The Beamer

Kyle Quartermaine It’s fair to say Narberth’s Kyle Quartermaine is not a big fan of Carew. Anyone who follows his Twitter feed can attest to that. A couple of weeks ago he was lambasting them on the social media platform calling them all of the names under the sun following an ill-tempered league fixture and this week, he backs it up with a scintillating performance with the bat to help his team beat the Rooks in the Harrison-Allen cup. David Lovell used to say ‘sledge me if you’re good enough’ and after those tweets (which led to County Chairman Paul Webb tweeting ‘easy Kyle’) Carew would have been forgiven for giving him a send off had he failed against them in the cup. He didn’t. This time he let his cricket do the talking in what could possibly be the most exciting game of the season so far. According to some well respected judges, Quartermaine is a proper player; a batsman of style, substance, power and flair. A player of colour if you will, someone who can light up a ga...

Second week of May, we’re about to start our fourth league fixture and yet it feels as though the season has yet to move out of first gear. Last weekend aside the weather hasn’t helped and neither has the fact that the football and rugby seasons seem to be never ending leading to fixture clashes and player unavailability. If the Welsh Rugby Union have their way this will happen more often as plans are afoot to move the junior rugby season from a winter to summer sport in the belief it will encourage more people to play the game. If it did move, and the talk is that in Pembrokeshire this will definitely happen, it will have a huge impact on our summer game. The fear is such that high ranking Cricket Wales officials have already met with Welsh Rugby Union bigwigs including former Grand Slam winning skipper and all-round Welsh hero Ryan Jones to try and thrash out some form of agreement. I’m not sure what the outcome of those talks were but it seemed constructive enough with Cricket Wales...

Brad McDermott Jenkins. According to him he'll be batting with MS Doni soon! Name. Ryan Davies What Team are you leading into Battle? Herbrandston Where did you finish last year? 3rd in division three. Any new players? Leigh Marchant (hasn’t been playing for 5 years.) Any players left the club? Not at the moment, but there are rumours. What are your hopes for the coming season? Getting 11 players every week Apart from you, who else could win your division? Carew 2nds What are you most looking forward to this season? Having less rain than the winter What are you least looking forward to this season? Trying to get 11 players to Laugharne in time for an Alan Brown game If the league title was determined by the quality of teas produced, who would win your division? Carew Name. Phil Cockburn  What team are you leading into battle? St ishmaels 1st team   Where did you finish last year? 4th  Any new players? Signed Jack and Harry Nicholas from Herbrandsro...

Aled and Tom Davies When Aled Davies took the tenth Kilgetty wicket to fall during a division one league game last season no-one knew it at the time but it would be the last wicket he would ever take in an illustrious career. With the 2018 cricket season almost upon us, few would have bet against the quality all-rounder taking more over the coming months yet instead, the flags are flying half mast in his memory. His illness was known about in Carew circles although his passing has still come ‘as a bolt out of the blue’ according to the Rook’s cricket secretary Nick Scourfield. At 55 there was still cricket in him. He will always be known as a Carew cricketer although his first forays into Pembrokeshire cricket came in Cresselly colours where he joined his brothers Ceri and Gari in making up part of the first team. In 1990, all three defected to Carew a move that caused ripples at the time yet for Aled it was a move that made sense given he was dating Wendy at the time who is...

The worst kept secret in Pembrokeshire cricket was made public on Thursday (Feb 22) when Cresselly announced via Twitter that Daniel Sutton would be joining them for the forthcoming campaign. Last season’s best batsman by a distance, he’ll be joining up with a team that already boasts an impressive lineup of capable willow wielders and will more than likely open up the innings with Adam Chandler, a magnificent player in his own right. Sutton scored 936 runs in league cricket last season, add that to Cresselly’s team total of 2579 and that would have amounted to 742 runs more than Whitland, last season’s top team run gatherers. He virtually carried Johnston's batting on his own and his departure will leave a gaping hole in a line up that was already depleted after Steven Mills moved up to the South Wales Premier League. Take his runs off Johnston's team total and they would have scored just 1775 moving them from second in the run gathering table to second from bottom. ...

If league titles were determined by the most number of runs scored or wickets taken the division one table would have looked like this. Runs Pld For Whitland 18 2773 Johnston 18 2711 Cresselly 18 2579 Lawrenny 18 2511 Neyland 18 2457 Carew 18 2174 St Ishmaels 18 2085 Kilgetty 18 1978 Haverfordwest 18 1975 Pembroke 18 1722 Wkts Pld Taken Neyland 18 143 Carew 18 139 Cresselly 18 135 St Ishmaels 18 132 Haverfordwest 18 119 Whitland 18 106 Lawrenny 18 93 Kilgetty 18 92 Johnston 18 90 Pembroke 18 67 Division Two Total Runs Pld For Burton 18 2759 Saundersfoot 18 2596 Llangwm 18 2572 Stackpole 18 2464 Haverfordwest II 18 2329 Llechryd 18 2307 Carew II 18 2291 Narberth 18 2229 Whitland II 18 2216 Llanrhian 18 1952 Total Wkts Pld Taken Llangwm 18 151 Narberth 18 148 Burton 18 129 Saundersfoot 18 120 Stackpole 18 119 Llechryd 18 118 Carew II 18 110 Whitland II 18 109 Haverfordwest II 18 108 Llanrhian 18 79 Division Three ...