A village cricket club in the heart of rural Norfolk, our 1st team play on Saturdays in Division 4 of the Norfolk Alliance having won Division 1 of the Norfolk League in 2009. Our 2nd team play in Division 6 of the Norfolk Leaguewhilst for the first time, the 2010 season will see a third Saturday side play in Division 8 of the Norfolk League. On Sundays, our 1st team play in the Peter Parfitt Division 3 with our Sunday 2nd team playing in the Alf Mace Division 4 of the expanding Mid Norfolk Sunday League. We endeavour that those who don't play on a Saturday should play on a Sunday, thus guaranteeing that every member gets a game of cricket at the weekend.
During the season, we hold outdoor net practice on Thursday for adults and on Friday evenings for juniors at the ground and during the winter, hold regular indoor net practices at Wymondham Leisure Centre.
However, there's much more to Hardingham than just the cricket. The past couple of seasons have seen successful and popular end of season tours to such cricketing hotbeds as Cleethorpes, Hastings and Bournemouth that have provided great entertainment both to those who went on them, and to those who have heard stories about them!!! Rightly proud of the social side of our club, we hold popular and often quite riotous Start of Season/Mid Season/End of Season Social evenings at the club whilst our Annual Presentation Dinner held after the close of the season is a consistently popular, well attended and entertaining event.
If you're interested in what you've read about here, please have a look around the website to get a feel for what we're about as a club. We are always on the lookout for potential new players of any standard, as well as social members who want nothing more at the weekend than to watch some cricket with a drink in their hand. Contact names and numbers are available so if you're interested, then please get in touch.
Apart from the competitive standard of cricket that we play both on a Saturday and Sunday, and the very real emphasis on the social side of the game as well as the actual cricket, we are fortunate to have facilities right up there with the best in the Norfolk League.
Aside from the picturesque setting of our ground, these are a number of our other facilities:-
- An excellent/well prepared square; Dale Watson who we brought in at the start of the 2009 season has done a tremendous job on our square and 2009 saw excellent sporting wickets that gave encouragement to both batters and bowlers. Early indications for the 2010 season is that once again, the square is looking fantastic.
- Sightscreens at both ends of the square.
- A large and mostly even outfield.
- A very sound financial situation coming about mainly through our Licensed Bar.
- Two concrete Practice nets; both matting and the other a mobile net that allows us to have square practices during the season.
- Our own Shower Cabin.
- The clubs own bowling machine paid for by the club and for the use of the club members.
- Mobile wicket covers bought this season.
- Plans continue behind the scenes for new changing rooms hopefully to be started in time for the 2010 season.
(All records include only current Hardingham Players)
Highest Total
398-7 vs Eaton (1997)
366-3 vs Colney (1996)
Lowest Total
28 vs St Andrews (29/04/00 Away)
Biggest Victory
314 runs - Hardingham 398-7 vs Eaton 84 (1997)
Biggest Defeat
280 runs - Winterton 363 vs Hardingham 83 (2000)
Most Runs in a game involving Hardingham
601 - Hardingham 327-4 vs Belton 274-9 (31/7/99 Home)
Most Runs in a Season
Oli Howes - 1549 (2009)
Robbie Fowle - 1198 (2001)
Most Wickets in a Season
Stephen Burt - 52 (2009)
Jamie Fowle - 52 (2009)
Jamie Fowle - 50 (2008)
Most Catches in a Season
Carl Cowles - 30 (2001)
Most Ducks for Hardingham
Colin Watts - 31
Most Ducks in a Season
Steven Townshend - 7 (1999)
Most times Run Out for Hardingham
Jamie Fowle - 13
Robbie Fowle - 11
Most Expensive Over
30 - Robbie Fowle vs Old Buckenham (Home 24/8/00)
Most Expensive Bowling Spell
