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Daffodil Cricket Tours – Update 2nd April 2024

The tours to Leicestershire, Gloucestershire and Derbyshire are still open to booking, as a guide the cut off is one month ahead of departure.

For fuller details on booking please refer to the post below “February 8, 2024” which has the details.

All supporters of the Glamorgan team are most welcome to join these trips including those supporters that live away from South Wales or wish to travel independently; they have the option to join us on a hotel only basis.

Pickup points are along the M4 corridor from Swansea to Newport.

Daffodil Cricket Tours 2024

Details of the Balconiers cricket supporters trips for the 2024 County Cricket Season are published below.

All supporters of the Glamorgan team are most welcome to join these trips including those supporters that live away from South Wales or wish to travel independently; they have the option to join us on a hotel only basis.

Pickup points are along the M4 corridor from Swansea to Newport.

Please note the date for signing up to an excursion is no later than 29th February 2024.

Three documents follow: a cover letter, details of the itineraries and a booking form. Please retain a copy of the booking form.

CC4 MUSEUM OF WELSH CRICKET TALK VIA ZOOM “AN EVENING WITH CHRIS COOKE” 24th January 2024

The next in the series of Winter Talks organized by the CC4 Museum of Welsh Cricket will be held via ZOOM on Wednesday, 24th January starting at 19:00.

Photo credit: Glamorgan Cricket Archives

“An Evening with Chris Cooke” will see the batter and wicket-keeper reflect on his playing career so far, as well as a place in the Club’s record books as having scored a century in every format of the game – Championship, List A and T20 – besides holding the record for the fastest-ever hundred in the Club’s history, set last summer at Merchant Taylors’ School when Chris scored a century from just 38 balls against Middlesex in the T20 competition. 2024 is also Chris’ Testimonial Year so the evening will also look back on his career with the bat and gloves, both with Glamorgan and in domestic cricket in South Africa.

As always, attendance at the virtual meeting will be free of charge with those wishing to attend being asked to send an email to museum@glamorgancricket.co.uk by noon on Monday, 22 January. A confirmation reply will be sent out, whilst joining details for the meeting via ZOOM will be sent by email at approx. 1800 on Wednesday, 24 January. The talk will be recorded and a copy placed in due course on the Museum website.

Chris Cooke’s statistics can be viewed here: https://glamorgancricketarchives.com/chris-cooke/

As a tailpiece the St Helen’s Balconiers will be hosting a lunch on the 15th November 2024 at the Towers Hotel, Jersey Marine as one of Chris Cooke’s Testimonial events – further details to follow.

ST. HELEN’S BALCONIERS NEWSLETTER 2023 – IN THE POST

The St Helen’s Balconiers 2023 Newsletter should have dropped or will soon drop through the letter boxes of members.

The final article “Neil Harvey Masterclass by Dr Richard Bentley” was truncated, sorry for the mistake, please find the full article here:

In summary there are the usual mixture of articles including:

Chairman’s Report – John Williams;

2023 Players Awards Evening – Paul Sussex;

The 30th anniversary of Canterbury 1993 – Dr Andrew Hignell;

Awesome Innings at Neath – Dr Andrew Hignell;

Wooller’s Winning Way – Dr Richard Bentley;

Neil Harvey Masterclass – Dr Richard Bentley;

Supporting Glamorgan Cricket since 1972.

Daffodil Cricket Tours 2024

The St. Helen’s Balconiers are planning an ambitious programme of Daffodil Cricket Tours in support of Glamorgan CCC in the County Championship in 2024.

As of 25/11/2023

Arrangements for rooms and transfers are being sought at present, we hope to be able to provide costs and further details soon.

For a full list of Glamorgan Fixtures 2024 please see below: