Goatacre cricket club members take on bowling challenge

A cricket club that has become “increasingly more expensive to run” has organised a mammoth fundraiser to raise funds.

Members of Goatacre Cricket Club, near Calne in Wiltshire, are attempting to bowl the equivalent of the 93.1 mile distance to Lord’s cricket ground in London – a total of 7,304 balls.

While the bowling challenge takes place on Saturday, three players will cycle to Goatacre from the Grace Gates at Lord’s.

“It is a very expensive operation running a cricket club of our size,” said chairman John Wilkins. “Our funds have been depleting over the last five or six years to the stage where we need to do something.”