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Much has changed in the Mid-Norfolk Sunday Cricket League as the league approaches an exciting new season.After extensive consultation with member clubs, the whole make up of the league has been altered.Out has gone the old pyramid structure to be replaced by a regionalised competition that will be ultimately be decided with Play-Offs at the end of the season.The Shield Super Stars' Championship Play-Off will be for the Elite Divisions

Grimston CC begun their 2023 season with a challenging fixture against last year’s champions, North Runcton.Having won the toss and elected to bat, Mark Tilbrook gave first-team debuts to two new faces – Dave Persey who has signed from Beaminster CC in Dorset, and Oscar Prescott in his first season of adult cricket.Adam Ward stood in as a last-minute replacement for Charlie Collison, who was injured having been kicked in

There was a clean sweep of wins for West Norfolk sides on the opening day of the new Norfolk Alliance Premier Division season.Reigning champions Fakenham demolished Cromer by 143 runs, North Runcton recorded a five-wicket triumph at Garboldisham and Downham Stow edged out Norwich by 13 runs.North Runcton won the toss and asked Garboldisham to bat and Ben Coote struck with his fourth ball, clean-bowling Leech for nought.In the second

Among the 1800 competitors who took to the streets of Lynn at the weekend for the annual GEAR event were almost 90 Ryston Runners.Matt Thrower’s 10k PB of 34.02 saw him take first place in the M40 category, while at the other extreme Mick Ennis took the M80 age group honours with 79:27.Will Chapman was the first Ryston finisher, placing an impressive third overall and second SM in the race

King's Lynn Town will host Kidderminster Harriers in Sunday's play-off semi-final at The Walks.Kidderminster came through their quarter-final clash at Alfreton with a 1-0 victory this evening.Amari Morgan-Smith scored the only goal of the tie at the Impact Arena with less than a minute on the clock.Kidderminster finished the regulation season sixth in the National League North standings. They recorded successive wins – one of which came at eventual champions

King's Lynn’s slow start at Ipswich on Bank Holiday Monday proved highly costly as they went down 52-38 in an eventful Foxhall clash.The MacInnes Stars conceded two 5-1s and two 4-2s in the opening four races in which there were all kind of incidents and action, leaving them a mountain to climb against the strongest spearhead in the Premiership.Emil Sayfutdinov raced to 15-point maximum for the Witches and Jason Doyle

Members of Renegade Runners were out in force at the Grand East Anglian Run in terms of runners and supporters dotted around the course.Leading the way for the group was Gavin Caney, who had the race of his life finishing in a new pb time of 33.51 to place sixth overall with an intelligent run.Dawn Henden was fourth lady overall just one second off of third and Dawn third in

Eighteen of West Norfolk AC’s finest athletes took to the roads last Sunday for the popular annual 10k challenge, with a further number representing in the Mini GEAR.Each year, thousands of runners gather to take part in the Recipharm Grand East Anglia Run (GEAR) 10k.The club was also represented in the Mini GEAR and this was open to children and adults of all abilities, and takes in a 1.9KM course,

West Norfolk race ace Jenson Sayell has a bright future ahead of him after linking up with a major racing team.Sayell has joined forces with the GearUp Racing after taking his Micromax Rotax kart to Cumbria at the weekend for rounds three and four of the SuperOne Series championship.GearUp drivers led the championship after the opening two rounds and continued that trend in rounds three and four after their drivers