Cricket Christmas Present

If you are looking for a Christmas present for your cricketing friends or adversaries, you could do worse than consider the Threlkeld CC Extreme Cricket Calendar for 2014, currently available at www.rainstoppedplay.org

Threlkeld CC In Action

Not only is the calendar a good laugh including ludicrous scenes such as games played beneath the River Derwent, on the Mosedale Railway Viaduct and over Honister Slate Mine, you would be supporting a good cause as Threlkeld's ground was completely devastated by a landslip during a flash flood in June 2012.  According to rainstoppedplay.org :  "Tonnes of gravel, rubble and toxic silt were deposited on large parts of the ground, especially the square. The water course drained old lead mine workings upstream and as a result the silt was laced with lead, arsenic and cadmium." Not only does all the debris need clearing, so does the whole of the topsoil because of the resulting contamination.

Older Shipwrecks who have retained their lucidity may also have fond memories of playing at Threlkeld during our epic 2002 tour of Cumbria. The author of this blog certainly does, as he took advantage of the hosts' youthful bowling attack and short boundary to compile a soft fifty, following up with another at Baggrow to make it two in two days  - an extremely rare historical event only previously achieved in 1973.

You can buy copies of the full calendar for £11.99 including UK postage.