Walkovers Charity Cricket Challenge – in aid of CYSTIC FIBROSIS (CF)

On Saturday 27th June, Jersey’s Walkovers Cricket Club will be participating in a unique event.
The plan is to play four games of cricket in Twenty20 format, in four different Channel Islands in just one day.

The team will start their quest as early as 7am in Alderney having stayed overnight on the island. Once this fixture has taken place, the team will then travel by air to Guernsey for their second match. After their second match and in order to save valuable time, the team will travel to Sark and Jersey on a RIB (Rigid Inflatable Boat) for the remaining two matches. After the final match in Jersey at Grainville Cricket Ground there will be a raffle and presentations expected to start at about 9pm.

The idea is to raise both awareness and funds for Cystic Fibrosis, something that our friend, and team mate Kevin English, suffers from.
Kevin leads a fairly normal life, albeit with the help of the CF trust who provide medication, support and apparatus allowing him to be active.
CF is the UK’s most common, life threatening inherited disease and claims three lives a week in the UK.
We want to raise the profile of CF both here in Jersey, and in the UK – as many people do not know what it is, or the effect it has on people’s lives.

Walkovers Cricket Club wanted to make this event unique and worthwhile, fitting of the charity and people we want to help.
Contributions to charity are often made through various events such as jumble and car boot sales, walks and other more sedate activities.
Walkovers Cricket club wanted something different, something active and something exciting – something that would stir people’s imagination. Something that would stand out.
We feel we have come up with an event that will be remembered for years to come and hopefully generate the interest and charity of the general public.

Indeed we would love the support from both media and general public – our perfect picture of the event would be locals and friends taking their boats and planes out for the day and following the team around the four islands.
We want it to become a real community event, and welcome any further ideas to enhance the feel of it.

The make up of the day is as follows;

07.00am – Start fixture versus Alderney Cricket Club in Alderney

10.00am - Fly from Alderney to Guernsey on Blue Islands

10.30am - Start fixture versus Guernsey opposition TBA

13.15pm - Leave Guernsey on TT Divers RIB for Sark

14.00pm - Fixture versus Sark Cricket Club

16.30pm - Leave Sark on TT Divers RIB for Jersey

18.00pm - Start fixture versus Sporting Club Francais XI, Jersey

21.00pm - Presentations, thanks and Raffle.


We have also registered for a Guinness World Record attempt for the challenge, and have made it through to the second stage of the application process. It is by no means guaranteed, but exciting to think this could be a first.