Team GIANTS

LPCL (Lathrop Premier Cricket League) a democratic club is presently collecting club member opinions and votes on the official GIANTS teams’ uniform colors. Even, though living under the shadow of SF GIANTS we know the base colors have to be orange and black. Lathrop Giants wants to stand out from SF Giants with addition of a different smaller color pallet within the jersey, not deviating away from the attraction of orange and black. LPCL officials want to narrow the choice down. So, soon an order could be placed with the manufacturer. LPCL is also very pleased that it has received good feedback to the colors that were placed as choices, now the question would be to narrow the choices down to one. All, thanks to our CFO Sadiq for coming up with a template that could be manipulated with so many color combination. Truly, LPCL is blessed with talents......

OUR CLUB IS ALL "SQUARED"

Lathrop Premier Cricket League now accepting VISA, AMERICAN EXPRESS, DISCOVER and MASTERCARD!

Yes, folks introducing SQUARE an ingenious device that attaches to your iphone, ipad and makes your smart phone device a mobile register. With the advancement in technology, SQUARE is a remarkable and revolutionary device. It enable “NOT for PROFIT” Sports clubs like us to start up businesses to take payment from their members, patrons and customer while on the road or in the field. You don't require a fixed register at a corner shop; take your business or cricket sporting club on the road or in our case on the Cricket field. This mobile device is an added value service to our club, now members can pay with credit card, instead of using cash. For a minimal service charge club members can pay their dues at the cricket field, during play, tournament etc. No, need to make money orders, write a check, carry cash; just swipe your card and your payment is made. I am hoping that our club will utilize this service to pay either a lump sum amount towards their membership fees or get on our easy, convenient, stress free payment installment plan of only $56 a month and pay through SQUARE.

SPONSORSHIP

Would you like RED or WHITE?

Lathrop Cricket Club has been debating on using RED or WHITE balls during tournaments. However, after a friendly game with Lodi Cricket Club last weekend Saturday October 13, 2012; the decision was made easier for the Lathrop cricketers. Lathrop Lions had the opportunity to play with a water proof white ball, which was a wonderful experience. After further enquires, Lodi's cricket club equipment supplier was contacted. Mr Sachin Singh the owner operator of Cricket supplies out of Rancho Cordova California was very courteous and supplied the Lathrop Cricket club with four (4) free samples of white water proof balls. See picture below, $20 Kokabarro balls upper Left concern, light cream BDM lower left corner and two custom league balls that are made to order by Mr. Sachin. By the way League ball was used during the T20 match with Lodi Cricket Club. Hopefully, during our upcoming tournament the club members will get a chance to take these balls for a spin, get it! "SPIN". Enough with the pun, but we really appreciate Mr. Sachin Singh for supplying us with these four samples.

Our T20 Team is ready to play its very first twenty (20) over game with Lodi Cricket Club on Saturday October 13, 2012. Lodi is a very strong team, however we are very appreciative of Lodi and their principals for inviting us over for a friendly match. Hopefully, this by lateral relationship builds and creates opportunities in the future, where Lathrop Cricket Club could host a game with Lodi at the Mossdale Landing Community Park. Please check our facebook for game updates, follow us via twitter @LathropCricket for live score.

American Cricket T20 - 2012

Yes, the headline say it all. American Cricket Federation (ACF) has announced the T20 inaugural games in the City of Angels (Los Angeles, California).  Set to start on Columbus Day weekend (October 6-8), a total of  eight leagues from across the country will be participating in this tournament. Get with the excitment of cricket on American soil! and "Become part of a new era in US Cricket" (ACF)

Reference URL: http://www.cricketfederation.org/?p=471#comment-713

Solid family man who we value for his integrity

Lathrop Cricket Club is very pleased to support Mr. Dhaliwal for Lathrop Mayorship. We wish him lots of success and support his efforts. Please read the article that I found on IndiaWest about Sonny Dhaliwal....

Sonny Dhaliwal

• United StatesSonny Dhaliwal, a city councilman in Lathrop in San Joaquin County in Central California, has announced his candidacy for mayor of that city.
  The Stockton-based American Punjabi Chamber of Commerce has endorsed his candidacy, Rex Dhatt, public relations officer of the APCOC, said.
  Dhatt in a press release said Dhaliwal is a “solid family man who we value for his integrity." (His) vision for Lathrop’s growth encompasses the greater Stockton region. This makes him an exciting candidate for local business owners.”
  Dhaliwal was first elected in 2006 and served as vice mayor from 2006-08. The Indian American was re-elected to the city council in 2010. The father of four children, he and his wife, Ruby, moved to Lathrop in 1996.
  The Lathrop City Council recently asked the San Joaquin County grand jury to investigate current Mayor J. “Chaka” Santos, after an outside investigator submitted a report alleging Santos “made inappropriate personal comments” to an unidentified female city employee.
  Santos, elected in 2010 to serve a two-year term, is up for reelection this fall. He has called the allegations “politically motivated.”

