Due to bad weather, all club matches have been postponed today. The 1st XI cup match will be rescheduled for next Saturday.

Adult nets continue on Thursday nights at St Christopher's school from 9pm. All members are welcome.

Sadly, Dave Watkins passed away last week.

His funeral service will be at All Saints Church in Stock at 2pm on Thursday 2nd June.

Everyone at the club sends best wishes to his family.

Many congratulations to our winners of the club awards for their contributions to the successful 2015 season on and off the field;
Most Runs:- Phil Gray
Most wickets:- Mike Gridley
Chairmans Award:- Claire Titmuss
Clubperson Award:- Martin Robbins

Flowers were also presented to Claire Titmuss for all her efforts in organising our youth section, and to Christine Robbins, Bridie Kearney, and Belinda Enderby for the wonderful teas each week.

Well done to everyone who continues to support the club and making it officially the most welcoming club in the league.

It is with great sadness I inform you of the passing of club member Richard Wiggins. He's given his time generously every season since since the merger however his affinity with Southend on Sea CC goes back many years. While I appreciate what a club man he was, I have asked Rob Dinmore, who's known Richard far longer than I to say a few words.

Chris

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It is a great honour to be asked by the chairman to write a few words about Richard Wiggins who sadly passed away recently.

Richard has been part of Southend-on-Sea & EMT C.C. (prior to the merger part of Southend-on-Sea C.C.) for 20+ years. He initially came to help document the clubs history & produce comprehensive playing statistics (past and present) which he did with great efficiency. Richard has been a regular supporter of all teams of the club frequently coming to matches and would often score for teams if the regular scorer was unavailable. He was a generous man, not only by the time but was also devoted to the club financially, this was reflected when in 2013 he won the 100 club draw and donated all the 500 pounds winning back to the club.

Richard superseded me as Club Person of the year award in 2003 and I could not think of a more deserving person of this accolade.

Richard was also affiliated with Wickford CC and a regular supporter of that club. In his spare time Richard also devoted his efforts to help those people less fortunate than himself. He was the Publicity Officer & Scorer for the Essex Disability Cricket Association (EDCA) and he also belonged to several groups involved in Human Rights and helping asylum seekers in the Southend area to start a new life free from the persecution and horrible atrocities they had encountered in their home countries.

Richard was an extremely nice, genuine, selfless, humble man and it was both a pleasure & a honour to have know him, he will be greatly missed by both myself and the club.

Rob Dinmore

What a great week. Set off for Chester on Sunday meeting all the lads at Watford Gap where the entertainment began with Enderby dropping his McDonald's all over the floor.

Arrived at our first cricket club at Sandbach and straight away realised that we were up north as the pitch was next door to a pig farm. Put my money on Sam to be top runscorer on tour (result!), and after an easy win we made our way to our hotel in Chester, donned my Hawaiian shirt, and made for the local bar. Left the lads at 1am who went on to another bar and staggered back to my room and desperately tried to stop the room from spinning for the next hour. Woke up with a heavy head and realised the buggers had stuck me in the disabled room. Whilst everyone else had nice double beds I had a midgets bed and a wet room!

Monday was a great day in Liverpool. Whilst many managed to visit 18 pubs my group found a nice spot at a pub at Albert Docks and went on to a crazy golf course where I spanked the lot of them. What a great city Liverpool is.

Tuesday saw us travel to Neston where we narrowly lost our only game on tour but think we were all in shock at how fantastic the ground was and after we had all taken advantage of the carvery next door. I couldn't handle another session out so after getting fined for getting lost on the Chester Wall walk, where apparently it's impossible to get lost I left them all at midnight to go back to enjoy another evening in my luxurious room as they all went clubbing.

Wednesday was my last day and we went to Chester Baughton Hall who are the National champions and this ground was even better than Neston. Turned out to be a comfortable win though played on another day of glorious sunshine. Spent the evening at the club watching a great Pompey victory on the telly and then set off home. Shame some had money on Derby. Very spooky driving on the M6 toll road at 1am and not seeing another car for 30 miles.

Thursday I spent back in my own grown up bed recovering. The lads I left behind had one more game, in Wales, and another comfortable win.

