2009 Season

The 2009 season for Cotford St Luke Cricket Club was something of a tester.

About half a dozen of us met up in the bottom field for a practice session, consisting mainly of people who either hadn’t played for many years or had never really played at all.

After 2 practice sessions we were thrown into our first game against Staplegrove, who are a league side.  We got well and truly trounced. Staplegrove batted first and made 300+ and then bowled us out for about 70. Then they let us have another innings and bowled us out for about 80.

To add to my disappointment at that defeat, wearing new shoes on a hard surface and playing a long innings in the field, I managed to damage my Achilles tendon and could barely walk for 2 weeks. It was about a month before I was right again and I missed two games in the interim, one of which was rained off and the other we lost.

We kept practising on Tuesday evenings though, initially on the bottom field in Cotford and then, by permission of the groundsman, up at the nets in Bishops Lydeard Cricket Club, which was a vast improvement.

We then had a game against the Environment Agency at Bridgwater which we actually managed to win with 3 balls to spare. You’d have thought we’d won the Ashes.

We’re still not going to be competing at league level for a while yet but we have improved a lot in just one season through regular practice and a few games.

The problem we’ve had all season is a lack of numbers, which is something we hope to correct next season.