Sonny Dhaliwal Runs for Mayor of Lathrop, California

• by Richard Springer, Staff Reporter
• Aug 14, 2012

Reference URL: http://www.indiawest.com/news/6021-sonny-dhaliwal-runs-for-mayor-of-lathrop-california.html

Help us fund our dream!

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OUR ORGANIZATION

ORG - CHART 2012

Introducing (UCAL) University of Cricket Academy Lathrop. It is official; Lathrop Cricket Club now has a learning forum. Each month new educational material will be added to our cricket website under the "UNIVERSITY" page. The whole idea of having a University of Cricket or a learning forum is to provide cricketers with perpetual knowledge of cricket. Where, each individual can advance and enhance their cricketing skills. Check out our official website for more information.

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OCTO CUP 2012 - SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

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REGISTRATION FEE $25

 (Includes Tournament Award and Pizza Luncheon)

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TEAMS ARE FORMING!!!

HEAT IS ON!

Can the teams battle their win against the Super 5 tournament Champions. With LPCL's (Lathrop Premier Cricket Leagues) first Super 5 tournament behind (took place on August 18th, 2012), teams are already looking forward to the future of competitive cricket under the LPCL banner for another chance to settle the score. Though, it can be called the agony of defeat or healthy rivalry; teams cannot wait to prove themselves in October to become the rightful winners of Lathrop OCTO Cricket Cup 2012. Will the Super 5 tournament Champions claim their win once again on OCTO or will there emerge a new line of Champions? Don’t miss out the excitement to our up coming event Lathrop OCTO Cricket Cup Championship 2012 to be held in October.

Olympics vs. Super 5

As our USA Olympic hopeful's are striving towards GOLD, Sliver and bronze and each moment is spent towards the pursuit of that dream. Our SUPER 5 TOURNAMENT hopeful's are dreaming of a win in the upcoming competition on August 18th, 2012. Where they could embrace the Champions trophy and be the first to claim their rights to a win. Though, this win may not be recognized on an international level in comparison to Olympics , but amongst their peers in this small localized Cricket family which knit's us in the bond of Cricket brotherhood, this dream of a win is more precious then GOLD. This is our first step towards a great future, this tradition each year will bring old and new hopeful's to the competition where everyone will have a chance to write their names in history of SUPER 5 and be recognized as Champions. Good Luck to all the hopeful's.....Let's play Cricket.

INTRODUCING LATHROP WARRIORS

UPCOMING TEAM ENTRY and Recruitment of Players....

My fellow LIONS as we celebrate our first team formation (Lathrop Lions) and strive towards recruitment of additional players for our secondary team(s) under the LPCL (Lathrop Premier Cric...ket League) banner. I wanted to take this opportunity and present to you LATHROP WARRIORS, as our next venture. Let's keep up the hard work to recruit additional players to fill team “WARRIORS”. With multiple team setup the possibilities are endless…

Thanks Ocran LPCL/LLCC and introducing LWCC (Lathrop Warriors Cricket Club)

LLCC in 2025!

Our vision is to have a sound and tangible presence in the community. With a defined strategy and vision, LLCC (Lathrop Lions Cricket Club) in 2025 will have its own stadium. However, the goal may seem out of reach and unattainable at the present moment. LLCC is very optimistic that with a structured guideline, the principals from LLCC should be able to acquire this dream.

All dreams start from an idea, a blog, a vision and a time comes you find yourself standing in the pavilion overlooking at a beautiful stadium and suddenly you realize its 2025. We might have started small, but eventually LLCC will grow in a true Cricket club.

Directions to achieve our goal.

1. Alignment of Marketing Strategy
1A. Through media (youtube), print (craigslist), advertisements (banner, posters, post cards etc) and word of mouth (Making community aware of our presences)

2. Reconstruction/Update of web content
2A. Acquiring a domain
2B. Finding local business to advertise their product and service on our official website
2C. Advertising revenue will generate revenue for the club.

3. Finding investors (Final stage)
3A. Investment comes, when an organization can show value in its service. That can only be achieved if LLCC can become a powerhouse of advertisement.

4. Advertisement outlet:
4A. Local business product and services are advertised to the community on regular game and practice days.

5. Community outreach program:
5A. Creating events that would bring out the masses to watch cricket.
5B. Giving community intensives to watch cricket. Providing entertainment events and prizes. Giving away promotional items
5C. Conducting community clinics to teach the sport and bring awareness to the game.

6. Merchandise sales
6A. Once LLCC becomes an icon in the community, authentic LLCC merchandise sales and LLCC promotional items could be added to the mix to generate revenue.

These guidelines are being outlined to give LLCC a starting point. Overtime, these strategic guidelines will need to be enhanced, redefined and implemented to achieve the end result.

CRICKET PRACTICES "FRIDAY EVENINGS" 6:30 PM

We Want YOU!

Cricket practices are now being held each Friday from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM for the summer season 2012.

To join either visit our facebook community page and search under keyword "Lathrop Cricket" to join.
Google Lathrop Cricket and join via our official website. http://lathropcricket.freewebspace.com/. Add your name to the guest list and some will contact you immediately.

You can also email us at LathropCricket@Rocketmail.com

Dress code is "White", please purchase adbo guard and if you happen to have a bat please do bring that to practice. All other safety equipment will be provided.

