Massive congratulations to
@SJLawro
who completed his garden marathon of 26.2 miles and raised over £2700 for our club. The club will be forever grateful for your efforts SJ. Thank you to everyone who donated and supported him on this amazing challenge!
#WeAreBass
We’re a very proud club this evening following the news that one our junior players Holly Evans has been selected to play for
@WiltsCricket
women this weekend. Our first ever female county player. Massive congrats Holly 🏏👍🏻👩🏼
Within 2 weeks we’ve raised almost £4.5k for our club. The support from all Members/Local Companies/Residents etc has been overwhelming. For a club where the majority of members are from RWB or have come through our youth system, it really does mean a lot & thank you.
#WeAreBass
The Secrets Out
Quite possibly the worst kept secret in cricket, but Brad Dawson joins Bassett as a Player Coach for our Senior section
Brad brings with him a wealth of experience, having played Prem 2, Prem 1 and Minor County’s.
Please join us in welcoming Brad to the club
Fireworks incoming
Proud to announce Jack Haines has joined the club from Goatacre
Like fellow new signing Brad Dawson, Jack brings experience from Prem 1, Prem 2 and Minor County’s
545 League runs last year at an average of 38.93
Please join us in welcoming Jack to the Bass
Like London buses
Wait so long for 1 signing and 2 come along.
Uzi Qureshi joins Bassett, taking up a new role as an Academy Coach, as well as bringing his on field expertise.
Uzi averaged 43.75 with the bat last year in Prem 1
Please join us in welcoming Uzi to the club
Even bigger milestones today for two home grown boys - Jack Paish
@Paish8
and Akash Sharma
@AkashhSharmaa
both make their 100th appearances for the 1st XI this afternoon - 1300+ runs for Paish and 136 wickets and counting for AK. Outstanding effort from both 👍🏻👍🏻
#100club
The 𝗕𝗘𝗦𝗧.
⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️🅰️🅰️🅰️🅰️🅰️🅰️🅰️🅰️🅰️🅰️🅰️🅰️
No
#MKDons
player has ever contributed to more goals in a single season than
@Scotttwine10
👏
Great first win of the season on Sat for our 1st XI. More importantly before the game we held a minutes silence to remember George Tuckett and Paul Gahan who both sadly passed away recently. Thank you
@Potternecc
for your support and for doing this with us 🙏🏻
#Gentleman
Good luck to our own
@KianChivers
and the rest of the Wiltshire U16s as they set off on their tour of Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 this evening ! Amazing opportunity for Kian and dad
@chivvy64
who’s blagged a spot on the plane as well ! Safe travels 👍🏻
This just in
Tonight Conor Taylor is a Bassett man. The all rounder joins Bassett from Goatacre
Conor averaged 22.31 in the league with the bat last year
Conor’s wicket haul speaks for itself, 30 league wickets at an average of 17.6
Please join us and welcome Conor to the club
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that
@pstoddard1974
will be joining the club as Head of Cricket. Paul is one of the leading coaches in the county. In addition he will play a leading role in recruitment, selection, coach development and other cricket matters. Welcome Stodds
2023 OVERSEAS PRO - Absolutely thrilled that South African YASSAR COOK will be joining us for the season as our professional. Straight of the back of a fantastic fc season in which he averaged 47+ including a career best 163, Yas is a top order batter who currently is the (1/2)
Winners are grinners! 2nd XI win by 11 runs! Excellent all round performance, three members of the Evans family in the team and proud dad had 4fer!
