ALTON VICTORIAN CRICKET TOURNAMENT Sunday 13th June 2010 The Butts, Alton In aid of
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Order of Play This is the planned order of play for todays event. Of course, the timings are only approximate to allow for unforeseen circumstances! 09.15
Umpires meeting – outside the French Horn Alley
09.30
Mayor & Team photos
10.00
START OF PLAY
10.00 10.00 10.50 11.40 12.30
Mayor bowls first ball - Photographs/Press French Horn (A) vs The White Horse Butts Bowlers vs The Belles Harvesters vs St Lawrence Church The Eight Bells vs French Horn (B)
13.20
INTERLUDE
Presentation of Best Dressed Team cup Juggling Jake - kids entertainment on the pitch.
14.00
PLAY RESUMES
14.00 14.50 15.40 16.30
Butts Bowlers vs St Lawrence Church The White Horse vs Havesters French Horn (B) vs French Horn (A) The Belles vs The Eight Bells
17.30
FINAL
Presentations of Runners-Up and Winners Medals by our sponsors, Molson Coors and Domino’s Pizza Raffle Prize Draw
Welcome to the 2010 Cricket Tournament Welcome to the annual Alton Victorian Cricket Tournament. As with all previous years this event raises money for charity. Last year we raised £4,500 for the CAB so many thanks to all of you for supporting us. This year we are supporting St. Michael’s Hospice who are our local palliative care centre. So thank you for the donation you have given for this Programme and I hope you will buy plenty of raffle tickets to give yourself a chance to win the great prizes on offer. Our Tournament consists of a number of teams made up from local organisations (Churches, Pubs, Community Groups, etc) and they play each other in simple league type matches to obtain as many runs as possible. The two teams with the highest run score play in the final. You can keep track of the scores in this Programme. The Rules can be found later in the programme as well as a short history of how we come to be here today. Apart from the Tournament itself the event has many side shows and stalls to entertain you. We are grateful to all those stall holders for coming today as they are donating some of their takings to our Charity. Refreshments for the teams (and their supporters!), are available throughout the day and are provided by the Bar tent (operated by the Alton Victorian Cricket Committee) and the different food stalls, which are positioned around The Butts. I would like to thank the Committee who have all given up their time to help organise today in order to provide a great day out for you all and to raise the money for St Michael’s Hospice. Special thanks must also go to our Sponsors, Molson Coors and Domino’s Pizza. I would also like to thank all those organisations who have helped us bring the day together, including all the local businesses that are advertising in this programme. Thanks too to Cobra Insurance for providing our Public Liability insurance as their contribution to our fundraising efforts, Mr John Brice of Whitehill Calor Gas for loan of the scorers tent and the Swan Hotel for the loan of a room for a pre-match meeting. If you would like to be a sponsor of this event contact us on publicity@altonvictoriancricket.org Have Fun and may the best team win! Graham Lowe Chairman
Our 2010 Charity
Thank you for Supporting St. Michael’s Hospice, Your Local Hospice Opened in 1992, St. Michael’s Hospice provides care for patients across North Hampshire with a lifelimiting illness, the goal of care is to help patients achieve the best possible quality of life. The majority of St. Michael’s patients have cancer but those with other chronic life-limiting illnesses are also cared for by the Hospice. The Hospice staff work as a multi-disciplinary team to provide holistic care to patients and their families, this team includes nursing and medical staff, a therapeutic team and family and bereavement support. St. Michael’s Hospice also works closely with professionals in the Hospital, the community and the North Hampshire Palliative Care Service to ensure that patients are supported in the best possible way. All Hospice services are provided to patients across North Hampshire free of charge and include: • In-Patient care for symptom control (the main reason for referral), rehabilitation, respite and terminal care. • Day Care runs twice a week for patients living at home; offering peer support, a range of activities and access to professional advice and support. • St. Michael’s Hospice at Home Service provides practical and supportive nursing care in people’s home. • Out-Patient services, which include the Therapeutic Clinic, Complementary Therapy and Medical Consultation
Our 2010 Charity ‘’St. Michael’s Hospice is delighted to be associated with Alton Victorian Cricket. At the Hospice we rely heavily on the Community of North Hampshire to support us by holding Fundraising events throughout the year, and this is a great community event which will provide entertainment for the whole family, whilst helping to raise valuable funds for St. Michael’s Hospice. The money raised at the event will be used towards the running costs of providing this specialist care. These costs currently stand at £2.6 million. We receive 30% funding from the primary care trust but this leaves £1.8 million to raise each year through its shops and fundraising activities.’’
