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Thank Kew Very Much! Mandy & Moorjani Script Victory for the Road
Gather round and listen, all ye Roaders and kin, To a tale of good and evil, of cricket and a win… And so it came to pass that the Road, with a line-up that had Captain Keats salivating like a bear with his honey, journeyed to the leafy hinterlands of Kew. With rain threatening to…
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Plucky Road get LICCed Up and Down
Dark, stormy and bitter. No dear reader, I am not talking about Oscar’s drink of choice but instead about the actual weather. Following a week of 30+ degree heat the sun had decided to pack its bags for the weekend and venture to France like every other upper-middle class yuppie and was now seemingly trapped…
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Keats’ Perfect Road Steamroller South Bank
With temperatures in Dulwich reaching the mid-thirties (for the less youthful members of the club: that’s over ninety degrees Fahrenheit) captain Keats somehow managed to ‘negotiate’ the toss such that the Road batted first, giving most of us some valuable time in the shade. Get him negotiating post-Brexit trade deals, I say. Vice-captain Pete nobly…
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Maiden Fergalicious Fifty in vain for Battling Road
‘Tell you what, it would be nice to show everybody that we can win a game without Browny or Mandy.’ Words heard by this reporter not once, not twice, but thrice before the Road’s latest outing against the Albamorphics was underway. Having been frustrated by the weather and mechanics of a timed game the weekend…
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Runs back on the Mando’s menu at Leatherhead
As the troops congregated in Leatherhead for a second consecutive day of cricket we were immediately met with a dilemma, who had grown the better lockdown moustache Fergus or PEJ? Not much to split them in truth, both could have accompanied Muttley and not been questioned. A quick inspection soon confirmed we’d be playing on…
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Cricket returns! But Antelopians gallop past The Road
Let’s not beat around the bush, 2020 has been awful for myriad reasons, but none more serious than the postponement of cricket. I would therefore like to start this match report with a heartfelt thanks to our government and it’s leader, who shall remain nameless, for finding a way to surmount what seemed the insurmountable,…
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MATCH REPORT: Hammer Time at the Abinger of Doom
For the 2nd year The Road went on a Bank Holiday adventure to Abinger Hammer, a game so pleasant that MAandos proclaimed “As soon as fixtures were announced I looked for this one and made sure I was free” Cheeky! For some of the intrepid Roaders we met at the designated time (unsurprisingly others did…
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MATCH REPORT: Kings Road Take on an LPL Ringer
*CB here. I would like to first off note that those who know me are aware that I can be quite a bitter and grumpy individual at times. This game did not help that and I therefore make no apologies for the below. Please enjoy.* The weather was very windy but the ground was pretty…
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MATCH REPORT: Girl, Kew Really Got Me Goin’
“Cricket is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated” – Confucius c. 500 BC. I’m not entirely sure I’m with Confucius on that particular quote, as the smug bastard never had to cope with British summertime. So it was that a potentially thrilling conclusion to the match between King’s Road and Kew was…
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Match Report: Brilliant Browny Blitzes Albamorphics
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. So it was that when the captaincy was thrust once again upon PEJ, he delivered a crushing victory to maintain his 100% record as stand-in skipper. But the star of the show was unquestionably the Road’s true leader, the irrepressible Christopher…