Sunday 10th May 2026 Jumpers & Alarm Clocks After last weeks win over Barry West End, this week was the turn of Blaengarw to attack the fortress that is the home of cricket AKA Wick Village Green. The Blaengarw team are good bunch and even had a couple of Wick originals in their team – Chris …
Sunday 3rd May 2026 With rain once again calling games off across South Wales the previous day, Wick woke up to glorious sunshine over the village green as the boys looked to get back to winning ways after the defeat to Llantwit Major the previous weekend. With Captain Russ away on an under 11s rugby …
Sunday 26th April As the sun rose over the village green on Sunday, so dawned a new season of cricket and the weight of expectation after last year’s stellar season hung heavy in the air. With local clubs having seen pre-season games called off over the last few weeks, Wick had timed their curtain raiser …
What a season it’s been… 15 matches, 9 wins, 4 losses, 1 tie, 1 abandoned… and UNBEATEN on our Home turf! Winning 60% of our games – this is definitely a season to be written in stone. We wrapped things up in true Wick style at our Prize Giving – plenty of laughter (Amal was …
Sunday 7th September 2025 Wick CC travelled to Barry Island for the season finale against Barry West End; would it be a smash hit or a damp squib, the weather forecast hinted the latter, but the Wick season so far indicated the former. Wick assembled at the island, apart from, obviously, Gutsy and Amal. The …
Sunday 17th August 2025 Archaeological evidence suggests that there was settlement in Wick from around 1600BC when a small proto-Celtic community may have developed, since then the village has seen several interesting events; from being a focus for Viking invasions on the South Wales Coast to being the first community in the UK to switch over …
Sunday 10th August 2025 A return to the home of cricket for Wick this Sunday, just 3 days after the famous victory over F Troop, this time to play another of Wayne’s team – Bridgend. There was a flood concern – due to the amount of Wayne’s tears from Wednesday still flowing – but the …
Wednesday 6th August 2025 Wales and England, North and South Korea, Tom and Jerry, Wick and F-Troop. Just some of some of the great rivalries in the world today. Wick, having never beaten F-Troop were approaching the final mid-week match of the season with a healthy amount of trepidation, and seeing a few familiar faces …
Sunday 3rd August 2025 A rare Sunday away fixture this week for Wick – travelling to Blaengarw to play the return leg from our first fixture of 2025. Sunday morning awoke to rain fall and a million WhatsApp messages to Steve (fixture secretary) – is the game on? It’s raining? Will we be playing? Where’s …
Wednesday 23rd July 2025 Wednesday. Wick. Windy. When Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web, he didn’t expect that his www would become just as synonymous with village cricket in South Wales as it was to the internet. In overcast conditions, the knitwear was out in force as Wick take on our most local rivals, …
