No ball! Safety fears threaten to hit cricket club for six
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Your support makes all the difference.One of the country's oldest cricket clubs faces eviction over fears that passers-by could be hit by stray balls.
Lymington CC has played at the Hampshire town's picturesque sports ground for 175 years – but only recently have health and safety concerns been raised.
The town council has voted to move the club from the centre to the outskirts unless it erects a £50,000 net around the boundary – money the club say it cannot afford.
The complaints have come from the neighbouring tennis club which, at a mere 40 years old, is a relative newcomer.
Councillor Penny Jackman said: "The plain and frightening reality is cricket balls have been landing at great speed a matter of inches from unsuspecting people."
But her fellow councillor Paul Hickman complained: "We might as well ban cricket."
Luke Andrews, a member of the tennis club, admitted that there has yet to be an injury.
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