Welcome to the home of Morpeth Cricket Club, the club plays in the Northumberland and Tyneside Senior League, where the first team won the 2006 Division B1 Championship. The club has a first, second and third team at the senior level and also supports an extremely healthy junior section, with representative teams from U13’s up to U’18s.

This website will contain all of the latest information, results, match reports and stats as the 2007 season progresses. There is also the club shop with the option of purchasing your 2007 club membership, or your Morpeth Cricket Club clothing.

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2006 Season Review

Morpeth Cricket Club successfully ran a 1st, 2nd and 3rd senior teams, with the 2006 season being a very successful one. The 1st XI ended champions of the Northumberland and Tyneside Senior League A2. This has resulted in their promotion to the A1 division and the achievement of their 3 year plan on time.

The 2006 season would have to be considered the most successful in the clubs recent history. The youth policy which is so prevalent in the cricket club has finally come to fruition, with an average age of a championship winning side being 23. A fantastic season was had by the first team leading the A2 division from start to finish losing only two games in the season.

Promotion to A1 and the championship was clinched and we are proud as a club to present ourselves as a well rounded side with strong team spirit, with members enjoying the game they love as well as being successful within it. The first team was excellently guided by Chris Reagan who had a brilliant year himself picking up the A2 players player of the year award. The highlight being scoring three back to back centuries in May of which few players in the NTSL have managed to do.

Australian Blake Reynolds had another fantastic season scoring over 1000 runs in all competitions and we are proud and honoured as a club that we have such a lasting impact on him that he has decided to settle here for the short term. There were other notable performances throughout the season with strong bowling from junior members of the club Michael and James Craigs, who at only 16 years old have extremely bright cricketing futures ahead of them. Strong batting from Stuart Alleway and Ben Maxted were also notable who both scored over 600 club runs in the season.

The first XI also reached the final of the 20/20 Northumberland Smithson County Cup losing narrowly to South Northumberland who went onto become the best side in the land winning the 2007 Cockspur Cup.

The second XI also had a successful year finishing in the top half of the table. The blend of experience and youth is ideal particularly for bringing on the 16 and 17 year olds. The aim for 2007 has to be promotion and if we can win the games that slipped away last year because of a lack of experience, we should do well.

Winter nets commenced in late January with the largest turn out that I can remember in the past 8 years. The cricket section is looking very strong, with a healthy balance sheet, a thriving club membership and we are forward to taking the section into what will hopefully be another trophy winning season in 2007.

The junior section continues to thrive at Morpeth Cricket Club with over 150 junior members. This is very important at Morpeth with nearly all of our current first team being club members for over 15 years and have successfully progressed through the club to first team level. We again are thank full to Longhirst Hall for providing what can only be described as one of the best to places to play cricket in the country. We again hope for some superb cricket wickets in the 2006/2007 season.
 

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