The Annual Horse Race Night for 2010 is on 22nd May at the Sports Clubhouse, from 19.30, entry £5 including food.

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2010 Outdoor Training Sessions

The club's outdoor training sessions are beginning and senior and junior training will take place on the following days and at the following times:

Seniors - Tuesday nights from 20th April - 18.00 to 20.00

Under 18's - Tuesday nights from 20th April - 18.00 to 20.00

Under 15's - Monday and Friday nights from 26th April - 18.00 to 20.00

Under 13's - Saturday mornings from 1st May - 10.00 to 12.00

Under 11's - Saturday mornings from 1st May - 10.00 to 12.00

Under 9's - Saturday mornings from 1st May - 10.00 to 12.00

Girls - Saturday mornings from 1st May - 10.00 to 12.00

22nd May - 1st XI - Morpeth back to Winning Ways

22nd May - 2nd XI - Cal-tastic for Morpeth

Having comprehensively outplayed Shotley Bridge the week before, Morpeth entered this game in high spirits. A couple of changes were needed as Jonny Wailes had to attend to family matters and Jimmy Ingram had taken a sabbatical to study for his exams. Back in stepped Skipper Chris Maxted and Sandy Meikle. The Morpeth lads were met by a glorious Summer’s day at Longhirst with temperatures in the mid twenties and a hard if slightly dry pitch.

Once the opposition had finally navigated there way to the ground, arriving as the game was due to start, the toss was won by Maxted who had no hesitation in sending his batsmen out to make some hay. This proved to be very easy early on as the weaknesses in the Leadgate bowling attack, they were missing their opening two bowlers, were cruelly exposed by Cal Urwin and Stephen Cowell.

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15th May - 1st XI - Top Four Clash Goes to the Wire

Morpeth's winning start came to an end despite a great team effort. The home side batted first at Longhirst and suffered an early blow when Jon Harbottle was caught on three off the bowling of Angus, but Dylan Dursingham and Jonny Craigs gave them a good platform to build with a good mixture of defence and attack.
 
The score progressed to 72 then Dursingham was bowled by Brown for 44 and Craigs followed soon after when he was caught off the same bowler.

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15th May - 2nd XI - Shotley Forst to Submit by Nick

Morpeth travelled to Shotley Bridge with a few players feeling the effects of Blake's coming out party the night before. Needless to say that didn't stop their desire to maintain the winning run as they look to establish themselves in the B1 division.

Loz Brown duly followed Chris Maxted's tossing performance with yet another win and elected to bat. With the sun slowly coming out conditions looked good for batting and with a strong line-up Morpeth were confident of posting a good total. Morpeth started well with both Jonny Wailes and Stephen Cowell despatching fours to the boundary. However Cowell’s bails were removed by Stokoe in the third over bringing Andrew Poxton to the crease and he endured a torrid time with the ball moving both ways before nicking one to the keeper for 0. Cal Urwin followed Cowell by crashing a beautiful cover dive for four before having his stumps ruffled by Wood.

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15th May - 2nd XI - Morpeth Hit Perfect 10

Morpeth’s cricketers are leading the way in a novel initiative to help leukaemia sufferers.

If you could score ten in cricket then Morpeth players did at Shotley Bridge on Saturday.

Morpeth cricket club became the latest club to sign up for the “Cricket Against Leukaemia” campaign organised by Shotley Bridge Cricket Club and Derwentside Round Table.

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8th May - 1st XI - Harb's Lays the Foundations for Success

Morpeth made it three wins out of three in the league with their excellent batting total too much for Lintz to handle.

The visitors batted first and got off to a decent start, with Dylan Dursingham regularly finding the boundary. His attacking innings of 37, which featured six fours and one six, came to an end when he was frustratingly run out.

But Morpeth then took the initiative, with Jonny Craigs joining Jon Harbottle. Both played good solid cricket, with bad balls punished with fours and sixes.

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8th May - 2nd XI - Cracking Win from Adversity

After a win the previous week where the bowling had delivered on a green wicket at Sacriston, Morpeth returned home to Longhirst for the first time this season. They found a hard wicket with a decent covering of grass that looked like it would offer a bit for the ball early on before becoming easier to bat on. The seconds had a couple of changes from the previous week, with Stephen Cowell returning from his excursion to Ireland with the rugby club and Wild Bill Thornton making his seasonal debut, they replaced Loz Brown, who was obviously at a stag do, and Cal Urwin who was beautifying himself at a surf competition.

At the toss the visiting skipper, Paul Armstrong, called correctly and then decided to let Morpeth make first use of the strip. Even with the overcast conditions and cold wind this came as a surprise to Chris Maxted and his players. Morpeth opened up with Jonny Wailes and Stephen Cowell back in tandem and after an early chance from Wailes had flown through the legs of first slip the two settled down to the task at hand. However, just as the scoreboard was beginning to tick along and both batsmen looked settled, Wailes sold his partner down the river with neither paddle or boat.

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1st May - 1st XI - Middle Order Batters Sacriston

1st May - 2nd XI - Beejay Swings It

Following the opening day defeat to Newcastle City confidence had been restored by a mid week victory over the same team in the Division B Cup. Morpeth therefore entered this game away at Sacriston hopeful of registering the first league victory of the season. They were greeted by a damp and green wicket, grey overcast conditions and a typical cold early May day in the North East. It was a definite bowl first wicket, but unfortunately Maxted couldn’t prevail at the toss and Sacriston Captain Hilton inserted Morpeth for a bat.

Wailes and Urwin continued their opening partnership from Wednesday in the absence of Cowell. Sacriston started confidently through Lawes and in Straughair’s first over he bowled Wailes for nothing, not the start that Morpeth were looking for and things were not about to pick up. After a glorious drive through the covers for four Urwin was bowled by Lawes the very next ball for only 6 runs. The ball appeared to stick in the wicket and Urwin was through with his shot by the time the ball cut back through the gate to dislodge his stumps. Morpeth had been quickly reduced to 6 for 2 by the swinging and seaming new ball.

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24th April - 1st XI - Pencil Writes his Own Script

24th April - 2nd XI - Step Up Poses Problems

Morpeth went in to the new season and in to the unknown on Saturday as the second team took its place in division B1 for the first time since the two leagues split in 1999. Morpeth were confident having had an excellent season last year and having been crowned champions of B2. The team was bolstered by the addition of Cal Urwin from Ashington to enhance the batting line up and the team entered the game confident of a good showing.

The weather was warm and pleasant for the end of April and on winning the toss skipper Chris Maxted invited Newcastle City to make first use of the pitch. Morpeth opened up with Nick Rose and Ben Jones and after a couple of tight overs built pressure Rose got the breakthrough. Trapping Usman Khalid LBW for none and giving Morpeth the early initiative. However, they failed to capitalise as Assad Mohammed and Hussain began to build a good partnership, although Jones will feel unlucky not to have won an LBW against Mohammed when he was still settling in.

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