HORACE and Daisy Duffield have amazed their local cricket club by taking out a joint life membership subscription - in their 90s.

Horace and Daisy have been long-time supporters of Dymock Cricket Club and jumped at the chance of a new family life membership offer to raise money towards the cost of a new pavilion.

Horace said: “I have been supporting the club since I was a child and my father was a member. We go right back.

“I can’t see clearly now and Daisy has arthritis but we still get people to take us along to matches in the summer. We still support the club.”

The club offers full family life membership for £1,000 to top up the £350,000 already raised through grants, loans, donations and fund raising activities.

Club Development Officer Dave Williams said: ‘We are particularly delighted that the first members of the community to take up the offer of Family Life membership are Horace and Daisy Duffield, nominating grandsons Matt and Nick Hill also.

“Horace and Daisy are two of the oldest members of the community and long-time supporters of the Club and contributors to its associated Music Festival with their poetry readings.

“Matt, played cricket as a junior and now organises cricket matches at the club for the disabled, whilst Nick still holds the club record for the highest score and fastest double century.

“This is a great endorsement of everything we are trying to achieve at the club. We hope that we may become the first cricket club anywhere to have our own resident poet on our committee.

“The offers of Family Life membership and Associate Life membership are intended both to raise money to fund the cost of the project, but equally important are intended to cement the Club at the heart of the community."