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Roles & Responsibilities

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In a bid to overcome some of the confusion regarding who does what and when regarding the availability and the selection of teams, the committee has drawn up the following roles and responsibilities for members, match secretaries and match captains. A downloadable version is available here.
 
This should help new members in particular by highlighting the dark arts of team selection, and ensure that it operates in a consistent manner throughout the year.
 
Of particular concern is the lack of response to emails, and it would make everyone’s life easier if replies were more forthcoming this year.

Roles & Responsibilities
for
Players, Match Secretaries & Match Captains

Players

  • To respond to all communications in good time, especially those requesting availability
  • To ensure any changes to their availability are communicated to Match Secretaries as soon as possible
  • If selected to play, to ensure that they arrive at the ground in good time
  • If selected as a reserve, to ensure that they are still available to play in case of late withdrawals
  • To pay their match fees immediately after the game
  • For home matches, to help with set up of the ground before the game and clearing up afterwards as directed by the Match Captain
  • Match Secretaries

  • To request availability for fixtures in good time via the club emailing list (barfordcc@barfordcc.org.uk)
  • To ensure that teams are selected equitably, but with preference given to fully paid-up members (and tea volunteers)
  • To nominate a Match Captain in case the club captain and vice-captain are unavailable
  • To nominate a tea-maker (preferably a volunteer) for home matches and ensure that they understand what is required of them
  • To communicate team selections and any late changes via the club emailing list to ensure transparency
  • To nominate an alternate contact for members (usually the Match Captain) in case they are uncontactable on match day
  • To maintain records of availability and selections and pass these on to subsequent match secretaries
  • To confirm the fixture with the opposition at the start of the week preceding the match, agree the start time and exchange contact details in case of bad weather
  • Match Captains

  • To liaise with the Match Secretary regarding team selections and opposition contact details
  • To act as an alternate contact in case the Match Secretary is uncontactable on match day
  • To collect, or nominate an individual to collect match fees from all players after the game, and in the case of match fees from the opposition and ensure the tea-maker is paid
  • To nominate individual(s) for home matches to tidy the clubhouse after the game
  • To ensure the game is played in the correct spirit and that all players abide by the club’s agreed code of conduct
  • To be responsible for ensuring the welfare of junior players during the game especially with respect to ECB guidelines:
  • Bowling (U13 – 5 overs per spell, U15 – 6 overs per spell, U19 – 7 overs per spell)
    Fielding (no close fielding allowed within 10 yards of the bat)
    Batting – helmets with a faceguard must be worn at all times

    2017 Preseason Party

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    Now that the clocks have finally gone forward, the countdown to the new season has begun in earnest. The first milestone to be reached is the Preseason Party. We are very grateful to Sandy and Mary for hosting the annual get-together again this year, where the club comes together to look forward to the new season.

    Everyone is welcome whether young or old, new to the club or a seasoned veteran. Please bring your wives, girlfriends, partners, children, family or friends with you. The more the merrier. It is your opportunity to have a drink, a bite to eat and a chat with as many of your team mates before the serious stuff of actually playing cricket begins a week or so later.

    Please let Simon International know whether you are coming along as we need to adjust the catering accordingly!

    Winter Nets 2017

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    Its time to dust off your off-whites as winter nets are underway and will be running as follows:

    * Sunday 22nd January at Warwick School for 6 weeks between 11:00 and 12:30, to be followed by a debrief in a local hostelry

    * Monday 6th March at Kenilworth Wardens for 6 weeks between 20:00 and 21:30, to be followed by a debrief in the bar

    Sessions cost £3 for adults and £1 for juniors, and should be enlivened by the presence of the new bowling machine (which can at the very least propel the ball in your general direction!)

    Bowling machine

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    In conjunction with Barford Sports Club, we are now the proud co-owners of a shiny new Paceman Pro bowling machine. It will be based at the King George’s Playing Field in Barford and once the electricity has been connected will be available for practice use on the MUGA as well as at winter nets.

    As it is capable of propelling cricket balls at both 70mph and more or less in the same place as the previous one, it already outperforms the majority of our attack. It’s just a shame it’s even less mobile in the field than Pete Romyn, otherwise I think we’d be picking it every week.

    Vice-chairman Simon Morgan and occasional club stalwart Mark Griffin put it through it’s paces(!) today and save for the missing feeder assembly all seemed to be working well.

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    The following clip shows how fearsome this machine is to face in real life…

    2016 Preseason Party

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    This years Preseason Party will be held at the Johnstone residence in Barford. Full details are available here.

    Everyone is welcome whether young and old, new to the club or a seasoned veteran. Please bring your wives, girlfriends, partners, children, family or friends with you. The more the merrier. It is your opportunity to have a drink, a bite
    to eat and a chat with as many of your team mates before the serious stuff of actually playing cricket begins a week or so later.

    2016 Quiz Night Update

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    A huge thank-you to all involved in the successful quiz night over the last weekend. Especially to Simon International who organised and hosted the event with his usual gusto, despite a last-minute brush with the boys in blue!

    A total of 12 teams competed, with the Moonies eventually coming out on top, helped by a cracking score in the uniquely idiosyncratic round of “guess the darts-player from their walk-on music”. (Note to Simon – don’t bother with that again!)

    Prizes were again presented by the Chairman who made a belated appearance after some protracted “contract negotiations” at the Ricoh area following the Leicester-Wasps and England-Wales fixtures…

    2016 Quiz Night

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    Join us for a night of cryptic quizzing at Barford Village Hall on Saturday 12th March 2016 (7:00pm for a 7:30pm start).

