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Only one or two of our members were around when the club was founded and none of them can remember anything any more. Hopefully before very long we will be able to add some detail here, in the meantime you'll have to make do with a story about the village knockout.
Way back in 1972, Steep was one of 795 clubs to enter the National Village Cricket Knockout sponsored by Haig Whisky. The lure was a Final to be played on the hallowed turf of Lord’s in September, although Steep had little hope of progressing that far.
It was a surprise therefore when they proceeded to win the Hampshire section and reached the National Quarter-final, before falling to Oxfordshire Champions Bledlow.
In the years that followed, Steep were the Hampshire winners on no less than four occasions and represented the county’s village cricketers against Kent, Sussex, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey, Nottinghamshire and Cornwall!!
The greatest moment came in 1974 when Steep entertained the Nottingham team Collingham, losing in the last over to be denied a Lord’s final. Over a thousand people crammed into the Steep ground that never to be forgotten afternoon.
Since those heady days in the seventies, we have been rather less successful, but the club still enters the competition, now sponsored by nPower.
Former players and club stalwarts are remembered by Chairman Rollo Wicksteed
Number 1 Bill Jarman.
Number 2 Lennie Newman.