Here’s a list of the weekend’s and next week’s fixtures. Friday 12 June-Thursday 18 June Please check all details with team managers/captains just in case any matches have been cancelled or re-arranged. Please keep on sending in results, photos, match reports, Quote of the Week suggestions, news and so on. You can send items to nickandh@talk21.com Fri June 12 Junior nets Sat June 13 1sts away at Dereham, 2nds at home to Rocklands, 3rds at home to Drayton, 4ths away to Ketteringham Hall A Sun June 14 Ladies county t20 tournament 11am, Norfolk v Suffolk v Cambridgeshire U9s v Lowestoft 10am Mon June 15 U13s v Gt Melton 6pm Tue June 16 U11s v Gt Melton 6pm Wed June 17 Thu June 18 Friendly Garboldisham v Gents of Suffolk 1pm Senior nets

U13s Garboldisham v Thetford, Wednesday 10 June 2015, SNCL 16 over, 8-a-side Garboldisham 120 for 0 off 16. Thetford 121 for 2 off 15.1 Garboldisham hosted Thetford on a sunny but chilly evening. Batting first, Garboldisham’s openers, David Thorne and Thomas Toward-Lisher got the team off to a great start. David played some tremendous shots and with some good running between the wickets they managed to bat through all the overs without losing a wicket. David finished 41 not out and Thomas 25 not out which was a great effort. Well batted! In the field, Garboldisham started positively with George Self getting one of the openers out early on. However, with a few too many extras and some good running from Thetford, the runs started to add up. Thomas took another wicket, lbw, which brought in their number 4 batter who hit a startling 40 off 13 balls to secure Thetford the game in the final over. Garboldisham bowled well with Jess, Luca, Harry and Jared all bowling sensibly and Will Pettit diving around behind the stumps – but unfortunately …

First team scorer Dawn Briggs has been working hard rifling through the scorebooks and crunching the numbers and the latest player stats up to 6 June are now on line including a table for Run-outs and all 4th team stats. Simply go to the information bar in the right hand column and you’ll find them beneath the League Table links. If you’re viewing on a phone or a tablet in portrait mode then you’ll find them after the news stories. Thanks Dawn!

Garboldisham U15s faced Diss at Rectory Meadow on Monday 8 June in a Norfolk Alliance 8-a-side, 16 over match. Batting first, Garby scored 90 for 3 with Joe Baker, on a current run of good form, picking up 30 runs before having to retire as per the rules. These 16 overs per side matches can get even more fast paced than a T20, and Toby Culling pressing for every possible run, was unlucky to be run out on 20. Finlay Penrose picked up 16 runs for his highest score of the season so far. In reply, Diss were just a little too strong and they chased down Garby’s score in their 14th over finishing on 92 for 3. The U15s hope to bounce back on Wednesday when they face Cringleford Lodge at home in a SNCL game.

Paul Feavearyear took a nasty blow to the cheek while batting in Sunday’s (June 7, 2015) friendly against Tivetshall. As Fevs said: “Enjoyable game of cricket today. I’d forgotten what winning was like! I did however learn two valuable lessons: there is a reason I don’t generally play the sweep shot and there’s a reason I normally wear a helmet!” Despite the ball in the face, Fevs went on to score 95 and together with a fistful of runs from Paul Baker, they helped set up a total of 207 for 7. Garby bowled Tivetshall out for 180 or so with youngsters Callum Olpin and Joe Baker taking a couple of wickets each. Fevs was lucky to get away with just a sore cheek and black eye…

Match results for Saturday 6 June, 2015 The 1sts were at home to Gt Witchingham A who, batting first, scored 223 for 9 with Alex Hogg and Rob Fuller taking three wickets each and Callum Olpin the other two, plus a run out from Ben Asker. In reply, Garboldisham chased down Witchingham’s total with about 7 overs to spare and finished on 227 for 6 with Alex Hogg cracking the final ball away to the boundary to enable Garby to pick up bonus batting points for passing the 225 run mark. Kristian Williman played another majestic innings scoring a ton and finishing on 107. Hoggy was 49 not out. This was a very good win for the 1sts and it takes them to fourth in the table. The 2nds travelled up to Sheringham, batted first and posted a reasonable 193 all out. However it wasn’t to be quite enough and despite Garboldisham taking 6 wickets, Sheringham finished on 194. The 3rds were away to Ketteringham Hall, just up the A11 past Wymondham. It was an exciting low scoring game with the hosts batting …

Here’s a reminder of all the weekend fixtures and next week’s fixtures. Please check all details with team managers/captains just in case any matches have been cancelled or re-arranged. Please keep on sending in results, photos, match reports, Quote of the Week suggestions, news and so on. You can send items to nickandh@talk21.com Fri June 5 Junior nets Sat June 6 1sts at home to Gt Witchingham A, 2nds away to Sheringham, 3rds away at Ketteringham Hall, 4ths at home to Norwich Bystanders A U9s in tournament at Bardwell. 9.30am Sun June 7 U9s at home to Brooke. U11s away at Burston to Diss. Friendly away to Tivetshall at Eye Mon June 8 U15s away at Diss Tues June 9 Weds June 10 U15s at home to Cringleford Lodge. U11s away to Bradenham. U13s at home to Thetford Thurs June 11 Senior nets  

Garboldisham U15s 90 for 6 v Old Buckenham U15s 116 for 3. Wednesday 3 June 2015 Norfolk Alliance U15s 8-a-side 16 overs Summer finally showed its face at The Langley and it was good to watch a game without being wrapped up in a coat. Old Buckenham u15s batted first and scored a well-earned 116 for 3 with Joe Baker taking a fantastic high one-handed catch off the bowling of Oscar Rushen. Georgie Dunkinson, and Toby Culling (caught and bowled) took the other two wickets. 116 from 16 overs is pretty good going in U15 cricket and Garby knew they’d have a job on their hands in chasing it down. Openers Toby and Joe Baker started well enough until Joe was out caught and bowled and then replacement batsman Finlay Penrose was dismissed in a similar fashion. The Old Buck’ fielding and bowling was spot on the mark and Angus Pringle and Oscar both saw their stumps tumble. Meanwhile Toby Culling, looking sharp and in the zone, kept the scoreboard ticking over with a mixture of hard run …

Player statistics for the 2015 season are now available online. Simply go to the information bar in the right hand column and you’ll find them beneath the League Table links. If you’re viewing on a phone or a tablet in portrait mode then you’ll find them after the news stories. At the moment we just have the stats for players in the 1sts, 2nds and 3rds but we hope to have the 4ths included very soon. The stats have been carefully compiled by Dawn Briggs, our 1st team scorer and Dawn will update them every fortnight. Do let Dawn know if you spot any anomalies.

OK, so the 4ths (Garboldisham ‘C’) may well have had a bad start to their season sitting at the bottom of the Norfolk Cricket League Division 4 West with a minus score, but, did you know that they are currently top of the NCL Spirit of Cricket league table. Home teams are awarded Spirit of Cricket points by the visiting team for their hospitality and for playing a match in a ‘truly sportsmanlike’ manner. So well done so far to the 4ths for their good grace. It’s also good to see that the 3rds (Garboldisham ‘B’) are sitting in 11th place in the SoC table. Garboldisham ‘C’ Captain and GCC Chairman Robert Leech is confident that the 4ths will soon get back to their winning ways and start to climb the league table after their very unfortunate season’s start when 25 points were deducted for cancelling a match at short notice because of player unavailability.