Welcome to the San Fulgencio Cricket Clubs website page. The San Fulgencio Cricket Club was established in early 2009, to fill a gap for cricket on the Costa Blanca, in the La Marina and San Fulgencio areas and since then, the Club has grown from strength to strength, we have achieved unrivalled coverage in various English newspapers for cricket on the Costa Blanca, As well as creating this website page that you are currently reading
We have played various friendlies leading up to our first league season in 2010
The Club has almost 40 players and officials on our books as well as building a social side for wives and girlfriends
A newsletter is printed each month with the Clubs latest news and points of interest
We hope that the information below is of interest to you and if you would like to contact us, then please do so at sfccpress@gmail.com
The club also produce a monthly newsletter
that can be found in Iceland la Marina and other selected outlets
Fixture list for The San Fulgencio
Cricket Team
The list
below gives the dates and the opposition on those dates, plus, the ground that the
matches are taking place on
CE FIXTURES 2010
@ Alfaz @ La Manga @ La Manga
MAY
Sat 8 Intell v SFL Mojacar v L/Manga Alcorcon v Madrid Utd
Sun 9 Alfaz I v Valencia Alcorcon v Alfaz II
Sat 15 n/a SFL v Intell
Sun 16 n/a Albox v V/Green L/Manga v Valencia
Sat 22 Alfaz II v SFL V/Green v Alfaz I Mojacar v Albox
Sun 23 Intell v Alcorcon
Sat 29 Intell v Madrid II V/Green v Albox La Manga v Madrid I
Sun 30 n/a Madrid I v Mojacar Valencia v Alfaz I
JUNE
Sat 5 Alfaz I v Madrid I Madrid II v Intell n/a
Sun 6 Madrid II v Madrid Utd V/Green v L/Manga
Sat 12 n/a Albox v Mojacar
Sun 13 Alfaz I v V/Green
Sat 19 n/a Madrid I v Alfaz I Madrid II v Alfaz II
Sun 20 n/a Madrid I v V/Green Madrid II v SFL
Sat 26 n/a Albox v La Manga Madrid Utd v Intell
Sun 27 n/a Mojacar v V/Green
JULY
Sat 3 n/a Madrid Utd v SFL
Sun 4 n/a Valencia v L/Manga V/Green v Mojacar
Sat 10 Alfaz II v Madrid II Madrid I v Albox Alcorcon v SFL
Sun 11 Intell v Madrid Utd Madrid I v L/Manga Valencia v V/Green
Sat 17 Alfaz I v La Manga n/a n/a
Sun 18 Alfaz II v Alcorcon n/a n/a
Sat 24 Alfaz II v Intell Albox v Alfaz I SFL v Madrid Utd
Sun 25 Valencia v Mojacar L/Manga v V/Green
Sat 31 Madrid Utd v Alcorcon SFL v Alfaz II
AUGUST
Sun 1 n/a L/Manga v Alfaz I V/Green v Valencia
Sat 7 Alfaz II v Madrid Utd Mojacar v Alfaz I Valencia v Albox
Sun 8
Sat 14 Alfaz I v Albox n/a
Sun 15
Sat 21 n/a
Sun 22 n/a L/Manga V Albox
Sat 28 Alfaz I v Mojacar
Sun 29
SEPTEMBER
Sat 4 Albox v Madrid I Madrid Utd v Madrid II
Sun 5 Valencia v Madrid I SFL v Madrid II
Sat 11 Albox v Valencia L/Manga v Mojacar
Sun 12 Madrid Utd v Alfaz II
Sat 18 V/Green v Madrid I Alcorcon v Madrid II
Sun 19 SFL v Alcorcon Mojacar v Valencia
OCTOBER
Sat 2 Madrid I v Valencia Madrid II v Alcorcon
Sun 3 Mojacar v Madrid I Alcorcon v Intell
*** Intellectuals v Alfaz II to be played at Bonalba on Sunday September 19
Play Off dates - 1st Round of Matches to be played Saturday or Sunday October 9
or 10
Semi Finals 3 way play off to be played Sundays October 17 & 24 Saturday October
30
Final to be played Sunday October 31
· Semi Finals & Final to be played at La Manga All matches at La Manga involving
La Manga CC are 10am Start Updated June 3rd
As you can see from the list above, we are playing our matches at two grounds in the 2010 season, there is a ground being built in Torrevieja as well as the Ayutamiento building us a junior size ground on La Marina
We currently
train every Saturday on the market place on La Marina (unless we have a league
match on that day)
Juniors start at 10.30 am followed by the seniors then there is an inter club
match
Juniors have specialist training involving various routines such as Batting
Bowling etc
Sunday 6th June - S.F.C.C. juniors played the first series of games which
were the first to be played in the new junior league. Mainly played as an open
age league, the opposition were supplied by a very young La-Manga team, while
Alfas supplied a mixture of youth and experience.
