Garboldisham meet Horsford in the final of the Norfolk Alliance Andy Seeley Trophy which will be held at Great Melton’s ground near Wymondham on Thursday 25 August. The match starts at 10.30am. The U15s, captained by Toby Culling, topped their NA group league earlier in the summer and this meant that they passed through to the knock-out stages. Having beat Bungay in the 1/4 finals and Dersingham in the semis, they are now up against Horsford. It should be a cracking game! Please come along to watch and lend your support if you are free. Good luck to the lads!

Picture: Alex ‘Hoggy’ Hogg has a good weekend with the ball taking 8 wickets Garboldisham won the Lady Mary Trophy by 3 wickets on Sunday afternoon (21.8.16) in a close fought final against Bradfield. Great bowling from Garby including 3-12 from Alex Hogg restricted Bradfield to just 103 all out. In reply Garboldisham lost a nail-biting 7 wickets but Jonny Wyatt helped Garby home with a match winning 44 runs. Captain Danny Cash commented: “Good result today to see the club win the Lady Mary Trophy for the first time since 1987! Good bowling performance all round and a gritty knock of 44 from competition winner Jonny Wyatt got us home! Tops off to what has been an already incredible season for the 1st team. Thanks also to the Garby army who gave up their Sundays to come and support the boys – always appreciated.” Full match report to come… On Saturday the 1st XI were up against North Runcton at The Langley. Runcton won the toss and put Garboldisham in to bat and Garby notched up 80 runs …

The club has been awarded a £5,900 grant from Breckland Council that will go towards refurbishing the shower and toilet facilities in the pavilion. Here’s the full story as it appears in the Diss Express Garboldisham has received some doubly-good news following two grant awards for its sports and play facilities from Breckland District Council. The council has agreed two separate funding bids for the village — £5,900 will be put towards refurbishing and enhancing the cricket club’s 25-year-old shower and toilet block, and a further £4,440 to partially resurface the multi-purpose games area at the recreation ground. The games area is used by residents of all ages from the community of Garboldisham and also further afield.  The village has a thriving cricket community, with four Saturday league teams, a friendlies side, an over 40s team, a ladies team, and 100-member youth section. The total cost of the refurbishment is £7,500. Peter Barnes, Fixtures and Fundraising secretary at Garboldisham Cricket Club, said they were “delighted” at the grant award, and the work would make a …

So as we head to the busiest part of the season I thought I’d just drop a note with all the key dates. Here they are…. 20th August – 1s at home v North Runcton, 2s away v Norwich CC, 3s away v North Elmham, 4s at home v North Elmham 21st August – Lady Mary Cup final at Horsford 12 noon start 25th August U15 Andy Seeley trophy final at Gt Melton 10am 26th-28th August Beer Festival weekend with junior presentation, last league games of the season and 6 aside day. If you aren’t in a team yet but would like to play, let me know. 27th August – 1s away at Diss, 2s at home to Hetherset and Tas Valley, 3s at home to East Harling, 4s away at Diss 2nd September – Golf Day details on this page somewhere, contact myself or Sandy Dye Culling for more info or to let us know you would like to play. 3rd September – End of Season Do at Lyng Farm. Fancy dress theme of ‘The world of …

Photo: Fin Penrose, Lewis Hart, Oli Campbell, Toby Culling (c), Max Elder,s George Southgate, Arthur Johnson, Harry Southgate After a strong performance in the group stages, and a win in the last 8, Garboldisham u15 went into the semi final of the Norfolk Alliance unbeaten where they faced Dersingham on Tuesday 16 August. Garboldisham won the toss and chose to put Dersingham into bat. Louis Hart and captain Toby Culling opened. Louis(1-12) bowled tidily and unsurprisingly made a breakthrough by bowling Chudley for 5. Toby (1-9) picked up a wicket of his own at the other end when Louis took a catch at mid-off. First change was George and Arthur (0-17) who bowled a tight line and built pressure. Garboldisham were in a good position and had Dersingham struggling at 31-2 after 7 overs. Nevertheless, Dersingham strung together a strong partnership and Cropley and Cotton both retired on 30. Garboldisham finished well and restricted their opponents to 99 for 3 after 16 when George Southgate ( 1-10 ) took an important wicket at the end. It was an …

The 1st XI are away to Old Buckenham. Stand by for what should be an exciting local derby clash between 2nd placed Garby and 4th placed Old Buck’. The 2nds, who are currently the Norfolk Alliance Division 4 league leaders, are at home to 4th placed North Runcton. The 4ths are away to Dereham. There is no fixture for the 3rds this weekend.

