Cricket pair in line for national OSCA
Last updated 19:47, Thursday, 28 August 2008
TWO Workington Cricket Club members have picked up Cumbrian OSCAs – Outstanding Service to Cricket Awards.
Now Darren Wood and Nigel Clubley go forward to the national awards sponsored by NatWest bank.
Wood won the Cumbria Cricket Board’s Young Volunteer of the Year award and Clubley the Another Way award.
They will hope to emulate the club’s Steven Benson who previously went all the way to win the national OSCA for young volunteer.
The 2008 Cumbria Cricket Board OSCAs were presented at Keswick Cricket Ground.
Board member Malcolm Wood, of Workington CC, said: “Volunteers are the lifeblood of our game. Without them, cricket simply would not survive and the OSCAs are a small way of thanking our army of volunteers.”
Wood is involved at all levels of the Workington club.
He helps at winter training sessions at U11, U13 and U15 levels and is the U15 scorer.
Wood puts in a phenomenal amount of time behind the bar, serving most evenings, social functions and all first and second team fixtures as well as assisting with ordering and taking deliveries.
He was also heavily involved with NatWest Cricket Force 2008, renovating seating in the pavilion, replacing showers in the changing rooms and painting internal walls.
Now part of the club’s general committee, he is always the first to lend a hand with day-to-day tasks such as putting on covers, emptying bins and marking boundaries.
Clubley took the Cumbrian OSCAs Another Way award for his bright ideas and boundless energy.
He fulfils so many roles and executes so many tasks, it's difficult to find an area that he doesn't influence.
For the club he is press officer, website creator and manager, vice chairman, coach, barman and junior team manager.
He is also Cumbria Junior Cricket League secretary, organising 65 teams and more than 700 children playing cricket weekly, along with being their fixture and results secretary.
He also looks after the junior league’s website, liaising with schools over special events, and provides articles for four newspapers across Cumbria weekly.
On top of all that, Clubley is Cumbria Cricket League secretary and plays for the Workington-based British Steel side.
And he is relatively new to cricket, only coming to the club three years ago through his two children.
He is managing the club’s new scorebox project, pulling together commercial, voluntary groups and members to secure an affordable budget for the scheme.
l Workington Cricket Club could retain their North Lancashire & Cumbria League premiership title tomorrow depending on the outcome of their home game against Penrith and second-placed Cleator’s clash at Cockermouth.
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