Chalke Valley Cricket Club and the Kent Spitfire have become surprising partners as they launch a nationwide competition for a lucky winner to have a private aerobatic display by this most iconic of wartime aircraft at a time and place of their choosing. The competition aims to raise money to send the Spitfire to Arnhem [...]

The rain may have disrupted the tour and the wet weather may not be what most people want in summer, but it is proving a Godsend for the new ground in Bowerchalke.  It was quite a gamble seeding the outfield and square mid-summer but clearly someone is smiling on our initiative, because almost from the [...]

Chalke Valley Cricket Club are poised to begin a national fund-raising competition in which the winner will get a private aerobatics display by a war-time Spitfire – a prize that we believe is unique and one of its strongest selling points.  As well as raising money for the New Ground Appeal, the competition enable the [...]

Some strange things emerged from the Chalke Valley’s 2009 tour:  Dan Warman’s catching, for example, Harry Hitchings’ dance routines, David Brown’s…ten-pin bowling skills.  Certainly, there are certain images that will endure from the Valley’s visit to the Isle of Wight last weekend. It was the second rain-affected tour in a row in which the cricket [...]

As Chalke Valley prepare for their annual tour – this year to the Isle of Wight – the mid-week forecast suggests there may well be a sense of deja vu amongst the tour party by Saturday lunchtime.  Despite an incredibly dry May and June, it seems the Valley have once again chosen one of the [...]

There’s been a chant doing the rounds at Hatch Field this year: ‘No-one comes to the Valley…and wins.’  And until Tuesday night’s encounter with Berwick St James that proud boast held true.  But Berwick are a hard team to beat these days, especially when they have Hampshire Under 19 players amongst their number.  Indeed, the [...]

Sometimes a batting side simply has one of those days – England, for example, in Jamaica in early February, when they were inexplicably all out for fifty-one.  For the rest of the test series, West Indies failed couldn’t bowl them out.  Chalke Valley have been breaking all records with their batting this season and yet [...]