Catford & Cyphers CC

Catford & Cyphers Cricket Club

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Committees & Key Roles

The management of the Club is entrusted to the Committee who are elected at the club’s Annual General Meeting, held soon after each season ends. The Club Constitution details how the Committee is formed and how it conducts the club’s business. Some of this activity is conducted by Sub Committees, which meet outside of the monthly full committee meetings, keeping separate minutes and reporting back to the full committee.


Chairman

Matthew Bamford-Bowes

Since joining the club in 2020 as a parent of a junior, Matt has started his own coaching journey completing the ECB's foundation 1 & Core Coach courses, every increasing and improving his skillset Matt is very keen to see the improvement of all of our junior cricketers. In 2022 Matt not only managed the Cyclones 11's in their first season in standard cricket but also managed the Thunder U11s to back-to-back league titles.

Matt has led our Junior section as director of Junior cricket since 2022 and is standing as the clubs chairman since December 2025

Vice Chairman

Patrick Fullarton

Patrick started at the club as a junior at the age of 11 playing through the junior age groups and then through the senior sides making his 1st XI debut in 2008. Having left the club in 2009 for university Patrick then travelled to the south of England playing for various clubs before returning home in the 2019 offseason. Since returning he has been a key figure at the club taking on various roles including most recently standing as Chairman until having to stand down for personal reasons, secretary role for 2 yearsand groundsman duties & most notably captaining the 2nd XI to league promotion in 2021

Hon. Secretary

James Stewart

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Hon. Treasurer

John Purcell

John continues his role as treasurer, a position that he has held for the past 8 years. John first joined the club bringing his two sons to the Junior section, both of whom have gone on to play 1st XI cricket for Cyphers. Not only has John has been instrumental in the smooth running of the club over the past few years helping the club get into a good financial position, but he also regularly scores for the 1st/2nd XI on the weekend.

Fixture Secretary & League Representative

Richard McCaughin

Richard is one of the longest-serving members of the club playing for the club for over 40 years having played in nearly all of the senior XI’s across his time. Richard currently captains the Saturday 4th XI and for the past 25+ years has sat on the committee as fixture secretary and KCL & KRCL representative. 

Safeguarding Officer

Bronwyn Purcell

This year sees Bronwyn Purcell take over the role of club Safeguarding officer, having previously been involved at various capacitates at the club the committee is very thankful she has taken up this vital position as we look to continue the growth at the club in particular the Junior section. Bronwyn’s experience working as a teacher’s assistant at Sandhurst primary school and her very warm and welcoming nature we are sure she be a brilliant safeguarding officer.

Club Captain

Samuel Gold

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Head of Womens Cricket

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Manager (Club)

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Director of Junior Cricket

Matthew Bamford-Bowes

Since joining the club in 2020 as a parent of a junior, Matt has started his own coaching journey completing the ECB's foundation 1 & Core Coach courses, every increasing and improving his skillset Matt is very keen to see the improvement of all of our junior cricketers. In 2022 Matt not only managed the Cyclones 11's in their first season in standard cricket but also managed the Thunder U11s to back-to-back league titles.

Matt will lead our junior section in 2023 as our first director of junior cricket and we can not be happier as a committee that Matt has agreed to take on this role.

Social Secretary

Rahul Budhbhatti

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Ex-Officio's

Bill Perera

Bill Perera is one of our club's longest-serving committee and playing members, having joined the club in the late 1990s, Bill has played for various sides on Saturdays & Sundays and is currently the second-highest runs scorer in his time at the club.

Bill has sat on the committee for the majority of his time at the club in various capacities from the captain, Chairman of selectors and most recently Chairman in 2022, under Bill's leadership the club took massive strides in improving the club's facilities for all of our members and saw great success on the field, Bill continues to sit on the committee to offer much-needed business advice and support as we continue to drive the club forward.

