Month: April 2012
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League points shared after season opener rained off
THE Road’s first match of the season, the LPL debut against Corridors CC, has been rained off. The groundsman has apparently decided the sodden pitch (pictured above) would get damaged if Saturday’s game took place. League points will be shared unless the fixture can be rearranged.
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Mystery man Amir out for a month after finger injury
Amir Alipour injured a finger on Clapham Common and will miss social cricket team King’s Road’s next match in Buckinghamshire
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Captain’s Blog: ‘Club game showed we’ve got better’
After the long winter it was good to see so many familiar faces at Clapham on Saturday. We also welcome those new faces who joined us and hope to see them all again. The Intra-Club match was a good opportunity to get out and test our skills in match conditions and prepare for the season.…
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Intra-Club 2012
Scorecard from our annual Intra-Club match on Clapham Common when the new club captain takes on the previous year’s skip
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Sun shines on Team James as new skip wins friendly
Forecasts of bad weather proved as wide of the mark as the bowling as new skip James Couldrey started his reign with a win in the Intra-Club match. The Battersea-based southpaw’s side beat the side representing last year’s captain Giles Fagan yesterday in 21.3 of their alloted 30 overs to run home by 7 wickets.…
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Captain’s Blog: ‘I’ll teach that Giles a lesson’, says Captain Couldrey
The skies will be grey on Saturday but it will be raining runs on our opponents bowlers on Clapham Common
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‘Please can I play for you?’: Alastair Cook is the latest star to don our famous cap
THIS is the moment a player from the best team in the world met a player from the best team in the UNIVERSE. England star Alastair Cook looked starstruck when he ran into The Road’s Richard Peralta on tour in Sri Lanka. According to witnesses, Cook, who helped England battle back to win the second…