Cricket Club Issue 49 | Page 75

Totteridge Millhillians class experience, provide a great environment for young cricketers.” Integration times, but naturally I am carrying on as a player (I’m 59). I’m Secretary now, I’ve been chairman, treasurer, club captain, team captain, umpire, coach, but playing is the thing!” 2019 “We aim to compete on every front! We have four league sides to provide competitive Saturday cricket, a Sunday side, plus women’s and junior cricket to cater for everyone. We have a number of cricketers in new roles and hope to enable smoother progress through the ranks for the young players. We want to make the selection process quicker and easier, and encourage more people to do more jobs! We are very much a community club and we have lots of social events that the local community support and lots of local youngsters, male and female, take part in our junior cricket.” Youth “Youth development is immensely important, as we need to organically grow our next generation of adult cricketers, and introduce a new generation to our wonderful game. Steve Selwood, helped by a lot of fantastic coaches, many (including him) with first- “It isn’t always easy integrating young players into the senior set up given that our 3rd and 4th XIs are as competitive as any other team and want to win all their games, but a new appointment this year, Sid Godbole, to specifically manage this process, will go a long way to ensuring this happens, that batsmen get a bat and bowlers a bowl in senior cricket.” Challenges/Ambitions “Our biggest challenges our player retention, getting people to commit, drowning in a sea of admin, becoming sustainable financially and ensuring our juniors go on to play long-term. We have fairly widely- drawn ambitions to field strong senior sides to act as role models and encourage young players to choose us, to provide competitive recreational cricket for lots of people, men, women, boys, girls.” DOWNLOAD OUR FREE APP AGS CARS You’re Profesional Ground Transportation Service Around London Services • All Local and National Work Undertaken • Airport Transfers • Executive Airport Taxi • Gatwick Airport Taxi • Stansted Airport Taxi • Heathrow Airport Taxi • City Airport Taxi • Luton Airport Taxi • Minibus Hire • Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles book your taxi today. +44 (0)20 8361 6666 www.britishcarways.com [email protected] www.sportip.biz 75