WINTER nets at Peppard Stoke Row Cricket Club begin at the Oratory School on Sunday, and they are urging anyone new to the area or who is keen to return to the game to attend.

The club’s 1sts, 2nds and 3rds finished as runners-up in the Berkshire League Premier, Division Two and Division Four in 2016, and they are hoping to improve on those results in the coming summer.

There are also two Sunday sides – one of which will compete in the National Village Cup in 2017 – midweek Twenty 20 cricket on Wednesdays and Fridays and a junior set-up which has more than 160 members playing from Under 6 to U19. A girls team was also created in 2016.

The club is running their first pre-season tour to Warwickshire in late April, and are hopeful that their 1sts and 2nds can join the Thames Valley League as it potentially expands in 2018.

They are committed to creating a 4th team to play in the Berkshire League that summer, a competition which rated the club’s ground as the best in 2016.

Nets run from 1pm to 2pm for seniors, 2pm to 3pm for U15 and U13s, and from 3pm for U11s and below.