Category: Latest News
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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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Cricket Returns. Kings Road vs The Butterlords
Firstly lets rejoice as we finally got an actual game of cricket and what a start for the Road for 2023 with a nail biting victory. But victory’s don’t come easy… A green sticky May deck awaiting Sent into bat first with our regular captain bailing on us the Road was instead led by some…
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“Start with a catchy headline”… The age of MoanI
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine” During the off-season, our resident antipodean James ‘Moany’ Mahony has evidently done a stand-up job in rebooting the King’s Road website. Bright orange colours, self-scrolling media content, and an unacceptable yet grimly predictable plague of Cam Green content. But how…
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BallSec: the story so far
Today, as we stand in the spring sunshine on the eve of an exciting new season, we bring you an exciting special post. The KRCSC’s Ball Secretary (2022-Present), Ali Tyzack, writes in to dispel some common myths around his role and to raise awareness of the importance of the humble red ball to a season’s…
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New website
After much fanfare I’d like to welcome everyone to the new website. Updated with new stats, bios and info on the team. It’s taken a lot of effort from the web development team and you should buy beers for them for the rest of the season for their efforts. There’s some easter eggs in the…
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Buy to Net: Come, suffer with us
You wake in the night, screaming. The New Year is upon you. The mornings are dark. Your stomach has undergone a Christmas expansion. You stare at the ceiling, eyes already wide open as your alarm goes off. You search for purpose in a world devoid of meaning. Is your search fruitless? Maybe not… Friends, colleagues,…
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London Premier League: King’s Road pack a punch against Cairns Fudge
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3186056 The Road at their spiritual home in Haydons Road looking to continue good form in the London Premier League, having only lost one league fixture so far this season. Things were looking up as Skipper Dan wins another toss and sent the openers Matt Cocken and Lewis Robonson out in the sunshine.…
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The Bloody Lads have got bloody good. The bloody cads!
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3172381 King’s Road were punished by the Bloody Lads last Sunday, after a batsman described as “just below county level” put the bowling to the sword. Mulvey hit 12 fours and 14 sixes as he smashed his way to 155 not-out, almost single-handedly securing a 10 wicket victory. With captain Dan Sherman otherwise engaged…
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Gimme some Mo of that! Shaboodien knock can’t prevent a King’s Road defeat to the Sunday Times XI
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3167005 A stylish half century from Mo Shaboodien could not prevent a King’s Road defeat against the Sunday Times Occasionals at the weekend. Mo finished unbeaten on 56*, following a middle order collapse which saw four Road wickets fall for just nine runs. The day started well for Dan Sherman’s side, as the skipper won…
