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Welcome to Montbard Cricket Club's website MCC play cricket in France and would like to welcome new players, opponents and spectators. Located in Burgundy, in the heart of France, between Paris and Dijon, Montbard Cricket Club enjoys the social side of the game. With our own superb ground, an expanding fixture list and the famous "Tournoi". We welcome you to some serious French Cricket.

Match Report – MCC vs. ABC – October 18

Somehow it got arranged – a last match of a very short season. Eight were planned but this would only be the fourth that actually happened. Even though it was arranged at the last minute and even though it took place so late in the year, the Gods were with us and the day dawned bright and sunny. And stayed that way.

Our opponents were a newly formed outfit calling themselves the Akademie Bourgogne Cricket (ABC) even though they all are Sri Lankans living in Paris. A long story which I won’t go into here. Suffice to say that they were all young, fit, had previously played under a different name in the French First Division (apparently winning it in 2005) and had more then a little ability. Only eight of them did turn up but it was enough.

Because, at the start, we too were severely under strength it was decided to let the ABC bat first – they lent us two fielders to help out until our late-comers arrived. Spencer (good to see you, Spence) and Nitin (yes, Nitin joined us for the day and very welcome he was too) opened the bowling and did so well in their first 6 overs that they restricted our opponents to just 21 for one. Things were looking good! David D also bowled beautifully giving very little away in his first spell but unfortunately for him and the following bowlers a number of catches were put down and this allowed the ABC to pile on the runs. Giving away 24 wides didn’t help either but it must be said some of these were very harshly adjudged. As said, these guys were fairly handy and some horribly good straight hitting saw us retrieving many a ball at both ends but, with one exception, none of them scored more then 24. Our catching had improved. All told, four good ones were held with the best of these being the veritable skier taken by David D on the long off boundary. At the ‘death’, Nitin and Spencer bowled as well as they had started so that even though opener Sankar was still there with a 100 against his name, the last four overs yielded 3 maidens and just 2 runs. The ABC accumulated 200 for 5 in their 30 overs – a big total but, if all went well, not insurmountable some thought.

It was not to be. As expected, openers Martin (good to see you too, Martin) and Francois didn’t last long against some very hostile new ball bowling and when Nitin edged one through to the slips after only a single, leaving us on 8 for 2, the writing was very much on the wall. However, Krishna and David D put up an exceptional rear-guard action and averted a collapse, something we’re rather good at! Collapsing, I mean. David was finally bowled but Krishna carried his bat through to the end improving his season’s statistics enormously with his 23 not out. He was helped by Richard P who struck a few lusty blows on his way to a season high of 18 and Spencer, who was just getting going when he played at one across the line and was comprehensively bowled. We totalled 86 for 6 in our 30 overs but, I think, the important thing was that we managed to hang on in there and not be skittled over. As Krishna said, it was great to be able to bat against some good, steady bowling for a change. The defeat can definitely be called ‘honourable’.

As usual, thanks are due to all who made the effort to turn up, to those who made an extra effort and helped with setting up and putting away and to those who provided such a spread at mid-innings tea. It was a more then pleasant end to the season and we hope to have more matches, maybe even a season-starting (training) week-end next year, against this really nice bunch of “Bourguignons”.

Next rendezvous for the MCC – our AGM. Watch this space.

Match Report – MCC vs. TMSB Exiles

August 1 and England are battling to post some kind of decent total to make a game of the third test whilst we here at the MCC rue the fact that the end of the first part of our season is upon us. “What first part of the season?”, I hear you ask, “We haven’t had one.” True. What with cancellations by (normally) esteemed opponents and, once, the weather we have managed only three games thus far this summer. And to think that despite this paucity of matches, not once have we managed to field a full team!!!

The visit of an English touring side, the TMSB Exiles, an internet team who have come together to play for charity (www.tmsbexiles.org), didn’t change the pattern. It was only thanks to second-time player Sean, newly-found Nick from one of the barges and, especially, Martin Matthews from Lyon that we managed to scramble together 10 men in white and thereby avoid total embarrassment and shame. This kind of situation really needs to be addressed and, I hope, the year’s end AGM will take it on board.

Back to the match played on our home ground of “Le Prairie” on July 19.

