Can all members take note that the final stage of the The An Post Ras will once again finish in Skerries this Sunday. This will mean road restrictions around Skerries and the The Black Hills from approximately 1.00pm – 4.30pm. Enjoy the cycling to those of you that are going but dont forget to come back and watch some of the cricket too. Please find links below regarding information and road restrictions.
Well the answer is she will be cuttin very well! We have had some great new arrivals so far this season and the ground staff are delighted with the newest ones. Grant money coming through and these little beauties have just arrived. The Dennis combo mower with brush, Slicer and scarifier attachments. 4 machines in one. So those great wickets of ours are about to get even better! THCC
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I hope you all enjoyed Summer today, its my favourite day of the year after Christmas day in Ireland 🙂 But enough about the weather. We hope you can all join us for Ladies day tomorrow from 2-6pm. All ladies welcome, all ages and ability, even if you haven’t played cricket before please come along and bring the family, friends, neighbours and randomer’s. Lots of fun guaranteed. The worst thing that can happen is that you will make new friends and have great fun.
Sunday sees a welcome return and first outing this season at The Vineyard of The Entertainers (The Mens 4ths). A motley crew of our brightest and most promising talent from the youth ranks with a sprinkling of legends of yesteryear, (well legends in their own living room anyway). So Come along bask in the sunshine, support The Club and enjoy The Cricket.
Here’s to Summer! THCC
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We would like to invite you all to attend the club this Saturday 14th May between 2pm and 6pm in a day filled with Cricketing fun! We are going to play a short game of cricket in which ALL ladies can participate regardless of age, ability or cricket skills. Mothers, Aunties, Grannies, Nieces, players of ALL ages will be welcomed with open arms! Bring the extended family and a picnic and set yourselves up for the afternoon! Cricket will be taught to you on the day and so NO previous experience is necessary. PLEASE COME ALONG! If you require further information please contact us here or through our Facebook page.
Kind Regards, from all involved with Girls and Ladies Cricket in THCC
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With the season now in full swing we have another exciting weekend of cricket upon us at The Hills. The Men’s First Team play CSNI in the Irish Senior Cup on Saturday while the seconds play Greystones on Sunday. The aul current bun has finally made an appearance and Nuala Carey tells me she is to stay around for the weekend with highs of 21 degrees. So no excuses not to get down The Vineyard on Saturday or Sunday, “Its gonna be tropic”. So remember the sunscreen! Good luck to all our teams in action home and away this weekend.
Well Done to our Ladies First team who got their campaign up and running with a fine win on the road v North Kildare on Thursday evening. The Hills CC made 172 in their 30 overs and bowled North Kildare out for 120 runs! Great effort to Ciara and her very supportive squad of players.
Special mention to to Milverton National School who got off to winning ways Thursday morning against local rivals from Skerries Realt Na Mara in a very exciting game at the Vineyard this morning, Well done Guys!
THCC
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Freddie Klokker will be working hard with our two young wicketkeepers Mark Donegan & Colm Cuineen this coming season. They both have very bright futures and with Freddie’s input into their continuous coaching it will only enhance their learning and they will continue to achieve as they progress in the game of Cricket within The Hills CC. Best of luck lads!
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As The Dave Clark 5 once said! ” BOOM! BOOM! I’m feeling glad all over, I’m feeling BOOM BOOM glad all over. What a spectacle to witness in The Vineyard today! an occasion many will remember for the rest of their lives. “Where were you the day Freddie hit 161 and beat Jeremy Brays 155 record” Freddie’s 2n highest fist grade score, as great an innings he has played. A great performance all around from the team to kick off the 2016 season. Once again we have to thank our superb ground staff and phenomenal Support, you guys ROCK!!! THCC !!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyxA0fPlHUY (Go on play it a least 5 times and tell me you’re feeling BOOM BOOM! Glad all over!) THCC
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After quite a bit of research within the cricket community during our Planning phase, a unanimous view prevailed that a programme to overcome the gaps that currently exist within the club structure is necessary, one of the programmes we agreed would be to explore a link with the Danish Cricket Association!
