Category: MSBL News

Progress on plans for the League’s 90th Anniversary Celebration Day – at St Georges on Saturday 4th June – feature on the agenda for the May management meeting on Tuesday the 3rd . Nearly half of the bowlers who will represent member clubs in the MSBL @ 90 Singles on the bottom green starting at… Continue reading Party Plans

The 2022 season is finally fully up and running – but not without an 11th hour hiccup. Wrockwardine Wood were forced to withdraw their B team from division 3 on the morning of the opening fixture, leaving Madeley CC B without a match and just 10 teams competing in the division A WW spokesperson explained:… Continue reading Late Blow

Monday night action in divisions 4-5-6 started with 30 teams involved on opening night, but the 2022 campaign is not in full swing yet. For the Easter weekend brings the Monday fixture schedule to an immediate halt next week, meaning the focus of attention will be on the re-launch of divisions 1-2-3 on Friday 22nd… Continue reading New Focus

The return to hopefully normal action in the League has started with six matches in the Dennis Lewis Thursday Division featuring big home wins for Sir John Bayley and reigning champions from 2019 St Georges, plus a fine away result for Madeley CC. The match fees per player for the 2022 season were approved at… Continue reading Season Is Go!

The League springs back into life this week with the first 2022 fixtures in the Dennis Lewis Thursday Division – but first there’s some talking to do. An executive meeting will be held on Tuesday 5th April at the Sir John Bayley Club with the match fees for the season to be announced along with… Continue reading Time To Talk

Just one week to wait now until the 2022 MSBL season springs into life with the first fixtures in the Dennis Lewis Thursday Division. But there won’t be the seven fixtures for a full house of 14 teams as planned and hoped for . . . That’s because Bowring have informed the League that they… Continue reading Nearly There!

The Competition Dates for 2022 so far finalised by organiser Phil King can now be seen on the Competition News section of this website To mark its 90th anniversary, the League aims to use the greens of founder members clubs like Trench, Horsehay and St Georges Saturday 30th July is the big day on the calendar… Continue reading Have A Look!

The 2022 fixtures are now live on this site – and they show that two years hit by the pandemic has not done the League any favours. New fixture secretary John Palmer reports: “We’ve lost five teams from Friday nights, two from Mondays and two from Thursdays, which is somewhat offset by two new teams… Continue reading Fixture Time!

The pdf within this post contains the MSBL’s divisional structure for the 2022 season produced by new fixture secretary John Palmer, which has already been sent direct to all clubs. It also details the start and finish dates for all the divisions, plus the plan for dealing with the numerous (and extra) Bank Holidays this… Continue reading 2022 Divisions

The League’s 2022 AGM marked the official agreement of a new two-year sponsorship deal with Local Print Pros. The Hadley-based company are specialists in top quality printed clothing, including printed t-shirts and printed hoodies. They also print banners – one of which has already been presented to the League – business cards, decals and much,… Continue reading Local Heroes