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Radyr
CRICKET CLUB
R
adyr CC is a terrific
example of a community
cricket club and 2015
sees them celebrating their 125th
anniversary. Their Chairman, Chris
Hitchings, took the time to tell us more
about the good work the club has been
doing lately.
Involvement
He told us, “I’ve been involved with
the club since 1965 so for a quite a while
now! I’ve been Chairman of the club
since 2004. It has been a challenging role
but is always very interesting. We’ve
grown exponentially over the last seven
or eight years and it is now a different
animal to what it was in 2004.”
Atmosphere
2015
“I’d say that the mood at the club
at the moment is very buoyant. It is
our 125th anniversary and we held a
cricket week at the end of July which
went well. The season so far could have
gone a little better; we always have a
slow start. We’re situated in probably
the most prosperous area of Cardiff and
as a consequence many of our younger
players are either away or doing exams
so running four sides on a Saturday
early in the campaign can be quite a
struggle.”
“We’re aiming to win as many
games as we can over the remainder of
the season across all of our sides. We’re
looking forward to the final event of our
celebration as well which is a dinner on
the 25th of September which should be
well attended and will be a great way to
finish the season.”
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Youth
“Youth cricket is very important to
the club. We’ve got just under 200 boys
and girls involved with sides from U7
right the way through to U15. We’ve
been very successfully in this regard
with our youngsters developing very
well. We run as many teams as possible
in order to make sure that we can
provide as many people as possible with
a chance to play the game.”
Challenges
“As with all sports, I think
cricket clubs are struggling to keep
membership numbers up and that is
one of the challe