Can honestly say it's been brilliant. Spearsy organised it all superbly, got to know a great set of lads who did Southend proud, visited some fantastic cricket grounds, and pubs, and had such a laugh. There are of course loads of stories but what goes on on tour, stays on tour. Green army.

As you're probably aware, some significant drainage has work been undertaken at Southchurch Park by the council. It has involved digging trenches at regular intervals across the whole field. It has left the state of the outfield, in many areas, in a substandard condition for playing cricket.

Our committee, along with the committee at Old Southendians, are working very hard with the council to improve and rectify the situation as soon as possible. The council have committed continuously fill the trenches where the soil sinks. They have already seeded all of the trenches with quick growing grass seed and promised to irrigate the trenches regularly in order to return the outfield to a suitable state in the minimum time. While we will be monitoring their progress and pushing where required, there is a limited amount we can actually do at this time.

The work was undertaken by the council with minimum notice and no consultation with either Southend on Sea & EMT or Old Southendians. It leaves us in a position where getting the park back up to scratch is our main priority after which, we'll follow up with the council how we can proceed to work with them in the future.

I will report back with any further developments.

If you have any questions, please use the contact form on this website.

So... it was a dark and stormy night!!!

On a extremely windy night at Chalkwell park the u15A team played a 1st round Peters Cup match against Westcliff.

Captain Shane Bottrill managed to lose the toss and we were inserted. After a brisk start from Tom Robinson (19) 3 wickets fell quickly. There then followed an excellent partnership between

Shane Bottrill (35) and Euan Sykes (38 n.o) together with a cameo roll from Lucas Marriott (4 n.o.) which steered the team to a competitive 111/4 off their 20 overs.

Westcliff went  into bat but the opening bowling combination of Cameron Butcher and Shane Bottrill had them well behind the asking rate.

However, Westcliff had planned for this and had held back their bigger hitters. Excellent support bowling from Lucas Wiggins, ( 2 wickets),  Finlay Cunningham, Shameer Ejaz & Sam Stains (all 1 a piece) saw us steadily taking wickets and had us still ahead going into the final 2 overs. The team fielded well with good catches from Shameer, Euan and Shane.

 Conditions were now very dark and freezing cold...on came Ben Saggers and Shameer Ejaz to bowl the last 2 overs. They both held their nerve  very well and the victory was ours. A special mention for Buster Townley who kept very well taking a sharp catch behind the stumps and only conceded 1 bye.

Bowling Figures

S. Bottrill     4 overs 1 mdn 1 wck for 5 runs

C. Butcher    4 overs  0 mdns  0 wck for 15 runs

L. Wiggins     4 overs  0 mdns  2 wckt  for 21 runs

F. Cunningham 4 overs 0 mdns  1 wck for 27 runs

S. Ejaz         2 overs 0 mdns 1 wck for 16 runs

S Staines     1over 0 mdns 1 wckt for 11 runs

B. Saggers    1 over 0 Mdns 0 wckt  for 7 runs

A big thank you to our Frozen coach Kevin Grant & the scorers Tom Bottrill and Daniel Ingham.

A special thank you to all the parents and supporters who came along tonight to see this great win!!

On to round 2 next week which will be Rankins at home (Ekco)  date to be confirmed.

It is with great pleasure we announce our new main club sponsor - Paul Robinson Solicitors.

The sponsorship will aid the club and its facilities in order to deliver the best possible cricket for the members.

Part of the sponsorship will allow club members to purchase the new club shirts at a reduced rate. Details of how to purchase will be sent to members in due course.

In the meantime, we'd like to thank the guys at Paul Robinson for their support and we look forward to seeing them down the club through the summer.

