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Push it to the Nimit (vs Butterlords CC)
A crucial second-wicket stand of 68 from Butterlords in pursuit of Kings Road’s 164 all out set the away side on their way to a comfortable victory by 7 wickets in the sunshine at Dundonald Rec. Despite Oscar’s entertaining 50, including a Champagne Moment-winning cover drive, and Nimit’s devilish spin spell, Kings Road were unable…
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Sun, sixes and suspicious parents (vs Dulwich Lawnmower CC)
A gloriously sunny day greeted the Road as they returned to their spiritual home of Haydons Road to start the 2025 season against Dulwich Lawnmower CC. Tan of the match Ali wasted no time in getting started on the most important task of the season, taking his top off to work on the tan. To…
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Winter Nets 2025
It may be the depths of the English winter, with long nights and cold days, however cricket never sleeps. We are gearing up for our upcoming 2025 season, which begins with our fun Intraclub game in late April and then 1 or more games per week from then until Mid September. To get ourselves ready…
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Bats out of Hell
The Road ventured down to Fortress Dundonaldâ„¢ needing 9 points to reach the LPL final on their annual hunt for South London glory. After the bombshell that the Bats would not be providing teas, no further motivation was needed. The Road lost the toss and were put into bat. The 2 Dans (Sherman and Johnson)…
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Antelope Pay for Hitting Bison for 6
Our new correspondent Ben writes: MASSIVE win for the road vs the mighty (and also massive) ‘lopes, despite Moans best efforts to jinx it from the boundary! Day started off with air of forboding, as Sherman crawled to fortress Dundonald, clearly in the final throws of death. An act of inspiring commitment to the Road.…
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Game of cricket
The power station glinted in the midday sun. The birds were singing in the trees. The English sparkling wine and unlabelled mystery beers were on ice. People were falling asleep in bikinis at deep cover point without adequate protective equipment. It could only be Battersea Park Pitch 1, for the official Brown-McGilligan Stag/Boyfriends, Wives and…
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Calamari and a Knees-Up
Hello readers, it’s been a while, how are you all doing? Glad to hear. How am I doing? Thank you for asking, because not many people have asked if I’m okay, but 4 games in 6 days, and only 12 runs, is a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes. I want…
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Come with me now, on a journey to the Mighty Road….
BazBall got you by the… well balls I guess? Trigger finger itching to be raised quicker than Steve Bucknor? Look no further than the Kings Road. You’re probably asking myself “But why should I join this group of cricketers? They are no different than any others and I am clearly much better than them and…
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2024 Nets and New Season
A very happy new year to you all from the King’s Road! We had a great 2023 season, playing 29 games across the long summer. Here are our 2023 match reports and here is a link to our Play-Cricket season card; we hope these will help to give you a flavour of what we got…
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Work Dougie Calls Time on 2023 Season
After another successful season with Pej at the wheel, it was captain Keats who led the road to it’s final game of the 2023 season to bring the curtain down. Chief of selectors Keats put a few calls round to a select few ringers – Wicky, Gopi and Sai from Octopus were called up. Three…