Crickby for the Rifles

Verwood is holding a crickby match at Potterne Park to help raise funds for the Rifles Benevolent Fund.

The annual cricket match is played to celebrate the hand-over of the rugby ground to the town’s cricket side for the summer season.  Now dubbed a crickby match, it is a twenty-over game between Verwood’s cricket and rugby players.

In addition to crickby there will be a very special football match organised through the initiative of Verwood Town Football Club and that of Mrs Karen Charman-Allen whose son, Phil, died whilst serving in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province last November.

The footballers will play a team from Phil Allen’s Rifles regiment. The proceeds from all the day’s activities will go towards the Rifles Benevolent Fund which was set up to help injured soldiers and the families of those killed in action and to which Mrs Charman-Allen has set herself the target of raising £10,000.

The day will be very much a family day out and everyone is invited to bring along picnics and enjoy the crickby, which – if it’s anything like last year’s game - will be exciting right through to the final ball. This will be followed by the soccer game on the main football pitch.

So for a great day out join the fun at Potterne Park at noon on Saturday 1 May.