Category: Match Reports
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King’s Road CC vs Energy Exiles at Dundonald Recreation Ground
Brown at both ends: Thunderous performance from Road tramples Exiles King’s Road successfully defended 116 to win comfortably by 41 runs against Energy Exiles on a stifling day at Dundonald Recreation Ground. Brownie’s lower-order hitting and Keating’s measured innings at number 10 steered Road to a defendable total on an outfield that zipped and pinged…
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Kings Road finds its Mr Wright
Eager Roaders united on a welcomed sunny day in South London, after already experiencing more washed-out games in 2023 than the entirety of last season. The team were presented with a flat-looking wicket and a precariously quick outfield. The batters were licking their lips, the bowlers were heads bowed, avoiding eye contact with the captain.…
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PEJBall: Requiem
What to do when there are so many awe inspiring performances that you don’t know which to use for the headline? Well, make it about yourself, of course. Some have questioned the efficacy of PEJBall. Is it real? What does it mean? Did it precede or imitate Bazball? Well let me tell you. THIS, was…
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Moany issues a public apology
I’d like to thank you all for attending this press conference. As some of you are aware there have been several statements which I’ve made in the public domain which I wish to address. Firstly i’d like to stress that this is a strictly private matter and I am an intensely private man. My family…
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Road stay Ice Kewl in Richmond heat
What’s cooler than being cool? Ice Kewl You could forgive some Roaders feeling trepidation at the odyssey to Kew. It has been a cursed ground at times for the good ship Road. An iceberg that has left a whole in the good ship’s hull, and lower order sailors drowning and being cast upon the sharp…
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Pinkney and the Game.
Dundonald Rec, warm, dry, sunny. Conditions we have yet to see this season. Oppo the Wimbledon Corinthians, who Keats informed us many times was the team that the once capped John Pinkos left us for. The toss, won by PEJ who put us into bat. The oppo were fielding 9 men at this point with…
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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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It’s a Small world after all
How to write the perfect ending? It isn’t easy. Take the drab and drabber conclusion of the last season of Line of Duty. A masterclass in how to bore your audience to within inches of death. Worse still, the clusterf*** bonfire of logic that was Game of Thrones from season five onwards. A prime example…
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Sieve-handed Roaders schooled by Ockley youngsters
Ockley Cricket Club sits at the foot of Leith Hill, in a particularly picturesque corner of Surrey. Think winding lanes and babbling brooks; think brick cottages with white eaves and timber beams; think larks ascending; think hedgerows and churches and farmhouses. At one side of the ground is a well (which might explain how the…