Falmouth Cricket Club (CC) are ready and raring to go for the new cricket season which starts mid-April.

After a rough couple of years, with the pandemic affecting last years season and its unfortunate relegation to County One the year before, Falmouth CC have set their sites on promotion and record-breaking this year.

With the first game of the season away at Lanhydrock CC, Falmouth CC will be looking to get things off to a flying start on April 17 when the teams return to the field.

Mark Averiss, Chairman of the club said: "This season the aim is absolutely promotion and to break records.

"I’ve said to the guys to go out and break records. Don’t just get promoted, don’t just win the league but go out there and do it in some style.

"I don’t want us to limp over the line with the last game to go. We’re going to enjoy the cricket but also be ruthless and be positive and get back to where we belong.

"That ethos will be dragged through all of our teams, the second team got relegated three years ago to a league that they should really be in, they’re in division three whey should be in division two - they’ve been in County One before.

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"So with the numbers feeding up from the bottom, the fourth team is strong, out third team is strong so naturally all our teams should get stronger on paper.

"And for the club we want at least our first two teams getting promoted and even the third team is strong enough now to go up.

Alongside these ambitions, off the field, much has been done in order to prepare for the new season as well as expanding the clubs reach outside of its traditional cricketing community.

"It’s cricket, it’s a Marmite sport.

"People either love it or they don’t understand it and shy away from it and I think that’s why people might not be aware of us.

"We’re not on the main road, we’re quite hidden down a track but anybody within the cricket circles knows the ground and knows its one of the nicest in the county.

"To the locals, is there anything here for them if they don’t play cricket?

"They probably think not but actually there is because we have this club that can be used for pretty much anything.

"Community wise: we’ve got a scout troop, they are based here, this is their scout hit; the light house sowing club meet every Tuesday – retired ladies come to do their quilting and sowing; we’ve had conferences here; training days; the probation service bring the guys doing community service here to do work so community based we do a lot and we want to go further and invite people to come and use the place or book it."

The club has recently had new decking built in order to extend its social area in the hopes that this could attract people to use the ground for a wider variety of activities.

"This new decking area would cost thousands and thousands of pounds but the players have built it because they want to and they want to give back to the club.

"The club is 100% volunteer run, there’s no person paid in the club to do anything.

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"Everyone here does it because they want to. Someone asked me before ‘why do people want to play cricket at Falmouth when they could play elsewhere?’

"It’s because they love the club. They’ve come through the junior system.

"This new decking area would cost thousands and thousands of pounds but the players have built it because they want to and they want to give back to the club.

"So we’ve pretty much built the decking area and going forward we want to make it a bit more of a commercial enterprise maybe and have it open more often rather than just during the cricket season or for the dart evenings and just have it open so people can use the outdoor space and enjoy themselves.

"In the evenings if there’s no matches on the kids can run around on the grass, kick a ball around and it’s a safe environment – there’s no cars, no traffic, no water to fall in.

"We want to make it a wider appeal and get people to use it and enjoy it.

"This extended social area also increases out appeal to the wider audience in Falmouth, we’ve had birthdays, engagements and weddings here before but having this extra area outside is good.

"On top of that we’ve got dart teams that use it, we also have the Falmouth roadrunners – this is their home base and they’ve got in excess of 150 members.

"One of the reasons for extending our social area is so that they can finish up their run, sit down and have a drink whereas before they were sort of mixing with the players during training and during matches."