Welcome to the
Benwell Hill Cricket Club
Web Site

Benwell Hill Cricket Club is located to the west of Newcastle upon Tyne city centre. The club is a founder member of the ECB North East Premier League.

The first, second and third eleven’s all play in the Premier Leagues.The third eleven are also members of the Just Sport West Tyne Cricket League and the midweek Northumberland County C Division.

Benwell Hill run junior teams at Under 18, Under 15, Under 13 and Under 11 levels for both boys and girls.

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Last update: Sunday 22 January 2012
13:01 GMT

Cricket Archive

Benwell Hill Cricket Club's statistician David McKay continues to add more Hill scorecards to the excellent Cricket Archive site.

The site now contains league scorecards as far back as 1967, together with the Hill's Cup Final appearances since the Charity Bowl win in 1968 (30 matches) as well as all of the National Clubs Knock-Out matches between 1973 and 1986.

The Cricket Archive site can be found here, and David suggests the simplest way to access the scorecards would be either to look up a player in the Search Player Oracle or enter the words Benwell Hill in the scorecard search.

Senior Indoor Practice

As promised, here is the application form for the senior indoor practice sessions. The ten sessions commence on Sunday 29 January at the Newcastle Cricket Centre in Gosforth. The cost of the ten sessions is £45 and cheques should be made payable to Benwell Hill Cricket Club. Take your cheque and completed application form along to the first session and pass them on to Barry Pearson.

The application form can be found here.

West Tyne Fixtures

The fixtures for the West Tyne League have been published and the third eleven begin the 2012 season at home to newly promoted Prudhoe on Saturday 21 April. That is then followed by an 'away' game at Stamfordham. The full fixture list can be found here.

2012 Fixtures

Full fixture listings for first, second and third elevens can be found here. Under 18 and under 15 fixtures can be found here.

Annual General Meeting

The 2012 Annual General Meeting of Benwell Hill Cricket Club will take place on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 in the club lounge. The meeting will commence at 7.15 pm. Notice of the meeting and agenda will be posted out to members later this week.

NEPL 2012 fixtures published

The first eleven will begin the 2012 season with a home game against Tynemouth on Saturday 21 April 2012. That's followed by a trip to Stockton the following Saturday. The second eleven will visit Tynemouth on the opening day and will entertain Stockton on Saturday 28 April. The third eleven begin with the short trip to Blaydon on Sunday 22 April, while a visit to Percy Main provides the opening game for the C Division eleven on Thursday 19 April.

The West Tyne League fixtures are due to be published later this week.

Winter Indoor Practice

The winter indoor net practice sessions get underway on Sunday 29 January at the Newcastle Cricket Centre in Gosforth. The two hour sessions commence at 7.00 pm and continue through to the Sunday 1 April.

The cost of the ten sessions is £45. Application forms will be available very soon.

Who's that with our Tom?

It was clearly a day to remember for England's Graeme Swann when he met his cricketing hero, Benwell Hill's very own Tom Denham. The two are pictured here at a book signing for Tom's recently released autobiography

(Ed. I think that's what Tom's handwritten note said, couldn't read the writing very well).

Trumpet Blowing!

At the North East Premier League Annual Dinner on Friday (18 November) evening there was a standing ovation when it was announced that Benwell Hill Cricket Club had won the Fair Play Award for 2011.

Sadly David Rutherford was not present to receive this richly deserved award on the Club's behalf so Barry Pearson did the honours instead.

West Tyne League Dinner 2011

The West Tyne League recently held their Annual Dinner at The Mart in Hexham. Amongst the award winners was Benwell Hill's Glenn Robertson who won the Individual Highest Score in the First Division for his 124 against Wylam. Glenn (middle) and Hill colleagues Ross Marley and Andrew Dawson are pictured above with former Middlesex and England quick bowler Angus Fraser.

Junior Presentation Night 2011

The Junior presentation night took place in a packed club lounge on Wednesday evening (25 October). Durham's Calum Thorp was on hand to present the awards but as ever it was all about the celebration of all junior cricket at Benwell Hill.

Pictured above with Calum are (Back left to right): Brendan Dowling (under 15 award), Ben Mussett (Neil Hamiliton Cup) and Mohammed Shinwari (Tom Hounsome Shield). (Front left to right): Joe Barnes (under 11 award), Alistair Appleby (Alan Evans Shield) and Ben Hynes (under 13 award). Saud Shinwari won the under 18 award but was unable to attend.

Golf shots!

A selection of photographs from the recent BHCC Golf Day held last month at Dunstangburgh Castle Golf Club can be found here.

Macmillan Coffee Morning

What is now an annual event on the Benwell Hill social calendar took place last Saturday (1 October) in the Clubhouse.

The nationwide Macmillan Coffee Morning is aimed at not only raising money, but also raising awareness of the fine work done by the Macmillan organisation.

Pictured above of some of the Benwell Hill Ladies involved in this year's event.

Clean sweep for Hill cricketers at the 2011 BHCC Golf Open

In what is now becoming a traditional way to celebrate/commiserate the end of the summer(!) cricket season, 35 Hillbilly's (made up of cricketers, ex cricketers, life members, patrons, squasher's, social members and their guests) met at Dunstanburgh Castle Golf course to compete in the 2011 Hill Golf Open, with the morning Spring Pairs trophies and the afternoon singles AU March Trophy up for grabs.

For once we had a day when the sun shone and not a drop of rain was felt (perhaps the cricket season should finish later and a rainy season break is introduced in July and August next year!), but with a gusty wind and some tough pin positions, the Embleton Links course proved a real test for all the competitors.

Congratulations therefore go to 17 year old cricketer Chris Brown (the youngest member of the field) who’s stunning score of 37 points, pipped Blaine Musset and his own dad - Malcolm Brown, by one and two points respectively to win the AU March Trophy and title of Hill Champion golfer for 2011, well done Chris!

In the seven hole morning pairs competition, the 'dream team' of cricketers David 'plenty of time to practice my golf recently' Rutherford and John Chambers, sneaked the Trophies with a total of 16 points (courtesy of a count back on the final four holes) after amazingly seven teams finished with the same score of 16 points.

A great day, thanks to all who attended and see you next year for 2012 Hill Open at the same venue on Sunday 30 September.

New players and
new members welcome

New players - junior and senior - are always welcome at Benwell Hill Cricket Club.

The Club caters for cricketers of all abilities from Minor Counties standard to recreational level - if you are keen enough you will find a team to fit your standard.

During the season club practice takes place on Wednesday evenings from 6.00 pm and new players are most welcome to come along and try-out before committing to joining the club. The fee for senior players in 2012 is £65, £42 for 18 - under 21s and for juniors it is £32 - for that sum you get full access to the club and its social and playing facilities for the year.

For those who simply wish to watch the cricket and enjoy a pint whilst doing so, we offer social membership at £20 per annum.