Following discussions with people involved within the club and are own personal experiences over the last couple of seasons it was agreed that the objective of this programme should be:
To work in partnership with the relevant people (within the Danish Cricket Association)
To implement an organised Development Programme for talented players from Denmark to play within The Hills Cricket Club, on the best grass wickets on the island of Ireland which will enable them to enhance their talent, technical and tactical abilities they have already developed.
In order to achieve this objective The Hills Cricket Club in partnership with Danish Cricket will develop The Programme which aims:
To identify, develop and evaluate players who would play at the required level in our Division 1 league with our 1st team.
To enable emerging talent within Denmark cricket, the chance to develop all of their capacities to their full potential by playing with our 2nd team also to further develop playing on grass wickets, these players maybe some of your younger squad members who might be on regional squads within your country!
To provide all players that come over to The Hills Cricket Club with a more challenging level of training and development, breaking the training down as we do in WHOLE- PART-WHOLE method which further enhances Learning by doing!
To provide the players with the opportunity to train in structured and quality environment, this has been an area which we as a club have identified as crucial for success…….Good Planning/Organisational and Implementation within our sessions is key for the future and achieving all the goals/ targets we set throughout the club.
To provide a higher quantity and quality of player for our Adult squads and Youth squads, representative and international sides.
To improve the quality of players Adult(Male/Female) and (Boys /Girls) across all levels of the game of cricket within our club through your players linking in with our Coaches to provide quality Coaching sessions through creating a good learning environment for all to develop both players and coaches.
To provide and formalise a link with Denmark which potentially could see an exchange programme for Coaching workshops with our Coaches and your Coaches coming together to learn further from each other,plus the full use of our state of the art facilities to enable you to have International squad sessions which would enable you to train and eat at the venue, which would be very beneficial.
In addition bringing underage squads on tour within Denmark and obviously bringing squads from your country over to The Hills Cricket Club which would see them play games and to take part in Coaching sessions with our senior panel of Coaches!
It is our belief that The Hills Cricket Club’s merging with the Danish Cricket Association would be of huge benefit to both parties. It would have a very positive and long lasting effect on the Development of Cricket in our club. The future will see continual standards rise and will eventually result in a higher standard of player playing within the club…at Rep. level/Intl level and also at our grassroots level which is really important to sustain our club in the future.
We look forward to this link with Danish Cricket for many years to come.
Yours in Cricket,
Kind Regards,
Paul Smyth,
Chairman of The Hills Cricket Club.
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The The 2016 season is finally under way and we hope it will be a very memorable and exciting one for all of our teams. This weekend sees a a festival of Cricket coming to The Vineyard with the visit of the Danish National Team. And we hope as many of you as possible will come out to support. It all kicks off in The Vineyard at 12.00 pm Saturday. All games are 50 overs. Bar will be open! BBQ fired up and the sweet smell of Summer in the air,well almost, (Una Carey has advised not to put the winter Geansai away just yet) so we will have a curry on offer too. And if the Cricket hasn’t tired you all out on Saturday please stick around for our All star Mr and Mrs competition, how much or how little do you know about your partner, well we will soon find out. We do it all again on Sunday without the Mr and Mrs and you may want to bring your own sandwiches as we are giving our BBQ man and curry chef the day off!
Full list of Fixtures for Danish visit are as follows
Friday 22nd of April……..Game V Northern Knights…Venue: Balbriggan CC (Start time 12.00.pm)
Saturday 23rd of April…..Game V The Hills…Venue: The Hills CC (Start time 12.00.pm)
Sunday 24th of April……Game V Leinster Lightning …Venue: The Hills CC. (Start time 12.00.pm)
Thank you to Everyone for supporting and helping make The Hills the best cricket club in the world…(Probably)
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We like to do things a little different in The Hills. So Please come along to “Afternoon Tea in the Morning” on Sunday 1st May at 10.00 am, its 5 Euro per person and we will be having a mini cake sale too. All Welcome! so bring a friend or two! For Tea! Chats and Craic!
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