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Molson Coors (UK) is pleased to be one of the sponsors of the Alton Victorian Charity Cricket Match, with Alton being home to one of its three breweries in the UK . Being the only Molson Coors (UK) brewery in the South of England, the beer produced by our 135 employees is distributed to pubs throughout the South . The area where Molson Coors is currently sited was originally part of the Harp Consortium, which became operational in1963, when we brewed predominantly Harp Larger. The brewery was subsequently sold to Bass Brewery in 1979, at which time we commenced brewing Carling, Worthington, Grolsch and Tennants. During 2003 we became part Coors Brewers Ltd, and then Molson Coors (UK) . We continue to brew Carling but have now secured a contract where we produce some beers for Scottish & Newcastle. Molson Coors Brewing (UK) Ltd is the UK’s second largest brewer with more than 20% market share. With the number one brand in the UK, Carling, Molson Coors (UK) is a solid presence in the seventh largest market in the world. The company employs approximately 2,500 people in the UK, 9,500 worldwide and has breweries in Burton, Alton and Tadcaster. On March 31st, 2009, the brewer changed its name to Molson Coors Brewing (UK) Ltd. This is a move which clearly signals the company’s parentage and recognises the significance of both Molson and Coors families in co-creating one of the world’s most significant brewing organisations, with operations spanning the globe from the United States, Canada and Mexico through Europe to China and Japan.
Would You Like to Field a Team in 2011? If you would like to field a team in our 2011 tournament, support a really worthwhile local charity and have a lot of fun whilst doing so, please contact our Cricket liason, Ginette Dennis on cricketliason@ altonvictoriancricket.org where we will take your details for next year!
The Teams Keep a record here of the runs scored by the teams. The two highest scoring teams will play in the final. The order of play and match score card are overleaf.
The French Horn A - Nominated Umpire: The Eight Bells - Nominated Umpire: Butts Bowlers - Nominated Umpire: The Belles - Nominated Umpire:
Julian Zambra
Bob Evans
Rowena Plummer
Jan Mckee
St Lawrence Church - Nominated Umpire: Harvesters - Nominated Umpire:
Roger Tibbett
Ian Burrows
The French Horn B - Nominated Umpire:
TBA
The White Horse - Nominated Umpire: : TBA
Umpires, Score Keepers
Reserve Umpires: Clive Hutton (Butts Bowlers) and Steve Thompson (St Lawrence Church) Scorers: Jeremy Bayliss, Jane Passingham and Dave Knight
THE TOUR
RNAMENT
The Rules 1. The tournament will consist of a maximum of Nine teams. 2. The format will be a one-league structure with each team playing twice. The two highest scoring teams will play the final. 3. A team shall comprise of nine gentlemen or ladies or combination of both. Each team must include at least one member of the opposite sex, and all members must be over the age of 17yrs. 4. The pitch shall be one chain in length, between two pairs of stumps & bails-known as the wickets. 5. A match shall comprise of one innings per team. 6. During a teams innings there MUST be a batsman at each wicket. 7. a) The ball MUST be delivered (or bowled) to the batsman by the bowler, by means of an underarm action, and the ball must pitch over the fifteen yard line, or the delivery is declared a ‘no ball’. b) If the bowler’s front foot is over the popping crease in the act of delivering the ball the delivery is declared a ‘no ball’. A ‘no ball’ means that one run is added to the batting side’s score and the ball will be re-bowled. A batsman CANNOT score off a ‘no ball’. 8. The fielding team will bowl from each wicket alternately. 9. Each member of the fielding team may only bowl a maximum of two overs per match. 10. A batsman shall retire on either scoring Fifteen runs or after receiving twelve legal deliveries, Unless he/she is one of the last pair of batsmen: if this is the case, he/she may remain at the wicket until the conclusion of their teams innings or until one is declared out by the umpire. 11. Each wicket remaining at the end of an innings is worth 2 runs to the batting side. 12. On striking any delivery, a batsman MUST run. 13. A batsman may be declared by an umpire out if any of the following applies:a) The ball, on striking the defended wicket, removes the bail, the batsman has been bowled. b) On striking a legally delivered ball and during the act of running between wickets, the ball is returned to either end and the bail removed by the ball, before the batsman reaches sanctuary, he or she has been run out. Sanctuary is the popping crease and not the line of the stumps when running between the wickets. c) If a legally struck ball is caught by a member of the fielding team before The Mayoress, Town Crier and Alton Town Mayor at reaching the ground the batsman the start of the 2009 tournament. has been caught out.
