Haslingfield Cricket Club has won promotion for the first time in decades. They came second in the Junior League 2 South, with Thriplow 2nd XI topping the table. Haslingfield narrowly missed out on winning the league by half an average point. Click Read More for more details…
Haslingfield won 11 out of their 18 matches during the season with three games cancelled. The table is decided on average points and Thriplow ended the season on 16.85 average points with Haslingfield on 16.33. Great Chishill 1st XI came third on 15.81. The top two teams get promoted to be in Junior League Division 1 South.
Haslingfield’s best score of the season was 321 runs for 6 wickets at home to Fulbourne Institute 2nd XI, who scored 94 all out on 23rd August. Haslingfield’s winning total included Jack Reed not out on 133 runs, Lee Borcoski scored 101 with Colin Campbell getting five wickets for just 15 runs off his 10 overs. All the league games are 40 over matches.
Congratulations to the cricket club!!
It brings back memories of those days in the 70’s and 80’s when Haslingfield was as good as any in junior league. It was a pleasure to serve as secretary of the club for over 20 years, and play with such a team as we had then . As an elected member of the of the council of the Cambridgeshire Cricket Association I did what I could to help village cricket in the county. The embryonic BBC Radio Cambridgeshire doing twice weekly features in its sports reports. The Cambridge News doing likewise.
In the 1980’s Haslingield CC was recognised as a junior league team of the month, being awarded a ‘Maestro’ trophy from sponsors Marshall
in Cambridge.
There were annual matches with Cambridge United, then in the old second
division, to raise charity money for local centres like Meldreth Manor.
Thanks to the internet and the club website I can follow the exploits of the
current side. One I’m sure that will grace junior 1.
I raise a glass to them, and to next season.
Neville James Cole