New centre to be ready by January

Thursday 12th June 2008, 2:29PM BST.

Jon Ravenscroft, second left, joins the Guernsey cricket development team of (from left to right) Hannah Mechem, Jason Shambrook and Jonny Orme at the Hougue du Pommier site of the new indoor centre. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0590935)

THE £1m. Indoor Cricket Guernsey centre is taking shape.

With the steel frame now in place by the Guernsey table tennis and indoor bowls stadium at La Hougue du Pommier, it looks set to be open in January.

‘It’s nice to get a feel for it,’ said the centre’s financial backer, Jon Ravenscroft. ‘I’d be happy for it to open in January 2009. I’m very confident it’s going to be a success.’

The island’s cricket development manager, Jason Shambrook, will be the centre’s chief executive. ‘There’s still quite a lot of work to be done from now until it starts,’ he said.