As BGCC’s website looks forward to the 2017 season, this week we meet up with 2nd XI skipper Ellie Holdaway, who led the side to promotion last year. She tells us of a cricketing life which was nurtured at Barrow Gurney, and how the club still has a big place in her life. She also
Barrow Gurney Cricket Club will start their pre-season training at Merchants Academy, Withywood, Bristol on Sunday 5th March between 10am and 12 Noon. All 3 adult teams will be preparing for the 2017 season, together with junior players hoping to play in the Under 15 and Under 13 teams. Over a 5 week period players will be
As we look forward to the 2017 season, BGCC website catches up with Sunday 3rd XI captain Mark Forge, and asks him about his cricketing life and memories both at Barrow Gurney and early in his life. What is your first cricketing memory? I remember playing cricket at primary school in Scarborough. I also
2016 First Team Captain, and lifelong Barrow Gurney boy, Phil Milton tells the BGCC website about his cricketing life and memories. What is your first cricketing memory? Playing my first game for Barrow Gurney aged 12 at the old Imperial Ground in front of the old pavilion. Who encouraged you to play cricket? Paul Mizen and
Barrow’s opening bat, Bernie Forge, received the Somerset Girls Under 17 Batsman of the Year award at the Somerset Women and Girls presentation evening last week at the County Ground at Taunton. Bernie, pictured here with Paul “Sid” Lawrence, the Somerset Women’s Coach, won the prize having scored 417 runs for the Under 17 team
Barrow Gurney’s Sunday team, which has re-joined the North Somerset Sunday Conference, is looking forward to a 16 game season. Playing local rivals Blagdon and Harptree twice, Barrow will face the other teams in the combined Division 3 either at home or away. Captain Mark Forge says: “This new venture is to give those who are
Barrow 2nds start their 2017 campaign in Division 13 of the Bristol & District League by welcoming Bedminster 5ths to the picturesque Hobbs Lane ground. The season will feature fixtures as far apart as Dyrham & Hinton and Mells, but skipper Ellie Holdaway and her team are looking forward to visiting some new grounds for the first time as
Looking back at the year 2016, there are many images that will stay with us. Why not enjoy the turn of the year by looking back at some of those moments which were captured on film, by looking at our photo gallery.
We wish all our players, families, supporters and fellow cricketers a very happy and peaceful Christmas season. We look forward to welcoming old friends and new to Barrow in 2017.
Whilst it may not be as exotic as it sounds, Barrow’s 1st XI, led by new skipper Paul Glazzard, will travel to Bristol West Indians & Phoenix on the opening week of the 2017 season, as the Bristol and District League this week confirmed the fixtures for the higher divisions. The full fixture list can be
