News

We have arranged a pre-season friendly against Todmorden at home on Saturday 10th April.
Indoor nets at Springhill High School are running every Saturday from 1-3pm until 27th March 2010. The nets are for all senior players and the u17's, u15's and u13's.
After being awarded grants from Sport England and the Co-operative's Membership Fund, we have been able to appoint a new head coach of the junior section. Atiq Uz Zaman is a former Pakistani Test wicketkeeper who lives in Bolton and has just qualified as a Club Coach - the ECB's new qualification for coaches. Atiq plays his club cricket at St Annes' CC in the Northern League where he is also head coach. He will work mainly with the u15 and u17 squads at Junior Practice nights on Mondays. We are hoping that Atiq will put into place a structure that can help us to continue to produce young cricketers who can progress through to the first team and beyond.
Work on the new £76k practice nets has started. The contractors have laid the base and erected the steel cage. They are returning in March to install the security fence and lay the matting and carpet. The facility will be ready to use for the start of the season. We are also having a new non-turf match pitch on the square which will be installed at the end of the season. [Pictures]
Our new professional (Kuldeep Diwan) and overseas amateur (Vikas Tokas) have now signed and subject to the new Visa process, will be here before the 18th April to face Ashton in our first game. [2010 Fixtures] [Pro and Overseas]
We are delighted to announce that Paul Winrow will be our new club captain in 2010 with Denny Hulme as his vice-captain. Darren Smith will continue as 2nd team skipper with Oliver Hope captaining the 3rds.
The new Rochdale Community Cricket Coach, Sam Holt, has started work in our local schools delivering 240 hours of cricket coaching to children at Crossgates Primary School, Newhey Primary School, Milnrow Parish CE, Newhey St Thomas CE, Hollingworth BEC and Springhill High School under the Chance to Shine programme. Chance to Shine is funded by the Cricket Foundation and the club is in the 2nd of a 3 year programme to bring quality cricket coaching back into state schools. [Chance to Shine] [Cricket Foundation]
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