PERUVIAN CRICKET FEDERATION (PCF)

AGM Meeting:

6 June 2008, 7:00 pm.

Held at Lima Cricket & Football Club (LCFC).

Present: Chris Abbott, Nick Appleyard, Viv Ash, Alex Bayly, John Bell, Miles Buesst, Giresh Chugani, Harry Hildebrand, Tom Jolly, Dave Murphy, Kashyap Nansi, Jorge Pancorvo, Tony Sanford, Mike Soulsby, Vishwanathan, Julian Walter (16)

Guest: Grant Dugmore

Apologies: Rob Champion, Chris Hodgson, Derek Jones, Simon Walter, Hans de Wit. An e-mail was presented from Rob Champion stating that he wished to spend time away from cricket and is resigning his post as Cricket Captain of LCFC and from the PFC committee.

CA presented an agenda which was followed and the following points discussed:

· The minutes from the 2008 AGM were presented which showed an attendance of 13. No matters arose from those minutes.

· CA presented Grant Dugmore, the ICC Americas Development Officer, to the meeting. He talked generally about advances in the financing of world cricket which has increased significantly in recent years. Peru, as an affiliate member, will definitely receive a grant of $15,000 plus $5,000 - $7,500 in January 2009. Peru can also expect to receive around $4,000 for 2008. He will discuss with the new committee the details and development plans that these sums necessitate on Saturday 7 June 2008 at 10:00 am at LCFC.

HH expressed thanks for the considerable help that Grant has shown to Peruvian cricket over the last few years.

· HH gave the captain’s report on Peruvian cricket over the last year, stressing Peru’s impressive debut in an official ICC tournament, in an interesting and progressive season:

§ Cricket Veloz (Markham, November 2007)

§ ICC Division 3 tournament (BA, February 2008)

§ Twenty20 tournament (LCFC, February 2008)

§ Regular season (Lima, January – April 2008)

HH thanked CA for organising the Peruvian team to BA for the ICC competition. He also threw down a gauntlet: for a Markham v Cambridge school cricket match.

HH received the Volunteer of the Year award for Americas cricket in 2007 and was presented with the award by Grant Dugmore.

JW showed off the PCF blog which is growing impressively. It is hoped that the blog will become a website in the near future.

TS gave the Treasurers report. Although the PFC lost money in 2008 the overall account is still in the black to the tune of about $1,000. A full treasurer’s report will be published in the near future. He stressed the need to become affiliated with the IPD (Instituto Peruano de Deportes).

A new 10-man PFC committee was selected. It is:

Position	Name	Proposer	Seconder	E-mail
President	Jorge Pancorvo	JB	TS	jpancorvo@pad.edu
Chairman	Chris Abbott	HH	MB	chrisabbott91@hotmail.com
Treasurer	Tony Sanford	JW	AB	sanford@vectoreng.com
Secretary	Harry Hildebrand	CA	VA	hildebra@markham.edu.pe
Com.member	Julian Walter	AB	TJ	julianwalterinperu@hotmail.com
Com.member	Giresh Chugani	VA	CA	venusfilms@terra.com.pe
Com.member	Miles Buesst	HH	NA	miles@chimuadventures.com
Com.member	John Bell	CA	VW	jcallistusbell@yahoo.com
Com.member	Viv Ash	CA	TS	vash@newton.edu.pe
Com.member	Kashyap Nansi	TS	GC	kashyapnansi@gmail.com

· TS suggested that his new house be used for the PFC dinner and that it take place in mid August.

· Hearty thanks are given to our sponsors:

§ Greg Carter of Chimu Adventures

§ Hans de Wit

§ Dave Murphy

· Vishwanathan is leaving Peru. Always a gentleman, he will be missed from our cricket fields and we wish him well.

· The meeting closed at 9:30 pm.

Vivian Ash

Outgoing PCF secretary

7 June 2008