The minutes from the Cricket Committee meeting on the 23rd December are available to view on the website via the 'Documents and Resources' page on the left hand side. Members must be logged in to view this page.

This Friday CDCC members are all invited to a pub crawl across the pubs of Cookham starting at The Ferry at 6.30pm, making its way up the High Street and towards Cookham Dean. The long night of drinking will end at the cricket club itself!

There will be a working party at the club on Sunday( 20th December starting at 11am. This is to help finish off the work that has been taking place over the winter so far.

It would be great to see as many people as possible attend and if you can't commit yourself for the whole day, pop down for an hour or so if possible.

The 2010 Thames Valley League fixtures have been announced to whet the appetites of CDCC players and supporters alike.

The 1st team remain in 3B after a respectable 7th placed finish last season and they kick off their campaign away at Teddington Town and their first home game is the following week against relegated North Maidenhead 2s. The stand-out fixtures are the games against local rivals Wooburn Narkovians, those games are on the 12th June (home) and 14th August (away) respectively. The season climaxes with a home game against Amersham 2s.

The 2nds kick off their 5B campaign after last season's promotion success with a home game against Reading 4ths. Their season finishes with an away clash against last season's promotion rivals Maidenhead and Bray 3s.

For the first time ever, CDCC have a 3rd XI in the league. Their opening fixture is a local derby against Marlow 3s and the season ends with a trip away against fellow Division 9 new boys, Burnham 4s.

Hi Guys. This weekend, Ed Wells-Cole and the tree surgeons have been extremely busy up the club clearing a lot of space and transforming the car parking area and side of the pavilion. However there is a lot of cleaning up and work that needs to be done. We need a working party from 10.00am next Saturday please. We need as many people as possible up the club armed with gloves, spades, rakes and forks. We have some grand plans for improving the club this winter and the work needs to begin now. There will be bacon butties, endless cups of tea. Also we will make sure the club is open for the rugby in the afternoon and there will be a big bonfire as well to clear all the rubbish. Please guys we really need the support of everyone this winter. If everyone can do their bit we will have a fantastic facility for next year and a big improvement on this year.

Pass this on to parents, friends and family. Help will be needed outside and in the kitchen. Lets all muck in!

Holy Trinity Church
Cookham
Tuesday November 3rd
at 2.30pm

All welcome, and please don't feel you need to wear black. The family have asked for no flowers, but donations to the Marie Curie Cancer Care in recognition of the care they gave to Andrew's sister.
This can be done at the church on Tuesday, or through the funeral directors,
F.G Pymm & Son 65 Moorbridge Rd, MAIDENHEAD SL6 8LT Berkshire (01628 623822)

Cookham Dean Cricket Club is deeply sorry to announce the sudden death of Andrew Millar. Andrew has been associated with the club for many years and many of you will know him through his work with colts and senior teams alike. He has most recently been the fixtures secretary – so has dealt with all our visiting teams as well.



Andrew collapsed on Wednesday night after playing football. His loss is devastating for the club but of course more so for his wife Helen and sons Ben and Rory and daughter Clara. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

Hi all

We've arranged a Tour to the Rebellion Brewery, Marlow (suppliers of fine beers to CDCC!) on Tuesday 10th November.

We will be leaving the Club at 6.30pm in time for the Tour at 7.00pm. The cost of the evening will be £20 and will include:


* Transport to the Rebellion Brewery and return to the Club
* Tour of the brewery
* Ales currently being brewed available all night
* All you can drink!
* Souvenir glass


In addition, the brewery offer a barbeque (whatever the weather) so you buy something to accompany your beer.

Please would you let me know by return if you would like to come so I can confirm numbers ASAP.

Thanks all

Mark Fish

Contact Mark at mark_helen@hotmail.com

The players meeting for 2009 will be held at CDCC on Tuesday the 15th September at 7:30. This is the chance for all players to voise their opinion on the future of the club and run for cricket committee positions. See http://www.cdcc.co.uk/pages/page_10054/playersmeeting.aspx for more information

Cookham Dean's two league sides will look to end their Thames Valley League seasons on a high but will have to do it the hard way with both sides missing a number of regular players.

The First team travel to promotion chasing Royal Ascot and will be looking to put the brakes on their promotion charge after upsetting Chenies and Latimer last week. George Edlin and Clive Lambden are unavailable which means that Jake Richardson and Simon D'Ardenne earn recalls.

1st XI: B. Millar, T. Bibby, R. Millar, J. Richardson, S. D'Ardenne, C. Nunn, C. Austin, S. Gandesha, A. Patel, A. O'Donoghue, P. Patel.

The 2nds complete a double header against Royal Ascot and are without skipper Richard Bibby who is playing in a baseball competition, Mark Fish skippers in his absence. Other regulars missing include Dave Brooks while Mike Cutting is suffering with numerous injuries. Andy Pett has yet to recover from his leg injury as well. The side is boosted by the returns of Ollie Freeman, Arun Brar and Guy Glover who looks set to keep wicket. A number of other unavailables means that 3rd team skipper Jonathan Gay and 3rd team opening bowler Andy Partridge make only their second league appearances of the season. John Gay also steps into the breach for only his second league appearance for the Dean, the last one coming against Royal Ascot in the corresponding fixture last season.

2nd XI: Tom Wells-Cole, Mark Fish, Arun Brar, Shaun Glover, Guy Glover, Ollie Freeman, Rob Mettler, Jonathan Gay, John Gay, Andy Partridge, Isaac Richardson.