    Quiz master extraordinaire Martin Lusby will be at Twickenham this year watching perennial under-achievers England lose a crunch game to the plucky Welsh again, so his stunt-double Simon International is taking over the reins at the annual Barford Quiz. It’ll be the usual format of questions+drink+food, although you may have to brush up your knowledge on speedway, cocktail recipes and the history of Butlins…

    Prices have been frozen at last year’s levels, despite the protestations of the Treasurer, so at £8 a head it’s an absolute steal including a two-course meal rustled up by the club’s finest chefs. This is one of the main fund-raisers for the year, so the club needs your support – make sure you put it in your diary now!

    Teams of 4 for preference, but Simon International is always happy to play match-maker given the opportunity, so don’t worry if you’re an odd or a sod. Contact Simon on either 07851 122333 or at
    simonxk8@hotmail.co.uk to reserve your table and avoid disappointment…

    Disastrous Drops and Fielding Flops

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    At this year’s Annual Dinner, Barford’s answer to the Cohen brothers (or perhaps the Chuckle Brothers depending on your point of view), Simon Drage and Ben Griffin re-enacted some of the key fielding moments from this years campaign. Although the production qualities are perhaps not up to the most exacting standards, Simon evidently poured his heart and soul into the acting and has certainly managed to fully inhabit the characters he was playing.

    Given the vast range of actual cock-ups that they could have chosen, it was nothing short of miraculous that they managed to short list only 6 entries in each of the two categories: Disastrous Drops and Fielding Flops.

    Disastrous Drops

    Fielding Flops

     

    Romyn’s of the Day

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    Pete Romyn has been a faithful servant of Barford Cricket Club for more years than most of us can remember. He was one of the original “lifers”, whose injection of funds ensured the clubs survival through difficult times, and yet by playing on for over 20 years he cannily ensured a small profit on the deal(!) He also served conscientiously as club Secretary during the difficult negotiations at Hareway Lane. He always played with a smile on his face, unless he’d just tweaked something, but was perhaps never happier than when settled down with a cup of tea and a cake at the break.

    His predilection for timed games did set him apart from most of his team-mates, and his method of play never really adapted to the bash and crash of limited overs cricket. However, an encyclopaedic knowledge of the laws meant that he was always the first to be consulted on some of the more obscure aspects of the game and underpinned his re-invention as a league umpire.

    His last match at Radway was captured by our celebrated paparazzo and shows of the full range of his unique cricketing abilities (or perhaps not).

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    Sandy Peirson delivered a touching eulogy at the Annual Dinner, but as the majority of it was potentially libellous and fairly unprintable (revealing the Chairman’s unseemly fascination with thongs), it is unlikely that it will ever see the light of day again. In it’s absence the following doggerel has been offered up by the Treasurer for your delectation and delight:

    Pete Romyn like a very fine wine
    Gets better with age unlike Simon Drage
    Who’s yet to turn 40 or so we believe
    He celebrates next year on Saturday eve.

    But back to young Pete. The stalwart and lifer.
    Paid up his subs and traded his wife-for
    retirement of golf and leather on willow.
    So much that he sleeps on the spare bedroom pillow.

    He knows all about laws and wides and no balls.
    In a quandary of umpiring? Pete takes the calls.
    Are you out if the batsmen cross running a three
    when the ball comes back in and gets stuck in a tree?
    Or what about LB when no shot is offered
    but the umpire was sleeping so’s simply not bovvered.

    His on field prowess is unmatched ‘cross the lands.
    He fields with holes in his feet, side and hands.
    He bats with aplomb and maidens fly by.
    Serve a buffet? He’ll block it and keep out the pie.

    But his bowling pays dividends. Just check out the tour stats.
    Bowled 2 for just six runs and kept out the big bats.
    He won us the match with some help from the rest.
    He was MOTM yes the best of the best.

    He almost scored 50 a few years ago.
    Batting fifth out at Napton the old Barford foe.
    Young Romyn, only 62 playing on fire.
    The score rising higher and higher and higher.
    When he reached 48 hit the wall. Blocked a few.
    Then the innings ran out, on came tea and a brew.
    But he still bought a jug for the team post the game.
    What a jolly good fellow! Romyn is the name.

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    Everyone at Barford wishes Pete in his “retirement” and we’ll all hopefully look forward to seeing him as a spectator/umpire at some of our games next year…

    2015 Annual Dinner Report

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    40 odd of Barford’s finest (and a few hangers on) attended the Annual Dinner at Merchants in Warwick, hosted by our fun-loving Social Secretary and Captain. The meal was up to their usual high standards and was enjoyed (I think!) by all. Interspersed with the courses were a selection of prizes, and speeches from the Captain reflecting on the season past, and the Chairman on the career of Pete Romyn who has metaphorically hung up his boots – if the chairman manages to supply a publishable version of his B C C Chairman’s poem 2015 then it can be shared with the wider world.

    This year’s video production by DGM (Drage Griffin Masterworks) was a stunning reconstruction of the entries in the Worst Drop and Fielding Flop prize categories, and included some memorable impersonations (especially of the Vice-Chairman). Hopefully these can also be made available at a later date!

    Many thanks to everyone involved in organising such a fantastic event, and especially to Simon Drage and Ben Griffin for their unique hosting. The prize-winners on the night were as follows:

    Award Recipient
    Clubman of the Year Simon Morgan
    Batsman of the Year Jake Farquhar
    Bowler of the Year Simon Hawkins
    Fielder of the Year Simon Drage
    Most Catches Simon Drage
    Champagne Moment Ben Griffin
    Champagne Disaster Simon Morgan
    Midweek MOM Paul Johnstone
    Midweek TFC Ben Griffin
    Most Ducks James Kavanagh
    Worst Drop Sandy Peirson
    Fielding Flop Phil Morris
    Best Tea Will Perry and Shawn Harrison
    Best Scorer Layla Staveley
    Best Retirement Pete Romyn

     



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