First Weekend -- Heat, Ants, and Cricket!

We started our 2011 Summer Youth Cricket Clinic on Friday, with 18 cricketers taking part. Each player practiced their batting for two overs, then worked on bowling and fielding. It was good to see everyone back out on the ground -- and especially nice to see new cricketers joining our group!

Sunday's session had 12 cricketers -- and plenty of ants! Seems the ants are suffering from this dry weather as much as we are -- they found their way to the bags, bats, and ice chest. Hopefully, today's rain will convince them to go away!

We will continue the Summer Clinic this Friday at 6pm. Since our group is so large -- we expect 22-24 young men by the time everyone is able to attend -- we've decided to divide into two groups. One group will practice on Fridays, the other group on Sundays. We do plan to get all the players back together near the end of August for a match. More details on that will follow.

Thanks to all parents and cricketers for their participation! Without you, this would not be possible!