Welcome to the world of Cricket in South West France.    Soyez la bienvenue!

Pour ceux de nos visiteurs qui préfèrent Molière à Shakespeare... soyez la bienvenue néanmoins!  Prochainement vous aurez ici accès à des précisions en français sur le cricket dans le grand sud ouest.  En attendant, on vous propose un aperçu des règles du jeu, sous forme de BD - Angoulême oblige! - (cliquer ici)

Et pourquoi pas jeter un coup d'oeil sur la page "Clubs in the S-W": là vous verrez lesquels de nos 12 clubs se trouvent près de chez vous.  Vous pouvez également trouver de nos nouvelles sur le site de notre Fédération-mère (cliquer ici) ainsi que sur le site de nos confrères aquitains (cliquer ici).

Welcome to the site of ACCSO - the Association des Clubs de Cricket du Sud Ouest,  responsible for the administration of cricket across an enormous swathe of France: bigger even than what is often called le grand sud ouest, because our patch ranges from Bordeaux to Montpellier; from just north of the Pyrenees right up to Périgueux and Angoulême.

Whether you are visiting the site as a member of one of the ACCSO clubs....... or as a member of a club elsewhere in France or beyond with a view to organising a whole tour or just a couple of games...... or perhaps you are newly-arrived in the south-west of France or planning to live here..... we hope that you will find what you are looking for.

Apart from this home page there's another nine pages to check out. These are tabbed down the left-hand side of the frame. Click on the one which interests you most!

The New News section will often be your first port-of-call to see what's "hot". 

And, once the season gets under way, the Fixtures & Results page will be essential reading on Mondays. The Umpiring page should also serve to publish the allocation of umpires to our competitive matches.

We shall continue to provide comprehensive coverage of the ACCSO member clubs (12 in 2008): where to find them, how to contact them, distances from airports, and such like.  In short, useful stuff for when you are planning a tour or for when you are setting out to go to a match.

The page tabbed ACCSO:Who are we? includes boring stuff such as Officers, announcements and minutes of meetings... But it also gives you the possibility to communicate with members of the "Bureau".

The Association also acts as a clearing-house for rules & regulations.  Highlights of these will feature in New News as they arise. Full texts and/or pointers will be posted here, rather than published by serial e-mails.

Internally, we have a major project in 2008: to arrive at a new Constitution.  This is sufficiently important to merit its very own tab, where we shall post updates.  When it's all signed & sealed (no later than AGM 2008, please!), we'll shift it to the Who are we? section.  And the Good To Know! section carries pointers to all sorts of sites, some official and others simply useful or fun.  

Please e-mail the sitemanager,  at sitemanager@cricket-sw-france.org if you do not find what you are looking for.

Version date: 11th March 2008.