Eastbourne Cricket Club

Established: 1919

Club colours: Green and Gold

Home ground and clubrooms: HW Shortt Recreation Ground

Senior Championship winners: Wilford Kerr Shield - 1937-38, 1938-39

Grades represented in 2020/21 season: First  Grade

Number of junior teams represented in 2020/21 season: Seven teams plus Friday evening Have-A-Go centre of seventy four-six year olds

The Eastbourne Cricket Club has a proud history and will celebrate their centenary in 2019. For much of the time the club has fielded two or three men’s teams in the Hutt Valley competition. The club’s halcyon days were during the 1950s, 60s and 70s when Eastbourne played Senior cricket in the Hutt Valley competition, winning the Senior Reserve title in 1971/72, 72/73 and again in 74/75.

At present the club fields one teams, including a first grade side. Elder statesmen of the club are also seen gracing HW Shortt on Sunday afternoons in the guise of the Eastbourne Village Green Cricket XI playing “against” other erstwhile teams such as the Tawa Turtles, Kelburn Park XI, and Nondescripts.

The junior club is particularly strong with circa 100 children participating. In addition to seven junior teams playing on a Saturday morning, including Premier , up to seventy 4-6 year olds enjoy Have-A-Go cricket at HW Shortt Rec on a Friday evening. This from a population catchment area of 4000 people nestled between the hills of the East Harbour Regional Park and the sandy beaches between Point Howard and the Pencarrow Lighthouse including the ever popular Days Bay.

Players from the club are regularly selected for Lower Hutt and Wellington representative teams and occasionally field their own junior Premier team.  Eastbourne are proud to be a feeder club with a sprinkling of  former Eastbourne juniors playing Senior cricket for other clubs, including Wellington.

The club shares excellent clubrooms with views of the ground and Wellington harbour at HW Shortt Recreation Ground with the Eastbourne Rugby Club, and the Eastbourne RSA.  As well as an excellent pitch renovated with patamahoe clay five seasons ago, now rolled by the club's own 4 ton “Bay City Roller”, the club has a set of three concrete based artificial practice nets outdoors. The club also has an indoor practice facility adjacent to the HW Shortt clubrooms for pre-season training, wet weather practices and winter indoor cricket that can be used as one large space, or three lanes, including a bowling machine.

Eastbourne Cricket Club welcomes new members.

Please feel free to contact ECC Chairman on email [email protected]

Eastbourne Cricket Club

Established: 1919

Club colours: Green and Gold

Home ground and clubrooms: HW Shortt Recreation Ground

Senior Championship winners: Wilford Kerr Shield - 1937-38, 1938-39

Grades represented in 2020/21 season: First  Grade

Number of junior teams represented in 2020/21 season: Seven teams plus Friday evening Have-A-Go centre of seventy four-six year olds

The Eastbourne Cricket Club has a proud history and will celebrate their centenary in 2019. For much of the time the club has fielded two or three men’s teams in the Hutt Valley competition. The club’s halcyon days were during the 1950s, 60s and 70s when Eastbourne played Senior cricket in the Hutt Valley competition, winning the Senior Reserve title in 1971/72, 72/73 and again in 74/75.

At present the club fields one teams, including a first grade side. Elder statesmen of the club are also seen gracing HW Shortt on Sunday afternoons in the guise of the Eastbourne Village Green Cricket XI playing “against” other erstwhile teams such as the Tawa Turtles, Kelburn Park XI, and Nondescripts.

The junior club is particularly strong with circa 100 children participating. In addition to seven junior teams playing on a Saturday morning, including Premier , up to seventy 4-6 year olds enjoy Have-A-Go cricket at HW Shortt Rec on a Friday evening. This from a population catchment area of 4000 people nestled between the hills of the East Harbour Regional Park and the sandy beaches between Point Howard and the Pencarrow Lighthouse including the ever popular Days Bay.

Players from the club are regularly selected for Lower Hutt and Wellington representative teams and occasionally field their own junior Premier team.  Eastbourne are proud to be a feeder club with a sprinkling of  former Eastbourne juniors playing Senior cricket for other clubs, including Wellington.

The club shares excellent clubrooms with views of the ground and Wellington harbour at HW Shortt Recreation Ground with the Eastbourne Rugby Club, and the Eastbourne RSA.  As well as an excellent pitch renovated with patamahoe clay five seasons ago, now rolled by the club's own 4 ton “Bay City Roller”, the club has a set of three concrete based artificial practice nets outdoors. The club also has an indoor practice facility adjacent to the HW Shortt clubrooms for pre-season training, wet weather practices and winter indoor cricket that can be used as one large space, or three lanes, including a bowling machine.

Eastbourne Cricket Club welcomes new members.

Please feel free to contact ECC Chairman on email [email protected]