U 15 Team Manager – Lionel Harrison
Assistant Manager – Graham Withers
Coach – James Butcher
Sponsored by Mike James; MJT Controls and Somerlap Forest Products Ltd


Although this season we had an influx of players, which made up for the continuing loss of those who were at boarding school for most of the season, we again had an unenviable start of 5 league defeats (interspersed with a 2nd round cup win against Claverham, but lost to Cleeve in the Semi-Final!). It was not until the 5 July that we recorded our first league win – again against Claverham – to start a spell of 2 wins and a Tie from our remaining 3 matches.

The fact remains that although we have a very capable bowling line-up our batting lacks depth and we are not able to give ourselves the sort of targets to bowl at that win matches. It was not until the later games of the season that players were available to provide the batting backbone we needed to secure wins.

You will see from the table below that we finished 7th , the same position as in 2003 but actually won a game more, but this was only by default as Weston pulled out of their game and no re-arrangement was organised! Weston still have another result to post so could finish joint 7th with us. Match summaries are at the end of this report.

Despite the string of early season defeats this did not deter the teams attitude, and it was again encouraging to see that they never dropped their heads when losing, showed good commitment/attitude and always came to the next game with their moral still high and a determination to do better.

As usual my thanks go to Graham Withers for his help with the running of the team/scoring, (particularly during my 3 week sabbatical to get rid of my daughter!) and also to Axel Palmer and Robin Honeywill for standing in on numerous occasions with the scoring too. Until he was injured in the latter stages of the season James Butcher covered the absence of our coach and continued his work to improve the players batting and bowling techniques. As ever Jan Lyons, providing her invaluable administrative assistance. My gratitude too to all the other parents whom we rely and who helped with the refreshment duties, transportation etc We must not, of course, forget our Youth Sponsors recorded above and our groundsman Fid, without whom we could not play the games.

Finally yet again our thanks and plaudits go to Matt Colwill as webmaster for our cricketing website, having been re-designed by him during the winter for something to do!, which remains unsurpassed by any other local clubs for it’s statistical content and reporting to the extent it is now even used by the North Somerset Youth Cricket League for publication of their tables. This is a minefield of information of the latest club results, news, announcements etc. which everyone should regularly take the opportunity to visit.


U15’s Awards
Player of the Year - Haydon Lyons
Clubman of the Year – Sam Honeywill


U15 Squad (22 Players) Name - Games played
Nick Bartlett – 6; Tom Bond – 2; Adam Burroughs – 8; Josh Chastney – 9; Rhys Davies – 1; William Day – 5; Jacob Hartrey – 7; Simon Hill – 9; Sam Honeywill – 9; Ben Lyons – 2: Haydon Lyons – 9; James McKeag – 7; Alex Milward – 2; Russell Moore – 9; Alistair Palmer – 7; George Powell – 4; James Ratcliffe – 8; Alex Ray – 6; James Roscow – 9; Matthew Smith – 8; Archie Stead – 2; Tom Williams – 2