United get Springs first up
It’s that time of the year again where local cricketers get kitted out in their whites for the new 2015/2016 Eastern Cricket Union season.
The first deliveries of the club cricket season will be bowled over the weekend of Saturday, October 3, and Sunday, October 4.
The union’s elite Premier League club competition always throws up engrossing encounters and following the release of the first half of fixtures by Easterns, cricket enthusiasts can expect nothing less this season.
This year’s 10-team Premier League sees the inclusion of the Boksburg Cricket Club after they won last season’s Promotion League.
Boksburg remains the only team from Easterns to have won a National Club Championship (NCC).
Llewellyn van Dyk, Easterns director of senior club cricket, confirmed the new changes to the league structure with the Herald on Monday.
Previously, the team that finished in the top spot would automatically pack their bags to represent Easterns at the NCC.
Now, however, the top-placed club will meet the winner of a play-off match between the second and third best teams in the league in a winner-takes-all final to secure a spot at the Club Champs.
Brakpan’s United Cricket Club will be looking to get off to the best possible start when skipper Justin Gamble’s men run out at Hosking Park A on Sunday, October 4, to play against the Springs Old Boys.
The club’s Promotion XI will begin their campaign on the B-field when they host another team from Springs Bakerton.
The Directors team will get proceedings underway on the C-field.
