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Bat & Ball

The newsletter of the Royal Household Cricket Club, Frogmore, Windsor Castle May 2017

Chairman’s Welcome

Welcome to the latest edition of ‘Bat & Ball’, the newsletter of the Royal Household Cricket Club. As you will read, 2016
was a record-breaking season on the pitch and hugely enjoyable year off it. The new 2017 season will be quieter with no
festival or tour planned, however, our fixture list is still packed full of quality opposition as we welcome back old friends
and host a range of new teams for the first time. I look forward to welcoming you to the Club over the coming months.
Bob Gilbert

2016 A RECORD of all our players led to many nail biting finishes to games

as we always played to win wherever possible. Everyone
who played during the season should feel proud of the
BREAKING SEASON! contribution they made, however big or small, to help the
team achieve such a historic and record breaking set of
results.

Over the course of the season 7 centuries were scored
Having achieved so much in 2015, expectations around by RHCC batsmen including maiden 100’s for Ben
the RHCC were high as we started the 2016 season with Roberts, Ben O’Neil and Phil Glenn. Maiden 5 wicket hauls
our historic and unique tour to Rome and the Vatican last were also recorded for Archer Cornwall, Chris Moore and
April. Our cricket didn’t quite match our expectations Alex Maxfield. Denis ‘Swiss Tony’ Winter was our leading
though as we lost our first game of the tour and our season wicket taker yet again with 56 wickets, using flight and
to a young Capanelle side. guile, amongst other skills from his record bag of tricks,
to instil fear in to the hearts of opposition batsmen.
After this false start the RHCC went on to have a quite Scott Ensom batted beautifully again, averaging 62, to
unbelievable, hugely successful season. We are very proud score over 1000 runs for the second season running. A
to announce the 2016 season was the most successful brilliant effort. Phil Glenn also had a great season with the
year in the Club’s 113-year history. We played 49 games, bat scoring over 500 runs.
winning a phenomenal 30 games with 9 draws and only
10 losses with 8 games lost to weather. This gave us a A special thank you must go to the Captaincy team of Steve
win ratio of 61%; a brilliant achievement considering the Nutt, Craig Nel, Andy Crofts and Peter Wilson, plus other
ever-improving standard of the opposition we play. individuals who stepped up to help lead the team over the
course of the season.
Good old-fashioned teamwork and a focus on having fun and
enjoying our cricket led to many superb team performances So, thanks again to everyone involved in the record
across the season backed up by some excellent individual breaking 2016. It really was a team effort. Here’s to the
achievements. The dedication, commitment and motivation 2017 season – what can we achieve this year?