The club has changed it's name!
Since December 2009 Angoulême Cricket Club has become the....
Cricket Club de Mansle Charente
This administrative change better reflects our situation since we now have our home ground at the 'Champion' complex in Mansle,
thanks to the support of the Societé des Courses de Mansle and the Conseil Municipal de Mansle.
The structure and personnel of the club remain unchanged.
Record score for
Usman MANAWAR!
Usman scored 214 not out!
The best score ever in the SW league, or in league cricket in the whole of France!
See the full result here
article about Usman on the France Cricket site
See the results of the
Player of the Year Awards
presented recently at the
'Jardin du Kashmir'
restaurant in Angoulême
by clicking here
That's done it...
...the first cricket ground in Charente!
(scroll down to see how it was done)
Come and watch our matches!
( to find the ground click here )
The very first league cricket game in Charente, at Mansle, against
St.Aulaye the 17th May 2009.
Match against Bordeaux 7th June 2009
The story so far...
Having spent 18 months visiting mairies all around Angoulême, and almost finding a site in three different communes, I finally struck lucky in a little town I know well, only 7km from my home.
Mansle is a commune of 1500 souls in north Charente, 20km from Angoulême by fast dual carriageway, the N10. Pronounce it like 'Le Mans' but reversed...Mans Le! Mansle racecourse, known as 'Le Champion' (not to be confused with the supermarket of the same name...) , 500m perimeter, nestling in a curve of the Charente river, is only used for one or two meetings a year, and the council cuts lots of grass for no real purpose. Now they will be cutting it for cricket!
The council agreed to help with the work of installing a calcaire base and this was carried out this spring. We will be using our coconut matting pitch for the near future. We have practiced on the surface and it works very well. Many thanks to John Ayling of Damazan for all his excellent advice.
Whilst the setting is lovely, not everything is perfect yet. We are working to solve the problems we can foresee, and ask for your indulgence for the inevitable ones which will only become apparent over time, especially this first season. We are a small and young club, but I hope that now we have our own ground we can move forward quickly.
How to make a cricket pitch!
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Take out the soil to a depth of about 15cm.( 6 inches)
28m x 2m | | Fill it with crished limestone 0-20mm and tamp it down with a vibrating plate.
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Fill up to ground level with the finest grade limestone- 0-4mm- and level with a 80kg vibrating plate while flooding the surface. We did it side-to-side first,and lengthwise afterwards. |
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Roll out your coconut matting carpet and stretch it tight with the lawnmower. Tack one end down with 15cm nails with washers on and pull on the other end. Then stretch and tack sideways. 
Although a bit soft at first, the limestone dries to near concrete-like hardness.
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