Due to transport problems S.F. didn’t arrive at the Woodbridge oval, Albir, until Alfas had played and beaten La-Manga twice. S.F. then had the task of playing four games, one after the other, so after a short warm up and team talk, they went into action in a seven-a-side, seven over game against La-Manga, quickly getting into their stride and scoring a healthy 81 runs. With a combination of good bowling and excellent fielding, La-Manga were restricted to 65 runs.
In the next game S.F. batted first against Alfas and were restricted to 47 runs, never enough to hold back a very strong batting line up.
Batting first again in the next game against
La-Manga, S.F. totalled 59 runs and restricted them to 52.
In the final game against Alfas, S.F. , instead of tiring, with some excellent work in the field,
Kept the Alfas total down to 40 runs, which didn’t prove too much of a problem, once S.F. took up the challenge with the bat. So with 3 wins out of 4, it was a great day’s work for the youngsters. As expected captain Adam didn’t let the team down, scoring a total of 92 runs without being dismissed once, well supported by Michael and Ashley, bowling plaudits go to Kieran and Emily, backed up by brilliant fielding from Tommy, Connor, Angus and Aaron.
The teams will meet again on 4th July and that cannot
come soon enough for the kids.
Saturday 29th May - San Fulgencio Cricket Club held its 2nd annual funday
on the market place, La Marina.
After a very rainy Friday, the sun came out and so did the people.
It all started at 10am with a carboot sale, there were lots of stalls inc. cake
stall, bottle tombola, book stall, kids tombola, Mix bar and a big raffle with
great prizes, thanyou to all who donated.
Then came the very impressive Classic cars, a big thankyou to them, closely
followed by the Euro Bikers, what a way to start the day. We were very pleased
to have the TKO roadshow with us, which gave the whole day a party atmosphere.
We were entertained by Cindy Van Esperen and her Zumba dancers, the crooning
tones of Charlie Royal, the excellent Totally Dance troup and Sam Jones´s
beautiful vocals.
Then it was the turn of the cricket club who put on a high scoring entertaining adults v kids match. As one of the adults playing I hang my head in shame to report that the kids whupped us! Man of the Match has to go to Adam Alger who put on 50 runs in just over 3 overs. His Dad Jon tried to recover the game for us with some impressive batting but it was not to be, well done kids!
After such a gruelling game we were rewarded with live music provided by Phoenix productions, The duo Scandal, Patti Ross, internationaly renowned entertainer and Paul Schrager, versatile vocalist, thanks guys, a great way to end the day.
The younger kids were kept entertained with bouncy castles, the gladiator
challenge and foam pits.
San Fulgencio would like to say a massive thankyou to all who helped, donated,
attended, supported and enjoyed!
All in all it was a very succesfull and enjoyable day, lets hope next year will
be even bigger and better.
Saturday 8th May - San Fulgencio sponsored by
www.flightm8.com played their very first Costa Blanca Development League Cricket
match
The day started badly when it was revealed that their young 17 year old paceman
Charlie Baker had broken his hand, then on arriving at the ground it was found
that with the grounds man in England nothing had been prepared, then we lost the
toss surely the day could only get better?
Toss in S.F very first League Match :
We found ourselves opening with bowlers Bob Norton and Colin Griffiths who had a combined age of 117 and we were rewarded early on with the wicket of Ahbiad bowled by Norton for 2, Griffiths bowled well beating the outside edge on numerous occasions but not getting the luck
At twelve overs with fielding restrictions lifted it was time for spin and 13 year old Adam Alger got a wicket almost immediately with T. Stanford stumped expertly by Leigh Blann
With Allah Loak pushing the score along at almost 8 an over and Morgan at the over end hitting out S.F needed something and Graham Shelton pulled of a good catch to dismiss Morgan for 46 off the bowling of Jack Webster
A couple of wickets were picked up later on including another to Adams spin and Intellectuals closed their innings on 283 for 5 with opener Allah Loak scoring 134 not out an innings with lots of edges on his part and dropped catches on ours
San Fulgencio Bowling
Colin Griffiths 8 Overs 0 Maidens, 50 Runs, 0 Wickets
Bob Norton 8 Overs, 1 Maiden, 39 Runs, 1 Wicket
Adam Alger 7 Overs, 0 Maidens, 65 Runs, 2 Wickets
Gary Williams 4 Overs, 0 Maidens, 26 Runs, 0 Wickets
Michael Carter 3 overs, 0 Maidens, 23 Runs, 0 Wickets
Jack Webster 5 overs, 0 Maidens, 36 Runs, 1 Wicket
Walt Elders 3 Overs, 0 Maidens, 15 Runs, 0 Wickets
John Procter 2 overs, 0 Maidens, 27 Runs, 1 Wicket
We also bowled 32 wides which was Intellectuals third highest score
During tea it was decided that the only chance we had of getting anywhere near their score was going for it from ball one this meant Leigh Blann and Bob Norton opening, both are big hitters but the plan didn’t quite work with both back in the hut for a combined score of 20
Vice Captain Gary Williams played a variety of strokes for his 13 and was out LBW,
Jack Webster at the other end caught the eye with a classy 55 until he was out caught playing a tired shot
Graham Shelton again looked solid in the middle order with a nicely compiled 17 before he was caught off the bowling of Intellectuals all rounder Allah Loak
Adam Alger scored 8 and it was a nice moment when he was joined in the middle by his dad Jon who scored 22 with a combination of big hits and a sound defensive technique straight out of the MCC coaching manual
Colin Griffiths came to the wicket and batted well to make our second highest score of the day 27
John Procter came and went for 1 but he had got the wicket of E.Dawes LBW for 0 earlier, and it was left to Walt Elders and 14 year old Michael Carter to bat out the remaining overs and they did this with Michael scoring a nicely timed 4
Out of the 9 wickets we lost 7 were caught and we must have dropped 3 or 4
catches but we weren’t bowled out and over half our team got into double
figures, we play again on the 15th so we know what we need to put right, for a
new team we put on a show for the spectators with 499 runs scored on the day and
14 wickets falling
25th April 2010 - Torrevieja C.C versus Club de Cricket San Fulgencio
San Fulgencio sponsored by www.flightm8.com took the short journey to Torrevieja
to take them on in a 40 over match, with less than two weeks before our first
league match it was a chance for us to get another match on grass under our
belts.
We won the toss and decided to ask Torrevieja to bat and it proved to be the correct decision, the pitch a coconut mat laid on a totally uncut grass base and surround meant the wicket was like running and bowling on a mattress almost every ball bowled by our opening bowling attack of Colin Griffiths and young pace man Charlie Baker dribbled along the floor no matter where and what pace the ball had landed, and the pitch only slowly improved as the day went on mainly because of the players continually walking up and down it
When the change bowlers came on Adam Alger, with his spin, and Bob Norton, with his seam bowling, each got three wickets. Adam 3 for 10 from 8 overs and Bob with 3 for 15 from his 7 overs, Vice Captain Gary “smurf“ Williams got two wickets but was expensive at going for 24 runs from his three overs, towards the end Michael Carter was introduced and boy has he come on as a bowler for a young lad of 14 he bowled exceptionally well and was rewarded with a wicket and he only went for 4 runs from his 3 overs
The scorecard will show that Torrevieja were all out for 89 but we had about 5 dropped catches and their score should have been a lot less, even so our hopes were high as the wicket had flattened with almost 40 overs of bowling and walking on it and we were confident of a convincing win
Opening batsmen Bob Norton was given out LBW for 0 on the basis that the ball had hit his pad this was the first of four controversial LBWs coming from the one end,
He was soon joined back in the pavilion by his opening partner Gary Williams again given out LBW, but he had 8 runs against his name
Wicket keeper Leigh Blann then came in and again showed his attacking prowess before he was out caught for 18,
Adam Alger fresh from his success at the Spanish trials was given out first ball LBW.
Jack Webster looking calm and composed on his debut was out caught for 8 off a ball that he was convinced he had hit into the pitch first.
Graham Shelton was bowled for 11, not surprising as the previous ball had given him an enormous crack onto his foot, and his mind was clearly on protecting his foot rather than his wicket.
