WCC U18's take Woodford right to the wire!!!

" Nathan celebrates his 72 Not Out with Lewis"

A sterling team performance from WCC's U18's tonight (Tues 11th May) away to Woodford CC, saw WCC once again chasing a near impossible total of 148! WCC are certainly keeping their die-hard spectators on the edge of their seats this season....with two close run high scoring matches in a row! Of which we WON BOTH!!!
Tonight saw Capt. Martin Leonard limp his way through the opening overs, calling for a runner as a pulled thigh muscle restricted him from chasing down the required runs, getting out to a catch from one of Woodford's fielders who took some great catches from a couple of sloppy swings....WCC needed to stabilise the innings and Nathan Bailey & Ahmed (Kaka) started to keep things ticking over mid-innings. Kaka knocking out a few fours in his excellent innings of 25 and Nathan keeping a stranglehold on the Woodford attack...swinging his bat with swordlike flourishes...sixes flying around the ground..."Boom! Boom! Bailey" was the cry from his WCC teammates.

With two overs to go and WCC needed 16 0ff 12 balls....Adam Marsden took on the Woodford lads and ran singles to keep Nathan on strike....ball past through to slips and Adam's wicket went...Luke Hibbert came on to see out the last two overs...Nathan, seeing it was getting darker by the second...decided to crack out a huge six to seal the game! WCC finishing on a Fantastic 154!!

"Boom Boom!".....Well done to ALL the lads who offered some great cheering on from the sides..."will a win...and we WILL win!!
Just BELIEVE!!!

Tracy Bailey

Exciting Pre-Season 2010 News

Hi and Welcome back to WCC Jnr's very own Blog page!
Season 2010 will be upon us very soon and I am happy to kick start our season with some exciting news about 5 of our talented junior players.
Liam Dodd, Adam Marsden, (U15's) Ryan Booth, Vaughn Corrie and Ross Crowther (U13's) have all successfully gone through the rigorous City Of Manchester selection trials (that have been taking place over the winter months) and have been selected to represent The City Of Manchester Cricket teams in their respective age groups!!
The Committee wish to offer their congratulations and good luck wishes to all players who have been selected and also to wish those who were not selected, all the best for this season..there will hopefully be other occasions for you all to shine throughout the coming season.
Junior Nets at Lancashire CC and also at Chorlton High school have been running for the past 4 weeks and have been very well supported..thanks to all who have managed to attend so far.
It is my sincere hope that next year we will be able to secure more than 3 nets at Lancs to be able to offer the excellent facilities and opportunities to more of our junior players. Which is why this year we were only able to invite 18 players to Lancs, those invited were selected by WCC coaches and were players who had been selected for trials with Manchester Boys or who showed promise last season for individual session work.
I can now announce also that Junior Registration day will be on SUNDAY 21st MARCH 2010 at the club, where you will be able to register and pay for this seasons cricket and purchase new cricket whites/clothing etc on the day. I hope to have ND Sports again in attendance to offer discounted cricket equipment (bats/pads/gloves/shoes/helmets etc etc) and look forward to seeing you all down at the Clubhouse on 21st March 12 noon til 4pm.
Many thanks again
Tracy Bailey
WCC Jnr Secretary.