Just to let you know we will be holding a Christmas Quiz night on Friday 25th
November. Yes I know it's a month early, but it will get you in the mood and everyone's
diary gets full in December.
You will need to have a team and there will be
a fish and chip supper. Starts 7.30pm. £8 each.
Starts 8.00pm at the Club. Prompt!!
Presentation of awards. Sri-Lankan Food will be available on the night.
Congratulations to Chris Paskins on passing the milestone of 10,000 runs for the Club on the way to scoring his 46th fifty for Taplow on 6th Aug 2011. It's only taken 548 innings and 26 years! This would appear to be a testament to cricketing longevity rather than any great innate batting talent but it nevertheless makes him the 10th member of this exclusive 10,000 runs club. Well Done!
Starts as the cricket finishes. Everyone welcome, members and non-members.
Just come along and enjoy a drink, good food and music.
Julian Cup tie against Wooburn Narkovians at home. 6pm start. Come along and
support the team.
Note, Result: Lost
Teams will be up to 6 players, cost £4 per person (min. £20 per team) and the club is open at 7.30pm for 8pm prompt start. There will be buffet food.
Please let Greg Lightfoot know numbers in teams for food and catering purposes asap
Starts 7.30pm at the Club. Prompt!!
Starts 7.30pm at the Club. A bit of free fun. Dress up if you can, even if it's just a cape or a silly hat. The building itself will be making an effort and will be suitably scary!
Teams will be up to 6 players, cost £3 per person (min. £15 per team) and the quiz will start at 8pm. There will be buffet food.
Contact Greg Lightfoot
Starts 8pm at the Club. Prompt!!
This spring's Quiz Night will be held on 2nd May and we are fortunate to have Tony Cane back in charge on the night. Teams will be up to 6 players, cost £18 per team and the quiz will start at 8pm. There will be food and a raffle.
Let me know if you are having a team. If you would like to donate a prize, again, let me know.
Taplow Cricket Club will be open from 8pm with its very own green themed Paddy's Day get together. Our suggestion is that you pick out something green (socks, shirt or hat etc) from your wardrobe and pop down to the club where Geoff "Val Doonican" Court will regale you with winsome navvie ballads and Footlight will tease you with green themed music quizzes.
Starts 8pm at the Club. Prompt!!
Presentation of awards followed by a bit of a sing-song. Food will be provided on the night.
12 singles matchplay against Swans footballers. 11am first tee off time.
thanks to all that played golf on satIt was a good match:
Super chef Sujith Perera is back and he's got his wife helping this time.
The promise is that they will produce even better dishes than last year - hard to
believe! All you can eat for £8 each.
This spring's Quiz Night will be held on 18th april and, due to popular demand, i've been sacked as quiz master and Tony Cane, the chairman, is in charge on the night.
Teams will be up to 6 players, cost £18 per team and the quiz will start at 8pm. There will be food and a raffle.
Let me know if you are having a team. If you would like to donate a prize, again,
let me know.
Bradders
First of its kind. Tournament of football matches raised from Cricket and Football sections plus one from the pub. 1pm kick off.
12 singles matchplay against The Oak and Saw pub regulars. 11am first tee off time.
Senior Indoor Nets are booked at St Pirans School, Maidenhead 10 am £ 11 am starting Sunday 6th Jan until April. £3 a session as usual, the more the merrier.
Are you new to the area or looking to play for a new local club?? You're welcome to come along and have a net. Just introduce yourself to the nets manager on the door. We're always on the look out for new players, young or old, brilliant or, err, not!
Bar's open at 7.30pm, ends when we've had enough. Lots of friends and family I hope. No ticket for this. It's a cheap local alternative venue which will turn into a great rave up.
Starts 8pm at the Club. Prompt!!
Presentation of trophies and a wide selection of the best that Unique Spice can
offer. FOC curry night plus medals - fabulous!!!
Club opens at 7.00pm with food
arriving at about 7.45pm. After we've cleared up we will do the presentations and
follow with a fireworks display.
Starts 8.00pm (prompt!) at the Club. Bradders in charge.
A Sujith Perera event. We've got something very special for you:
RICE SURPRISE
Not only yummy, it's also very good for you!
Starts as the cricket finishes. Everyone welcome, members and non-members.
Just come along and enjoy a drink, good food and music.
The New Forest Tour is open to all. It doesn't take long to get down there and it'll be great to see a big crowd down there again this year. Last season we won 3 out of 4 matches - can we go for a 100% record this time out?
