Blackheath (Surrey) Cricket Club

I Sam Behn receives one of his three awards In a year when our young players truly came into their own, Sam Behn came away as the biggest winner from a hugely enjoyable awards night in the pavilion on Saturday. The teenage all-rounder picked up not just the Alan Ward Man of the Match Tankard for his 78 and 5-32 against Oakley in the National Village Cup, and the Francis Hayes Cup for the bowler of the season, but also the Alan Hall Cup for the overall 1st XI player of the ye

Here it is. The movie that tells the story of our Big Day Out at Lord's, the journey to get there and what happened on the day, told from a variety of different viewpoints. Many thanks to all those who submitted video clips and photos for this. In the end I was blown away to have almost 4000 pieces of media to choose from, so apologies if yours isn't one of the ones that made the final cut. If yours did make it then you'll find that I have credited all the relevant people in

The last match has been played, the whites have been put away for another winter, and all that remains is the presentation of end of season awards. And what a season it has been … 2026 will always be remembered as the (first?) year our Men’s 1st XI reached a national final at Lord’s, and much has already been written – most of it by the inimitable Graham Webb – about how we got there. As for what happened when we did, Graham has gone one better and produced a minor master

“I’m playing cricket in the morning, Ding dong, Lord’s Bell is going to chime. Pull out the stopper, let’s get a chopper, But get me to the ground on time!” (with apologies to Lerner and Loewe, composers of My Fair Lady) UPDATE What started almost as a joke, then became an appeal for funds within Blackheath Cricket Club, has ended up as a nationwide news story, covered by the BBC, The Times, the Sunday Telegraph, Test Match Special and other radio stations. Donations have

While the Blackheath Men's 1st XI prepare for their National Village Cup Final at Lord's on 6th September, for the Blackheath Women, Lord's is coming to them! Tomorrow evening (Thursday 20th August at 5.30pm) they host an MCC Women's XI in a match that marks a big step forward for our club. Very few women's club sides get a fixture against a team from cricket's HQ, and this honour reflects the huge strides that they have made this season. If you fancy an hour or two in tomorr

England's brown and pleasant land. Blackheath Cricket Week August 2026. A review of Cricket Week 2026 A cricket club such as ours is nothing without its history and traditions, its characters and personalities, its stories and legends, but every tradition and every legend has to start somewhere and very often our annual Cricket Week is that place. In recent years the focus of the club has rightly moved more and more towards its junior section and the family atmosphere of Frid

Team, supporters, and Billie... Nobody panic, but in this most extraordinary of summers little Blackheath, with it’s quirky tree-in-the-middle village cricket ground, it’s “This Way, That Way” road sign, its 200 residents, and its “No not that Blackheath, you’re in the wrong county you idiot!” instructions to delivery drivers, has reached the national final of our nation’s summer sport. Our team is going to play at the home of world cricket, Lord’s! It’s been quite some journ

View from the pavilion at the Nairobi Club, home of the Kenya Kongonis A few months ago, I emailed everyone about the opportunity be part of a very special cricket tour: a pre-season tour to Kenya in March 2027 to help celebrate the centenary of the Kenya Kongonis. There was interest in principle from quite few Blackheath players in joining the tour, but the original tour program was a highly ambitious one, involving being away for more than 2 weeks. In the light of feedbac

The Melhuish brothers lead the victorious team from the field The dream is still alive! From the many hundreds of villages from all over the country who entered teams in the National Village Cup back in January, Blackheath (population 200) is now one of just four still remaining in the competition, and we are just one win away from the final at Lord’s. 29 years after the club last reached the quarter-final stage, our young team – including 3 teenagers and 8 who came thro

As the heatwave of 2026 extends its grip the outfield at Blackheath may be turning an alarming shade of brown, but our prospects in the National Village Cup continue to be pink and rosy. Despite our first-ever victory in Kent a couple of weeks ago we started the Round of 16 tie at home on Sunday 5th July as underdogs. Thanks to our amazing junior section and its production line of talent this is probably the strongest Blackheath side there has ever been, but with 4 teenagers,