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(formerly The St Gluvias Youth Cricket Festival) Established 1987

The Twenty-Third Festival, in 2009, will run from SUNDAY 9th to FRIDAY 14th AUGUST.

Latest - 2009 Festival Schedules/ Information click

2009 Festival Preview

Festival Committee 2009 : 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, Don Wyatt.

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  
2007 Results 2003 Results
2006 Results 2002 Results
2005 Results 2001 Results
2004 Results 2000 Results

 

2009 Festival Schedules - pdf documents   

Welcome

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

 

Current sponsors are: The Lord's Taverners, St Austell Brewery, R Booth Ltd, The Lions Club of Falmouth and Penryn, Hewden Plant Hire, W C Rowe Ltd. Cornish Cricket Company Ltd, Flicx UK Ltd, Rotary Club of Helston-Lizard

The Twenty-Fourth Festival, in 2010, will run from SUNDAY 8th to FRIDAY 13th 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, three at Penryn School (now 'College') and one at St Gluvias Cricket 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 around 60 entries, nearly all from within Cornwall, but our efforts at expansion this year have brought several entries from across Southern England The Festival currently costs between 4 and 5 thousand pounds to run and, if we are to expect teams to visit from further afield, we should expect to have to spend money in other ways to make such a visit feasible for them. Our present 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.

 

 

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