Essex County Cricket League Premier Division champions Scintilla CC are supporting Dementia Awareness Week. The team posed for a picture with their Dementia Friends badges and information leaflets to highlight the cause. Club Captain Ahmed Choudhury said: “Dementia affects young ...

Emdad Rahman Barking & Dagenham-based Scintilla CC have won the CADFA Cup 2015. In an energy packed tournament, Scintilla found themselves facing partner club Stepney CC in the final. Stepney were playing in their first ever tournament and were grandly ...

Street cricket raises awareness of good causes Emdad Rahman The historic Kia Oval provided the venue for a community street cricket tournament for young players in London. Adults and youngsters came together as six teams battled it out to be ...

Giles Clarke, Chair of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), has pledged the ECB’s full support for the UNICEF appeal fund in aid of the Pacific island of Vanuatu which has been devastated by Super Cyclone Pam. UNICEF has ...

Emdad Rahman In their first competitive game Scintilla Cricket Clubs youth team proudly flew the flag for Barking & Dagenham as they stormed into the semi finals of the Essex East London Colts Indoor Cricket League at Forest Gate Community ...

Mike Marqusee, an author who combined a passion for sport with an equally strong devotion to equality, died on 13th January in St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney. Born in the USA, Mike came to the UK to go to university ...

Emdad Rahman interviews England Blind Cricket star Mahomed Khatri. With the senior team toiling in Sri Lanka, it has been left to the England Blind Cricket Team to raise the banner aloft for England. A magnificent tournament saw Matt Dean’s ...

Matt Dean: “I’m confident that England will put on a good show at the World Cup” Interview by Emdad Rahman Matt Dean is in a confident mood. The right handed batsman has been playing blind cricket for over a decade ...

Emdad Rahman Scintilla Cricket Club has been presented with the Essex County Cricket League Premier Division Trophy. Senior team members combined to acknowledge their combined success. All teams were invited by the league organisers for dinner and the presentation ceremony. ...

Emdad Rahman The English Cricket Board has announced the shortlist for the twelfth annual NatWest Outstanding Service to Cricket Awards. BBC Commentator Jonathan Agnew will host an esteemed event of 400 guests next week, which will see eight OSCAs presented. ...