Tale Millers Cricket Club

Whilst it seems only a few weeks since we saw off the 2017 season in fine style in the mud, it’s already time to start thinking about the coming cricket season. On a personal level it is a time of careful consideration and negotiation with Libby and her sheep. They lamb for the most part in March and yet we cricketers always hope that we can start work on the field during the very same month. You can see how delicate the position is, I could  say something macho at this point about putting my foot down but folk will […]

Tale Millers Cricket Club It seems a good while ago now that the season ended with wins over our local rivals Cully Codgers and Clyst Hydon and a defeat to our current “bogey” team……………….nothing to do with noses……………….the Broadhembury Lions. After spending much of wet August trying to prepare the pitch and get a game on, it was a relief to get back on the pitch for a few games! As has become club tradition the end of the season was followed by a Hog Roast and camp fire with guitar strumming, dogs a roaming, and kids running round in […]

Just a reminder guys that we have an EXTRAORDINARY club meeting on Wednesday night to discuss the issue of a complaint received by EDDC from persons anonymous, concerning the horrifying thought that we’ve played cricket in a field without the correct planning permission. And put up a shed to change in. Wednesday 18th October 7.30pm in the Six Bells

Afternoon All With the season having well and truly ended, this Sunday at 10am we will be putting the ground to bed for the winter and handing it back to the sheep! With the hard work having been done in previous years, a good turn out will ensure we are all done by lunchtime, so if you can spare a few hours please come along and give us a hand. Even better, bring some cake to go with the coffee! On the job list are cutting the square and fencing off, taking the net down, cleaning out the club house, dealing […]

Well at 6 o’clock last night it was hammering down with four of us present for the end of season get together; by 7 the rains had abated and nigh on 100 folk, kids and dogs had turned out for a bleddy luverly evening – happy days! Congrats to Neil Chambers Alexander James Scott Jason Wood Will Wood and Ben Peters on winning the seasons awards and thanks to Janet and Ed East for a superb hog roast in tricky conditions. Sam Carden, Dan Rugg and Fred Ernest thanks for collecting the awards for those absent!