12 singles matchplay against The Oak and Saw pub regulars
Result: The 1st piece of silverware never left the club as my boys beat the pub
7.5 v 4.5. Some good golf and plenty of beer.
Kenty lead off and was too strong
for Big Dick and Captain Marvel was always in control against poor old Greg. Strong
play down the line showed the greater strength bad luck greg better luck next time
Bradders.
Starts 8.00pm (prompt!) at the Club.
Tony Cane will be running the show this
year. Fixed £18 per team - teams maximum of 6 players. Cash prizes and price
includes food.
Starts 8pm at the Club. Prompt!!
Starts 7.00pm at the Club. £5.00 pp.
BBQ food, presentation of trophies
and a disco. We've got plenty to celebrate this year, a tremendous league and cup
double.
With the cricket season fast drawing to a close and winter approaching, some members have suggested that we get together for a few beers and a curry, which will be delivered to the club by Unique Spice Restaurant. Approx. £12.00 a head.
The club are playing the mighty Oakmen, starts at 6pm come along and watch the
fun. Bring your kit and have a game. The bar will be open at the start and the BBQ
wil also be on.
Bradders
No cricket on Saturday 22nd July soooo... let's play GOLF!! Bradders has organised a golf day at Bird Hills. Contact Mike
Starts from 6.00pm at the Club. £6 for adults, £15 for family ticket.
Everyone welcome, members and non-members.
Just come along and enjoy a drink,
good food and music.
12 singles matchplay against The Oak and Saw pub regulars
Result: A fun day for the chaps saw Taplow overcome the Oak & Saw as Captain
Marvel Bradders won the last match on the last hole to give victory to the Club
7-5.
Taplow's Footlight both went down as expected as did the Oak's Stevens
family, Radio played the front 9 building a 4 hole lead against Bone only to be
subbed for Billy who scraped a half on the last.
I hope you all enjoyed,
Bradders.
Starts 7.30pm (prompt!) at the Club.
A Mike Bradley Special!! Fun for all
the family at this traditional season opener event.
Starts 8.00pm at the Club.
Starts 8.00pm at the Club. £12.50 pp.
BBQ food, presentation of trophies
and a disco. We've got plenty to celebrate this year, two cup competitions won and
runners up spot in the Chilterns League.
The Singing Detective loved cricket and why ever not? He was extremely knowledgeable about the game and a tremendously prolific wicket taker. He started playing regularly for Taplow in 1989 and in those days demonstrated control and variety even Shane Warne would have been proud of. I was a teenager in the 1st XI at the time and I still remember, as a fielder, hoping the captain would hurry up and take an opening bowler off so I could start the enjoyable part of the day - watching some very good and utterly bamboozled batsman get stumped by my brother as they tried to work out which way the ball was going to turn! Our fixture list was full of top sides with talented batsman and Singing would delight in working out ways to get them out, something he managed to do with awesome regularity. In 1990 he managed to take 5 wickets in 10 separate matches, an extraordinary achievement by someone who played only once a week.
During much of the nineties he was 1st XI captain on Sundays during which time he was the key part of a strong side. He managed his team extremely effectively as we entered something of a golden age at the Club. He brought together some of the best players seen at Taplow for many years and because of the way he liked to play the game and the great respect he engendered in them he kept them all keen, interested and very happy. Who can forget his end of year Captain's report for 1993, four pages of A4 written entirely in rhyme!
Later on he became captain of the Sunday second XI bringing on many new young players whilst continuing his astonishing rate of wicket taking. At the end of his days he was still getting hatfuls of wickets by taking the pace off the ball and getting the batsman to chip it up in the air. The act of dismissing incompetent batsman is surprisingly difficult, as good bowlers who have played the game will testify; in his final years Singing will probably always be remembered as the greatest bowler against non-batsman ever to have played this great game at Taplow!
'The Great Man' took over 50 wickets in 11 of the 17 seasons he was with us and he was well on course to making this 2005 season his most successful since that remarkable effort in 1990. In all he took 5 wickets on an amazing 51 occasions, he took over 850 wickets - one every four-and-a-half overs! He would come up to nets every Tuesday and bowl on until dark against anyone who was prepared to face him - many will claim that Ian was in fact the world's greatest net bowler. Few will argue. He was a fabulous tourist, a walking anecdote waiting to happen. He loved cricket and we all loved him. To shuffle off to that perfect spinning track in the sky the day before England won back the Ashes seems cruel, I for one will have a drink to his memory whenever we play the Old Enemy in future.
