YEAR 4 CONTINUOUS CRICKET FINAL  

The Warwickshire Cricket Boards Year 4 Continuous Cricket County Final Day was held at The County Ground again this year providing participants with a memorable opportunity of playing at Edgbaston following in the footsteps of their local hero’s such as Ian Bell.  Schools initially participated in a local festival at their nearest cricket club with over 6000 children taking part across the county in this stage of the competition, the winners of each local round were then invited to the County finals to represent their local area.  The day consisted of fielding skills in the morning followed by three matches of continuous cricket in the afternoon.  The focus of the competition is to enthuse the youngsters about the game of cricket and ensure everybody is able to get involved.

Secondary Schools Development Scheme

The WCB works with secondary schools in a number of ways:

In addition the WCB runs a comprehensive Indoor Inter Cricket League programme in which 120 teams are participating in 2006. There are boys leagues at U12,13,15 and 19 ages and festivals for girls U13 and U15 teams.

To access the service please contact
Andy Wyles at WCB on 0121 446 3651

YEAR 6 KWIK CRICKET COMPETITION
4th July 2008
Warwickshire County Ground hosted this years Regional Adsa Kwik Cricket Competition with Primary schools from 5 Counties across the West Midlands Region competing. The standard of play thoughout was a credit to those boys and girls participating and to all the hard work teachers and schools had undertaken to get their teams to this stage of the competition.

Results of the competitions were as follows;

Girls Asda Kwik Cricket

1 st Place                St Alphege Primary School           (Warwickshire)

2 nd Place               St Lukes CE Primary School          (Staffordshire)

3 rd Place               Alvechurch Middle School            (Worcestershire)

4 th Place               Coleham Primary School               (Herefordshire)

5 th place               St Pauls CE Primary                          (Shropshire)

Asda Open Kwik Cricket

1 st Place                Claverley primary                             (Shropshire)

2 nd Place               Birchfield Community                    (Warwickshire)

3 rd Place               Dunstall Hill Primary                        (Staffordshire)

4 th place               Milking Bank primary                      (Worcestershire)

5 th place               St Pauls CE Primary School           (Herefordshire)

St Alphege Champions

Birchfield Community Runners Up!



YEAR 6 KWIK CRICKET COMPETITION
27th June 2008

WINNERS - BIRCHFIELD COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL


RUNNERS UP - ST JOSEPHS RC PRIMARY SCHOOL

After a summer of cricket Birchfield Community Primary School were crowned Asda Year 6 Kwik Cricket County Champions by Boyd Rankin. The competition has seen over 120 schools participating in local festivals in both Warwickshire and Birmingham over the summer months with children demonstrating high levels of enthusiasm and skill within each District.

The winners from each local festival were invited to participate in a days cricket at Kenilworth wardens Cricket Club to compete for the title of County Winners. Schools were divided into 2 leagues of 5 for the round robin stages of the competition with the top school from each league progressing through to the final.

League 1
Stivichall Primary School
St Maries RC Primary School
Alston primary School
St Josephs RC primary School
Prince Albert Primary School

League 2
Welford on Avon primary School
St James Primary School
St Laurence Primary School
Sharmans Cross Primary School
Birchfield Community Primary School

Following some extremely close and exciting matches played with a tremendous spirit the round robin stages of the competition finished with St Josephs RC primary and Birchfield Primary finishing top of their groups.

Two extremely talented sides produced a magnificent final with St Josephs posting a very challenging total of 258 in the first innings. Some fantastic stroke play and clever running from Birchfield Primary in the second innings meant they were always just slightly ahead of the required run rate and enabled them to finish on a score of 268 at the close of their innings.

SALTLEY SCHOOL WIN DOCKER SHIELD

Saltley School’s Under 15s won the prestigious Docker Shield at the County Ground, Edgbaston on 11th September 2007. Their opponents were local rivals Small Heath.

Small Heath struggled from the start against some accurate Saltley bowling. Wickets fell steadily to Akbar, Alam and Raja. The latter was the pick finishing with 4 for 6. Small Heath were bustled out for 57. Saltley responded very positively and sped to victory by eight wickets, Anwar finishing on 26*.

It was great that the tradition of holding the Docker final at Edgbaston was revived.

The Docker Shield has been going since 1886 and is reputed to be the oldest schools’ cricket competition in the world.