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
Barrow Gurney notched up a pair of wins on Saturday to strengthen their positions in their respective divisions. At Hobbs Lane there was a rain affected game against local rivals Blagdon, reduced to 23 overs. Batting first the visitors relied heavily on Charlie Ward who batted throughout the innings for 45 not out. Four wickets
Barrow Gurney First XI came out on top in a rain-reduced game away at Chilcompton this weekend. Losing the toss and with a delayed start, Barrow were put into bat and got off to the worst possible start with Connor Jones playing all round a straight one to be bowled second ball. At 1-1 after
Barrow Gurney CC burst back into action, after 3 rain ruined weekends, with both teams recording impressive wins. Barrow Firsts were involved in a local derby with Long Ashton at Yanley Lane and were keen to reverse a defeat earlier in the season. Batting first Barrow suffered an early scare when Jason Cryans was out