1st XI Division 1
Date	Opponents	H/A
09-May	Upminster	A
16-May	Orsett	H
23-May	Harlow	A
30-May	Hainault & Clayhall	H
06-Jun	Hutton	A
13-Jun	Hadleigh & Thundersley	A
20-Jun	Shenfield	H
27-Jun	Woodford Wells	A
04-Jul	Hornchurch	H
11-Jul	Upminster	H
18-Jul	Orsett	A
25-Jul	Harlow	H
01-Aug	Hainault & Clayhall	A
08-Aug	Hutton	H
15-Aug	Hadleigh & Thundersley	H
22-Aug	Shenfield	A
29-Aug	Woodford Wells	H
05-Sep	Hornchurch	A
2nd XI Premier Division
Date	Opponents	H/A
09-May	Upminster	H
16-May	Wanstead & Snaresbrook	A
23-May	Chelmsford	H
30-May	South Woodford	H
06-Jun	Colchester & East Essex	H
13-Jun	Shenfield	H
20-Jun	Woodford Wells	A
27-Jun	Brentwood	H
04-Jul	Chingford	A
11-Jul	Upminster	A
18-Jul	Wanstead & Snaresbrook	H
25-Jul	Chelmsford	A
01-Aug	South Woodford	H
08-Aug	Colchester & East Essex	A
15-Aug	Shenfield	A
22-Aug	Woodford Wells	H
29-Aug	Brentwood	A
05-Sep	Chingford	H
3rd XI Division 1
Date	Opponents	H/A
09-May	Loughton 3rd XI	A
16-May	Upminster 4th XI	H
23-May	Chingford 3rd XI	A
30-May	South Woodford 3rd XI	H
06-Jun	Colchester & East Essex 3rd XI	A
13-Jun	Hornchurch 3rd XI	H
20-Jun	Wanstead & Snaresbrook 4th XI	A
27-Jun	Ilford 3rd XI	A
04-Jul	Chelmsford 4th XI	H
11-Jul	Loughton 3rd XI	H
18-Jul	Upminster 4th XI	A
25-Jul	Chingford 3rd XI	H
01-Aug	South Woodford 3rd XI	A
08-Aug	Colchester & East Essex 3rd XI	H
15-Aug	Hornchurch 3rd XI	A
22-Aug	Wanstead & Snaresbrook 4th XI	H
29-Aug	Ilford 3rd XI	H
05-Sep	Chelmsford 4th XI	A
6th XI Division 2
Date	Opponents	H/A
09-May	Belhus 4th XI	H
16-May	Ilford 4th XI	A
23-May	Stanford Le Hope 4th XI	H
30-May	Old Southendians 4th XI	A
06-Jun	Basildon & Pitsea 4th XI	H
13-Jun	Harlow Town 4th XI	A
20-Jun	Hornchurch 5th XI	H
27-Jun	Hadleigh & Thundersley 4th XI	H
04-Jul	Hainault & Clayhall 5th XI	A
11-Jul	Belhus 4th XI	A
18-Jul	Ilford 4th XI	H
25-Jul	Stanford Le Hope 4th XI	A
01-Aug	Old Southendians 4th XI	H
08-Aug	Basildon & Pitsea 4th XI	A
15-Aug	Harlow Town 4th XI	H
22-Aug	Hornchurch 5th XI	A
29-Aug	Hadleigh & Thundersley 4th XI	A
05-Sep	Hainault & Clayhall 5th XI	H

THE WINNING NUMBER IN THE JULY DRAW WAS NUMBER 64  WHICH IS HELD BY STUART LESLIE WHO WINS HIMSELF 500 POUNDS. CONGRATULATIONS STUART AND THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR CLUB. DONT FORGET IF YOU ARE NOT IN IT THEN YOU CANT WIN IT! ITS ONLY TEN POUNDS A MONTH TO JOIN. IF YOU OR ANYONE YOU KNOW IS INTERESTED THEN PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ANDY WALLACE , JEFF WOOD OR STUART LESLIE

THE WINNING NUMBER IN THE JUNE DRAW IS NUMBER 33 AND IS WON BY SHAUN GRANT, WHO WINS £500.00 . CONGRATULATIONS SHAUN AND THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE CLUB. SPRRY FOR THE DELAY IN POSTING THIS , I THOUGHT INHAD ALREADY DONE IT

£135 to the winner
£18 each to joint second
£9 to third

THE WINNING NUMBER IN THE 100 CLUB DRAW FOR MAY IS NUMBER 42 AND IS WON BY GLEN NORFOLK WHO WINS 500 POUNDS. CONGRATULATIONS GLEN AND THANKS FOR SUPPORTING OUR CLUB.