Scarborough's cricket festival will last for two weeks this summer

Scarborough Cricket Club has announced record financial results for 2007.

Club secretary Colin Adamson told BBC Radio York they were delighted with the surplus of �65,624.

"It's a very good surplus but you've got to bear in mind such sort of financial results don't come around very often."

"We have had years in the past when we've made significant losses but fortunately in 2007 everything came together well in the one year."

One of the factors that contributed towards the success was the weather during the annual cricket festival at North Marine Road.

Adamson added: "If you get good settled weather then obviously people are going to travel and come to the cricket.

"That adds money in terms of gate receipts and has a knock on effect in terms of bar and catering takings."

We do need these excellent years in order to be able to reinvest it in the club Scarborough cricket club secretary, Colin Adamson

The club will use the money to invest in the ground to maintain facilities and to make sure it reaches the standard needed to host first class cricket.

"We've got a massive infrastructure here at Scarborough and we don't get external grants, or anything like that, for the purpose of maintaining the stands and everything that goes with it.

"We need these excellent years in order to be able to reinvest it in the club."

This year's cricket festival takes place over two weeks, for the first time, at the end of August.

Adamson explained: "The format is slightly different as all 10 days of county cricket comes within a 13 day period.

"Instead of having a block at the end of July and then another towards the end of August it all happens between 25 August and 6 September.

"We're putting the whole of the programme under the heading of the '122nd Annual Festival'."