As the 2016 season begins to draw to a close, GCC 1st XI captain Danny Cash spoke to the Diss Express. Here’s the full extract: Danny Cash has encouraged his Garboldisham players to not become bogged down by pressure during the final three weeks of their Dipple and Conway Norfolk Alliance Premier Division campaign. By the captain’s own admission, when the season got under way he and the rest of the squad would have settled for simply preserving their status within the division ahead of 2017. In contrast, ahead of Saturday’s derby clash away at Old Buckenham (1pm), eight wins this term has elevated Garboldisham up to second position, just 24 points adrift of leaders Brooke. One slip-up from the table-toppers would leave the door ajar for Garboldisham, but Cash is only concerned with his own team, rather than events elsewhere. “We just have to try to win our last three games and then see what happens,” he said. “It is just about us keeping doing what we are doing and making them win it. …

Picture: Toby Culling takes 6 wickets for just 9 runs including a four-ball hat trick! On a lovely summer’s evening (Wednesday 10 August 2016) Garboldisham finally got their Under 17 SNCL season under way with a victory away to Mattishall, with the visitors batting first.  Culling (3) was bowled early to Fisher before Baker and Penrose got the scoreboard ticking, Penrose was stumped with the score around the 40 mark. Tommy Ling joined Baker at the crease and together put on an unbeaten 80 run partnership with Baker (48) and Ling (38), both not out. Mattishall bowled straight and fielded well to keep the score down to a chaseable target of 122 on a quick outfield. Early wickets were the key and Fisher (14) was caught by Ling off the bowling of Southgate in the 4th over. Davison and Gagen then batted well and the scoreboard rose to 70. Davison was then caught on the boundary for 25 off the bowling of Culling. This was a much needed wicket with the run rate getting out …

Monday 8 August, Manor Park, Norwich Played at Manor Park, Horsford, the home of Norfolk cricket, the Norfolk County Cricket Board have this week put on a festival of youth cricket which started with the U11s hard ball competition on Monday which Garby came out of as winners! There were two groups of three teams – Garboldisham were in group two with Horsford and Great Melton – with matches consisting of 8 overs where everyone (excluding the wicket keeper) had to bowl an over each with one other bowling two. Batting was in pairs for two overs each, with each team starting on 200 but losing 4 runs for every wicket lost. Garby’s first game was against the hosts, Horsford. Having lost the toss, Garby were asked to bat first. All players contributed with Charlie Aldous hitting 11* for the loss of one wicket in a total of 245-1 (net score 241). Horsford’s batting was not as good as their bowling until the last over where Horsford were 239-1 after Aldous had taken the only wicket. Whitlam bowled a …

Four wickets and a half century from Aussie Dan Constable helped the 1sts to a comfortable win at home over top-of-the-table Sprowston. Garby lost the toss and the visitors chose to bat but found themselves bowled out for just 106 with the wickets taken by Dan, Gavin Barnes (2), Alex Hogg (2), Luke Rackham (1), Kieran Pask (1) plus a run-out. In reply, Garboldisham lost just the one wicket of Alex Hogg (21) with Dan finishing on 59 not out. The 1sts move up to equal second place in the table alongside Sprowston with Brooke CC moving into the top spot. GCC 2nds were away to Dersingham in a tense thriller in which Garby just managed to scrape victory. Garby won the toss and put the home side in to bat, restricting them to 140-8. Jack Buckmaster took 3 wickets, there were 2 wickets apiece for Rory Olpin and Karl Gooderham and one for captain Paul Feavearyear. With bat in hand, Garby wicket-keeper and opener Jack Stevenson scored an excellent 73 but all the other GCC batsmen struggled to get into …