Mini Sabres Cricket Club a great success

The Somerset Mini Sabres Cricket Club that was launched earlier this week was heralded as a great success by the organisers.

Fifteen budding young cricketers between the ages of three and five years old turned up for the first of the four one hour coaching sessions that will be held over the next few weeks at the Centre of Excellence at the County Ground in Taunton.

The sessions were run by Brian Hoyle and Guy Wolfenden from the Centre of Excellence and Somerset county cricketer Matt Bulbeck.

Guy Wolfenden told me; "We are very happy with the response that we have had for the Mini Sabres. The first session went very well indeed and all of the youngsters seemed to enjoy themselves."

He continued: "This week we concentrated on ball skills. We did some catching and some batting as well and we tried to make it fun for all of them. I was quite impressed with the level of skills that some of the minis showed, they were much better than I expected.We have some very talented four year olds in Somerset. Next week we will be moving onto bowling."

Somerset's Matt Bulbeck told me: "I certainly enjoyed working with the Mini Sabres and they all seemed to enjoy it as well."

Guy Wolfenden concluded: "In view of the response to the first four coaching sessions there are plans now that we will run the club on a termly basis.The level of interest surprised us all and in fact we may even have to have a waiting list for our future Mini Sabres sessions."

Anybody wishing to find out more about the Mini Sabres should contact Guy Wolfenden on 01823 352266