History
The Ashcott & Shapwick Cricket
Club is thought to have been established in 1921 or 1922 - no-one is sure of
the exact date. Home matches were played
on
Friendly cricket matches were played
on Saturdays and Sundays until 1975 when the Saturday team joined the Somerset
League. A Saturday 2nd XI was formed soon after, entering the Somerset League
in 1982 while the Sunday team continued to play friendlies until 1996 when the
Club joined the Mid Wessex League. The Sunday XI withdrew from the Mid Wessex
League after the 2007 season. The Junior section was formed in 1991 when an
Under 11 team first entered the Taunton & District Youth League.
The Club in 2009
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The Club is affiliated to the
Somerset Cricket Board and to the governing body for cricket, the England
& Wales Cricket Board (ECB). We are currently working towards ECB’s
Clubmark accreditation and expect to achieve this before the 2010 season.
Clubmark status is awarded to clubs that prioritise junior development as a
means of creating high quality community club cricket scheme and the
requirements include the implementation of the ECB
Child Protection guidelines and the need to demonstrate Equity of Opportunity for all members |
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Two senior teams play League cricket
on Saturdays while the Sunday XI has reverted to a programme of friendly
matches. The 1st XI has recently enjoyed a period of unprecedented
success having gained promotion in 4 out of the past 5 seasons and having won
the Somerset Minor Clubs K.O.Cup in 2006. In 2008 they were champions of the
West of
This summer the Club will also
participate in the npower National Village K.O. Cup, the Cockspur Twenty20 Cup
and the Somerset Major Clubs KO Cup.
The Club has well maintained playing
and practice facilities including two artificial practice nets and a BOLA
bowling machine and a clubhouse equipped with showers and a bar and the
thriving Junior Section has about 70 members aged between 8 and 15 and fields
teams at Under 11, Under 13 and Under 15 levels in the Lloyd and White
Insurance Taunton Youth League.
This season we are indebted to
grants provided by the Somerset
Youth Opportunity Fund, the Somerset
Community Fund, the O2
Community Fund, the Polden Post and Shapwick Parish Council that, amongst
other things, have enabled us to upgrade the facilities in the clubhouse, train
more members as coaches and to provide new and replacement playing and coaching
equipment for juniors
Match fees are £5 for Adult matches;
£2 for Junior matches
Directions
The ground is in Northbrook Road in
the middle of Shapwick . The village lies about ½ mile off the A39
Bridgwater-Street road and about 6 miles from J23 of the M5. There are two
approaches to Shapwick signposted on the A39. The more westerly (Bridgwater
side) is in a wooded area while the one nearest Street in just outside the
village of Ashcott close to the Albion Inn.