150th Anniversary Celebration

This year, 2025, is Berkhamsted Cricket Club’s 150^th anniversary. We will be celebrating this major milestone with a year of events and activities concentrated on the summer. The aim for our celebration is to improve the town’s awareness and engagement with the Club as well as helping all our current and past members to feel proud to be associated with our Club. We would love to see more of our members and people from the town come down to the club to watch matches, enjoy our beautiful setting and sample the drinks and food on offer from the pavilion through our new partnership with Mad Squirrel Brewery.

As well as a full programme of League and Sunday matches for Men, Women and Juniors, we are hosting a number of special events as set out in the programme below (click on each event for more details):

Anniversary Programme 2025

Talk – A History & Celebration of Berkhamsted Cricket Club

12^th March, Wednesday, Town Hall, Wellcome Great Hall

BLHMS members free, non-Members £5, starts at 8.00pm

All other events to be held at Berkhamsted CC’s ground off Castle Hill HP4 1HE

Spot the Cricket Ball Competition
26th April to 2nd June
Open to all, free to enter

Six-a-Side Tournament

26^th May, Bank Holiday Monday

Open to all, starts at 10am

#FamilyFridays, T20 Matches, Food, Bar

Friday evenings from May to the end of July

Open to all, pavilion bar opens at 5:30pm, matches start at 6pm

U11 Girls’ cricket festival (years 5 & 6)

16th June, Monday

Open to all local U11 girls (schools to enter) and parents, starts at 10:30am

Members’ Family Fun Day, Cricket, Games, Food, All-day Bar

22nd June, Sunday

Open to all members, junior members and families, starts at 10am

Grand Reunion Day, Cricket, Music, Food, Bar

29^th June, Sunday

Open to all past and current members, friends and families, starts at 12:30pm

Berkhamsted Men’s XI and Women’s XI Matches v MCC

25^th July, Friday 

Open to all, match starts at 2:00pm, finish estimated at 9pm

In addition, to provide a lasting legacy from the 150^th Anniversary, we have a number of special projects underway:

• Completing a detailed history of the Club thanks to amazing efforts by the Berkhamsted Local History and Museum Society
• Set up a Digital Archive to capture all the photos, newspaper articles, scorebooks, histories and personal memories of members  so that they can be viewed at any time, from anywhere (and not just be limited to browsing the photos in the clubhouse)
• Establishing ourselves as a Disabilities Cricket Hub, making our sport available to all, regardless of ability, with the help of Herts Cricket and the ECB
• Adding some physical legacies such as a new flag pole, trees and benches to improve the facilities for watching cricket at our ground

We have set up a dedicated committee drawn from all parts of our club to help plan and organise our Anniversary and they are busy working to make sure 2025 is a year to remember. Start marking up your diary so you can be part of this major celebration; don’t miss out on any of these exciting events!

If you would like to attend the Grand Reunion event on June 29^th 2025, and have not received an invitation email, please click here to notify Peter Dudley of your interest