Barrow Gurney Cricket Club are delighted to welcome some new members of our sponsorship family. Butcombe Brewery are a well-established local business, whose ales are very popular amongst players and supporters of the club. We are delighted that Butcombe will be sponsoring us in our 150th anniversary season. For 2024 the Village End will
2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of Barrow Gurney Cricket Club. On 1 June 1874 a group of 30 villagers including the local Vicar got together and resolved to form a cricket club for the princely annual subscription of half a Crown (12 ½ pence in todays money). The club has a year
It is with great sadness that we heard of the death of Ian White, who played for Barrow Gurney CC in the 1980s with some of the legendary Barrow players. Ian was a tall and effective off spin bowler who took lots of wickets. He loved the ground at Hobbs Lane and took a particular
Barrow Gurney’s members met at its 150th AGM in November to thank its Chairman, Pete Holdaway, for over a decade of leading the club. Pete was presented with a print of Jack Russell’s painting of Cheltenham College’s ground, which he said was his second most favourite ground, after the Hobbs Lane ground which he has
Barrow Gurney CC held their annual awards evening last week in the unusual surroundings of a city centre canteen with the opportunity to eat and drink and catch up with what our colleagues had been doing since the season ended. Of course the focus was the annual awards presentation. Jason Cryans took away the First
Guy Fisher won the inaugural Pool League at Barrow Gurney Cricket Club. Played over 5 weeks after the end of the cricket season, the League featured 10 players in all. Although each player played a different number of matches, as far as possible everybody played each other, and the ultimate winner was to be the
Ali Hood reports on the BGCC Autumn Golf Day: Our latest golf day took place on Monday (2 October) depending on whether you have the Gardy view on life or the more positive outlook we were either unlucky or blessed with the weather! The morning conditions were fine but we did get some rain
Guy Fisher and Nick Heal won the traditional season-ending double wicket competition on Saturday at Hobbs Lane. Morning rain gave way to drizzle and the competition was played largely under leaden skies. As a result the attendance for the barbecue was down on most years. However 9 teams of 2 managed to have an enjoyable
Barrow Gurney’s unbeaten run in the second half of the season continued in their last league game at Hobbs Lane against St Mary Redcliffe with a dominant performance, winning by 140 runs. Choosing to bat first, Barrow openers Ed Holdaway and Sam Mitchell started watchfully but then began to put pressure on the Redcliffe bowlers
Barrow Gurney’s First XI’s winning run continued with an emphatic 53 run victory at Div 4 leaders Bristol 3rd XI. Put into bat and with the constant threat of rain, Barrow set about scoring quickly form the start. Opener Jonny Sykes hit his first ball for 6 and added another before falling for 17. With
