Denholme Clough CC

If anybody is interested in becoming a cricket coach please contact Don Sutcliffe.

Coaching opportunities are available and it would show people that we are serious about cricket.

Spring Draw tickets are still available to buy.

They are available from Denholme Clough members and will be available to buy on the evening of the draw.

If you are able to sell some please contact a committee member to arrange distribution of tickets.

The draw takes place in the clubhouse on 20 March 2010.

The first work parties of the year have been announced.

They will take place on 6 March and 13 March, both from 10:30am, to do some early season ground work and tidy the club house up in time for the spring draw and signing on night.

As always your help is much needed and appreciated.

Denholme Clough's winter nets will take place at Northbridge Leisure Centre and will start on the 21 January 2010 at 8:30pm.

Please do your best to attend and give us the best chance of success this season.

Also nets are available at JMS in Keighley where they have the use of a bowling machine. These will take place on Saturday mornings from 16 January 2010 at 10am. Places for this net are limited. Anybody interested should contact Pete D.

The Denholme Clough committee would like to take this opportunity to remind members of their responsibilities.

After a major incident at the Halifax League Presentation Evening the league has asked clubs to remind their members to be careful of what they write on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo.

The 2010 fixtures have been added to the fixtures section for 2010.

The First XI have bye weeks on 19 June and 4 September, whereas the Second XI have bye weeks on 26 June and 11 September.

The Denholme Clough Spring Draw will take place at the clubhouse on 20 March 2010 at 8:30pm

There are some fabulous prizes to be won including a two night break in London for two people including train travel, a luxury hamper, case of wine and 4 Director's box tickets to Bradford City vs Barnet pluus many other prizes.

Tickets will be distributed shortly to club members and all stubbs need to be returned to the club by the 19 March 2010.

All participants are welcome to the draw.

Good news for Denholme Clough as they were re-elected into the Towergate Halifax Cricket League for 2010.

At the recent league meeting Clough and Augustinians were re-elected, while the league also confirmed that they had received no new applications to enter the league in 2010.

Denholme Clough's annual Presentation Evening was held at Headley Golf Club at the weekend and was a great success.

Brett Wilcock and Alan Parkinson were both double winners, Wilcock claiming the Clubman of the Year and First Team Player's Player prizes and 'Parky' claiming the Second XI batting prize and Players Player.

Jim Holland won the First XI batting prize, Mark Clayton the bowling prize and Ben Waterworth the fielding prize, despite Russell Taylor and Brett Wilcock claiming the same number of fielding marks.

Other Second XI winners were Naz Ahmed (bowling) and Andy Parker (fielding).

Simon Patchett won the Sportsmanship Award, which was first won by Jonny Shaw last year, and there was a special award to Stuart Peacock for playing in each of the last 50 seasons at the club.

Don Sutcliffe and Jim Holland had started the evening with an entertaining review of the season.

Denholme Clough would like to thank Headley for their hospitality and congratulations to the winners. We look forward to another good season in 2010.

Denholme Clough CC held their Annual General Meeting at the weekend.

The main talking point was the state of the clubs finances, as the club lost £970.60. This was a loss for the second year running despite running costs being down by £1770.90.

A spring draw has been organised that will hopefully bring in a large amount. Some fantastic prizes have been donated including a weekend in London for 2 and tickets to Bradford City vs Barnet.

The club is struggling financially as we head into 2010. Anybody who has any fundraising ideas can they let a member of the committee know.

The meeting also saw the election of the club's officials for the upcoming season. Simon Patchett replaces Neil Fawcett as club secretary, Jonathan Shaw shares the league representative duties with Don Sutcliffe and Jim Holland takes on the roles of Child Protection Officer and Cricket Development Group Representative. Pete Dawidowicz was elected to the role of Ground/Building Co-ordinator.

Don Sutcliffe was re-elected as Chairman and Julie Sutcliffe was also re-elected as Treasurer. There is a vacancy for the role of Entertainment/Fundraising Co-ordinator. Anybody interested in this role, or anybody interested in getting involved on the committee should let their interest be known to a committe member.

Jim Holland has been nominated as First XI captain and Alan Parkinson as Second XI captain for the 2010 season. Voting for this will take place at the next committee meeting on 7 December. Anybody wanting to be considered for the roles should again make their interest known to a committee member.

The club members also voted on rule changes for 2010. The first rule change was: "in the event of of a match being abandoned without a ball being bowled, each player shall be required to pay £1 to cover the umpires expenses." The second rule change was to determine a tie-breaker for any prize category at the club awards. It was decided that in the event of a tie, the winner shall be determined by the player who has played the fewest games (see updated constitution in standard forms).

Other news from the meeting included the Alphacast. We still need more people to step up to help sell the tickets and do the draw on a Sunday evening. Anybody willing to help should contact the committee. Also Jonathan Shaw is taking on a task to increase the clubs sponsorship for next season. Anybody interested in sponsoring the club should again contact the committee.

As always we are on the lookout for more players. Details of winter nets shall be out soon. We need to increase our numbers for next season.