Once again acting captain (by default) Francois (also by default, your reporter) lost the toss and, once again, we fielded first. It being 2 weeks since the match and my memory being as it is, I struggle to remember if our bowling was that good or if our opponents were still suffering from their night out among the heady delights of Montbard. Whichever it was, we very ably managed to restrict the Exiles to just 107 all out scored in 28.4 overs. Opener David scored 16 but the majority of these came from Jay (37), Ned (22) and old stalwart Extras (19). As for our bowlers, particularly impressive were Tony (two wickets for just 7 runs in 5 overs), Nick (3 wickets for 19) and Richard P (one wicket, the dangerous Jay, for 12 in 5 overs). Four catches were held too. Impressive.

As a big thank you for driving such a long way, Martin was asked to open our reply and he responded by easing his way to 46 not out. Guess he enjoyed his visit! He was supported for a while by Francois (12) but mostly by Nick who chipped in with 28 off only 26 balls. We cruised to a total of 108 in just 20 of the allotted 30 overs. A first victory of the season !!!!

Once again we managed to provide a tea worthy of the name and thanks are hereby extended to all who pulled their fingers out to provide it. Thanks also to all who turned up for the post-match dinner at l’Ecu thereby assuring our visitors that (ex-pat) Burgundy hospitality is alive and kicking. Since returning home the Exiles have sent us several notes thanking us for our reception and expressing wishes to return within the foreseeable future. The big question is if we’ll still have a club to receive them.

Match Report - MCC V Strasbourg (14/06/2008)

Match Report. MCC vs. Strasbourg Strollers – June 14, 2008-06-16

Sometime last winter I contacted Nemo, fixtures guru of the Strasbourg Strollers, about arranging a match between our two clubs. He thought the possibility would very small as they (the Strollers) were battling to find enough players to keep the team going. I commiserated, maybe a bit smugly as our own pool of players seemed to be growing. But come the Saturday of our match Strasbourg stroll in with a full team whilst we only have nine! Sportingly, they lent us one of their players (Thanks Nick B) and a ten-a-side thirty over match kicked off more or less on time.

Match Report - MCC vs Lyon CC (31/05/08)

Well, a first match of the season finally got played. That said, only seven of the eleven players appearing under the colours of the MCC were actually from this region but Sepp Blatter would have been pleased !!!

Thanks to Leigh and his minibus, we (Leigh W, Paul C, Andy W, Richard P, George P, Tony B and your correspondent) all travelled together and duly found the ground on time. Best thing we did all day although our repas later that evening at the Courte Paille in Pouilly was pretty jovial too. Biggish steaks were on promo plus Leigh was in cracking form !!!

Lyon started off well by winning the toss and electing to bat thereby consigning us to what we thought would be 30 overs of leather chasing. We did indeed chase a lot of leather but, pretty amazingly, we also managed to bowl out our opponents before the aforesaid 30 overs were over. In the 28 overs that they were at the crease Lyon still managed to accumulate the formidable total of 217 runs. Top-scorer was Martin with 52 no, but Geoff (33), John (30) and young Tom (28) all chipped in as well. We 'donated' them another 42 runs in extras. Ouch !!! We had to use three of our four loaned players from the large Lyon pool as bowlers, one of whom, Raju, collected 3 wickets. The rest were evenly spread around but bowl them out we did.

The break in innings saw Lyon doing their best to provide refreshments (it was hot - amazingly) and our thanks to them for this.

Our turn to bat was fairly predictable in its outcome. Our 'star' batting turn, Andy, fell to an unfortunate low-bouncing spitter and the rest of us followed him in fairly quick succession to the area marked off as pavilion. Top scorer for us was again 'Extras' showing amazing impartiality by chalking up 40 followed by Richard with 14 and François 11. Altogether we made 99 of the required 218 and batted - comme même !! - for 22 overs. Could have been a lot worse.

As you all know, Lyon's visit to us was cancelled due to inclement weather but I'd like to arrange another match against them in September. If some of our vedettes could be present we could give them a much closer and more enjoyable for all match. Thanks to those who did turn out and thanks too to Lyon for being good sportsmen.

Fixtures 2008

May 10 Practice Home
May 17 Lyon Home Start 13:00
May 31 Lyon Away
June 14 Strasbourg Home
June 28 Academie Bourgogne de Cricket Home
July 12 TMSB Exiles Home
July 19 British Embassy Home
Sept. 6 Open
Sept. 27 Lille CC Home
Oct. 4 CERN Away

AGM of the MCC held in Châteauneuf December 8

Present were Richard P, Tony B, Andy W, Martin E, Leigh W, Francois E and a potential new player Dave Austin. By the end of the meeting he was looking so bemused that it’s not yet certain if he will indeed be joining us on the field next year.

