Andrew Lawton looks at how one Cornwall club is spreading its wings across the county.
Club, county and community. Those are the three words that the incoming chairman at Penzance Cricket Club wants to instil across the length and breadth of Cornwall.
Neil Tregarthan has already ploughed over £200,000 into the club which has a duo of former first-class cricketers in Brad Wadlan and Greg Smith leading things from a cricket perspective.
But the ambitions of Penzance CC seem to stretch far beyond just a 22-yard wicket and an outfield – they’re looking to grow throughout the wider town and the rest of Cornwall. The famous Lashings touring team will be visiting the St Clare ground on July 26, in a bid to attract new fans and players to this fast-developing club.
Penzance, formed in 1829, will be hosting Cornwall versus Herefordshire in the Minor Counties Championship on the final weekend of July.
The nearest Cornwall gets to first-class cricket remains Somerset, but they are two and a half hours away in Taunton so such events are seen as crucial to developing the game locally.
It’s all part of a major project to expand and grow the club, according to first-team captain Wadlan, who has been playing for Cornwall for two years.
This story is from the March 24,2017 edition of The Cricket Paper.
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