Last year BGCC website followers voted that James Riley was the club’s “Personality of the Year”, who will follow him by winning this year’s online poll. Why not case your vote for one of this year’s 6 contenders? Adam Brace was the club’s second highest wicket taker in the season with 35. Often playing both
Barrow’s Sunday 3rd XI will start the 2019 season by playing Kilmersdon away at the Peasedown St John ground on 5th May, hoping to improve on their poor batting performance there last season. Lympsham & Belvedere are the first Sunday visitors to Hobbs Lane on the following weekend. For the full fixture list recently published
To continue our attempt to cast off the winter cricketing blues, BGCC website recalls our summer tour with the first part of our tour diary: Leading up to the beginning of August, there were doubts as to whether the famous Barrow Gurney Cricket Tour would take place at all. The hotel had cancelled on us,
Over the coming weeks, BGCC’s website will be looking back at yet another successful Cricket Tour to Devon. As the weather gets colder and our cricketers go into hibernation or turn to other sports, reminders of the summer just gone will help keep out those winter chills! We start today by publishing a selection of
Barrow Gurney CC will hold its AGM next Sunday 11th November at The Angel Inn, Long Ashton. The meeting, which begins at 7.30pm, is a chance for all members of the club to have their say over the how it is developing and growing and to appoint the committee and captains/vice captains for next season.
2018 First Team Captain Phil Milton reflects on the 2018 season: Barrow Gurney CC 1st XI began the season away to Bath 4’s and started with a fantastic win thanks to the late hitting of Matt Owen taking us to 237-9, Oscar Livesey then was the pick of the bowlers picking up 4 wickets giving
Barrow Gurney’s Sunday 3rd XI, who play in the North Somerset Sunday Conference Division 4, have been told they will face a full 18 game fixture list in 2019 despite a re-ordering of the leagues to accommodate some teams withdrawing and others entering the league for the first time. Barrow’s opponents will be: Bitton, Blagdon,
Barrow Gurney Cricket Club held its annual awards evening last Friday. Due to the ongoing good weather it was possible to host the awards at the Hobbs Lane ground where Jane Holdaway had prepared a buffet supper for all to enjoy. Chairman Pete Holdaway had set a fiendish quiz based on the strange mix of
The cricket season ended at Hobbs Lane with the traditional Double Wicket Competition which was won by the partnership of Frank Forge and Rob Figuereido, who beat the sibling pair of Ellie and Ed Holdaway in a close-run final. With teams drawn from a hat, there was little time to plan tactics as the players
As the sun set on another cricket season, a dozen of Barrow’s players headed off to Thornbury Golf Club for an autumn golf championship. The event was very well organised by Ali Hood to allow participation from golfers of differing standards and as Ali was the self-appointed Handicap Committee it was perhaps no surprise that