General
A village cricket club in the heart of rural Norfolk, our 1st team play on Saturdays in Division 3 of the Norfolk Alliance having won Division 4 in 2011. Our 2nd team play in Division 4 of the Norfolk League having won Division 5 in 2011 whilst a third Saturday side play in Division 8 of the Norfolk League. On Sundays, our 1st team play in the Peter Parfitt Division 3 with our Sunday 2nd team playing in the Alf Mace Division 4 of the expanding Mid Norfolk Sunday League. We endeavour that those who don’t play on a Saturday should play on a Sunday, thus guaranteeing that every member gets a game of cricket at the weekend.
During the season, we hold outdoor net practice on Thursday for adults and on Friday evenings for juniors at the ground and during the winter, hold regular indoor net practices at Wymondham Leisure Centre.
However, there’s much more to Hardingham than just the cricket. The past few seasons have seen successful and popular end of season tours to such cricketing hotbeds as Cleethorpes, Hastings and Bournemouth that have provided great entertainment both to those who went on them, and to those who have heard stories about them!!! Rightly proud of the social side of our club, we hold popular and often quite riotous Start of Season/Mid Season/End of Season Social evenings at the club whilst our Annual Presentation Dinner held after the close of the season is a consistently popular, well attended and entertaining event.
If you’re interested in what you’ve read about here, please have a look around the website to get a feel for what we’re about as a club. We are always on the lookout for potential new players of any standard, as well as social members who want nothing more at the weekend than to watch some cricket with a drink in their hand. Contact forms are available so if you’re interested, then please get in touch.
History
We joined the Norfolk League in 1978 and have been members of it for what will be 30 years in 2008. Our first team are currently in Division 4 of the Norfolk Alliance with our second team in Division 5 of the Norfolk League and third team in Division 8. We also have two Sunday sides playing in the Mid Norfolk Sunday League.
Honours:-
- League Winners of Division 2 in 1983
- League Winners of Division 1 in 1984
- League Winners of Division 4 in 1997
- League Winners of Division 3 in 2004
- League Winners of Division 9 in 2008
- League Winners of Division 1 in 2009
- League Winners of Division 5 in 2011
- Alliance Division 4 Winners in 2011
- League Runners Up of Division 4 in 1979
- League Runners Up of Division 1 in 1986
- League Runners Up of Division 6 in 1995
- League Runners Up of Division 5 in 1996
- League Runners Up of Division 10 in 2007
- League Runners Up of Division 6 in 2010
- Broke Cup Winners in 2009 and 2011
- Wicklewood Shield Winners in 2009,2010 and 2011
- Wicklewood Shield Runners Up in 2006 and 2007
- Kimberly Cup Runners Up in 1997, 1998, 2001 and 2004
- Saham Toney Cup Winners in 2000 and 2001
- Wensum Cup Winners in 2011
Facilities
Apart from the competitive standard of cricket that we play both on a Saturday and Sunday, and the very real emphasis on the social side of the game as well as the actual cricket, we are fortunate to have facilities right up there with the best in the Norfolk League.
Aside from the picturesque setting of our ground, these are a number of our other facilities:-
- An excellent/well prepared square; Dale Watson, Norfolk Cricket Board pitch officer who we brought in at the start of the 2009 season has done a tremendous job on our square and 2009, 2010 and 2011 saw excellent sporting wickets that gave encouragement to both batters and bowlers. Early indications for the 2012 season is that once again, the square is looking fantastic.
- Sightscreens at both ends of the square.
- A large and mostly even outfield.
- A very sound financial situation coming about mainly through our Licensed Bar.
- Two concrete Practice nets; both matting and the other a mobile net that allows us to have square practices during the season.
- The clubs own bowling machine paid for by the club and for the use of the club members.
- Mobile wicket covers bought this season.
- A brand new changing room facility with showers opened at the start of the 2011 season
Committee
- Chairperson
- Sue Fowle
- Vice Chairman
- Dave Oakley
- Treasurer
- David Young
- Secretary
- Jamie Fowle
- Social Secretary
- Liv Garner
- Bar Steward
- Stan Fowle
- Village Committee Representative
- Dale Watson
- Head Groundsman
- Dale Watson
- Welfare Officer
- Tracey Scott
- Press and Sponsorship Officer
- Liv Garner
- Youth Representative
- Brendan Scott
- Webmaster
- Colin Watts
- Minutes Secretary
- Carol Horwood
- Saturday Captain
- Chris Sparkes
- Saturday A Captain
- Glenn Sheehan
- Saturday B Captain
- Carl Cowles
- Sunday Captain
- Jason Scott/Jeff Turner
- Sunday A Captain
- Mike Savoury
- Life President
- Les King
- Vice Life President
- Mr Boyd-Bowman
- Vice Life President
- Henry Edwards
- Vice Life President
- Terry Elvin
- Vice Life President
- Michael Fincham
- Vice Life President
- Sam Harris
- Vice Life President
- George King
- Vice Life President
- Roger Taylor
- Vice Life President
- Bill Trett
- Vice Life President
- Peter Trett
- Vice Life President
- Peter Tufts
- Vice Life President
- Sue Fowle
- Vice Life President
- Stan Fowle
- Vice Life President
- Andrew Falcon
- Vice Life President
- Peter Meikle