Will Beckman on a club that puts its rise through the divisions down to creating a family atmosphere

Speak to anyone at Belhus CC and they will tell you it is the taking part that counts, not the winning. If there’s one thing the last ten years have shown them, though, it is that those two options do not have to be mutually exclusive.
When the club were admitted to the Shepherd Neame Essex League (SNEL) in 2009, their only aim was to provide members with a better standard of cricket. One decade and three promotions later, however, they are now only a few weeks away from starting their...