CRICKET: Batting Frailties Exposed As Short Season Ends
By Ian Gillespie Hastings Priory finished the truncated 2020 season with a resounding 135-run defeat by local rivals and group winners Eastbourne at Horntye Park in their final August Cup fixture on 29th August. The result sent Hastings to the…
CRICKET: Priory Come Up Short
East Grinstead 201 for 8; Hastings & St Leonards Priory 192 After victory over Mayfield by one wicket in an opening friendly last month, then a 9-run win over Hayward’s Heath on 1st August in the first August Cup match…
CRICKET: Over And In But No Match Teas
Although the England team’s Test match series with the West Indies was already set to go ahead, Boris Johnson told the House of Commons on 23rd June that it was too risky to raise the curtain on club cricket. “The…
CRICKET: Back To The Middle
Amateur sport of any kind is still only allowed nationally under the conditions of the coronavirus pandemic if it involves a gathering of no more than six players and there is no close contact between any of them. But those…
CRICKET: Precarious Champions
Hastings & St Leonards Priory completed their eleventh and twelfth victories of the summer over the past two Saturdays to win the Sussex League Division 2 title and secure promotion back to the ECB Premier League. Precariously placed after early…
CRICKET: Priory Set For Divisional Title
Lindfield 176 ( overs)Hastings & St Leonards Priory 178 for 7 ( overs) Hastings & St Leonards Priory enjoyed a day of success on a number of fronts last Saturday. At Horntye Park they bowled visitors Lindfield out for 176,…
CRICKET: Priory Look For Travelling Support
After a thrilling denouement to the match against Division Two promotion rivals Haywards Heath at Horntye last weekend, Hastings & St Leonards Priory hope to bus supporters to watch their last two away games - at Burgess Hill tomorrow (Saturday)…
CRICKET: Priory Maintain Winning Run
Sussex League Division Two leaders Hastings and St Leonards Priory have opened up a gap of 11 points over nearest challengers Haywards Heath and 29 over third-placed Billingshurst after two excellent but contrasting victories in the last fortnight. On 13th…
CRICKET: Priory Ladies Make A Game Of It
Hastings & St Leonards Priory Ladies 136 for 1; St Peters, Brighton 137 for 1 Hastings & St Leonards Priory Ladies cricket team suffered their second defeat of the season on 16th June when they lost to St Peters, Brighton, in…
HORNTYE: Cricket, Hockey Clubs Stay Put
A year ago it all looked so promising. The directors of Hastings United FC and trustees of the Horntye estate were proceeding with a joint venture to sell off their respective existing sports grounds for housing development in exchange for…