11-0-102-0 - Neil Harris vs Winterton (Away 2000) albeit including 5 dropped catches
Record Batting Partnerships
-1st wicket
260 - Mike Breame / Robbie Fowle (07/8/04 Norwich Union A Away)
-2nd wicket
227 - Mark Plunkett / Al Quinton (28/7/07 North Elmham Home)
-3rd wicket
247 - Robbie Fowle / Mike Breame (9/8/03 Wortwell Home)
-4th wicket
170 - Neil Harris / Robbie Fowle (23/7/05 Sprowston A Away)
-5th wicket
169 - Glenn Sheehan/Colin Watts (30/8/09 Rocklands Away)
-6th wicket
107 - Neil Harris / Carl Cowles (22/8/04 East Harling Home)
-7th wicket
55 - Stuart Meikle / Glenn Sheehan (21/6/03 Rackheath Home)
-8th wicket
92 - Jamie Fowle / Dave Oakley (5/9/09 Rocklands Home)
-9th wicket
114* - Alan Quinton / Jamie Fowle (18/7/99 Coddenham Home)
-10th wicket
50 - Jamie Fowle / Jerry Cheu-Sang (29/8/09 Hemsby Away)
Century Roll of Honour
-Robbie Fowle
106* - Loddon (Home 10/6/00)
100 - Kirkley (Home 6/8/00)
111* - Halvergate (Away 26/5/01)
139 - North Elmham (Home 22/7/01)
105 - Hales (Home 29/5/02)
110* - Wortwell (Home 9/8/03)
100 - Norwich Union A (Away 7/8/04)
110* - Belton (Home 29/4/07)
-Mike Breame
100* - Loddon (Away 19/7/03)
148 - Wortwell (Home 9/8/03)
140 - Norwich Union A (Away 7/8/04)
105* - Diss A (Home 13/8/05)
125* - CEYMS (Home 29/4/06)
136* - Diss A (Away 4/8/07)
113 - Old Catton (11/8/07)
-Stan Fowle
132 - Ashmanhaugh A (Home 21/6/96)
100 - Loddon A (Home 30/5/98)
-Carl Cowles
109* - Mundford (Home 13/7/03)
103* - Ashmanhaugh (Away 17/6/06)
- Neil Harris
128* - Cringleford Lodge (Away 28/5/06)
144* - Cringleford Lodge (Home 6/8/06)
- Jamie Fowle
124* - Cringleford Lodge (Home 6/8/06)
- Al Quinton
134 - North Elmham A (Home 28/7/07)
- Andy Cook
114 - Diss A (Away 4/8/07)
117 - Topcroft A (Home 25/8/07)
5 Wicket Roll of Honour
-Stan Fowle
5/56 - Old Yarmouthians A (Away 6/6/95)
5/39 - Watton A (Away 21/8/96)
5/24 - Bungay A (Home 16/5/97)
5/35 - Earlham Lodge A (Away 17/7/99)
6/12 - Lowestoft B (Away 3/6/06)
-Stuart Meikle
5/67 - Drayton A (Away 14/8/99)
5/35 - Winchesters (Away 27/5/01)
5/14 - North Elmham (Home 22/7/01)
5/3 - Old Catton (Home 3/6/06)
-Robbie Fowle
5/54 - Overstrand A (Home 21/8/99)
5/17 - Great Hockham (Home 7/5/00)
5/52 - Hales (Home 29/5/02)
5/42 - CEYMS (Home 29/4/06)
5/58 - Winterton (Away 13/5/06)
6/23 - Cringleford Lodge (Away 24/6/06)
5/59 - Ketteringham Hall (Home 29/7/06)
-Mike Breame
6/26 - North Elmham (Away 2/8/03)
5/20 - Wortwell (Home 9/8/03)
5/13 - Diss A (Home 2/6/07)
-Bryan Quinton
8/15 - Hales A (Away 9/5/98)
5/18 - Cringleford A (Away 28/8/99)
-Dave Oakley
6/67 - Cromer (Home 31/7/01)
6/34 - Loddon (Home 17/5/03)
5/46 - Hethersett (Away 14/7/07)
-Andy Edge
5/41 - Felthorpe A (17/7/97)
-Tim Ecclestone
5/8 - Holt Hall Select XII (Home 30/8/04)
-Colin Watts
5/21 - Terrington St Clements (Away 17/07/05)
5/25 - Bacton (Home 2/7/06)
Jerry Cheu-Sang
5/12 - Hales Colts (Home 12/5/06)
6/12 - Garboldisham B (Away 12/5/07)
6/23 - Lowestoft B (Home 4/8/07)
Andy Duckham
5/15 - Old Catton (Away 9/7/06)
Phil Matthews
5/18 - Lowestoft B (Home 5/8/06)
5/33 - Ashmanhaugh A (Home 19/8/06)
Chris Sparkes
5/39 - Diss A (Away 4/8/07)
Catching Roll of Honour
-Glenn Sheehan
3 - Garboldisham (10/6/01)
3 - Winchesters (27/5/01)
3 - Earlham Lodge A (17/7/99)
3 - Cringleford Lodge (20/5/00)
3 - Cringleford Lodge (24/6/06)
-Carl Cowles
3 - All stumpings Sprowston A (23/7/05)
3 - Anglians (27/4/03)
3 - Wortwell (7/6/03)
3 - Ketteringham Hall (18/8/01)
-Mike Breame
3 - Shipdham (16/8/03)
3 - Shipdham (5/5/07)
-Colin Watts
3 - Cromer A (03/07/05)
- Chris Hearn
3 - Wicklewood (13/7/06)
3 - Sprowston A (22/7/06)
3 - Winterton (13/5/06)
3 - (2 catches, 1 stumping) Hethersett (12/5/07)
5 - (4 catches, 1 stumping) Sprowston (26/5/07)
- Barney Goodrum
3 - Old Catton (11/8/07)
- Mark Plunkett
3 (All stumpings) Hockley (16/9/06)
3 (All stumpings) Lowestoft B (3/6/06)
3 - Hales Colts (18/8/07)
- Chris Raynor
3 - 2 catches, 1 stumping Ashmanhaugh A 19/8/06
4 - Rollesby (28/4/07)
- Jamie Fowle
3 - Blundeston Colts (25/8/07)
- Paul Anderson
3 - Bungay (20/5/07)
