Young Players of Scintilla Cricket Club were bowled over by the hospitality of the Mayor of Barking & Dagenham, Cllr Nirmal Gill when they visited his parlour. The players and guests were served traditional English tea and cakes by the Mayor to celebrate the positive contribution made by the club in the community.
The cricket club based in Barking and Dagenham were invited by The Mayor to celebrate their continued success in the last five years at competitive level. The senior team has won three titles and two runners up and the latest one being the champion of Essex County Cricket League Division II. In each year the club has gained promotion in their respective leagues and produced some outstanding results against already established clubs such as Barking and Goresbrook. During the league's award ceremony, the club also picked up individual accolades: Highest run scorer Ekram Chowdhury who scored well over 700 runs with two centuries, highest wicket taker Rafi-Ur Rahman with over 30 wickets.
The Mayor also congratulated Scintilla CC for their outstanding work with young people during the summer holidays. Over the last three years the club worked in partnership with London Borough of Barking and Dagenham to hold three consecutive summer camps. It is noteworthy that, Scintilla CC is the only club who responded to the Council's call for cricket development during summer holidays since 2008. These summer camps proved to be a very successful scheme for aspiring cricketers aged 8-16. Around 100 participants have graduated from the camps and at last year's scheme, 15 players were selected to take part in street cricket project, which is supported by the ECB. During the event, the Mayor presented Reece Green and Sam Wood with trophies for their hard work and great improvement since graduating. Councillor Rocky Gill, Lead Member for Children and Young People spoke very highly of the club's commitment and effort to engaging with young people. Councillor Milton McKenzie a former cricket player was also in attendance, and took time out during the event to advise senior team players of how to work even harder to achieve more success.
Chairman of Scintilla CC Naufal Zamir said: "we are grateful to The Mayor for recognising our club's success and hope that we can carry on helping young people do well in cricket and especially achieve cohesion". He also said that "at this time of austerity measures it is becoming increasingly difficult to run sports clubs without proper funding" and sought for anyone wishing to sponsor or donate to the club's funds to come forward.
Club Captain, Ahmed Choudhury said "I am very proud of the way Scintilla CC have performed over the last few years and looking forward to achieving more successes especially with young people. We want to open up access to cricket which can achieve many great things but realise that we cannot do it on our own as cuts in funding is posing a huge threat to clubs in London
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