Windsor Racecourse Presentation

Phil Bullock, chairman of Windsor CC, accepts the player of the month award at Royal Windsor Racecourse on behalf of Wes Nicolls (1st XI Captain)

The racecourse kindly reward the WCC senior player of the month with 4 club enclosure tickets and, in the 2008 season so far, Wes Nicols and Kevin Condon have recieved this award.

Watch this space for the player of the month for July........

Congrats to the 2008 Pool and Darts Champions!

Thanks to those of you that turned up on Friday night to compete in the hotly anticipated 'WCC 2008 Winner takes all Pool and darts competition' ( and many thanks to Ali for her help with the delicious BBQ! which kept the 'athletes' nourished throughout the night!)

11 entrants/ athletes played in each sport (yes Westo, pool and darts are in fact sports played by sportsmen!) and the group matches were hotly contessed affairs with a best of 3 for each person, to decide the winner of each group.

The deciders (when the group stages ended in ties) required some innovative contests (nearest bullseye / white ball nearest the line) and the semi finals then became knockout affais, with some big darts and some amazing shots on the pool table. As time was called at the bar the semi fianls were still in progress and the pressure was building.....

Alex Hill (the rank outsider, and he knew it) took on Richard Gregory in the darts final, with Alex knowing his very limited darts skills would be put to the st in the 501 single frame decider. With Rich having the first 'out' and Hill trailing, it was a complete shock that Hill was able to hit the double 2 and win the £55 prize pot!

The Pool final was played between David Easter and Amit Johal, who had both been patiently waiting in the bar all evening whist all the various deciding matches were played out. Neither of them expected thier final to start at 11.20 pm! David put up a brave fight, but Amit showed calm and restrain, playing some lovely shots on the poor surface, to comfortably win the £55 prize

Here's looking forward to the 2009 competition......!

Windsor Under 14's win West Surrey League Final

Monday 21st July 2008

Windsor CC 131 for 6; 20 Overs (Rylance 48, Barton 33)

Sunbury CC 77 for 9; 18 Overs (Shaw 51 r.o.)


Windsor won by 54 runs


Windsor u14s, after an up and down league campaign (played 7 won 6, lost 1), played out the closing stages of the West Surrey Youth League over the weekend.

On Saturday morning at a bright but breezy Home Park the boys took on Horsley & Send, a team they hadn't played before, in the semi-final. Batting first on a drying strip Windsor made 134 in their 20 overs with Kristan top scoring with a well paced 46 not out. In make or break games such as this, the team know what they have to do in order to win games and took to the field confident they could keep Horsley & Send pegged back behind the required run rate. The Windsor bowlers took to their task well with Jack & Kristan being particularly miserly and Oli bowling his customary low scoring final over which ensured Horsley & Send were restricted to 119. The wickets were shared between the 6 bowlers used and with good all-round fielding and 2 run outs Windsor were in good shape for the final.

The final took place at the picturesque Whiteley Village ground on Monday evening in pleasant sunshine against 2 times previous winners Sunbury. Windsor were the clear underdogs, but batting first on a firm track with a good outfield they were fast out of the traps and dominated the Sunbury bowling. Bradley scored quickly and heavily to make 48, finally out caught trying to get past the magic 50. His fellow opener, Jack, also scored well with 33. All the batsmen's' running between the wickets was exceptional, many singles were made into 2s and 2s into 3s. The following batsmen all played their part by pushing the fielders at every possible opportunity and with the help of 26 extras a total of 131 was made. Before the game Windsor would have settled for 120, so they felt they were in with a shout of winning the match and the league.

The Windsor bowlers carried on where the batsmen had left off, good tight bowling, very few extras, backed up by some determined fielding and a couple of excellent run outs. Sunbury started quickly but soon tailed off when the relentless Windsor pressure began to tell. Once their in-form opener, Elliot Shaw had to retire on 51, Windsor began to scent victory and they were not to be disappointed. Wickets fell at 72, 73, 73, 74, 77 & 77 to give Windsor a well deserved victory inside 17 overs.

After the team had picked themselves up following their wild celebrations on the fall of the final Sunbury wicket, captain Rhys Bryant was presented with the winning trophy and each player received their winners medal.

With thanks to Mark & David for managing them this season, the boys are now looking forward to taking part in The Summer League, following this well deserved victory.

The winning team, was Bradley Ryance; Jack Barton; Kristan Baumgartner; Rhys Bryant (Cpt); Alex Avery; Jeevan Singh; George Winter; Ben Francis (wkt); Ollie Jordan; Ryan Lewin; Faizan Qureshie

Windsor Racecourse/ Windsor Senior Player of the Month- June

We are delighted to announce that the June winner of the 'Windsor Racecourse Windsor Cricket Club Senior Player of the Month' is Kevin Condon.

Kevin Condon scored 241 league runs in June which included his maiden century for Windsor with 117 v Chiswick & Latymer. The 3rd XI won all 4 league games in June in which he played, 3 of them in run chases. He shared in 2 large partnerships in these games; 160 with Mark Huggins for the 2nd wicket versus Wycombe Dragons & 228 with Vishal Nair for the 1st wicket against Chiswick & Latymer.

Congratulations and club enclosure tickets go to Kevin and for more details about Windsor Racecourse please visit there site at: http://www.windsor-racecourse.co.uk/