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Cracking Willows began as a pipe dream of Rufus Gandhi back in 2009 soon after he moved to Singapore. Having given up playing following the arrival of his twins in 2006, Rufus decided to go and try some nets and was joined by Sandeep U who had also recently moved to Singapore from India. The two were just wanting to get back into the game slowly with a view to joining a local club to play some friendly cricket. However, despite contacting a number of clubs, there was not much response, so the idea formed to see if we could start our own club.
Slowly a team started to take shape and started to form an idea of arranging some games. Cracking Willows was able to secure US$10,000 sponsorship to fund player's kit and other various expenses and the first official outdoor game took place against Chameleon Cricket Club on 29th November, 2009
Numbers continued to grow as the reputation of one of the few clubs that had a team that encouraged and enjoyed each other's company was evident to all the other clubs. Players will come and go over time as is the nature of any club, but the philosophy and team culture continues to remain in place.
Often, opposition captains would ask how we managed to have such a collegiate team environment when they had to struggle with constant fighting and players competing with each other and the simple answer was that every person who joined needed to gel with the rest of the team. Despite having very good players from Balaji to James to Kunjan and Jitesh, the team environment has always stood tall and the fondness for each team member has been retained
From the days where 3 or 4 of players would play a match in the early morning, then drive to play an indoor game (or 2) in the afternoon, 2017 has seen Cracking Willows becoming strong enough to run two teams and play across four divisions.
If you are interested in joining our club, we are always on the lookout for new players across all levels of ability.
Cracking Willows began as a pipe dream of Rufus Gandhi back in 2009 soon after he moved to Singapore. Having given up playing following the arrival of his twins in 2006, Rufus decided to go and try some nets and was joined by Sandeep U who had also recently moved to Singapore from India. The two were just wanting to get back into the game slowly with a view to joining a local club to play some friendly cricket. However, despite contacting a number of clubs, there was not much response, so the idea formed to see if we could start our own club. I mean how hard could it be?!?
So Sandeep and Rufus would book nets down at Kallang every couple of weeks and started to post adverts around Singapore and contact anyone who might be interested in playing. The first to sign up was Anil S, a 6'5 Brit living in Singapore and who told us he was really keen on cricket and had played before.
Having seen him close up, neither Sandeep nor I wished to go into the nets to face his bowling. So we allowed him to bat first. His batting re-inforced our thoughts as he played like a typical number 11 fast bowler and neither one of us wanted to face him so we tossed a coin and Sandeep lost and duly padded up. It was with welcome surprise that Anil's bowling was slower than Rufus who bowls around 40 mph!) Such was the uniqueness of Anil's action, he was affectionately call Shot Put and would later single handedly tie a game for us by taking 3 wickets in an over while defending 3 runs.
Slowly a team started to take shape and started to form an idea of arranging some games. Members democratically voted on a new club name and Cracking Willows was formed. Rufus came up with the design (before and after shots of the design) which is still used today.
Cracking Willows began testing the waters by entering the Seasoned Pro indoor cricket and from there, Willows stalwart, Balaji joined.
Club was able to secure US$10,000 sponsorship to fund player's kit and other various expenses and the first official outdoor game took place against Chameleon Cricket Club on 29th November, 2009.
CRACKING WILLOWS after a good time playing friendlies and the sca leagues matches had good team and finally they registered their first tournament title in IZAARA SIXES and lifted the trophy in style.
CRACKING WILLOWS dream came true in 2016 with contributions from all team members onfield and offfield and finally they lift the runners trophy in prestigious Singapre Cricket Association league and got promoted to Division 4.
CRACKING WILLOWS another dream came true in 2017 after coming runners up in the Yorker Permier League.
CRACKING WILLOWS another dream came true in 2019 after coming second runners up and getting qualified to Division 3 and new team is enrolled in the Division 6.
CRACKING WILLOWS another dream came true in 2022 after coming runners up and getting qualified to Division 5. First time in club history for promoting to upper division in the same year as in getting registered.
