Category: Match Reports
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T2Oscar’s Odysseys: Newlove of weekday cricket
After 5 years of arduous attempted repairs to my spacecraft, including several winters desperately sourcing key utensils in an attempt to paper over gaps in technology and materials, I was sad to admit that it was now unlikely to become flight worthy ever again. I’m also sorry to admit that any generous donors over winter…
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Mandos serves it up extra-hot, before bowlers put it to Bed(dington)
Across the country, avid sports fans awoke to the promise of a day full of intrigue and drama. Who would prevail at the end of long months tussling for the premiership crown, the blues or the reds (you can tell this report was written by a fan of the bloody footie, can’t you?) In Spain,…
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King’s Road Chinned by Merry Men
Intraclub is fun. So, why stop at one? Such was the thinking of Captain PEJ, glutton for punishment, as the first ever fixture against his band of Merry Men was added to the fixture list. A chance to be reviled not just by ten teammates, but a whole twenty-one. For those uninitiated, the Merry Men…
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You Butter Believe it! Road beat Lords for the first time
After last week’s defeat at the hands of Southbank, The Road were back at Battersea Park. But this time there was something in the air… According to Dan Sherman (and a questionable article in the Guardian) that something was the scent of love…. With love in the air and under cloudy skies captain PEJ won…
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King’s Road’s day goes South in Bank robbery
The sun was shining. The breeze was blowing. People in lycra were taking selfies in Battersea Park. All seemed well with the world as The Road arrived, raring to go for the start of the season. Just one thing was missing…the opposition. Somehow, South Bank had contrived to end up instead at Haydon’s Road. Unperturbed…
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The ‘Dor of Great Missenden firmly shut once more
There are two words in the English language that cause more joy and merriment to a Roader than any others combined. It’s not something mundane like caught and bowled, or played on. No. It is Booze and Train. Fabled, infamous, historic. It is of course the Booze Train to Great Missenden. You speak to many…
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Pinkney hits Heady heights as Road Leather the opposition
You know how the saying goes: One in the pink, two in the…wickets column. So it was that a virtuoso display from the Road’s very own down-on-his-luck Lincolnite saw the Road romp home to a rare win at Leatherhead. The sun was shining, the day was getting hotter, and ten of the gathered Road XI…
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The Secret Match Report – It’s Coming Moans, It’s Coming, Wicket’s Coming Moans
Sunday 11th July 2021 – a day that will live, in infamy. Some people may have had certain expectations leading up, but to everyone’s dismay, Mandy wasn’t going to abandon his allegiance to the Ingurland ultras, Moany wasn’t going to order SLOIME to a clubhouse, and Dave Hughes wasn’t going to reveal what he wears…
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Road pummel Abinger but lack Hammer blow
King’s Road’s trip to Abinger Hammer CC threw up a string of moral quandaries. How do you balance striving for victory with being fair to the opposition’s junior players? Is it fine to spend most of the afternoon doing silly German accents? Above all, should you under any circumstances reheat a sausage roll in the…
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Mostly Harmless: Except for the Scooter “Incident”
Having first played the Unabombers in late September last year, we were able to blame our swift defeat on our unfamiliarity with the cold and eagerness to get off for a final indoor curry before the 14th wave caught up with us. However, our return fixture in June at our home fortress Haydons Road (where…