History and Past Captains

GCC History

In 1965 David Freeman  helped to get Gotherington a permanent proper Playing Field, the land coming from an Old Orchard belong to Mrs Malleson.
The Cricket club got restarted again that year with David as Captain.

Further Back-
In 2013 Newspaper records were found of a  GCC Dinner Dance in Autumn 1934.  Cricket challenge matches are also mentioned in papers in late 1880s.

The following link is a download of the History of GCC written in 1992
(PDF format) :-

GCC History Link:-  gcchistory-1900s-1992.PDF

 === GCC Captains ==

1965-1970 – D Freeman

 1971 – ? – D Fry

 1970s – Ron Brimble,   John Nimmo,

1982-1983 – Jonathan Freeman, 1984-1985 – Jonathan Freeman ?

1986 – Colin Ralph, 1987 – David (Reg) Millington,

1988-1989-1990-1991 – John Freeman,
1992 – Kevan Wood,

1993   – John Freeman, 1994-1995 – Tony Puffett,
1996-1997-1998-1999 –  Brian Cosgrove,  2000 – Rob Sharp/ Steve Logan,
2001 – Steve Logan, 2002 – Tim Hearn,
2003-2004 – Rob Sharp, 2005-2006 – Tim Hearn,
2007-2008 – Rob Sharp,
2009-2010-2011-2012 – D Postlewaite,
2013-2014-2015 – Tim Hearn
2016-2017-2018-2019- Will Banwell

2020- Andrew Shakespeare/Oli Mallory

2021- Andrew Shakespeare/Oli Mallory

2022- Oli Mallory