Category: Modbury CC News

Sunday’s match against Ugborough had most of the essential ingredients of proper village cricket: warm sunshine, a brisk wind, sharp catching, brave batting, one or two wounded hands, and a tea that may yet be mentioned in parish records. The result, alas, went Ugborough’s way by 10 runs, but the afternoon offered plenty for Modbury…

It was one of those cloudy but perfectly serviceable Devon evenings: warm enough for cricket, grey enough to make one look with suspicion towards the heavens, and with just enough fading light later on to make batting feel less like a sport and more like an eye test conducted at speed. Modbury welcomed Harberton CC…

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As the new season stirs into life, Modbury Cricket Club has seen a little reshuffle in the committee room — all perfectly civilised, with no raised voices and only the faintest rustle of paperwork. After many years of sterling service, Phil Smith has stepped down as Club Secretary. Phil has been a steadfast hand on…

There is, dear reader, a certain electricity in the village air. One detects it in the lengthening evenings, in the hopeful glances toward the square, and in the unmistakable feeling that the cricket bag, having slumbered all winter in a state of noble neglect, may soon be called into active service. Yes — the first…

Tis the season for holly and Christmas pud, but the powers that be at Modbury Cricket Club have been hard at work on this year’s fixture list. See the full list below, and it can be found in the fixtures list of the website. Here’s to a summer with sun, large tea’s, and maybe the…

The Modbury CC Season of 2025 Another summer gone, another scorebook closed, and Modbury CC emerge with six wins, seven defeats, and the vague air of men who have fought the good fight and mislaid the map halfway through. Draws, of course, are for the faint of heart — and Modbury were never going to…

It was one of those genial Devon afternoons when even the clouds seemed content to loiter as idle spectators. The sun shone in a well-mannered fashion — warm but not sweltering — while a lazy breeze wandered across the ground, carrying with it the scent of freshly baked Monte Carlo biscuits and the faint promise…

If ever a day was made for cricket of the most farcical variety, it was Sunday: hot, humid and close — the sort of oppressive weather that makes even the sturdiest flannels cling in awkward places. Think more Tropics than Totnes. South Brent arrived to face a Modbury side buoyed by recent successes but soon…

With no opposition willing to face the wrath and erratic seamers of Modbury CC this weekend – the Committee (after a short but meaningful debate over who’d forgotten to arrange the fixture) declared a ‘pairs’ match instead. There was no tea, barely any sun, and several confused bystanders —but, by Jove, was there fun. Opening…