The Rules cont... It should be noted by all players and umpires that a batsman can’t be declared out by means of the dubious, and considered by the ruling body as unfair, leg before wicket ruling. 14. A batsman may score runs for his/her team by any of the following: If the two batsmen, whilst running, cross between wickets, it shall be declared that they have scored one run. This being attributed to the batsman who struck the ball. The roped area will be deemed to be the area of play with the rope constituting the boundary. Any ball being struck either over or under the boundary line will attract 4 runs. NO sixes will be allowed. If in the opinion of the umpire a ball has been bowled which is out of comfortable reach of the batsman, or above chest height, this will be called a ‘wide ball’,[unless the batsman has struck the ball], and one run will be added to the batting side’s score. This does not count as a run to the batsman’s total, nor part of the over and it will be re-bowled. 15. Each team will nominate a captain. 16. PENALTIES. PERIOD DRESS: To be worn by ALL teams. (Training shoes, cricket or studded boots are NOT considered correct dress.) Also BARE FEET will NOT be permitted on the grounds of Health & Safety. A FIVE run penalty per player, per game, breaching the rules will be enforced. LATENESS: A TEN run penalty will be imposed on any team failing to be ready for their match. An enclosure will be erected for players and it’s the captain’s responsibility to ensure players are in the enclosure FIVE minutes before starting their game. 17. Penalties will be enforced also if the captain of any team fails to provide the scoring officials with the order of batting and bowling at least fifteen minutes before their game. 18. The batsman is to take guard at the popping crease until the ball is released. Failure to observe this will result in ONE warning followed by the batsman being declared out. 19. If after penalties are deducted etc, the match is tied, then the winning team will be the one which has lost fewer wickets. 20. The umpires will deal with ALL and ANY deliberate, nefarious conduct, or time wasting, by awarding penalty runs to the innocent team. The umpire’s decisions, sober or intoxicated are FINAL!!! Rev:0410
2009 saw one of the largest crowds gathering for the event.
Raffle Prizes
1st Prize
500 Guineas
2nd Prize
Trial Glider Flight donated by the Lasham Gliding Society
3rd Prize
£50.00 Pizza Voucher donated by Domino’s Pizza
4th Prize
A Collection of Cricketing Books donated by Holybourne Rare Books
Plus many more! Please buy your raffle tickets from any of the teams playing in this year’s tournament, any of the locations from where the teams are based, or from the St. Michael’s Hospice shop on the High Street or their tent on tournament day. Thank you. Our exciting 2010 raffle prize collection is crowned again by an anonymously donated sum of 500 guineas! Many thanks to our regular supporter for this generous donation. The organising committee would also like to express their gratitude to all those businesses and individuals who have contributed to our raffle prizes.
Victorian Cricket History At 10am on Sunday 13th June 2010, the first ball will be bowled in one of Hampshire’s most unusal sporting events - a Victorian Cricket Tournament that begun in 1982 which bar the odd interuption, has continued to grow in size and reputation ever since. Started as a challenge between two of Alton’s Historic public houses, The Eight Bells and The French Horn, the event we enjoy nowadays is a tournament featuring nine teams of nine players each, all of whom wear approximations of 19th century dress. The game between the two pubs, instituted by Alan Morley and Rod Ryan, survived most of the eighties and after a short gap, was resumed in 1991 under the stewardship of two Johns, messrs Campbell and Stroud. The aim of the day is fun for all the family, players and spectators, with an overall charitable intention. The beneficiaries for many years were Bushy Leaze and teams contested strongly (and mainly sportingly!) for the ‘Bushy Leaze Trophy’. The committee select the charity from a list of hopefuls who present their reasons why they should be supported.
A timely appearance of a steam locomotive.