Daffodil Cricket Tours will not be running a trip to Canterbury for the Kent fixture v Glamorgan this year as had earlier been hoped.
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Daffodil Cricket Tours – Middlesex at Lord’s 18 April – 21 April 2025
Dear Balconiers and Members of Glamorgan Cricket
Apologies for the delay in sending you this message because it took me ages in receiving quotations from the coach companies. You will receive the full trip schedule from me by the end of this week.
However, in the meantime the Danubius Hotel need final figures from me 4 weeks before arrival. I would be grateful if you let me know by 12 noon this coming Friday 21st March if you intend joining our trip to Lords. I won’t need any money until the 5th April.
As we know the Danubius is always a very popular Hotel with our crowd, situated just across the road from the Lord’s cricket ground .
The total price of the trip is as follows:
Single occupancy B & B including coach travel is £550.
Double occupancy B & B including coach travel is £340 per person.
Members who would like to join us on a hotel basis only are very welcome.
That’s all I need by this Friday 21st March is a genuine commitment that you wish to join this trip to Lord’s.
Please reply by e-mail: john.balconiers@hotmail.com
Best wishes John
Daffodil Tours 2025
The above graphic shows the intentions for Daffodil Tours 2025, all details will be confirmed in due course.
Please note for the fixtures against Kent and Lancashire outward journeys will be a day in advance of the fixture and the return journey will be the day after the last day of the fixture.
Glamorgan Fixtures 2025
The 2025 Fixtures for the Rothesay County Championship, Metro Bank One Day Cup and Vitality Blast have all now been released.
For Men’s fixtures go to: https://glamorgancricket.com/fixtures-results or download here:
For Women’s home fixtures go to: https://glamorgancricket.com/glamorgan-women
Information on Daffodil Cricket Tours 2025 “The Fiftieth Year” will be published shortly.
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.
“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.
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: