A village has celebrated a significant moment in its cricket club’s history.
Hurst Cricket Club’s 1st XI team last Saturday played its first league match of the season at home since the village’s cricketers and Wokingham area’s Rangers Cricket Club players merged.
Wearing new team shirts, they took on Wargrave’s second XI at the ground in Wokingham Road, Hurst.
The home side’s captain, Lewis Smith, said: “It’s fantastic to have our merged team playing at the start of the season. And the weather is playing ball with us.”
Representatives of the club’s sponsors, Treeple Arborists, a tree surgery company, called in to wish them well. Jon Shonk of Reading was scoring the match for his tenth season at Hurst.
Also playing with merged teams that day were second and third XI Hurst teams.
The day was given a tasty start with a cake stall run at the ground by St Nicholas Church, Hurst, and Hurst Cricket Club, each raising a tasty amount for their funds.
Among those helping were Harry Davis-Redshaw, a pupil at Leighton Park School, Reading, and Monty Jeggo of Ranelagh School, Bracknell, both 15 and Hurst cricketers, who did it as part of their volunteer work for Duke of Edinburgh Silver Awards.