#upthebass
#keepitinthefamily
We are delighted to announce that
@UziSports
will be supplier of our new
@graynics
training and playing kit. Details to follow in the next couple of days on how to access our new on-line club shop, or you can pay them a visit to see it first hand. 🏏👕👖
SIGNING - we are thrilled to announce the signing of Rohan Belekar, Rohan is a former first class cricketer from India who played Ranji Trophy cricket for his state Goa. An opening batsman and off spinner Ronan will play a key role in our 1st XI and also coach
#welcome
The Season Starts Here
Start by saying a couple thank yous
Firstly a big thanks to all that attended Wednesdays club AGM
Secondly a big Thanks to , for their hard work in 2023, without you the club couldn’t have had such a successful year
Here are your captains for 2024 season
Amazing night down at the sports association for bassetts race night .. so far over £400 pound has been made for the club and still 2 races to go !! Outfits looking great !!! Big thanks to all sponsors for donating prizes
#wearebass
SIGNING - We are thrilled to announce that Charan Chahal has rejoined the club. A top order batter and leg spinner who has been involved with Wiltshire and Oxfordshire at youth level, Charan is expected to play a significant role in our 1st XI. Welcome back
@CharanChahal69
Great night for the races !! BIG thanks to
@markl7288
for organising gemreat job .. and another MASSIVE thank you to
@chivvy64
for getting the prizes from sponsors .. without this hard work there wouldn’t be such great prizes !
#wearebass
We are proud to announce that Thea Hopkins has agreed to an exciting role with
@WiltsCricket
Thea will take on the role of Women’s and Girls Development Officer
Helping to lead development and growth of W&G cricket in Wilts
Please join us in wishing Thea the best of luck
Good win for us today at Malmesbury, with excellent bowling from Chivers, Lazenby and Penfold in particular. We chased down Malmesbury’s 129 in 23 overs with runs for Sharma 56* and Beasant 38* - we’ll down to both sides in tough conditions ! 💨💨🌪
Just a brief review of another fantastic season across the board for our senior teams 🏏
More detail will follow at Presentation night where there is plenty to celebrate 🎊
Congratulations to Charan Chahal on his maiden 1XI hundred yesterday. Charan made 143 from 135 balls, the third highest ever league score for the club. This included his final 42 runs coming from just 8 balls! 💯🏏🔥💥
On Saturday
@SJLawro
hit a 6 on the last ball to secure RWBCC a winning start to the season. This Friday he will be doing a garden marathon to raise money for our club. Any support will be greatly appreciated.
#BigBulge
#WeAreBass
WELCOME HOME PRAV !
The club is absolutely thrilled to welcome back seam bowling all rounder Prav Chahal. Prav played all his junior cricket at RWB and now plays first class for Oxford UCCE and Minor Counties for Oxfordshire.
Delighted to have one of our own back at the club.
Sunday saw our county boys under 15s win their third consecutive match of the season - a great start! Thanks to
@graynics
for kitting out our teams so well - loving the new coloured clothing for our teams!
Yesterday also saw the first outing of our new Women’s Cricket Kit. Thanks to Charles Geddes Carpets and
@cricket_macer
for making it possible. The kit looks awesome!
#womenscricket
#WeAreBass
Thank's to all the teams that took part in our Question of Sport tournament. Congratultions to this years winners
@WBCricketClub
.
@RWBTFC
@RWBTennisClub
, Petanque and Running club.
Thank you to
@Potternecc
for this mornings wonderful U9’s festival. Great weather, great cricket and great fun. A massive well done to all the lads for their efforts today in what was some serious heat ☀️🔥👏🏻.
This Sunday we look forward to welcoming the MCC and Frenchay CC to the Gerard Buxton Sports Ground in an exciting double header for the club.
GB1 will see our Mens 1s host the MCC from 1pm
And our Ladies will face off against
@FrenchayCC
on GB2 from 1.30pm
@wiltshirecricketltd
1st XI recorded their 7th successive win yesterday, maintaining their 100% record.
Batting first we recorded 286-7, with half centuries from opening pair Jon Clarke and
@jack_twine28
. Corsham were then bowled out for 141 largely thanks to skipper
@AkashhSharmaa
taking 6fer👏🏏
A fantastic day was had by all at our Women’s Cricket Festival yesterday. Thank you to
@chippenhamcc
,
@corshamcc
and
@CollingbourneCc
for joining us. There was some brilliant cricket played and it was a great advert for the game. Keep up the good work guys 👏🏻👏🏻
#womenscricket
🚨
#WeAreBass
🚨
See below the first edition of our WeAreBass update.