This man who introduced the 'Brockenhurst Ball' to the game which was so devastating the ICC had to introduce a law change to ban it; this man who could explain the art of bowling to a complete non-cricketer by way of wrapping his fingers around a Swan Vesta matchbox and bowling it onto a table; this man who could produce risotto at will in an effort to see just how tight our Aussie overseas player really was when it came to playing 'The Boot'; this man will be sorely missed.
Our thoughts right now are with his family at this saddest of times. We will all miss you, Singing. Non-batsmen throughout the world can now look forward to a distinct improvement in their averages!
Chris Paskins
Hon. Secretary
Starts 7.30pm (for 8pm) at the Club.
A Mike Bradley Special!! Fun for all
the family at this now traditional season opener event.
Tickets £5pp (£3
child). Maximum 6 people per team. Price includes buffet food.
CASH
PRIZES!!!
Starts 8pm at the Club.
Election of following Committee and Playing positions:
Starts 7.30pm at the Club.
Starts from 7.00pm at the Club. £10 adults, £5 children.
No Dinner
Dance this year. Instead we shall have a presentation night at the club - and what
tremendous value!! Support the club's best players and have a slice of the ox roast.
We'll even set off a few fireworks if you're lucky!
Starts 8.30pm at the Club. £5 for adults.
Everyone welcome, members
and non-members. Yes folks, it's halloween. Come enjoy a drink, buffet food and
boggie along to some great music.
Starts at 10am at the Club. £10 per car. Pit your wits against the challenging set of clues! Are you smart enough?? It'll be a great day out for the whole family and a buffet lunch will be included (starts and finishes at the Club).
Match starts at 11.30am. Come and watch the match and enjoy a lunchtime Barbecue at the Club. The bar will be open all day. Come and watch the guys play the President's XI.
Starts from 7.00pm at the Club. £7.50 for adults, £3.50 for children.
Everyone welcome, members and non-members.
Just come along and enjoy a drink,
good food and music.
Do you think you're smart enough? Doesn't matter!! Join the fun. Maximum of 6 per team and it'll only cost you £3 each. Starts from 7.30pm at the Club.
(Note, final was postponed, it got rained off on 25th July)
The League Cup
Final against Wraysbury is approaching and I'm sure the team would welcome as many
of us along for support :-
Venue : Cookham Dean Cricket Club
It is with the greatest of sadness that I must report the passing away of John Midlane, President of Taplow Cricket Club. He died peacefully in his sleep last night after a short illness.
His links with the Club date back to 1974 and in his playing days at Taplow batted on 500 occasions scoring nearly 7000 runs. He became President in 1988 and remained a vital figure in everything associated with the Club both on and off the field. So many events at the Club and improvements to the facilities would not have been possible in recent times without John and Iris and it is with Iris and the rest of the family that our thoughts are with at this difficult time.
John was a supremely generous man, a superstar. He will always be fondly remembered by the members at Ten Acres and by all those who were fortunate enough to have met him.
Starts from 7.30pm at the Club. Didn't rain last year. Will we get away with it this time round??!! £7.50 for adults, £3 for children.
Something for everyone here! £5 entrance fee entitles you to lots of cheese, wine and dancing. Starts from 8pm at the Club.
Our annual jumble sale is being held in Burnham Park Hall. We shall need volunteers to help set up the stalls as well as run them so please let Iris Midlane know if you can help.
Valentine's Ball is planned for Friday 15th February in the clubhouse. I hope as many as possible will take the opportunity to make themselves look glamorous, outrageous, seductive or just ridiculous. Price will be £5 a head and will include food. Please confirm your place with the Social Secretary.
The big horse chestnut tree on the corner of the Clubhouse was blown down in the October 2000 storms!! Fortunately, it missed everything including the Clubhouse and the new nets. Click on each of the thumbnail images below to get a closer look at its remains.
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The Club is celebrating 150 years on the hill in the 2000 season and we would like to invite all members past and present to a Reunion Party at the Clubhouse, Ten Acres, on Saturday 9th September 2000.
We do hope you will come along and meet up with old friends. Proceedings commence at 6.00pm.
Thanks to everyone who came along... A great time was had by all. A special thanks to the President who funded the bar!!