Nawton Grange
“I was first associated with the club through
living in the village, my son plays in the junior set up
down at Nawton Grange Cricket Club. I get down to
watch as often as possible during the summer and I
think for a small village team the standard of cricket
on display week in week out is absolutely fantastic.
The development of the junior section over the
past few years has been outstanding, if you look
back three or four years ago there wasn’t many
juniors taking part and now the club get 70+ juniors
on a Wednesday night taking part in coaching,
I don’t think there are that many in the village so
people are travelling to come and play at Nawton
Grange. My son has been playing cricket for five
years and is a bit of an all-rounder.
Display technologies has been a sponsor of the
club for three years now, we currently sponsor all
the junior shirts. I do my best to help out around
the club as best I can with the tea rooms etc. From
everyone at Display technologies we would like to
wish the club all the best in the future and hope
they keep up the great work, the excellent junior
development is a credit to the club and hopefully
the juniors can progress in the club and eventually
play for the first team.”
Simon Ridley – Display Technologies
worked through the junior ranks, they
can progress into evening league adult
cricket. This league has a real emphasis
on developing younger cricketers in an
open age environment, so players get the
opportunity to participate and contribute
whilst benefitting from the experience
and guidance of senior players.”
Challenges/Ambitions
“Many clubs in our area and
nationally are suffering from decreasing
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participation levels. Up until now we
have been able to buck that trend, mainly
thanks to our strong junior setup, which
have produced many of the current
1st and 2nd XI players. Hopefully the
investment in facilities that we have
secured over the winter will help to
retain current players and attract new
players to the club.
Over the next five years we are aiming
to maintain the current number of junior
and senior teams. The 1st XI are aiming
to win the Scarborough Beckett League
Premier Division for the first time, and
the 2nd XI are aiming to progress from
Division 3 into Division 1 as some of the
current junior players make the step into
open age Saturday cricket.”
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