Milan Cricket
Club - 28th Anniversary Year
Founded 1972
Honorary
member of the
Federazione
Cricket Italia
The home ground is slightly
outside Milan in Grandola between Menaggio on Lake Como and Porlezza on
Lake Lugano.
Club Profile
Milan Cricket Club was
formed in 1972 by an intrepid group of UK expatriates,some of whom still
play for the club. The club played its first match in June 1972 against
Geneva. The club basically plays friendly matches against a variety of
other clubs, some within Italy but mostly from surrounding countries such
as France, Switzerland and Germany. We play most Saturdays and Sundays
from April through to October, except that usually there is nothing in
August because everyone's away on holiday.
We cater for a wide
range of players from different countries and with varying cricket abilities.
At present it happens that most are ex UK but there are also some members
from India, Sri Lanka, and even Italy!
Although it helps
to have had some experience of playing cricket, the most important qualities
are a love of the game,and of the friendly competitive spirit, as well
as enjoying the "apres match" as much as the game itself.
If you are interested
in playing for us or bringing a team to play us,
go to the fixture
list page and call or send us a fax or an Email.
Fielding practice
1998
Fixtures are usually
on a weekend basis where typically the team and any supporters gather at
lunch time on the Saturday and play the first game against the opposing
side on the Saturday afternoon. Then drinks and dinner in the evening are
perhaps followed by a modestly priced overnight hotel stay before the players
meet up again on Sunday morning to play the "return game " which is usually
finished by around 4.00 p.m. in the afternoon allowing people time to get
back to Milan, whether from the home ground in Grandola or the many exotic
away locations.
The home ground
is basically a meadow in the middle of a beautiful mountain setting with
a stream running through which acts well as a beer cooler, if it's not
the dry season. The facilites are a little bit rural and the outfield tends
to encourage aerial hitting to accumulate runs fast.This season we have
a slight blot on the landscape, courtesy of the farmer who owns the land,
who has built a multi story cowshed on what used to be the parking
and reserve BBQ area (see photo foreground, the area in front of the stream)
and cut back the only tree giving shade in the hot June/July months.
Parking is a bit tricky and the building site intrudes a little, but it
might provide some shelter in wet weather and if we can incorporate a white
site screen in one of the walls,it will look more like a cricket ground.
We hope that everybody,whether
Milan or opposition, will continue to think the journey well worthwhile
and, win or lose,that the game and the ambience, more often than not accompanied
by hot sunny weather, make it an enjoyable way to spend the weekend. |