Our usual chaotic meeting was held upstairs in L’Oree du Bois and what a good place it was too. Not only were we very private but the food was perfect. A big thanks to our hosts. Only (slight) blemish on proceedings was the lower then expected turn-out but then one can’t have everything. Some good folk did send apologies, others didn’t. All normal there then.

As had previously been intimated, one of our main topics was the state of our mat. Although it’s been chopped up several times by the pissed (???) municipal mower, there are apparently enough bits and pieces to mend it sufficiently for at least one more season. All nodded sagely at this and so it was decided. Interestingly, nobody put themselves forward to do the work nor did anybody even enquire as to how this would happen. We shall see.

Leigh did suggest - and all thought it a good idea - that we surround our pitch, and mat, with a series of stakes and a rope so that the mower will keep off in the future. Could work.

While on the subject of the mat, it was suggested that we enquire from the generous folk who loaned money for the original purchase to find out if they’d like to transform their loan into a donation. So, this then is the enquiry – is anyone prepared to do it? Please let me know one way or the other.

Another biggish discussion point concerned insurance for our players. It was reaffirmed that we had no wish to affiliate ourselves with France Cricket so that left us only the do-it-ourselves avenue. Tony, Richard and Dave would look into various options and Tony would become the new Insurance Czar. We’d be looking into an annual contribution of 10 euros from each and every player (even casuals). It was decided that this would be added to the annual subscription.

The annual subscription will be maintained at 25 euros each PLUS the aforementioned insurance making a round 35 euros if paid before the end of March. Anyone paying after this date will be charged 40 euros. Any non-members coming for the day only would be asked to pay in a match fee of 10 euros which would include insurance. Tony as Insurance Executive Officer will be present with the necessary insurance forms for these “bit” players. Andy has taken on to himself to fill another newly created post, that of Match Fee Czar. Means he will be doing the rounds each game collecting euros from all who have not contributed to the tea.

Concerning the frequency of matches next year, it was decided that we would aim for a match every 3 weeks or so. Seven or eight fixtures could be expected. An away match with Lyon seems a certainty and Martin will try get us an away fixture with CERN in Geneva at the end of next April.

Reminiscences of the 2007 season

Getting our precious site hacked by a crazed Lithuanian was one mighty original way to start the 2007 season.

The cricket didn’t start of too promisingly either, as I remember. And then again maybe I’m being too harsh as our first match was away to arch-rivals Strasbourg and eight of our small pool of players managed to make the effort to get themselves up that motorway. Which was pretty encouraging really even though we lost and didn’t have a great day. It was cold, grey and dampish plus we all hated their artificial match laid over a very bumpy surface. I don’t have the score cards (Strasbourg CC have never sent them on) and my memory is not what it was so I can’t recall any individual exploits of bravado or foolhardiness. I do remember though that we were more then comprehensively beaten by 70 odd runs….
We experienced a few more low points in the first half of the season. The extremely low turn-out for the Ormes Sixes Tournament was one and the forced cancellation of our own was another. But, despite these, an air of optimism was definitely about. Several practices were held and enjoyed, new players (Abi, Krishna and Andy) were welcomed and we met some new friendly opponents (The Luxembourg Optimists, Lille and Lyon CCs) who’ll hopefully provide great matches for many seasons to come. ..click on link below to read on...

Montbard/Lille vs. Lyon September 23. Match Report

As you all know, we don’t usually play on Sundays - too many of our members are unavailable that day. Yet, here we were in Montbard on a Sunday with so many potential players that not all could play! Granted, we weren’t all Montbardois (or whatever we should call ourselves) but, even so, we were that many that it has to be called mighty encouraging for the future.

Match Report vs. Lyon – Saturday 07/07/07

Amazing ! A dry day in Burgundy. The sun shone. The outfield was mown – sort of. The spectators (our herd of Charollais) were in place. The TGVs whizzed past and by 2.30 most of the players had arrived. Unfortunately, due to injuries and other happenings, only eight players were there to represent the MCC. Our opponents, from Lyon, had come with ten.

Match report V Luxembourg Optimists 23 June

Something strange happened the other day - A victory for the MCC !!

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wellsy
14/05/2008 11:30
Good luck on Saturday. Sorry can't make it.

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