News from Penn Cricket Club

DINNER WITH STEVE DALEY - This event has been cancelled

AGM 2010
The 2010 Annual General Meeting will be held at Mount Road on Friday 29th January with a 7.30pm start. All members of the club are encouraged to come along and have their say, and even better, get involved. Penn CC is YOUR club, and the AGM is your opportunity help shape its future.

Penn CC confirms a Women's XI for 2010 Season
Another historic milestone has been recorded by the club. Penn CC has confirmed it has entered a Women’s team in the ECB Division 3 Midlands (West) League. The League comprising of 6 teams from Staffordshire and Shropshire will play 10 games, 5 home and away, from May until August 2010. Hopefully the Women’s team can continue with the success and enjoyment of the Girls team in 2009. Anyone interested in playing competitive Girl’s or Women’s cricket can contact Selwyn Smith for more information or register their interest. selsmith@blueyonder.co.uk

Women's XI - Fixtures

Nets 2010
Winter nets have been booked at Wolverhampton Grammar School commencing 24th January 2010 and continuing through until Easter. Each session will take place between 2pm and 4pm.

Penn 1st XI win T20 final!
Congratulations to Penn's First Team who won the Himley T20 competition on Sunday against Brewood. The Penn boys recovered from losing the toss to put in a sterling performance and bring the trophy back to Mount Road! The whole club sends its warmest congratulations to Richard Bradford's victorious team. See match report

OSCA awards for Penn achievers

Derrick Pickin has been awarded the Lifetime Achiever Award for Worcestershire in the recent Nat West Oscars ceremony at New Road. Adam Finney was awarded the Oscar for Young Volunteer both will now attend the national Oscars awards at Lords in October. Unfortunately Adam was unable to attend as he was on holiday.
Everyone at Penn congratulates Derrick and Adam on their awards and thanks them sincerely for all their efforts in contributing to the success of Penn Cricket Club.

Penn U15 Girls win the final!
Congratulations to the Penn Girls Under 15 side who were victorious in the Worcestershire Lady Taverners cup final! The girls put in a wonderful performance and did the club proud. Everyone at Penn CC is proud of the girls and their incredible achievement in this, their first year. They now progress to the Regional Final at Northants on Sunday 16th August.

There is a photo of the triumphant team in The Gallery

Penn U15 Girls in the final

The Worcestershire Lady Taverners final is now on Saturday 1st August at 10 am at Gamesfield Green. The Under 15s will play Astwood Bank all support would be appreciated. Rachel Heyhoe Flint will be guest of honour.

The girls have fought their way to the culmination of this year's competition and will be going all out for victory. This comes on the back of their winning the Worcestershire Indoor title earlier in the season. The best way to help the girls is to turn up and cheer them on! They deserve as much support as we can muster for their final encounter. Please come along and help make it a day to remember for the girls and the club.

Penn Oscar Nominations

Derrick Pickin and Adam Finney have been nominated for Nat West Oscars and have been asked to attend the Worcs v Warwickshire game when they will be presented with their awards. Derrick Is nominated for long service to cricket with over 60 years involvement in the game being a founder of Tipton Cricket Club in 1949 where he served in most capacities and later with Penn where he has served as Groundsman and Assistant Groundsman .His greatest claim to fame is batting endless overs at Fort Dunlop in the Mercian League to save a game alongside fellow conspirator Paul Tranter where between them they forced Dunlop to give up the ghost with half an hour to play as the opposition players either had fallen asleep or become frozen to the spot. Adam is nominated as a young volunteer for his first team scoring, coaching, involvement with the under 9s tournaments and his contributions to Nat West Cricket Force and Chance to Shine in which he runs school coaching sessions, If they are successful in their category they will go to Lords in October for an afternoon national awards ceremony

The Club wish Derrick's wife Lillian a speedy recovery after her triple bypass operation and heart valve replacement/repair.The operation toook a mamouth nine hours she is now out of intensive care

Dave and Aileen Dain (Gallery Photo now available)
Penn Legend Dave "Top End Mate" Dain and his wife Aileen will be leaving the area on the 8th of May .Dave who will be retiring to Spain is an absolute Penn Legend .Captaining the third team and starting a fourth team at Penn both with the sole aim of bringing through the young talent at Penn who have over the years at Penn themselves gone on and achieved success in their own right

Worcestershire U15’s Girls Indoor Championship 2009 – 29^th March 2009
Following the England Women’s team making history winning the World Cup the Penn U15’s Girls team made history of their own. In an historic day Penn U15’s Girls Cricket Team participated in its very first Girls competitive tournament. Staged at Worcester Grammar School the tournament, played to Lady Taverners rules, was contested by Old Elizabethans, Astwood Bank and Penn U15 Girl’s teams.

In our first game, Amelia Smith won the toss and chose to Field. With exceptional bowling from all of the team, highlights being 2 wickets from Alex Nicklin and a superb Hat trick from Rachael Smith, we restricted Old Elizabethans to of score of 19-5 (net 4). Humera, Alex and Rachael then batted sensibly to take the victory – the First in Penn’s Girls History!

