By CONRAD SUTCLIFFE

DEVON County Cricket Club’s annual meeting is going on-line this year to bypass Coronavirus restrictions – and there will be plenty of business to get through!

Members traditionally gather at the Sowton office of law firm Ashfords for the annual meeting, or they did up to 2019.

Last year’s annual meeting was a casualty of the first National Lockdown and was adjourned indefinitely.

“It had to be cancelled as the first lockdown of the year was imposed just four days before the meeting,” said Nigel Mountford, the county club’s chief executive,

Although there is a Government roadmap in place for a return to relative normality, Devon CCC’s 2021 annual meeting is due to take place before meeting restrictions are eased.

Rather than defer the meeting until another date, members have be invited to join an on-line Zoom call to consider reports from the club’s officers and vote on committee memberships.

And there will be two years of business to get through as reports from 2019 and 2020 are on the agenda. Click here to read the agenda and the chief executive’s report.

The on-line meeting will take place on Thursday, March 25 through the Zoom platform. Mountford will advise members in the next few days how to log-in to the meeting.

Mountford has been contacting members by email and is well aware the database might not be up to date.

“Any member who thinks they should receive an invitation should contact me check if they are on the database,” said Mountford, who can be contacted via this link.

“We hope there will be a good turn out.”

Cricket lovers expect to be told by the Government via the ECB at the end of March what Covid restrictions will remain in place once play resumes in mid-April. 

Mountford said there have been few clues from ECB or the Government, but added: “We are hoping for a full playing season, maybe with a few restrictions in the first half and subject to Government Covid-19 controls.”