Year: 2019
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MATCH REPORT: Close the Dors on your way out
On a scorching June day, the King’s Road made the train journey out of Marylebone for one of the highlights of the season; the annual fixture against the Corridors at Great Missenden. After managing to walk the whole way to ground without dropping beers, the Road’s luck didn’t last when they were put in to…
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MATCH REPORT: Whaler’s beached in Battersea Battle of the Blubber
King’s Road ordered their whale battered as they cruised to a seven-wicket victory on a humid day at South London’s most power-stationy Park. Cap’n Brown won the toss and elected to bowl first, deciding thar’ be wickets on this green surface. Conditions were sticky and grey overhead, suggesting stormy seas could be ahead. Happily, the…
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MATCH REPORT: Oh Mandy! Leatherhead laid Manni-low by Hercules of The Road
After a week in which World Cup games were being rained off in record numbers (2!), and twitter alighted with complaints of fans seemingly ignorant of what ‘summer’ entails in England, the mighty Road left the sanctuary of the city for the wilds of Surrey to play Leatherhead CC, in the hope that cricket could…
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MATCH REPORT: Bats make Browny Cross as Road fall short
On a sweltering day, The Road were surprised to find themselves put in by the Cross Bats CC skipper – but took immediate charge of proceedings, moving the kit bags and scoring table into the shade. This is the sort of strategic nous we need to see more of. On the field, Raju and Patz…
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MATCH REPORT: Road Find New Love, but Bank Break Hearts
On a glorious summer day the Kings Road ventured back to leafy Dulwich for the second week in succession, with hopes of a different outcome this week against South Bank CC. On a flat wicket Captain Brown, with his parents among the spectators, had visions of a triumphant day, and having won the toss duly…
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MATCH REPORT: Golden Intree-Club for Team PEJ
The King’s Road Bear got stuck up a Tree as Captain Ent vanquished Captain Keats with an emphatic Intra-Club win, in a match already being billed by this correspondent as ‘The Intree-Club’. PEJ won the toss and elected to bat on a sunny day. This is always a risk in Intra-club, a match where you…
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MATCH REPORT: The Times They Are A Changin’
On a day with more weather changes than Lady Gaga at the Met Gala (not a clue either but when I asked for a metaphor the beautiful, kind, love of my life, my girlfriend who I love a lot*) came up with this – the Road fell just short to the Sunday Times. Toss won…
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KNocturnal: Roehampton Bats CC find the right frequency to catch King’s Road in the dark
All Openers struggle on the Trampoline of Wimbledon, as Roehampton Bat just ever so slightly better than The Road and take the spoils in the first match of the London Premier League 2019 campaign. The Vice Skip, Jamie Keats, gave Skipper Skip, Chris Brown, his mystical “Lucky Coin”. Lucky for the oppo, who duly put…
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MATCH REPORT: Not-so-new boy inspired by not-so-baggy Orange
A bear, a horse, a snake, a hobbit, a tree, a Small person, a bloke from Stoke and some other people who haven’t quite been categorised (yet) all undertook a magnificent journey South-west of Croydon in order to collide bat with ball for the afternoon. Unfortunately the ending of this story isn’t quite as happy…
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HONK! Goose Flies Away in Style as Road Beat South Bank
Do you feel it? That chill in the air? Do you see them? Those ominous grey clouds in the sky? Can you hear it? The howling of an imminent thunderstorm? Yes, it is late April, and King’s Road cricket is back! Déjà vu struck as for the second successive year King’s Road opened their season…