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The Cornwall Youth Cricket Festival Homepage

(formerly The St Gluvias Youth Cricket Festival) Established 1987

The Twenty-Fourth Festival, in 2010, will run from SUNDAY 8th to FRIDAY 13th AUGUST.

Latest - 2010 Festival Schedules/ Information click

2010 Festival Preview

Festival Committee 2010 : Mark Mitchell (Chairman), Richard Mitchell (Secretary), Don Parker (Treasurer), Anthony Hancock, Viv Heffer, Sean Hooper, David Martin, Steve Raven, Terry Rundle, John Thompson, Terry Tregidgo, Peter Tresidder, Roger Watson, Bill Williams.

The Cornwall Youth Cricket Festival would like potential UMPIRES for the Festival to contact us (either John Thompson (01326 372972, 07581 308898,or our Secretary, Richard Mitchell - 01326 212788). We have a good number of local volunteers for the week , but we would like to have more qualified, or at least regular, umpires available. They're guaranteed an friendly welcome and first-class hospitality!

Previous Winners
2008 Results 2009 Results
2007 Results 2003 Results
2006 Results 2002 Results
2005 Results 2001 Results
2004 Results 2000 Results

 

2010 Festival Schedules - pdf documents   

Sunday Under 11 Rules

 Thursday Under 13 Finals
Sunday Under 11 Schedule Friday Under 15 Finals
Monday U 13 / U15 Qualifying Under 17 Mon/Tue/Wed  Schedule
Tuesday U 13/15 Qualifying Thursday Under 17 Finals
Wednesday U13/U15 Qualifying Under 17 Rules
  Tournament Rules

 

Current sponsors are: The Lord's Taverners, R Booth Ltd, The Lions Club of Falmouth and Penryn, Cornish Cricket Company Ltd, Flicx UK Ltd,

The Twenty-Fifth Festival, in 2011, will run from SUNDAY 7th to FRIDAY 12th AUGUST.

 

St Gluvias Cricket Club

HISTORY

The Festival started in 1987 from an idea hatched by Mark Mitchell and an associate, Peter Hickes, and a Committee was formed, which has now grown into a strong and efficient body, running a tournament over six days and featuring some 500-600 young cricketers aged between around 7 and 17. We use four pitches, two at Penryn School (now called Penryn Sports College), one at St Gluvias Cricket Club and another at Penryn Rugby Club. Matches begin at 9.30 am and continue until around 8.30 pm. Various special events have taken place in the evenings, but the Festival is now 100% youth cricket. The players all receive our traditional Festival caps and there are many club prizes and sets of individual medals, in addition to the kit bags kindly supplied by the Lord's Taverners.

The style of cricket is fast, but encompassing all of the skills and tactics of the full game. Each team consists of 8 players. The two main tournaments, Under 13 and Under 15, are played over 10 eight-ball overs per side, with only 5 overs for the Under 17's, which is played in the evenings. The teams play on a qualifying day, where they each get three matches, and the majority (around two-thirds) return for the appropriate Finals Day. The Under 11 Softball tournament takes place in its entirety on the first day, the Sunday. We receive at present 60-70 entries, nearly all from within Cornwall, but our efforts at expansion in recent years have brought several entries from across Southern England

The style of cricket is fast, but encompassing all of the skills and tactics of the full game. Effectively, whether by luck or a natural learning process, it has advanced alongside the professional game. Over the past two decades the global game of cricket has altered almost unrecognisably, with coloured clothing and seemingly impossible scoring rates becoming quite the expected norm. Players at the top level have improvised and our youngsters have copied. In 1987 the use of an 80-ball innings as the mainstay of our competition perhaps seemed a dangerous gamble and might have produced around 60 to 80 runs, but to score 100 in 2010 guarantees you no more than a competitive total. That said, the most astounding performance of all 19 Festivals so far happened back in 1990, on Monday 13th August, when future Cornwall star Gary Thomas smashed 209 not out in an unbroken first-wicket partnership of 240 for St Just v Wendron, aided, and quite clearly abetted, by his opening partner Tim Edwards!

The main growth area has been first the Under 13, then Under 11 age-group, with the original 'blue riband', the Under 16 tournament (11-a-side), gradually fading in prominence and becoming an Under 15 event to match the age-group being played by most clubs. The Under 13 competition has reached a height of 18 entries in 1998 & 2010 and has always been well supported, however the Under 11 softball competition has grown immensely and it is a joy to see four games being played simultaneously on the St Gluvias ground. In 1993 we began the U19 six-a-side event in the evenings, after it was noticed that some of the young players who had previously been regular participants were keen to continue their association with the Festival. Eventually this competition was scaled down to Under 17, to fall into line with the other Festival, and nationally recognised, age-groups. It has always been an exciting feature of the week but, with older teenagers committed to work, the number of entries has fluctuated greatly in recent seasons.

The Festival changed its name from the 'St Gluvias Youth Cricket Festival' to the present CYCF title in 1999, in order to reflect its independence, though it has remained traditionally Penryn-based, due to the convenience and close proximity of available facilities and the established goodwill of the local supporters. Our income is from two main sources - sponsorship from local businesses (including kit and other goods, besides hard cash) and through funds raised during the Festival itself, such as raffles and food sales. We have also made an effort to collect advertising revenue for the programme, which is in itself sponsored by a local printer. The Lord's Taverners have supported us extremely generously for many years, particularly in supplying the major kit bag prizes, and we have managed to obtain a major local sponsor throughout our twenty-four seasons, firstly Dales of Falmouth, through the good offices of our late Chairman, Andy Ayres, then Mike Hodges Sports, One & All Sports (Redruth) and, to this date, The Cornish Cricket Company Ltd.

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