Club President Jon Alger was then in the middle, and he was concentrating on seeing the returning opening bowlers two overs out , however a ball that he played with ease off the bat was given out LBW.
Colin Griffiths was caught after scoring 3 runs and our last three wickets did not manage a run between them
So the match was lost and we did not get anywhere near Torry’s score, but in spite of this everyone on our side enjoyed the match and we happily agreed to a return match with Torry in the future
After the match we joined the opposition in a local bar where Adam Alger was named man of the match and the Torrevieja Cup which is played for in each match they play was again retained by them
If
this report is seen as criticism of Torrevieja C.C then it is not meant to be
you can only play on what you are given and it is a shame that after the match
had been notified to the sports centre that the pitch remained uncut. Having
said this, with regard to cricket in Torrevieja then everyone is on a big
learning curve
San Fulgencio cricket team go to Albir
On Saturday 17th April Cricket Espana had their Junior Cricket trials at the
Woodbridge Oval at Albir
Spain have had an Adults as well as an under 17s team for some time now and Neill Brook head of Junior Cricket for Cricket Espana had decided that 2010 was going to be the year in which another four teams were going to be organised, namely under 11, under 13, under 15 and ladies the format was decided upon and San Fulgencio Club De Cricket as the Costa Blancas newest league team were asked if they had any suitable youngsters
Chairman Jon Alger in consultation with some of the senior players and committee members decided that yes they did have some players and over a few training sessions these were whittled down to a short list of seven names
As a club we obviously wanted to send as many players as possible but we also had to be aware of the fact that these players were not only representing our club but also potentially Spain so these seven had to be good enough.
There was a short training session at the market place on La Marina at the usual Juniors practice time of 10.30 am Saturday and then it was everyone in the minibus to make the journey north
At 1pm the names of Adam Alger, Charlie Baker, Michael Baker, Michael Carter, Angus McDowall and Ashley Williams were written on Neill Brooks sheet, unfortunately on the day Emily Hill Green was not available and the net practice began.
Watching the action was the Cricket Development officer for the Alicante region Kevin Laundon and the Vice Captain of Spain Graham Howe as well as various other officials, after the intensive net practice it was time for a proper match and the relevant teams were worked out
All the assembled Juniors found the day very enjoyable and all too soon the match was over Neill Brook gave a short speech during which he mentioned how impressed he was with the standard of the Juniors and one or two names were mentioned, but for me one of the highlights of the day was when Graham Howe approached me for a quiet word and mentioned how impressed he had been with Adam Alger not only for his batting but his Bowling as well
The day was rounded of
nicely by Jon Alger together with Juniors coach David Riley treating our Juniors
to a McDonalds on the way home.
February 27th 2010 - San Fulgencio Cricket vs Sporting Alfaz
Sporting Alfaz C.C. of Albir invited San Fulgencio C.C sponsored by
www.flightm8.com to send a team to Alfaz for their first match of the 2010
campaign
This was a return fixture as S.F.C.C. had entertained Alfaz in our Clubs very first match on the Market Place in La Marina. For our team it was nice to get grass under our feet again after so many weeks and months training on tarmac at Fulgencio.
The fixture list will tell you that when we played the Alfaz first team in reality it was more a mixture of second teamers, midweek and Academy Players. Alfaz didn’t have much choice in this as almost their entire first team squad were at the Spanish senior trials at La Manga
We did not think that there would be a more favourable time to give Alfaz a close game, unfortunately when it came for us to select a side we too were short of a few recognised first teamers, but this gave us a chance to field some players who may not have had much of an opportunity otherwise
The toss was made and S.F.C.C. Skipper Bob Norton Invited Alfaz to bat, the plan was for a few quick wickets then give our other bowlers a game however, things never turn out how they are planned, David Climent gave Alfaz a solid start and his good work was continued by Chris Cooper who scored a half century. Then ex Nottinghamshire player Paul Taylor kept the scoreboard ticking over and was unbeaten at the end with an accomplished 50 under his belt, but our bowlers kept at it and showed good promise for the forthcoming League campaign, we restricted Alfaz to 164 from 30 overs but at least 6 catches were dropped and if these had been held then an altogether different report would have been written, in any case congratulations must go to Adam Alger, Kieron Ward and Charlie Baker who each got one wicket
When it was our turn to bat we had our doubts because we had never scored more than 80 in a match, after both openers fell cheaply it was the turn of new player Leigh Blann from Gran Alacant to push the score along, and he top scored with 29 valuable runs to keep us up with the run rate. When Leigh fell Gary "smurf " Williams tried some innovative shots but fell cheaply, Graham Shelton in the middle order looks better with each passing match, then it was the turn of Chairman Jon Alger and with some lusty blows he hit a quick fire 28
At the end, it was down to David Riley and Michael Carter to try and bat out the overs but we were bowled out for 131 our best ever score as a team, and when we reviewed the match later in Mix bar on La Marina we all agreed that the day had been a very successful one
For more information or history on S.F.C.C. then join the 2,450 people who
looked at our website in February
www.CostaBlancaFootball.com/sanfulgenciocricket
March 17th 2010 - MIX Bar and Tapas Urbanisation La Marina
St. Patrick’s Day Fun Run Wednesday 17th March 2010 at 4pm there will be 3km Fun
Run/Walk in aid of;
San Fulgencio C.C, Totally Dance School for children and K-9 Animal Rescue
The
Run starts and finishes at Mix Bar, just off Avenida de Londres, Urb. La Marina,
close to the Post Office.
