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Club Information

We are a long established village club playing both Saturday and Sunday cricket, with a mid-week T20 league side, a winter indoor 6-a-side team and 2 league sides. We also have a thriving, competitive Colts section, with U10s mixed, U12s mixed, U14s mixed, and U15s girls teams and are proud that we are open to new players of all backgrounds and abilities and that any barriers to playing cricket are broken down.

 

After home matches we retire to the Henty Public House in the village. 

 

We also have a thriving Colts’ section for boys and girls aged between 7 and 16.  They receive coaching sessions, usually on Thursday and Friday afternoons in the summer, by a Sussex professional coach and a number of Club volunteers, who are mostly ‘senior’ ex-players wishing to put something back in the game.  We are proud of the fact that we our colts teams are a mix of girls and boys and that we are breaking down barriers that have previously stopped some from getting involved.

How You Can Join In

We provide senior and colts cricket for anyone over the age of 6, whatever gender, and are always keen to attract new members.  Whether you are a regular, occasional or lapsed player, or a parent with son or daughter showing interest in the game, you will be warmly welcomed and we are proud of our efforts to try and make sure cricket is accessible for all.  There is a long history of family involvement at the club, which continues to this day.  Please email us on ferringcricket@gmail.com or go to the Contact Us page to contact the club.

 

Our season starts in mid-late April and continues until the end of September and in 2025 we are entering teams in leagues at U10 mixed, U12 mixed, U14 mixed, U15 girls, two adult Saturday league sides, an adult T20 midweek side, as well as friendlies.  We are always looking for new fixtures from within Sussex, surrounding counties and touring sides.  If you are a fixture secretary looking for new fixtures, please go to the Contact Us page.

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Location

Little Twitten Recreation Ground,
Sea Lane,
Ferring,
Worthing,
West Sussex, BN12 5DY

Facilities

The Club have been playing cricket at the Little Twitten since the early 1950’s.  In those early days the changing rooms comprised an adapted Victorian railway carriage in the south-west corner, with several other basic ‘facilities’ (including a chemical toilet).


In 1994, the Club acquired, through the hard work of the then Committee in fundraising,  a second-hand mobile home to convert into a more presentable cricket pavilion, complete with home and away changing rooms, toilet, kitchen and equipment hut.  This was located in the north-easterly position it now occupies. In 1999, additional fundraising enabled us to install showers, to the relief of the more senior players who never thought this would happen, and all those who wished to retire to the Henty public house after the game without being readily identified as having taken part in recent strenuous exercise. 


In 2012, we were successful with a Sport England Lottery bid to the tune of £50,000.  Out of this, the pavilion and equipment hut were extended, resulting in much larger changing rooms that could fit a whole team and their kit in one go, rather than having to change in shifts and risk life and limb tripping over large kit-bags.  A practice strip and net were also installed outside.


Further grants were received in 2018 from the Spen Cama Fund and the Murphy Foundation to install an all-weather non-turf strip.  This is now helping enormously to practise on, to stage Colts’ cricket, and to protect what is a fairly small square from excessive wear and tear.  The grass square itself is maintained by our own hard-working qualified groundsman, with as much help as can be mustered from other Club members.

Club Positions

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President: Rob Miller

Honorary Chair: Mel Hargreaves

Honorary Secretary: Jim Watkiss

Honorary Treasurer: Alex Williams

Honorary Fixture Secretary: Craig Burgess

Honorary Groundsman: Chris Bradley

Colts' Section Manager: Alex King

Club Welfare Officers: Mike Lewis

Press, Social Media and Fundraising Lead: Jim Watkiss

Saturday 1XI Captain: Cameron Baldock

Saturday 1XI Vice Captain: Alex King

Saturday 2XI Captain: George Burgess

Saturday 2XI Vice Captain: Mike Lewis

Sunday Captain: Harry Lewis

Sun Vice Captain: Jake Awde

Falcons T20 Manager: James Roberts

Falcons T20 Captain: Jake Awde

Falcons T20 Vice Captain: David Thompson

Vice Presidents

A big thank you to the current vice presidents for the support:

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R Abbott, R Adlington, D Bailey, C Barrett, D Bettiss, S D Bluck, P Champion, Mrs A Deans, I Edwards, Mrs M Evans, P Evans, C F Green, J Hargreaves, P Holmes, B Isham, G Johnson, D King, S Labertouche, Mrs B Martin, A M Miller, Mrs S Miller,

M Quigley, Canon P Simmonds, J Smith, T Snelling, T Stead, Mrs J Stead, Col. M D Turner MB, Mrs A Turner, A Wadham, Mrs H Wadham, M Warner, J Watkiss, Mrs S Watkiss, Mrs F E Westbrook, R Wilkinson.

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Life Vice-Presidents (awarded for service to the club):

P Bromley, I Cheal, D Cockayne, R Cockayne, J Coote, T Cutler, A Francis, R A Miller, K P Sheppard, C A Treagus

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As we hope you always know you are always welcome at our games and you only need ask if we can get you a cup of tea etc.

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