The first team were a major success story. Achieving a third place finish losing out on the last day. A huge improvement on last year. Losing just four games across the season. 🏏
The seconds suffered badly with the weather, having 6 games rained off (the most in the division) but 7 wins saw us into the 5th place berth. 🏏
The new mid week team, took to the field for the first time. With a respectable 7th place finish with 7 wins to their name. 🏏
Our new Friendly team the Dukes of Hazard, only faced one game, but finish the season with a 100% winning record. Big things coming next year. 🏏
Our Juniors put a staggering four teams in the field, with our Under 7s and Under 9s Jets enjoying learning the game with friendly cricket. The Rockets played their first league games, getting their first league win vs Tudhoe. The under 11 girls also took to the field for the first time, no wins this year, but huge improvements all round. We also hekd our first festival which was a massive success and we finished 3rd too! Finally a group of our Rockets began their first steps in hardball cricket - watch this space 👀 🏏
Rainton Ladies played their first league games, finishing 4th in the league. Next year we looknto expand the number of games played. We even held a festival finishing third 🏏
Off the field our newly opened bar was a massive success, providing a welcome social space. We opened our new off field practise facility to benefit cricketers at the club into the future! We held loads of successful events, as well as our festivals, we saw a brilliant BBQ amd pizza night too. Finally we were double award winners at this year's Durham Grassroots cricket awards - head coach Gavin Snowball won coaching innovator and the club won the Tackling Climate Change award for our eco efforts! 🏆 🏏
A massive thank you to all our volunteers, coaches, ground staff, parents, players and supporters who have made this year a huge success. We look forward to another good year - especially as the old club celebrates its 175th birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁
Rob Kitching
Secretary