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Outdoor Nets Start Saturday

Tomorrow is our first outdoor nets session of the season! 10 am at Lansdown CC.

Weather Wins...

Yep, unfortunately the groundsman has had to call off our warmup game due to the ground being totally waterlogged. No chance of preparing a wicket so even if today's better weather continued tomorrow it would be to no avail.

So, our first proper match is a week on Thursday. Let me know if you can play... let's get off to a solid start!

British Weather!

Extraordinary isn't it!

Hoping we'll be able to play our season-opening friendly warm up on Wednesday night... but if not, there's always the nice warm new bar!

News from Down Under

Steve Barnes has emailed from his parents' home in New Zealand in anticipation of joining us again for the 2012 season:

"I am back soon and would love to play again for Hay Hill CC. Last season was a blast and by the looks of things, we are in for a whole lot more fun!"

Dan Williams has returned from visiting New Zealand and Australia and is raring to go. He brought back a fantastic present... a Kookaburra bat for the club! Good on yer, sport.

Season Almost Here!

Can't wait for the final act of the pre-season a warm-up game and social at our newly refurbished ground next Wednesday night.

It is beautiful and worth coming along and checking out even if you can't stay and play.

Lansdown Nets Transformed

Well done to our team of Walton, Sparrowhawk, Garratt and Shearman for making Lansdown CC's nets a whole lot better for the upcoming season on Saturday.

More can be done as we begin to use them in May but it was a very rewarding morning spent drilling and fixing and patching. There are a couple of photos accessible through the Twitter feed.

Award Winners

At our Awards Dinner, Dan and Matt were the big winners, picking up two awards each, whilst the champagne award went to Kev Okell (not that he knows it yet!) and the comedy award of a clown hat was flown all the way to New Zealand for Steve Barnes.

It was a great night. Well done everyone. Season stats will be posted on the website asap.

Fixture List Growing

The trophies are ready to be handed out to worthy winners for 2011's top performances... but once tomorrow night's Hay Hill CC Awards Dinner has been fully celebrated, all eyes will be fixed on the 2012 fixture list.

This year is likely to see more games than ever before, and it's looking like we'll be playing two new opponents as well!

See our Google Calendar to follow the latest dates as they are firmed up, and then they will appear in the official fixture list by the end of March.

2012 Pre-season starts soon!

After a very quiet and long winter break, nets start the first week of February on Thursday nights at Beechen Cliff School in Bath. Bring it on!

All Time Low

The wheels well and truly came off Hay Hill's season on Sunday as the excellent bowling attack of the Venturers dismantled a decent batting lineup. The result was a record low total of 62 all out, and prompted talk of extra training sessions!

The highlight of the game was when Venturers just needed one to win and Martyn Evans induced a big top edge from Sharma. It seemed to have cleared specialist fielderJack Davies but he dived and strecthed out a hand, and somehow took the most extraordinary catch I've ever seen! To top it off, Martyn then got the next man in LBW and gave us a warm consolation glow as we lost by 7 wickets.

Trying to restore some pride, a 16 over game was arranged for after tea, and Hay Hill bowled and fielded well to dismiss the opposition for 82, but sadly it just wasn't our day and we sank to another miserable score of 67 all out! Oh well, at least it was a nice day in the sunshine...