Welcome to the Sissinghurst Cricket Club Junior Section. We run a comprehensive hardball and softball cricket programme for boys and girls from Under 9 to Under 18 which is fully accredited by the ECB.
Established some ten years ago we now have over 120 junior members. All our age groups are managed and coached by ECB qualified and DBS compliant coaches which creates a real consistency to our programme through a player’s informative years.
Pre-season nets, for our hardball cricketers from Under 11’s to Under 18’s usually start in late January on a Sunday evening in the Cranbrook School sports hall. The outdoor season commences in late April with Sunday morning coaching sessions and a full programme of League, Cup and Festival cricket for both our boys and girls. All our older members are encouraged to participate in our Senior teams on either a Saturday or a Sunday.
Our coaches and administrative teams are all volunteers who give up a huge amount of their free time to make our Junior Section one of the best in Kent. We are fully inclusive and try our very best to offer cricket to all levels of ability. That being said we are hugely proud of all our members who achieve Area and County level representation and make no excuses for the fact that our teams play in competitive League and Cup competitions.
Full information on our Mission Statement, Core Values and Membership etc can be found in the links below.
Please enquire, by email, for availability before completing the Membership Form.
Simon Latham – Head of Junior Cricket
A Welcome to the 2024 Junior Season
Welcome to Sissinghurst Cricket Club (SCC) Juniors 2024 season.
First and foremost, well done to all our returning Junior members who have participated in the pre-season net sessions. Many thanks go to Liam Cook and our friends at Benenden School for allowing us to use their sports hall for both the Girls and the Boys groups, we are sure everyone has benefitted from some excellent sessions.
This season will be a largest yet with 9 teams playing regular fixtures across the boys’ and girls’ sections. We have over 50 fixtures in league and cup competitions, organised through the Weald of Kent, offering lots of opportunity to play competitive cricket at Sissinghurst and at other venues in the Kent countryside. These will be supplemented by the U9’s Kwik Cricket, the Girls Softball Festivals, and the Kent80 Competition so much to play for.
Summer Sunday morning training starts on Sunday 28th April (weather permitting) at the club, with our coaches busily preparing their sessions. We have added Adam Brownlee, Argie Taylor, Nick Snoek, Giles Robinson, and Toby Vallance to the boys coaching group and very excitingly Viv Stewart and Emma Bullen to the Girls Coaching Group. Viv and Emma become our first ever female coaches which is fantastic, thank you both. The coaching group is now 18 strong all of whom will have completed the ECB Foundation Level 1 Course by the time the season starts. We are very much the envy of many clubs across the region. As always, they will be brilliantly supported by Christina Dyas as Head of Administration, Amanda Agar as our Welfare Officer, and Graham “Digger” White and his ground staff.
In addition, we will be supported by our growing relationship with Benenden School. The school has some very serious ambitions for its cricket programme much of which will benefit the Club as we move forward. Of course, all of this costs money so please can you ensure that Annual subs are paid without delay. All the relevant information, about membership eligibility and the payment of subs, can be found in the JNR Information Sheet on the website.
As we remind you each season ALL junior members (boys and girls) must have an official SCC playing shirt which can be acquired from the Club Shop on the website. To ensure you have the shirt for the beginning of the season please place your order as early as possible. There are no changes to the shirt designs this year so if you acquired a shirt last year there is no need to replace it unless it is too small. We are however conscious that the shirt design will be updated in 2025 so please do ensure, should you have shirts that are now too small, that you let the Club know so they can re swapped or re-circulated.
Please do use the updated website it is a great source of both news and information.
Full details on the coaching groups and times for training can be found in the JNR Information Sheet in the Junior Section on the website. Along with our brilliant net cages the Club has invested a significant amount in replacing the old portable “roll on, roll off” net cage which will further aid our coaching sessions. As with last year all fixtures will be listed on the Spond App so please make sure you re-familiarize yourself with the App.
Finally, may I wish Lewis Clift and Ben Stinton, as our new Heads of Boys and Girls Cricket, the very best of luck for the season ahead. You have a fantastic team around you which I am certain will provide all the necessary support to make the season hugely successful.
Simon Latham – Chairman of SCC.
Lewis Clift – Head of Junior Boys and Ben Stinton – Head of Junior Girls