Presently, for 2012 Lathrop Lions Cricket Club is not charging a membership fee.

LLCC Quarterly Meeting May 2012

In order to stay competitive and under the lime light of the community it is ever so important to be visible in print media over the internet to attract more viewership and following.

LLCC (Lathrop Lions Cricket Club) understands with the ever changing tides in our economy it is getting harder to retain viewership and consistent following by print media alone. Even though being in the facebook, ipod, smart phone and information age, it is very important that the media content attracts patrons to your website; with exciting news, where followers become repeat accessory to your organization.

Either news comes from print, TV spots (Good Morning Sacramento) or new press releases it is all about “Bringing people to a robust, fast, easily accessible, users friendly website or facebook community sport page; that delivers content in an efficient manner” Samantha SVP., Marketing – LLCC.

During a quarterly meeting between the President/Founder of LLCC (Lathrop Lions Cricket Club) and Senior VP of Marketing, Ms. Samantha; new innovations were discussed that would launch LLCC to the community, bringing more viewership and visibility. There were several other issues that very brought to the forefront, pertaining to local businesses being involved, acquisition of sponsorships for the team and players. In conclusion, principals of LLCC’s main focus at the present time is to recruit, retain members to the club, acquire sponsorship, and bring awareness of Cricket in the Lathrop community.

New Zealand vs. West Indies on US Soil!

It is official the $75MM dollar Central Broward Regional Park Stadium in Lauderhill, Florida USA will be hosting T20 match between New Zealand vs. West Indies on June 30 and July 1^st, 2012. (WICB) West Indies Cricket Board the main governing body that controls and manages Caribbean and United States cricket teams; made an announcement of ticket sales for this up coming event. “Reserved chairback seats at the Central Broward Regional Park in Lauderhill will cost $30 while general admission tickets to sit or stand on the grass embankment will cost $20” (Peter Della Penna – Dream Cricket USA). According to Mr. Penna who writes for Dream Cricket, the pricing structure is very similar to the matches that were played at this same venue two years ago between New Zealand and Sri Lanka, which attracted 8,600 in attendance.

WICB also released the schedule for the up coming July 5th, 2012 ODI matches between New Zealand in St. Kitts, which will be followed by two test matches. First Test will be in Antigua from July 25-29 before returning to Jamaica for the second round of test from August 2 to 6^th, 2012.

If interested, please reserve your tickets for the up coming events; WICB will release ticket sales two weeks prior to the first match at each of the above mentioned venues for the New Zealand tour.

Reference: Dream Cricket USA - Peter Della Penna

WE ARE DIVERSIFIED

Our diversity is our strength! As more and more cricket leagues within United States are becoming sport centric; LLCC (Lathrop Lions Cricket Club) on the other hand is welcoming diversity with open arms. "Cricket needs to be shared with the world"; "We (LLCC) are proud of what we have achieved and have been very lucky in getting players from such diverse backgrounds" LLCC President/Founder Ocran A.    

LLCC's present and future growth relies on one thing and one thing ONLY; diversification, sharing, teaching of the sport to players from backgrounds such as baseball, soccer, American football and other respected sports.  The secret to our success has been acceptance from these players the wiliness to try something new and they have embarrassed not only the sport. These players have become ambassadors for the sport; promoting cricket with a passion.  LIONS (LLCC) have a great future!

Lathrop Cricket Featured on TV - CW31 Good Day Sacramento

Cricket 101: Alan Sanchez learned exactly what it takes to become a skilled cricket player.

Rising Star for Lathrop Cricket Club

Each week Lathrop Cricket Club will introduce several players of the club and run a short story on them in our SPORTS TODAY blog.

Lathrop Cricket Club would like to introduce Mr. Mohammad Ali a native of Karachi Pakistan. Who is currently living in Manteca California. Mohammad started his career playing cricket at the age of 12 in Karachi Pakistan. Mohammad has played as a allrounder through out his school years. He was a Captain for his high school team. Lathrop Cricket Club is very excited to have Mr. Mohammad Ali also named as Mr. BOOM BOOM (A hard hitter of the cricket ball). LCC looks forward to learning from this expert all-rounder about the art, skill and form of Cricket. 

SPORTS TODAY

This week in SPORTS TODAY our feature short story is profiling Mr. Ocran (President / Founder of Lathrop Cricket Club)

Ocran started playing Cricket at a very young age in Pakistan. From Galli (street/backyard) Cricket to playing for his high School (St Paul's English) and at local city level.  By trade Mr. Ocran is a fast bowler and can bat as well. However, he prefers bowling fast to medium pace and batting at 5th OR 6th position on a team. He consider himself a pace batsman not a heavy hard hitter of a ball, He leans more towards the strategic aspect of the game and likes to play skillful shots. He is currently executing his duties as the Founder and President of Lathrop Cricket Club. In the past he has led the formation of Livermore Cricket Club with a former friend, colleague from Livermore, California. He is very optimistic about the growth and expansion of cricket in Lathrop and surrounding cities. 

Practice Season Starts January 7th, 2012