HISTORY OF

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• HISTORY OF
• ILFORD CATHOLIC CRICKET CLUB
• Founded 1920
• Home Ground Queen Elizabeth II Field,
  Barkingside Recreation Ground

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• 1920
• Ilford Catholic Cricket Club is formed.
• A meeting in the Catholic Club of St Peter
• and Pauls Church between Charlie Tilling,
• Bunny Owen, Frank Benedict and
• Walter Angel in the winter of 1919 laid
• the foundations for the first season in 1920.
• The meeting decided to use the kit of the
  pre-1914 club,
• The Saints Peter and Paul CC, and to name the new
  club
• Ilford Catholic Cricket Club.

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• 1920 First Season
• Records of the 1920s are sparse
• but accounts indicate that ICCC
• were playing during this period
• in Valentines Park, near Perth Road.
• Opening batsman Arthur Adams joins the club and
  the first chairman of the club is Capt.
  Aitcheson.
• ICCC get bowled out for 16 in their first game -
  Charlie Tilling top scores with 12.
• Frank Benedict leads ICCC to its first victory on
  July 26, 1920.

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• 1930-39
• The Club begins to grow during the 30s and runs
  a 2nd XI for a brief time.
• Many fixtures are played each year
• against sides such as St Clements,
• Romford Workers, Barking Gas
• Company, Goodmayes Methodists
• and Harold Wood.
• Many new records are set including some that
  stand
• to this day

Membershipform and 1938 fixture card
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• Records from the 1930s..
• Best Figures
• K Bunting 9.213210 (1937)
• Most wicketkeeper dismissals
• W Lundy - 54 (39 sts, 15 cts) (1936)
• Lowest total for the club
• 12 vs. Lamorby CC (1937)
• Most catches in a match
• Cyril Konrath, 5 (1937)
• Bernard Saville gets over 140 wickets in
  consecutive seasons (1936/37)
• Bernard Saville gets 9 wickets in a game on 5
  separate occasions

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• 1939
• World War 2 breaks out.
• The club is kept going throughout the
• war by Francis Lion and Henry Konrath.
• In a letter to a local club Francis Lion
• suggests the pooling of resources and players
• to keep clubs alive during wartime in order to
• keep the flags flying
• Despite the outbreak of war Francis Lion was
  concerned about the financial health of the club
  and continued to chase members for unpaid subs in
  October 1939!

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• 1939 1945
• ICCC fulfilled fixtures throughout the war period
  and picked up players from other clubs to help
  with numbers.
• Letters from club members from
• various military outposts all around the
• world are sent to club secretary Henry Konrath.
• Valentines Park pitch is unplayable as the
• military authorities build a trench adjacent
• to the pitch.
• It was during this time that the rule
• Every member must be a catholic was
  discontinued
• and several non Catholics joined the club during
  this period.

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• 1946-50 - club logo designed
• It was around this period that the ICCC logo was
  created and approved by the committee.
• Henry Gurdon designed a series of concepts
• which were submitted for approval.
• The Keys and Sword represent St Peter and
• St Paul and the shape of the logo is a
• Bishops mitre.
• The logo has been adapted over the years but
• follows the original design from over 70 years
  ago.

Original club logo designs
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• 1946-50
• ICCC moves from Valentines Park to Barkingside
  Recreation Ground.
• During the late 1940s ICCC also have 2nd and 3rd
  XIs playing at Fairlop Oak playing fields.
• Bill Chainey and Johnny Hedge set the first
  wicket record partnership of 222 that stands to
  this day against Upminster (1949).

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• 1950's
• The 1950s was a great period for the club with
  as many as 50 fixtures played each season and 3
  sides. The club ran many social events as well
  such as annual dinners and organised tours.
• ICCC has good ties with Essex CC, playing
• fixtures against Essex Club and Ground XI,
• and helping prepare teas for Essex CC
• at the Ilford Cricket Festival.
• The stats from this period are remarkable,
• many of them set by all rounder and club captain
• Vic Harris

ICCC play Essex Club and Ground in 1950. Essex CC
score 320-5
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• Vic Harris - stats
• Vics achievements deserve a section on their
  own
• some highlights
• 185 wickets in a season (1950)
• Over a 100 wickets in a season nine times
• Over 500 runs in a season 16 times
• Over 100 wickets and 1000 runs in a season
  twice (1952/53)
• 2100 wickets and 15,000 runs reached by 1970
• (1949/1950/1952/1953/1954/1957/1958/1959/1963)

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1960's The club was thriving during the 1960s
with 3 sides playing against clubs such as
Writtle, Crown and Manor and Woodford Green.
1960 itself was the most successful season with
ICCC losing just 1 match from 32 games (26 wins,
5 drawn). Vic Harris (1963), Brian McLeish
(1965) and Kevin Keating (1969) all get over 100
wickets in a season. Brothers Laurie and
Bernard Adams are instrumental in running the
club, with Laurie producing career records from
1930-70.
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• 1960's
• ICCC and Essex player
• Bill Greensmith arranges a fixture
• with an Essex representative XI at
• Barkingside for his benefit year.
• The Essex side includes international
• England spinner Jim Laker - who
• stayed after the game and had a pint
• in the chequers pub!

