If you think cricket and Milton Keynes, you might not have heard of Great Horwood Cricket Club, a thriving village club which has been in existence for more years than people can remember. It moved to its current site on Nash Road Great Horwood at the roundabout on the A421in 1962. At this stage there was only one team playing friendly games at weekends and the changing rooms consisted of the old Swanbourne Railway Station Waiting room which became available courtesy of Sir Thomas Beecham’s closure of that station as part of his reduction on national rail services.

Today, the clubhouse has been extended and modernised to its current position which includes a bar, large changing rooms and showers as well as umpires’ facilities.

The Club has two Saturday league teams playing in the Oxfordshire Cricket Association and a midweek team in the Buckingham & District League. In addition to this, there is a third Saturday team and a Sunday team both playing friendly fixtures. The Club also has a Ladies team who regularly play friendly fixtures on Sunday mornings and the Club hosts a highly successful Ladies Six-a-Side tournament which this year is on 8 June.  The club runs a Village 20:20 competition and this, alongside the ladies competition, attracts teams from around the area including Brackley, Gerrards Cross and, closer to home, Thornborough and Marsh Gibbon.

Visitors to these events and any other matches are welcome to come along to the Club and make use of the facilities including the bar. Whenever we have paid a visit oursleves, whether it was to enjoy a pint whilst watching a midweek game after a hard day’s work, or to enjoy a barbeque at the weekend, it has always been immediately obvious that GHCC is a very family oriented club. Consequently, it encourages children to come along and their junior section now has over sixty members (both boys and girls) from 8 years to 15 years old.

Anyone interested in joining the Club can contact the club secretary whose details are available on this website www.greathorwoodcc.com. Surprisingly, male playing membership is only £40 per annum. If you pay on time, you’ll even get a discount! Junior membership is £15 per annum. If you’re not in a position to play yourself, why not do what we do, and get yourself down to watch a game and simply relax in the summer sun? Social membership is just £10 and new members are always made to feel welcome and you’ll feel part of the club straight away.

Overall, GHCC is a very friendly, family oriented cricket club in a lovely setting and well worth a visit in the summer.