Year: 2020
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Road Blown Out Of The Freezing Cold Water By Unabombers
With the last dregs of summer well and truly drained away into the abyss that has been 2020, 22 men gathered in Banstead for some organised sport on a cold, grey and blustery final Saturday of September. Unable to huddle together for warmth due to social distancing requirements and lacking the fitness to do a…
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They Think It’s All (The) Overs! It Isn’t. KRCSC Win Thriller
KRCSC won a thriller by 7 runs after an opponent miscount meant they batted only 34 overs. In the penultimate game of the season, but the last one played in Summer weather, KRCSC travelled to Raynes Park and were hosted by Old Wimbledonians at their glorious ground. For the second game over a double…
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King’s Road fell whey short of a win as the Butterlords completed a four-wicket victory.
The Orange Caps opened the batting on a sun-baked Haydon’s Road, with Dan Sherman and Tom Birch immediately put under pressure from some tight bowling. They found it tough to churn out the runs but succeeded in seeing off the opening bowlers and had just started to up the tempo when Birch fell for 32…
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Tales of the Sea – Part 2 of 8: From the Depths of Hell
The final days of summer brought the largest audience for a cricket fixture in England this year (39 people and 7 dogs) with The Road facing off against the Paddington Rabbits in the wonderful surrounds of North London. Incompetent tossing once more led to The Road being sent into bat on a bouncy but true…
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The Telling of Ferring – The Odyssey of Oscar [Poem]
Ten King’s warriors kitted all in white, this week not playing the host, Rose early upon a Saturday morn, to make the long trip down to the coast.Their opponents this week a formidable bunch, going by the name of Ferring, The location a mystery to new club members, like the inner workings of a herring.…
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From the depths of despair – part 1 of 8 of “Tales from the Sea” (A Cairns Fudge Match Report)
After 8 long months at sea, I write this memoir from the depths of my cabin. Scurvy has long rendered me useless to this team and the most I can offer is the following collection of my thoughts. Under gloomy skies and high seas on the bank holiday weekend, The Road prepared to wage war…
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Small 5-fer doesn’t quite Hammer home victory over Abinger
“What time is the train?” – Never before have these five innocent words sent such ripples of chaos through a squad of 11 brave men. Never before have so many Saturday evenings been ruined by fear. Never before has train veteran Matt Small desperately succumbed to making up imaginary train routes simply to calm his…
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Thank Kew Very Much! Mandy & Moorjani Script Victory for the Road
Gather round and listen, all ye Roaders and kin, To a tale of good and evil, of cricket and a win… And so it came to pass that the Road, with a line-up that had Captain Keats salivating like a bear with his honey, journeyed to the leafy hinterlands of Kew. With rain threatening to…
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Plucky Road get LICCed Up and Down
Dark, stormy and bitter. No dear reader, I am not talking about Oscar’s drink of choice but instead about the actual weather. Following a week of 30+ degree heat the sun had decided to pack its bags for the weekend and venture to France like every other upper-middle class yuppie and was now seemingly trapped…
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Keats’ Perfect Road Steamroller South Bank
With temperatures in Dulwich reaching the mid-thirties (for the less youthful members of the club: that’s over ninety degrees Fahrenheit) captain Keats somehow managed to ‘negotiate’ the toss such that the Road batted first, giving most of us some valuable time in the shade. Get him negotiating post-Brexit trade deals, I say. Vice-captain Pete nobly…