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In conclusion, it is imperative that one cares correctly for their cricket bat and follows the essential instructions, this will ensure that the cricket bat leads a long life. Cricket can be an expensive game if one is constantly replacing their essential cricket gear.
Talking to Vic Clarke, born in Freshwater around 1916, I got some idea of the path of cricket in the West Wight, and how we have arrived at the current club, West Island C.C. Vic was an avid player of all sports especially cricket and football. When at School he was not only the captain but also in charge of selecting the team, and went on to captain the Island representative side. In the winters he would play football, and he ended up being paid to play for Cowes football club. Cricket Stores Near Me Due to work commitments and having a job on the mainland he went on to play cricket for Cowes, before leaving the Island. Before the war, he remembers cricket games taking place at Totland Recreation ground on a grass wicket. One of his memories was that whilst they had stopped for tea one afternoon, the players glanced out across the wicket and could see a mound of earth rising from the ground below. A mole in action. From minutes taken in 1948, of a West Wight Cricket Club meeting, there is reference to an inquiry into the cost of having the moles removed from Totland Recreation ground. They were obviously a major problem before and after the war.
Although Vic can't remember the name of the cricket club through those years, I have been lent a book containing the minutes from West Wight Cricket Club. Formed in 1948 they unfortunately finished in 1957. The minutes begin "That the Freshwater & Totland C.C be reformed under the name West Wight Cricket Club". SO before 1948 there was a Freshwater and Totland Club, that existed, but we are not sure if that was the original club that went back to before the war or quite when it was formed or indeed when it ceased to function