Flamingo Cricket Club

Last Sunday we visited Cadnam Cricket Club in the - special thanks to our hosts for a wonderful day out 🙌🏏

Cracking day of cricket at Buxton Cricket Club 🏏 yesterday to round off our tour 🏏

Thanks again for being such wonderful hosts 👏

Lovely start to our tour with a T20 game that went to the final ball!

Joss and Kelvin looking too serious though 😆

Pure wow 😲

Devon is heaven 😍

A lovely cluster of fixtures to see out June...

Thursday 25th at Lynton and Lynmouth Cricket Club
Sunday 28th at Ottery St Mary Cricket Club
Monday 29th at Seaton Cricket Club against The Forty Club

Next up, next Thursday 😍

Photos by Karine Thomas

Two weeks today we return to Seaton Cricket Club to play The Forty Club (South West) 🏏🏖️

Here's a couple of pics from a lovely day there last year on the corresponding date ☀️

Batting first 🏏☀️

Bat making from 1980...

1980: How to make a classic English cricket bat. Cricket bats have been crafted in Robertsbridge, East Sussex since the 1800s. #OnThisDay in 1980 reporter John Hitchins travelled to the Gray-Nicolls factory to look at the slow process of making a bat, from seasoning the willow wood, to shaping and assembling each part. Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, 23 May 1980. #BBCArchive #CricketBats #Cricket

What a legend 🙌

and have always been the bedrock of team sport in England ⚽🏏

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