Present:            Matthew Stevenson, Murray Scott, David Peters, Andrew Amor

Apologies:         Tony Hewston, Simon Gooch, Rahul Punj, Satish Sharma, David Banner

Matters Arising From AGM

Matthew Stevenson said that the main point arising from the AGM was that David Banner, although re-elected as chairman for another year, has made it clear that he will not be able to take such an active role in the cricket section this year.  This is because he has taken on more responsibility as a director of CPSA.

Matters Arising From Previous Minutes

There has been no further progress on the 2001 subscription debtors: John Cooper, Richard Heath and Matthew Woods.  Mudo Ahmed, Rahul Punj and Asif Ahmed still owe £20 each for club shirts.  There is still one outstanding match fee, from the Sunday 1st XI match against Chipperfield; Saqib Ahmed said that he would forward a cheque for £21 to Murray Scott.  The outstanding £100 from the merger with Sir Ali has still not been paid into the club bank account.  Murray Scott said that he had sent Phil Noot cheques re the coaching courses for the two new colts managers.

Matthew Stevenson said that the first rugby social event had been a qualified success; there are four more planned over the next two months.  He also said that he had finally confirmed the date for the fixture, against a Club Cricket Conference President’s XI, to celebrate the opening of the new clubhouse: it is Friday, 9th August.

The Sunday 1st XI scorebook has still not been retrieved.  There has been no further progress on the ground work party or the advertising boards idea.  Andrew Amor said that he did not have accurate fielding statistics for the Sunday 2nd XI last season, so it was agreed that David Peters should be declared the winner of the David Eade award, for catches in 2nd and 3rd XI matches.

Treasurer’s Report

We have only a nominal sum of money in the cricket bank account.  Murray Scott pointed out that his previous offer to pay for the fixture booklets was no longer appropriate, because David Banner is going to do them himself, so he very kindly offered to pay for the cricket balls instead.  There was a discussion on how to present this year’s subscription charges.  Murray Scott suggested that it would be better to say it is £100, with a £10 discount for early payment, than to say it is £90, with a £10 surcharge for late payment; this proposal was accepted.

Ground Report

There has been no further progress re finding a groundsman for the 2002 season, because of the difficult financial position which CPSA is in at the moment (see previous minutes).

Fixtures Report

Matthew Stevenson said that the fixtures were now complete.  There is an action point on David Banner to produce the fixture booklets.

Cricket Report

There was a discussion about the opening day event on 20th April.  Murray Scott will speak to Bob Hance about posters to promote the event, the finger buffet for after the match and the disco.  David Peters is organising the engraving of the annual award trophies.  Murray Scott and Simon Gooch will liaise with Bob Hance re a poster for the pre season recruitment campaign.  Matthew Stevenson said that he would ask David Banner to speak to the Buckinghamshire Advertiser re some pre season publicity.

There was then a discussion about getting match reports into the local press, and also about the production of the weekly newsletter, which was such a success last season.  Matthew Stevenson said that he would take the action to find a press secretary for the 2002 season.  Given that we are also looking for a social secretary, this means that we have two important positions to fill as soon as possible.

Matthew Stevenson reported that the Thames Valley League had communicated two new rules for the 2002 season: there will be no fines for teams playing in Divisions 5A and 5B, and below; and, the ECB youth directives have now been incorporated into the league rules.

Any Other Business

It was agreed that future cricket meetings should ideally be held on the same evening as hockey meetings.  This is because opening the clubhouse and the bar is a significant chore, and it seems reasonable to share this duty with the hockey committee.  The next meeting will be on Wednesday, 13th March, starting at 8.00pm.