Scintilla Cricket Club is based in Barking & Dagenham
but boasts its members from all over the great city of London. In 2003, a group of very close friends
(five or six) from four corners of London used to regularly meet at Regents
Park on a sunday after noon to play 'taped-tennis cricket' (a tennis ball is
wrapped around by selotape)...
As the circle of friends gathering at Regents Park
increased, so did the hunger to play their favourite sport at a friendly but in
a competitive atmosphere. Very
soon a name for the team emerged as CORONA Cricket Club. In 2005 CORONA entered and successfully
clinched the 'All London Cricket League' title. The club's founders were: Mr A Naser, Mr D Paul, Mr S Ezdi and Mr S M Z Hossain.
After tasting success in its first year of competitive
outing, we sought more success.
Unfortunately, with success we needed funds to pay for operating
costs. Until then, the club had
been running on the generous donations made by its founders. Unfortunately, the club had to cease
playing league cricket due to expensive costs - but decided to meet at least
couple of times a year to play friendly matches.
The high spirit of cricket re-emerged amongst some of the
co-founders of CORONA and decided to make cricket a community sport rather than
just fulfilling individual satisfaction. We decided to take cricket to our
community because this is something that we can offer to our friends, families,
neighbours, and visitors. Everyone
will agree that a sport is a strong medium of unity, harmony, cohesion and
integration. And, we all have
duties and responsibilities towards our society.
SCINTILLA CRICKET CLUB was formed in May 2006. We identified ourselves as a Barking
& Dagenham based club with the aim of making the club accessible to whole
of East London.
Scintilla CC Vision
“To become the hub of cricket in East London where its
members feel they are contributing to their community and above all to their
well-being”
Scintilla CC Key Objectives
Scintilla Cricket Club realises that it cannot work by
itself and places a huge importance to partnership working. Therefore, we believe that the club
contributes towards following objectives.
We want to contribute to building a:
· Stronger,
healthier and safer community;
· Integrated
and cohesive community;
· Sustainable
community; and
· Sustainable
environment