Now that the clocks have gone back it seems a long time ago when Barrow Gurney Cricket Club presented its end of season awards. We take a look back at the award winners and celebrate their achievements. Guy Fisher was the winner of a special award in recognition of him scoring 1,000 runs for Barrow
The North Somerset League has issued details of the composition of divisions for next season. Barrow Gurney, will continue to play in Division 4 and will meet Bristol Bangladeshis, Churchways, Charlton Super Kings, Exiles (Bath), Hanham, Harptree, Keynsham, Kilmersdon and Westerleigh in a full programme of 18 matches. Full fixtures will be published on this
Ali Hood triumphed once again at the Autumn BGCC golf day, beating the blustery conditions and occasionally heavy rain, to post a record afternoon score for the tournament at Thornbury Golf Club. As the twelve Barrow players and friends teed up on Friday the relative calm of the morning gave little indication as to what
Barrow Gurney saw the cricket season to a close on Sunday with an enjoyable event at Hobbs Lane, hosted by Premil Fernando. Premil brought together a team of players from his old school to play a Barrow Gurney XI in a friendly T20 game, before an afternoon of fun and a chance to sample some
Barrow Gurney’s end of season celebrations saw a rare, perhaps unique event as brother and sister duo, Frank and Bernie Forge, won the annual double wicket competition. A glorious autumn morning greeted 14 players ready to do battle for the prestigious annual trophy. Players were drawn from 2 pools to make up the pairings and
Barrow Gurney’s Sunday XI finished their league season with a win away at Keynsham. Winning the toss, the Barrow captain, Mark Forge, soon found himself needing to be involved in a recovery after the early loss of Ali Hood without scoring. Forge (10) and Colin Fletcher dug in with a 42-run partnership over 13 overs,
As Guy Fisher crowned an excellent season by hitting his 1,000th run for Barrow, the Firsts missed a good chance for a podium position after a promising season. Both the 2nds and Sunday XI lost heavily. On Saturday Barrow Gurney First XI finished agonisingly 13 runs short of a victory which would have seen them
Barrow Gurney First XI pulled off a convincing win against Congresbury 2nd XI this weekend with another good all-round performance. The 2nds lost again, not really getting into their stride against Carsons Mangotsfield whilst the Sunday team (without a league fixture) enjoyed a trip to Allerton to play Axbridge and an opportunity to give the
Barrow Gurney’s cricket teams were heavily in debt to the Owen family this Saturday with outstanding performances in both Saturday games. The 1st XI pulled off a win at Almondsbury, but the 2s season of misfortune continued as they let slip a winning position at home. Away at Almondsbury, Barrow bowled well as a unit
Barrow Gurney CC recently lost another of its former stalwarts, Bill Nutt, and we extend our condolences to his family and friends. Geoff Saunders writes with some personal memories of Bill…. Bill and his late brother Colin played for Barrow in the 1950s until he retired in the very early 1970s. There are still some