Ian B

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A historic moment at the club tonight as our first ever Grimsargh Cricket Club women's team training took place.
We are preparing to field a women's softball team for the first time.

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A huge thank you to Belly, Billy and Phil G for their heroics with mowers and plenty else to get the game on. 👏🏏💚

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It's been a wet old week. Rain, the common enemy of ground staff and cricketers.

An enormous effort in the past 24 hours to take this track to be ready for play by our 1sts on The Green during Saturday.

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Yes Arjun and Joycey!

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Thanks for making Grimsargh a part of your groundhopping Peter and we wish you every success with the rest of your travels. And maybe we'll see you again when we're on the road!

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Sadly it wasn't a GCC win going into Peter's book before his return to Chester this evening as Chorley won by 96 runs.

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Peter also very much enjoyed our unique feature at Grimsargh - the tree on the pitch - which which is four runs if it's hit, by either the batting or fielding side.

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The 66-year-old has never played cricket, just enjoys watching and said 'it's the mystery of the game, you just never know what will happen'. Picking fixtures and grounds is based on a trawl of PlayCricket, today's adventure was either to visit us or head to Wrea Green.

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All the games he's seen are logged in his exercise book, with the date, result and any key performances too.

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Peter, who is from Chester, is on a mission to get to 1,000 different cricket grounds before 'he's no longer here'. His words, not ours!
He travels by public transport to all the grounds, it was a train from Chester (heavily delayed) to Preston and the 1 bus for today's route.

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We had a visit today from a cricket groundhopper - meet Peter Tomlins.
He was perched on a bench at the Whittingham Lane end to watch our 1sts take on Chorley and we are the 738th cricket ground he has visited. Yes, 738!

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Thank you to everyone who came to Billy's Big Bash back in August. Members of the GCC were delighted to present a cheque to @stcatherinespre for £1,000 raised with proceeds from our annual cricket fun day in memory of Chris Billington. 👏👏👏

[john smith @nompere]

@pscricket

[Ian B @ian_billy]

@mnorcross84 It's SpaceX's starlink satellites.

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Many thanks to Grimsargh Parish Council for their support in helping the work to happen and DANVIC who are undertaking the work. 🚧🚧🚧

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If you've seen some digging taking place on The Green in recent days then we're having our square re-laid.

Three wickets are being done and the rest of the square being 'laser graded' to flatten it out.

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We had a fantastic bumper raffle filled with great prizes at Billy's Big Bash last weekend and we'd like to say a huge thank you to our kind supporters who donated prizes. We really appreciate these businesses and organisations being so generous. And well done to all our winners!

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A fantastic day on The Green - food, fun, and plenty of cricket too! Well done and thank you to everyone involved and who took the time to come down and support us. 🙌
https://t.co/8Z1UVv0Eir

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All the parents: Let's hide under here from the rain
Kids: No! Let's dance in the rain! 😂
@ThatsSoVillage @Vi111age

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It's game day! Big thanks to our match ball sponsors @Freshfield as the 2nds get going at home to @EuxtonCC and the 1sts head to @prestoncricket1 #Maythe4thBeWithYou