If you would like to take part all you need to do is get as much sponsorship as
you can for your preferred cause,
pop on your green clothing and join in the fun!
MIX Bar are offering Free Irish Stew for all fun runner/walkers and the San Fulgencio Town Hall will provide a free bottle of water to all entrants, as well as a trophy for the fastest adult and child finishers!
Following the fun run/walk, there will be an Irish Dancing Display by Totally Dance School & Irish Music at MIX Bar till late, one customer assures us a few Irish songs will be sang.
More details from Bob on sfccpress@gmail.com
February 13th 2010 - Committee meeting of the San Fulgencio Cricket Club
At the latest
committee meeting at the White Swan on La Marina Urbanisation on Saturday 13th
February 2010, Chairman Jon Alger confirmed the Clubs ongoing commitment to
making Cricket at the Club available to as wide a section of the local
population as possible
To this end there will still be no charge for anyone attending Training at the Market Place on La Marina, the only charge the Club will make is to cover the coach and petrol costs if we have to take anyone to further coaching at La Manga or Alfaz
There will be no charge to anyone for being a member of the Club, we feel this is totally unique as Sporting Alfaz up at Albir charge 45 Euros for full playing Membership and the areas newest Club who are not even playing League Cricket this year are charging 35 Euros to Senior Players
Regarding match fees, these are charged by the league and it is a charge that we cannot avoid, it covers the cost of the hire of the ground, the cost of the match ball and the fees for the league appointed umpires, But again, we are doing something in line with the Clubs ethos of making Cricket as accessible as possible, we will not pass on this charge to anyone under the age of 18, players aged 18 and over will pay 10 Euros per match if there is any shortfall this will be met by the Clubs Fundraising activities
Press Secretary Bob Norton mentioned that the Clubs website page www.CostaBlancaFootball.com/sanfulgenciocricket has been receiving significant exposure since going live in the middle of January, for example a Google search on Tuesday 16th February for cricket on the Costa Blanca, showed that it is already on page one, number 7 out of 963,000 results!!
On a final note the entire Committee as well as the the Clubs Players and
Officials are delighted that the Club are sending 6 juniors to the Spanish
Trials being held at Sporting Alfaz at Albir on Sunday 21st February, this means
that we have a potential Spanish Player in every age and sex group namely Under
11, Under 13, Under 15 and Under 17 as well as the Spanish Womens team.
Since the meeting Cricket Espana has looked at the long range weather forecast
and postponed the trials, the new date is provisionally pencilled in as Sunday
18th April
January 12th 2010 - First newsletter published
A very momentous occasion, which was witnessed at the local ayuntamiento in San
Fulgencio.
Jon Alger and Bob Norton of S.F.C.C showing a copy of the first newsletter, to the Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Sports Minister of San Fulgencio
December 19th 2009 - San Fulgencio Cricket Team vs Torrevieja
Cricket Club
San Fulgencio C.C assembled in Torreviejas
impressive indoor Sports Centre Infanta Dona Cristina to take on the Costa
Blanca’s newest team Torrevieja C.C at indoor Cricket
Neil Brook superbly caught behind by our keeper Jon Alger
The game had been organized after the success of Torrevieja’s first outdoor
tournament which had been won in impressive fashion by our team a nice mixture
of youth and experience, and we had hoped to field a similar team
