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L.M.C.C On The Map Club History. 2008 Season Averages Player Profiles Fixtures W.Sussex League 2007 Season Averages League Averages |
Club Records 1st Career Batting 1st Career Bowling 1st XI Records 1st Decade Records 2nd Career Batting 2nd Career Bowling 2nd XI Records 2nd Decade Records Top Scorecards Hall of Fame Trophy Winners Captains, Honours Photo Gallery Action/Teams through the years + home, away and on Tour! |
    Introduction We're a small amateur cricket club in West Sussex on the South Coast of England situated (very) roughly half-way between Brighton and Worthing. We run Saturday League & Occasionally the odd Sunday 'friendly' XI. This Website will hopefully give an insight into the character (who's who) & ability (stats) of our friendly club. The Gallery is ever growing , featuring the famous 'Tour' sections - the pictures confirm that when 'on tour' the players' thoughts move away from cricket and move onto beer,curry and...er...more beer !
The 2008 season has now drawn to a close. We finished 6th out of 8 in division 2 of the West Sussex League. Overall we won just 4 of the 18 matches played. Unfortunately, 5 matches were cancelled. 3 due to rain. 1 due to the opposition failing to raise a team and another where we failed to get more than 6 people interested in a sunday fixture. In the first 14 matches of the season we fielded a full XI. However, we then had a run of 3 matches where we had 10 (one of which the 11th person simply didnt turn up) and the last we had 9 as the 10th had to unexpectedly work. This coupled with 4 of those scratched matches meant we didnt field an XI from 2nd August to the end of season! On a positive side, Dave Smith regained the Batting Trophy he won in 2006 by scoring 422 runs @ 30.1 after scoring 110no in the 9wck win in the last match of the season. Gary Mason's 312@26 and Nigel French 233@23 came 2nd and third. Bowling was dominated again by Dave Baker who won his 8th bowling cup (just one behind Russell Wood) with 23 wckts at 8.3 each from just 7 matches. Neil Reynolds 10@9.3 came a close 2nd with Steve Luckhurst's 20@20 in third place. During his 110no Dave Smith moved into 4th place in the all-time run-scorers' list passing Jaffa Ullah. He is now behind Neil Reynolds, Dan Griffin and Dave Wood. The merger of the Invitation and West Sussex Leagues' will mean a mixed strength of opponents next summer - being mainly 1st XI's from the West Sussex League as the top divisions are most likely to be the stronger XI's from the Invitation League. This will most likely see Manor in with Brighton Insurance, West Blachington, Partridge Green amongst others - however, not naming names, there are a number of Clubs in our division we really should beat. This will mean a mix of tough/easier matches, which will hopefully see a few more up-days than down! Mentioning mergers - we've made contact with one or two clubs with no real joy, so the committee made the decision to canvas support through the winter months and see how things look..... New Players! However, through the website I have 3 extra players for next summer, with a possible 4th (if a house sale goes through) - which is fantastic news. Two of these are ex-members who have seen the website's plea for help. More players are required - as you are reading this you must have some interest in cricket in Lancing - so please get in touch, whether you are 15 or 50. To a degree the quality isnt the bone of contention - as we have seen, some clubs rely heavily on a core and provided the core players deliver more often than not, we'll have a chance to compete - even more so in the Invitataion league where clubs can rely on 3 bowlers in a game if necessary - so provided Dave Baker plays thats 20 overs at one end tied up! - joking aside, not needing to find 5 bowlers from the 11 on the field may make things a little easier for us. We have another committee meeting on 2nd December where news of the League Merger and an update on member-numbers will again be the focus - Did I say we need more players?...Please get in touch - if you know anyone from your family, work, street or the local pub who has the feintest interest in joining our club, get their details to us (via this website to me) as soon as possible.
Final 2008 Season Averages are now up. The career batting and bowling stats have been uploaded too. Some highlights of 'Cork 2006', 'Brussels 2007' and 'Copenhagen 2008' are now available in the Photo Gallery sections! Go there now!
The following players have significant targets this coming summer. CLUB. APPEARANCES N Reynolds, 5 Matches for 800..Oh Yes! C Salt, 3 Matches for 500..Oh Yes! O Voice, 6 Matches for 250..Oh Yes! C Hazelhurst, 10 Matches for 100..Oh Yes! BATTING A Livermore, 40 Runs for 5,000..Oh Yes! N French, 62 Runs for 5,000..Oh Yes! BOWLING S Luckhurst, 10 Wickets for 850..Oh Yes! D Baker, 21 Wickets for 450..Oh Yes! FIELDING 1ST XI BATTING D Smith, 121 Runs for 9,000..Oh Yes! N French, 182 Runs for 5,000..Oh Yes! A Livermore, 227 Runs for 4,000..Oh Yes! BOWLING FIELDING D Griffin, 1 catch for 200..Oh Yes! |
2008. Owen Voice Chairman Chris Hazlehurst Club Captain Richard Black Treasurer Chris Salt Fixture Secretary. Nick Brown Club Secretary & Team Secretary Steve Luckhurst Web-master Statto. Dave Smith League Rep.
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