The Ploughmans Annual Tour is the stuff of myth and legend. The biggest and, arguably, best social occasion of the year. Looked forward to in equal measures of excitement and trepidation. The tours started way back in the early 90s when venues such as Norfolk and the New Forest were sourced, cricket was played, fines were promulgated (and paid) and beer was imbibed in vast quantities. As the Club grew, so did the tour, and it has always been a great source of pride to the Club that tour has always been very inclusive. Not just a weekend away with the lads, Tour is open to everyone - wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, kids, pets and any other random hangers-on (and there's been plenty of those!)

One such Tour in the late-90's found Ploughmans CC in the beautiful Cotswold village of Fairford, and so it came to pass that The Bull Hotel carved out its own very special and utterly unique place in Ploughmans folklore. Along with the most agreeable landlord in the UK, the Cricket Club did its absolute utmost to ensure a good time was had by all and managed to achieve the rather dubious honour of being the hotel's second biggest weekend of each year behind an international air show! Over the years, The Bull's hospitality, patience and hardworking bar staff were tested to the very outer limits of what could be described as acceptable and decent but in the process secured the tag of 'spiritual home' to Ploughmans CC.

Sadly, after 11 years, PCC said goodbye to The Bull as the landlord moved onto pastures new but as one door closed, another one opened and the Ploughmans overseas tours were born. First, with an enormous tour of just over 50 people travelling to the Mediterranean island of Malta for some cricket and the sun, then quickly followed the following season by a tour to the Greek island of Corfu. Here, a Ploughmans side not only played on one of only two cricket pitches on a UNESCO World Heritage Site but also became the first touring side to actually beat a very strong Greek Select XI - a team which included several international cricketers.

2016 saw us take a year off from our overseas travels as Bristol became our base for another outstanding (if incredibly weird) weekend but we've got the travel bug now and, after a long weekend of cricket in beautiful Croatia, we topped that in 2018 with a sensational weekend in rural Portugal where, amongst many firsts for the Club, we took part in our first ever day/night match. In 2019 we toured stunning rural France, followed by another UK tour in 2021, this time to Wiltshire where we defeated good opposition to win the Fonthill Park 8-a-side trophy. 2022 saw Ploughmans visit Cartama Oval near Malaga, the home of the European League, where a brilliant long weekend of cricket took place.

Recent Tours:

2014 - Vallarta, Malta
2015 - Corfu, Greece
2016 - Bristol, England
2017 - Vis, Croatia
2018 - Coimbra, Portugal
2019 - Bordeaux, France
2021 - Wiltshire, England
2022 - Malaga, Spain
2023 - Budapest, Hungary
2024 - Vallarta, Malta