE sister of former England spin king Ashley Giles wants Herefordshire girls to give cricket a try.

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Herefordshire Cricket Coaches Association ECB-fielding workshop at Bishop's School, Hereford, on February 12 at 6.30pm

2:45pm Wednesday 30th January 2013

To book a place, email association secretary Marie Ferreira at: ferreiras1@ tiscali.co.uk

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Former Yorkshire star Kevin Sharp recalls his Herefordshire connection

3:00pm Thursday 24th January 2013

ONE of Herefordshire’s old Minor Counties adversaries will be looking forward to a new role when the 2013 cricket season gets underway.

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Herefordshire sides prepare for Sunday League battles

3:00pm Wednesday 23rd January 2013

SIX teams will be competing in this summer’s GB Liners Marches Sunday Cricket League.

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Christiaan Ferreira is new chairman of Herefordshire Cricket Coaches Association

10:00am Thursday 17th January 2013

CRICKET Club all-rounder Christiaan Ferreira says he loves the job he does.

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England Test legends will be coming to Aston Ingham

12:00pm Wednesday 9th January 2013

A STAR-studded side of famous cricketing names will be coming to Aston Ingham this summer.

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Australia action for Herefordshire's county cricketers

4:00pm Monday 24th December 2012

WITH the rain continuing to pour in this country, some of Herefordshire’s Minor Counties squad have taken off to the other side of the world to keep themselves in trim.

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Chance to Shine officer Anna Robertson out to promoe cricket in Herefordshire schools

9:00am Thursday 20th December 2012

CRICKET in Herefordshire looks set to get a big shot in the arm from the bounce and enthusiam of the new Chance to Shine cricket development officer Anna Robertson.

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Herefordshire planning under-17 league for 2013 cricket season

3:00pm Wednesday 19th December 2012

A NEW cricket league for under-17 teams could be taking place on Sunday afternoons in Herefordshire next summer.

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Ewyas Harold Cricket Club on the comeback trail for 2014?

12:00pm Thursday 13th December 2012

EWYAS Harold Cricket Club could be revived in 2014, says Marches League spokesman Derrick Jones.

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Former Sri Lanka Test star Dinusha Fernando will captain Bromyard

8:00am Thursday 13th December 2012

FORMER Sri Lanka Test star Dinusha Fernando will be hoping to lead Bromyard to the Worcestershire County league Division One championship next season.

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