In our next game against Astwood Bank Amelia lost the toss and we were asked to field. Astwood Bank showed their intent from the off and quickly ran several quick singles, but our solid bowling and fielding, including a fantastic reaction catch from Alex Nicklin, matched their intent and after their 8 overs Astwood Bank were 54-1 (51 net). Emily Harris saw off the first over from Astwood’s strike bowler with a solid straight bat, and with Amelia at the other end they set about the task in hand, 12 from the second over put us back on course. Emily lost her wicket in the 3^rd over which bought Rachael to the crease and with Amelia ran quick singles, scoring from walls and corners, to take us to 26 after 5 overs.

An eventful 6^th over saw Amelia retire having reached 20 and Rachael scoring the only 6 of the tournament which kept us on par, 37 from 6 overs, Rowanne joined Rachael and in a nail biting 7^th over the score progressed to 44.

Last ball – Rachael and Rowanne scampered the single to clinch the match – what a finish!! The Girls won and became the Worcestershire U15’s Girls Indoor Champions 2009

Well done to all the team - Alex Nicklin, Rachael Smith, Humera Sajid, Emily Harris, Rowanne Adams, Claudia Chatter, Charlotte Sylvester, Amelia Smith as everyone’s excellent contribution resulted in the team victory

Woman of the Match – Rachael Smith for contributions in both games. See picture in the Gallery

Cricket Tote competition
Season 2009 sees the start of a new tote competition based on Birmingham League cricket scores. It's up to you to predict the results of weekend matches. It costs £2 a time. See Danny Smith for full details.

AGM 2009
This year's AGM takes place at Mount Road on Friday 6th February, 7.30pm. EVERYONE is urged to attend this most important evening. This is one of your main opportunities to discuss club matters with the committee.

Cricket Taster Session for Girls
A Girls Cricket Taster Session is being held at The Dormston School, Sedgley, 2-4pm, 10th January 2009. This FREE session is targeted for Girls in School years 4, 5, 6 & 7 (Age 8-13 years old), however if you know of anyone older than this and is interested in playing cricket they can also make contact.
If you, or someone you know, is interested in attending this session please make contact with Selwyn Smith at selsmith@blueyonder.co.uk or 07771 888679 for registration details and to reserve a place. Click here for more information (Word document).

Shop online and support Penn CC
Why not support Penn CC when you shop online? It won't cost you a penny! Just visit the club's web shop and then click the link to your chosen seller. Penn gets a commission each time a purchase is made at no extra cost to yourself. There are hundreds of popular shops and brands. You may want to buy:

There are many other examples. This is a very simple way of supporting your club.

Young Leaders progress at Penn
On Saturday 18th October 2008, eight of the junior section completed their cricket young leaders course under the guidance of Worcerstershire Performance Coach and Senior Tutor Gavin Haynes. Liam Clamp, Oliver Cowburn, Adil Jiva, Mitchell Jeffrey, Oliver Zaki, Zachery Evans, Danny Bargota and Michael Brown now join Richard Drew ,Tim Smith, Oliver Slimm and Edward Slimm who gained the qualification earlier this year. They will all now be able to assist the club coaches in coaching the younger groups and are now ready to take their full ECB level 1 coaching course. Giles Pargeter and Adam Finney are shortly to complete their full level 1 coaching course. The funding for both of the courses has been provided by the North Worcestershire Cricket Development Group

Fencers do the business
A massive thanks to all the club members who turned out on Saturday 27th September to dismantle the perimeter fence at Mount Road. This is a big and tiring job and difficult to get people to help with. All of the fencing work was completed and your efforts are much appreciated. Pictures of the fantastic fencers are in The Gallery.

Penn CC - Centenary Cricket Kit
The new design for Penn CC Centenary kit has now been finalised and can be seen here. To order the new kit, contact Martin Zaki on 07881 527522. Centenary Kit prices: Shirt £20, Trousers £20, Sleeveless Jumper £20, Long Sleeve Jumper £25

Cricket Force 2008
Penn Cricket Club wishes to send a huge THANK YOU to everyone that helped with the ground improvement work at Gamesfield Green and Mount Road over the weekend of 5th and 6th April. A huge amount of work was completed at both grounds. Pictures are now in the Gallery. Over 50 people turned up on Saturday 5th, and despite the deep snow on Sunday 6th, a full day's work went ahead.

A Video Report of Penn's Cricket Force 2008 has been made by the Express and Star newspaper and is available here.

Congratulations to Moss Patel who won the inaugural Gamesfield Green Grand National Sweepstake by drawing 'Comply or Die'. Moss pockets £20 with second prize going to Bo who gets a tin of chocolates.

Penn Centenary Cricket Kit
Details about special kit to commemorate 100 years of Cricket at Penn will be posted here soon. Details are available now regarding baggy blue Centenary caps at a cost of £10 which will be payable in advance. Contact Ben Young for further details on 07725 915623

Your Contact Details
To improve communication between all members of the club, a database of contact details is being compiled. Could all players, officials, and other members of the club please submit your contact details to Irene or John Marshall. Alternatively email them to penncc@penncc.org and I'll ensure they are passed on. We need your address, telephone number, mobile number, date of birth, and (if applicable) a short description of any work related skills you have..