Adrian Lightly

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Oliver Gibbs

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Larwood Baker

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Sam Thelwall

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1st XI & Club Captain

Samuel Gold

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2nd XI Captain

Nooragha Zadran

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3rd XI Captain

Hamza Tahir

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4th XI Captain

Matt Gray

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Sunday 1st XI Captain

Arshad Mahmood

Captain

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Last Man Stands Captain

Pranay Singh

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Director of Junior Cricket

Matthew Bamford-Bowes

Since joining the club in 2020 as a parent of a junior, Matt has started his own coaching journey completing the ECB's foundation 1 & Core Coach courses, every increasing and improving his skillset Matt is very keen to see the improvement of all of our junior cricketers. In 2022 Matt not only managed the Cyclones 11's in their first season in standard cricket but also managed the Thunder U11s to back-to-back league titles.

Matt will lead our junior section in 2023 as our first director of junior cricket and we can not be happier as a committee that Matt has agreed to take on this role.

Secretary

Pauline Richards

Pauline has been part of the junior committee since 2022 and has taken up the role of our junior secretary for the 2023 season. Pauline has a lot of input in how our junior section is ran and we look forward to seeing how we can shape the junior section with her in this new position.

Treasurer

John Purcell

John continues his role as treasurer, a position that he has held for the past 8 years. John first joined the club bringing his two sons to the Junior section, both of whom have gone on to play 1st XI cricket for Cyphers. Not only has John has been instrumental in the smooth running of the club over the past few years helping the club get into a good financial position, but he also regularly scores for the 1st/2nd XI on the weekend.

Fixtures Secretary

Deborah Knight

2023 Will be Deborah's first season as our Junior fixture secretary having sat on the junior committee in 2022 as an ex-officio. Deborah has been a member of the club for the past seven years whilst her son Kory has been a junior member of the club since under 11.

Deborah has been a key role in the new set up of the junior committee and we look forward to having her continued input within the running of our junior section

Head Coach

Asher Roberts

The man that doesn’t need much introduction, Asher has thrived at the club in the past few years another product of the Cyphers Junior section, another individual who has worked his way through the senior sides becoming a key figure in the pace attacks of the 1st/2nd XI as well as moving on from his modelling career Asher has recently taken up the role of head coach of the Junior section in 2021 with the junior playing section going from strength to strength

Ex Officio's

Nick Maybin

Nick joined the junior committee in 2022 as an ex-officio member. In 2022 Nick headed up our food campaign, Friday Night Cricket Dinners, whereby each junior Friday night training session we have a variety of local food vendors come down to serve meals to our members/local community Friday Night Cricket Dinners has proven to be a huge success.

We can not wait to see what 2023 has in store for our Friday night summer training sessions. Nick also has two juniors who were part of our inaugural under 11's girls team in 2022

Adrian Lightly

Coaches

Matthew Bamford-BowesECB Core Coach & Under 13 Lead Coach
AR
Asher RobertsUKCC Level 2
Patrick FullartonUKCC Level 2
RA
Robert AdamsUKCC Level 2
TS
Tevin SterlingUKCC Level 2
GG
Geoff GreenUKCC Level 2 & Under 11 Lead Coach
DM
Dan MilesECB Foundation 1 & Girls Lead Coach
JS
James StewartECB Foundation 1
Kevin GiffordECB Foundation 1
KP
Krishna ParthasarathyECB Foundation 1
RC
Renee CampbellECB Foundation 1 & Under 15 Lead Coach
WM
Windell MorleseLevel 2
Nick MorganCOACH
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Andrew ifillCoach
Salman FarisCoach
BN
Ben NoadAssistant Coach
CM
Claire MorganCoach
Bethany MorganAssistant Coach
GL
gail lohanCoach
JS
James StewartCoach
KSK
Kieran Shukri KumarCoach
LB
Larwood BakerAssistant Coach
MS
Michael SturdyCoach
Nick MorganCoach
OJ
Omari Jones-LowersCoach
PM
Peter MaguireAssistant Coach
TW
Tom WhitrowAssistant Coach

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