Category: Match Reports
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HONK! Goose Flies Away in Style as Road Beat South Bank
Do you feel it? That chill in the air? Do you see them? Those ominous grey clouds in the sky? Can you hear it? The howling of an imminent thunderstorm? Yes, it is late April, and King’s Road cricket is back! Déjà vu struck as for the second successive year King’s Road opened their season…
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Bowlers break through all barriers as King’s Road flood Thames Ditton 4XI
King’s Road travelled South West for the glorious Collett’s fixture in the heart of North Surrey suburbs. Beneath blue skies and overlooked by a sun-trapped balcony, Skipper Jamie Keats was put to the sword by the coin as Thames Ditton win the toss and decided to bat. Led out into the sweltering cauldron, Keats went…
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MATCH REPORT – A Sham-pagne innings was De Silva lining for the Road as they failed to stop the press in Dulwich
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3678122 A classy 63 not out from Shaminda de Silva was the standout score in the King’s Road total of 169 against the Sunday Times. Any sort of defensible total looked unlikely when drinks were taken after 20 overs with the Orange Caps having scored just 38. Miserly bowling by Olly Lee and Greg…
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MATCH REPORT: Wet, Wet, Wet! But there is no Sweet Little Mystery bowler for The Road as South Bank reign in the rain
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3674284 King’s Road lost by six wickets in a rain-soaked match against South Bank Cricket Club, but that does not reflect how tight the match was. In fact, going into the last over the win was up for grabs for either side, with SBCC knocking off The Road’s total with only two balls to…
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MATCH REPORT: Super Sherman Overshadowed by Trigger-Happy Treachery
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3358936 Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” Martin Luther King Jr on Ali Tyzack. “Pah, the King’s Road? Never heard of them, shove them up against our 5th XI” – said Kingstonian CC. …Brown seeth, Brown noteth, and 40 overs later… King’s Road haven’t played Kingstonian…
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Yip-pee! Captain Brown opens account with Wonder of Wandsworth
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3668836 Now, A haiku, from Peter Jackson Eastwood: Troopers excited, The season curtain raiser, Would rain scupper it? Cocken less than pleased, But Christopher adamant, The show must go on. South Bank were the foe, And first blood to their captain, Toss lost, in to bat. TOSS: SBCC win the toss, and elect to…
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INTRACLUB 2018: Team Bear awakes from hibernation, as Keating’s team take the spoils
And so the good ship King’s Road embarked on another voyage, sailing forth into the 2018 season with the traditional intraclub contest. With KRCSC skipper Chris Brown absent, it was left to Orange Cap stalwarts Dan Sherman and Jamie Keating to lead the opposing sides in the battle of the beards. Sherman’s team batted first…
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MATCH REPORT: Curtain closes on King’s Road season with well-written tragedy vs the Thespian Thunderers
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3203637 The Road’s last home game of the famous 10th year of Orange had come. Thespian Thunderers CC were the Opponents. Homely Haydons Road the venue, nutters & all. Skipper Dan Sherman won the toss & sent the Thesps into the field. Club stalwarts Mark Isham & Matt Small marched in at 12.30pm to…
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MATCH REPORT: Road’s Small Cocken not enough to penetrate the Fudge
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3202266 King’s Road found that they had bit off more than they could chew against the Fudge, as the heroics of Small-Cocken wasn’t enough to prevent a premature ending to the match, and a heavy defeat. On a pitch greener than Chris Brown’s face after a visit to the Dundonald Rec bushes, Skipper…
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“That’s my KEW to leave” – King’s Road left Green in the face as run chase falters
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3200890 King’s Road battled hard against Kew Sunday Occassional’s CC. But other than a bold stand by Skipper Dan Sherman and Mo Shaboodien the run chase proved too much. Kew Green, the stunning setting for the 2nd fixture of the week, Skipper Sherms luck with the coin ran out, as Kew sent The Road’s…