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Steephill & Ventnor Town

Friday 1^st May 2026 - Friday 18^th December 2026

Listings are for guidance only and subject to update/revision.

Date	Time	Event Title
*MAY*
Thurs 14	18:00	Cricket, Curry & A Pint (V vs Newport Victoria) *Available most Thursdays*
Thurs 21	13:00	Cricket: IoW vs Cornwall Over 50s
*JUNE*
Weds 17	21:00	World Cup: England vs Croatia
Tues 23	21:00	World Cup: England vs Ghana
Sat 27	22:00	World Cup: Panama vs England
Sun 28	11:00	Ventnor Summer Festival / Ventnor Park – Club Stall
*JULY*
Tues 14	20:00	First World Cup Semi-Final
Weds 15	20:00	Second World Cup Semi-Final
Sat 18	22:00	World Cup: third-place play-off
Sun 19	20:00	World Cup Final
Weds 22	13:00	Cricket: IoW vs Somerset Over 50s
Sun 26	19:00	Provisional: Sri Lankan Evening
*AUGUST*
Mondays	10:00	Dinny’s Summer Camps (U11) – Mondays, July 27; August 03, 10, 17 & 24 (or inside)
Thursdays	10:00	Dinny’s Summer Camps (U15) – Thursdays, July 30; August 06, 13, 20 & 27 (or inside)
Sun 09	13:00	President’s Day - President’s X1 vs VCC Friendly XI
Weds-12	19:45	Ventnor Grand Carnival & Fireworks/Children’s
Weds-12	TBC	Girls Festival (inc Arreton Match 18:00)
Sat-15	19:45	Ventnor Illuminated Carnival
Sun-23	11:00	Steephill Sixes
Mon-24	TBC	Women’s Festival (inc Ryde match)
*SEPTEMBER*

*OCTOBER*
Oct-03		Awards Afternoon/Junior (16:00); Evening-Senior & Ladies (18:00)
*NOVEMBER*
Sun-29	11:00-15:00	Christmas Market (‘Winter Wonderland’)
*DECEMBER*
Fri-18	19:00	TBC Club Xmas Party

After a busy pre-season and a disappointing exit in the first round of the National Village Cup, Ventnor's first team, which finished second in Division One of the ECB Southern Premier League last season, will look to go one better as they start their campaign on Saturday with a midday home clash with Calmore Sports.

Prolific Sri Lankan left hander Dineth Thimodya has returned for a fifth consecutive year but will be missing from the season’s opener after injuring a finger in last weekend’s friendly with Fair Oak.

With Thimodya absent, skipper Ben Woodhouse will be particularly delighted to include Danny Briggs in Saturday’s side. Briggs, who began his cricketing journey at Ventnor, has re-joined Sussex on a three year contract from Warwickshire and will be part of the Hove based club’s Vitality T20 Blast squad and coaching set up. The former England left arm spinner will also play for the Trent Rockets in the Hundred so availability for his home town club is likely to be strictly limited!

The second team, again captained by Ben Davies, travel to Easton and Martyr Worthy for their opening fixture in Hampshire League Division 2.

In the Island League Division One, Ventnor's third team, skippered by Sam Read, take on Shanklin & Godshill's second eleven while Nick Dobson's fourth side visit Northwood II in Division Two.

There is a full programme of Women's fixtures and across the junior section, the Club's under 11, 13, 15 and 16 sides have plenty of games to look forward to! The Southern League T20 competition and touring teams form the basis of Sunday and midweek matches from May to October.

In total, more than 250 matches involving Ventnor teams are scheduled to take place!!

Worcs Women @ Steephill

Friday 3rd - Sunday 5th April

Friday 3^rd April 2026 - Sunday 5^th April 2026

Cricket is back! Ventnor this Easter weekend begins its series of pre-season friendlies with the prestigious visit of the Worcestershire County Cricket Club Women’s Team.

In total, Steephill will stage three matches against the visiting County side. Our teams will include both men and women and be captained by Alex Barton.

The schedule is as follows:

Friday 3rd (Good Friday), 50 overs a side, starting 11:30
Sunday 5th (Easter Sunday), two T20s beginning respectively at 11:30 and 2:30pm.

Bar ‘Happy Hour’ Too!

And as an incentive, the bar will also reopen for the new season on Friday (1 pm -3 pm) with a special ‘Happy Hour’ and open again on Sunday (ditto 1 pm – 3 pm).