Hay-on-Wye Cricket Club

A new look Hay-on-Wye Cricket Club is ready to embrace the coming 2008 cricket season with confidence. Much work has been done in the last few months to make the coming season a time of excitement and great expectancy for players and supporters alike.

From one adult team last season playing Saturday league cricket, Hay-on-Wye CC has expanded with the addition of a Sunday team playing friendly fixtures and plans for Junior teams. The Junior section of the club is getting off to a flying start with a junior Cricket Open Day on Sunday 13th April at Gwernyfed Sports Centre, to which all are welcome. Qualified coaches will be in attendance to train young cricketers to reach their full potential.

Hay-on-Wye CC has reached out to the local community over the last few months and has received many kind donations from businesses and individuals and much needed sponsorship from various organisations. These monies have put the club on a sound financial base and enabled it to fund the training of new cricket coaches and purchase much needed equipment such as training packs and kit. Also new cricket nets and sight screens are to be installed at Hayon-Wye recreation ground.The future looks bright for cricket in Hay.

This article appeared in the April 2008 edition of "Wye Local". Our thanks to Lisa Marie for allowing us to reproduce it.

All about Hay

Hay is a true marcher town. being right on the border between England and Wales. This border is marked by the Dulas brook, which flows into the river Wye to the east of the town.

The main part of the town is in the Welsh County of Powys. The town's name in Welsh is Y Gelli (The Grove).

Throughout its thousand-year history Hay has undergone many transformations.

The town now attracts a wide variety of visitors drawn by its reputation as a beautiful town, a world-renowned centre for the book trade, and by the tranquility of its setting at the foot of the Black Mountains and situated in the picturesque Wye Valley.