Tag: peter jackson eastwood
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Headliner Road Show too good for Support Act(onians)
It’s festival season. You know what that means. Dancing, boozing, pingers, poppers, and touring. Though festival season can be somewhat different for us cricketing folk. But you all know what cricket season means. Bowling, fielding, wickets, sixes and dropped catches. With Glastonbury finished, the world-renowned rockstars of the village cricket circuit King’s Road were able…
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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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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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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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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…
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Paddington Rabbits mix up The Road’s well marma-laid plans
There is a plaque on the pavilion at Battersea Park commemorating the first ever game of association football, supposedly played there in 1864. Much has changed since. Back then, Queen Victoria was on the throne and America was fighting a civil war. The power station that now provides the backdrop to our Battersea games and…
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Fire in the Engine as Road dispatch South Bank
There was something in the air at a grey Dulwich Sports Ground. Quite what it was, it was hard to say, but everybody rocked up feeling a little giddy. Charlie Twyman turned up with a fresh haircut that made him look like a medieval princeling. The lesser spotted of two trees, Marky Mark Isham, made…
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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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Oh, Mandy: Sodden Road squelch home in amp Brockley thriller
Some men are born great. Some have greatness thrust upon them. Others rock up to cricket every week and make the rest of us look ridiculous. Â So it was with housewives favourite Matt Andrews, Mandy (of the Match), against Brockley CC, a side against whom The Road have enjoyed several close games. In stormy…
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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…