A long-term unfilled gap in the calendar gave Beef the opportunity to schedule in another fixture against a team beginning with the letter ‘B’. Step forward Belvedere 2nd XI, and a ground which Deadly Dicky knew well. The majority of the rest of us hadn’t frequented their place, and with its hefty slope, pitch two[…]
After another spot of fixture drama – Borden barely had a team by Wednesday night – the game was confirmed after a brief morning pitch inspection by the landlords following an overnight deluge. On further inspection by our own wannabe curators, it was described as “urgh”, “a swamp”, “can we play somewhere else” and other[…]
The much anticipated ‘Stone Derby’ vs. Stone-in-Oxney went belly-up early doors this week, adding to the pile of re-arranged fixtures in the 2023 season. Nevertheless, fixture king Beef managed to line us up a much shorter trip down to New Beckenham CC, an oppo which quite frankly none of us knew existed. We rocked up[…]
After a very damp club day shindig last week, we trekked down to Bredgar for a high summer showdown against a team that tends to get the better of us, indeed by 8 wickets a month previously. Clearly the quicker bowlers of the club had remembered this fact and all of them bar Slates did[…]