With the season well underway we thought it was time for a quick update on all things on and off the pitch 🏏
The scenario with 2 overs to play,
@WBCricketClub
captain at the crease,
@chippenhamcc
searching for last wicket…
➡️ 5 runs req.
➡️ 10 balls
➡️ 1 wicket in-hand
Having batted solo as “last woman stands” for several overs, RWB Captain sees them to a nail-biting Victory 🏆
Well done u13s at
@CalneCC
. Turned round by Jamie Wilkinson & Chris Turner from 58-8 to 107 a/o to give bowlers a chance which they certainly did. Callum king 3-1-6-5 and Holly Evans 3-0-6-2. Best of luck calne’s Jacob Sealy who retired hurt after bad knock to his knee
🇺🇸Saturday 1st September🇺🇸
Join us for our American themed end of season fancy dress night, everyone’s welcome.
Think Presidents, Sports Stars, Film Stars, Music Stars, anything from the good old US of A!
Get involved and sign off the season in style!
YOUR CLUB WANTS YOU
Stealing a lovely idea from
@GCBCricket
We would like to start by thanking Jen Davies, midwife at the GWH and ladies team player for all her efforts
#TogetherThroughThisTest
SIGNING - delighted to announce that Jordan Butler will be joining us for 2018 and beyond. Jordan is a quality batsman and a proven WEPL performer who will be a real asset to our first XI. Welcome Jordan
#Butler57
DEADLINE DAY TRANSFER - delighted to confirm the signing of fast bowling all rounder Dave West. Dave transfers to us from Marlborough and will add considerably to our 1st XI when he returns from Loughborough University later this summer
#welcome
A massive thank you to
@markl7288
&
@NeilTwine
for organising a fantastic quiz for the whole club to enjoy this evening. Another successful fund raiser 😍
Our ladies team played in the National T20 cup today vs
@DumbletonCCGirl
Whilst the result didn’t quite go our way, we held our heads high against an excellent side. Best of luck to them in the next round.
👏 This week's
@ECB_cricket
Honours Boards (powered by leagues/comps using play-cricket) are here:
👍 Congratulations to:
🏏 Chris Bartel of
@WhiteparishCC
on topping the batting
🟢 Akash Sharma of
@WBCricketClub
on topping the bowling
Fantastic morning of cricket for our ladies playing down at
@WestburyDistCC
. Great team, great game and money being raised for some great causes. Thanks for having us along and we look forward to playing you again soon.
🇦🇺 | 𝙉𝙀𝙒 𝙎𝙄𝙂𝙉𝙄𝙉𝙂 ✍️
Congratulations to Oxford UCCE Captain and
@WBCricketClub
, Prav Chahal who has signed for Buckley Ridges Cricket Club in the Dandenong & District Cricket Association for the upcoming season. 🏏
What a phenomenal week it's been for Prav! From
The ladies team returned to winning ways today in a hard fought 25 over match against an experienced Potterne side.
Basset did what they do best - went out hard with Thea leading the way with two huge sixes before…
1st XI at Home tomorrow vs
@swindoncricket
1s in what’s now our first/last/only pre-season game! Meet 1130 Beasant, Lawro, Paish, Joseph, Vithanage, Butler, Chahal, Sharma, Lazenby, Chivers, Pamphillon. Umpire RK Smith 🏏🤷🏻♂️💦
3 lads picked up prizes this week at Wiltshire CCC Youth Awards
Diyon picking up an award for taking 4 wickets in a game
Ben taking home the U14 Development Player of the year
Akashalso taking a Development Player of the year this time in U15 age group.
Keep it up boys