Horseheath Cricket Club 2025 Report and Plans for 2026
The Cricket Club had a great season in 2025/6 - lets hope 2026/7 is even better. Here is a brief report and outline of their plans. Look out for the 6-a-side smash planned for Sunday 30th August 2026!
Published: 8 January 2026
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HORSEHEATH CRICKET CLUB – 2025/26
Cricket – We can report a successful season up at the Meadow, with CCA Senior League Division 2 status retained (In our last match) and an appearance in the final of the Mr Groundsman CCA Cup competition, going down to a team a league above us, but also using 2 players from 4 leagues above. Our Midweek side also had great success, going out in the Semi Final of the Cup, but gaining promotion back to the 1st Division. With this success, we are going to try and put a 2nd team in to division 4, this will be to develop our young talent and also hopefully bring in some local players too.
In addition to the leagues, The six a side Smash was a huge success and we raised over £3000 for the club, our biggest ever event and one we will do again next season. Eight teams took part, including clubs from Linton, Sawston and Cottenham, some family teams and Horseheath Parish Council. The day started at 10 am; with an all-day barbecue and bar it attracted a large audience. The tournament delivered great excitement including high scores with plenty of fours and sixes and some seriously quick bowling.
The excitement only increased with two super-overs and a bowl off before the semi-finals. A hotly contested final between rivals Horseheath and Linton saw a ruthless Linton end the day as worthy winners. The top batsman for the day was Julius Jackson from Linton scoring a total of 124 runs; Teddie Clayton from Cardinals Green and James Price from Sturmer, both playing for the Parish Council, were 3rd and 4th best batsman with an amazing 81 and 76 respectively. Congratulations to all who played!
The main sponsor was Marshall Volvo Cambridge and other major sponsors were Colourbox, Montessori school, IFF and Cars Worldwide. Horseheath Cricket Club would like to thank them all and everyone in attendance.
Projects and Plans – During 2024-25 we invested in re-laying the wicket, This was a full renovation which was very successful. We fitted new soffits and fascia’s and renewed the guttering around the Club house. We purchased picnic tables with benches, some new chairs and new sight screens, a verticutter and a new line marker for the boundary. We feel in just one year that we have made the area more attractive and now offer good facilities. Continued improvement is vital to attract more players which we clearly need for future growth and success.
We will definitely repeat the Cricket Smash so anyone who fancies putting together a 6-a-side team has plenty of time to prepare. It will be on Sunday August 30th, the late summer bank holiday weekend.
Projects we need to undertake in 2025-6 include a new paved patio area in front of the Club house and a new artificial 2GX roll out wicket for training. We are seeking to raise more funds for the club through community projects such as the 6 a side Smash and other ventures such as selling advertising space around the ground. We would like to ensure these adverts only offer services relevant to the local population; the cricket ground will remain open to all.
Do join our new 100 club! We also hope to have the bar open a little more often.
Entering the 2026 season we hope to have achieved more communication and interaction with the village; look out for our posts on Horseheath What’s On. We would particularly like to offer junior coaching next season – please let us know if you are interested.
Finally, we are always on the look out for new players of any age. Why not give us a try!
Keith Donno & Andy Edwards e. andy_edwards26@hotmail.co.uk t. 07768 813715