Mr Kroon said the club was also fearful of flooding after experiencing three floods in as many years and had invested “heavily” in flood defences. <\/p>\n
He said another threat to its future was rising costs and the club had partnered with a solar company, which would install rooftop panels to help reduce electricity costs.<\/p>\n
“We’re thinking about being sustainable and making sure we’re being kind to the environment but also sustainable for our club costs as well. It’s quite key to the club moving forward.”<\/p>\n
He added that these challenges existed within a wider context of amateur cricket clubs facing an overall decline. <\/p>\n
“We’re lucky in this area that there’s a high level of interest and a high level of participation, but it’s certainly not the same across other areas of the country.”<\/p>\n
He added: “Fingers crossed amateur cricket does still exist in 175 years .<\/p>\n
“I really hope it does for those people that are around, but unfortunately the stats would probably suggest it’s not quite heading in the right direction.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Kroon said the club was also fearful of flooding after experiencing three floods in as many years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-290397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}