At the recently held Sport Haslemere awards long serving Grayshott Cricket clubman Peter Clapham received the 'Services to Sport ', the second clubman in recent years to collect this award. Gerald Baker winning the award in 2006.

Peter Clapham, or 'Mr Grayshott' as he is often called, must be one of the greatest clubmen. This is not only for his achievements on the field but for the past 56 years he has been more renowned for his achievements off it.

He started playing cricket for the Club when he was 13 and continued to do so until a couple of years ago at the age of 67(ish!). Peter featured strongly in the various League and Cup winning teams before becoming captain of the 1983 Miller Cup winning side.

Over the years he has fulfilled most of the administrative type roles associated with a village club like Chairman and Secretary but it is his involvement with youth cricket for over 30 years that he is held with the highest regard. He has overseen the development of junior cricket from just one team in the early 1970`s to a club that fielded five teams in 2005. The fruits of Peter`s efforts have been borne by the recent successes of the club with ten out of the eleven 1st XI players who won the I`Anson League in 2006 being a product of the club`s youth structure.

Notwithstanding the above, Peter has also found time to be the club`s groundsman for many years now – a job he continues to do and Peter`s involvement with the club shows no signs of letting up and he is an example to everyone of a true clubman.