Brigg Town Cricket Club has been re-admitted to the top Saturday competition - the Lincolnshire County Cricket League.
The club's future looked in doubt if it failed to gain admission to the Lincs League at last night's AGM in Market Rasen.
However, member clubs voted 18-1 in favour of Brigg's admission.
Brigg Town's past few seasons have been spent in the East Yorkshire Alliance, but it is being reorganised to take in teams from the York area - and there's felt to be too much travelling involved for teams north of the Humber Bridge to play games in North Lincolnshire.
Brigg's only other alternative, had they failed to be elected last night, would have been to seek membership of the Grimsby Saturday League - in which games comprise only 25 overs an innings and pitches are chiefly of the artificial variety.
Brigg Town will play next season at Brocklesby Park, which the club felt had more chance of being accepted by the Lincolnshire League than the traditional base at the Recreation Ground, of Wrawby Road.
However, in their presentation to last night's meeting, Brigg representatives Nigel and Nick Beacock made reference to council plans to revamp The Rec - playing area and changing facilities.
Brigg's 2014 season will be in division four of the Lincolnshire League, East Halton CC were also admitted last night. They were in a similar position to Brigg, also being allied to the East Yorkshire Alliance.
DIVISION FOUR : Brigg Town, Broughton 2nds, Caistor Town 3rds, Cleethorpes 4ths, East Halton, Holton le Clay 2nds,
Keelby 2nds, Morton (Gainsborough), Old Lincolnians 2nds, Scothern 2nds.
Brigg Town Cricket Club can now look forward to celebrating its 40th anniversary next season.
Well done to Nigel and Nick for presenting their case to the league and gaining re-election .
ReplyDeleteAlso good to see East Halton admitted too , fond memorys of playing on the 'farm' ground where a muddy dyke ran behind the changing rooms . One Tony Bailey nipped behind the said changing fascilities for a quick leak and promptly slid down the slippery bank into the mud . Hence his nickname Dyker Baily.
Or so the story goes.