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• 1970's
• ICCC play league cricket for the first time
  joining the Greene King Essex County League,
  later known as the Lillywhite Frowd League.
• International and Essex players play vs
• ICCC at Barkingside Recreation Ground
• including cricket legends such as Keith
• Boyce, John Lever, Keith Pont
• and Brian Taylor.

Keith Boyce and John Lever
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• 1980s
• ICCC continue to play in Lillywhite Frowd league
  and later in the Smallcombe Sports League.
• Mark Tompkins smashes
• 230 not out v Britannic Lodge
• and scores 1462 runs in the 1981 season.
• John Rogers gets 7-1 against
• Downshall including a hat trick.
• The 1st XI achieve runners up in Division 2
• of the Smallcombe Sports league in 1989.

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• 1990s
• ICCC win the Smallcombe Sports Division 2 in
  1991,
• and then enters the Morrant Essex league fielding
  three league sides.
• The 2nd and the 3rd XIs win their divisions in
  1995.
• In 1996 Club Captain Liam Mulholland takes the
  1st XI to win the Morrant league Division 1
  playing sides such as Woodford Green, Havering
  and Eton Manor.
• Dave Farenden averages 105.2 and Vince Mulholland
  takes 52 wickets at 9.5.

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• 2001-2009
• In 2001 ICCC join the Herts and Essex Cricket
  League.
• The 1st XI join in Division 3,
• win Division 2 in 2002 and
• then get promoted to Division 1
• by 2003.
• ICCC have two sides playing
• league cricket up to 2006.
• 1st XI retain Division 1 status.

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• 2010 - 2012
• Many new members join and ICCC resurrect the 2nd
  XI and the Sunday sides.
• The 2nd XI win Division 7 of the HECL with
• Anujan Thiru winning young player of the year.
• In 2012 the 2nd XI win Division 6 and move up
• to Division 5.
• In 2011 Vince Mulholland wins most
• wickets (37) and most runs (697)
• for Division 1.

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• 2012
• 2012 is a ground breaking year in many ways
• ICCC field first ever youth side
• (under 17) vs. Newham CC.
• Sunday team reach a new club
• record 336-2 vs. Alderton CC.
• First female, Sydney Naylor, plays for the
  club.
• 3rd XI are reformed and play a full season of
  fixtures
• Barkingside Recreation Ground is awarded QE2
  Field status.

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• Queen Elizabeth II Field
• Barkingside Recreation Ground
• In December 2012 the ceremony of the
• re-dedication of Barkingside Recreation
• Ground as a Queen Elizabeth II Field
• took place.
• Queen Elizabeth II Field status
• permanently protects playing fields and
• recreation spaces in communities all across the
• UK, ensuring access to outdoor sport and
• recreation both now and for future generations.
• From 2013 onwards Barkingside Recreation Ground
  will be formally known as Queen Elizabeth II
  Field, Barkingside Recreation Ground.

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THE PRESENT DAY 2012/13 Saturday teams Four
XIs
1st XI
2nd XI
1st XI
3rd XI
4th XI
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2012/13 ICCC is now fastest growing club in the
HECL, with 26 new players joining in 2012 and
over 60 members. One of our aims for 2013 is to
host more youth games based on the success of the
pilot match in 2012. ICCC have also been
approached by Redbridge Council to work in
partnership with them to run schools coaching
courses in 2013, as part of the Queen Elizabeth
II Fields in Trust initiative.
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2020 VISION OUR CENTENARY YEAR

• The club has a series of aspirations for 2020
• 5 Saturday league teams
• 2 Sunday friendly teams
• Midweek T20 league
• All age youth cricket U11, U13, U15 sides
  established
• Sufficient fully qualified coachs to cover all
  requirements
• ECB Clubmark and Focus club status
• Playing members of 100 and 50 social members
• Refurbished pavilion and stand alone net
  facility
• Stand alone brick built score box for the main
  square
• To continue to be the most affordable and
  accessible club in the area

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• ILFORD CATHOLIC CRICKET CLUB
• Founded 1920
• Home Ground Queen Elizabeth II Field,
  Barkingside Recreation Ground