Tag: jamie keating
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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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Lincoln Tour Report: You Reepham What you Sow
Genesis 1: In the beginning, Keats created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Keats moved upon the face of the waters. And Keats said, Let there be light: and there was light. And Keats saw…
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Gardeners World: Tired Road turned over in green field site
Ah, summer thyme – sunshine, green fields, batting collapses, bowling heroics, dropped catches, teas, drinking straw-coloured bitters as the shadows extend, discussing US politics with a pig into the early hours. Our early May match against the Gardeners CC would deliver most, but not all of these quintessential hallmarks of an English summer. A new…
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‘Come with me if you want to win’: Shermanator/Goutanator axis vanquishes South Bank
“I’m a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a run-scoring endoskeleton.” D. Sherman, c. 2021. In scenes that bore no resemblance to the opening-day massacre at the antlers of the Antelopians in 2020, The Road ran riot as South Bank CC succumbed to defeat in a first match thriller. Rain was forecast for later in the…
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MATCH REPORT: Oh Mandy! Leatherhead laid Manni-low by Hercules of The Road
After a week in which World Cup games were being rained off in record numbers (2!), and twitter alighted with complaints of fans seemingly ignorant of what ‘summer’ entails in England, the mighty Road left the sanctuary of the city for the wilds of Surrey to play Leatherhead CC, in the hope that cricket could…
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KNocturnal: Roehampton Bats CC find the right frequency to catch King’s Road in the dark
All Openers struggle on the Trampoline of Wimbledon, as Roehampton Bat just ever so slightly better than The Road and take the spoils in the first match of the London Premier League 2019 campaign. The Vice Skip, Jamie Keats, gave Skipper Skip, Chris Brown, his mystical “Lucky Coin”. Lucky for the oppo, who duly put…
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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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London Premier League: Oz the Great and Powerful, But Road shown the ‘Dor in thriller
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3199198 King’s Road succumbed to an agonising one-wicket defeat with just three balls to spare as the Dors creaked to victory to shred KRCSC’s league ambitions. On a green pitch that was sticky underfoot, The Road were put in to bat. Adam Paterson signalled his intentions early, taking the game to the opening…
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‘We was Robbo’d!’ – Brave King’s Road consumed by Dragons’ fire
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3170093 Brave St George battled the Dragon valiantly and slew the dreadful beast. Sadly, King’s Road couldn’t replicate the achievement of England’s patron saint as, despite some stupendously heroic batting, they felt the keen burn of Dragon flames torch their run chase. On a pitch described not unfairly by Ali Tyzack as ‘The…
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Match Report: Baby Bear Chris Brown bowls KRCSC to commanding win over South Bank CC
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3161357 Kings’s Road, nicknamed “The Beards” this season, took the battle to South Bank CC at Battersea Park on the first day of the 2017. Under new leadership from Daniel Sherman, members of The Road were found out of their beds before midday and already steam-rolling into the nets at Battersea for a…