Our twos all but completed relegation yesterday 124 all out for us , including a back to back league duck for me ffs 2nd bottom against 3rd bottom, they knocked em off 3 down in no time as we managed to drop 4 catches before they got to 50.
shit season having been promoted last year , availability has been appalling and we’ve scrimped and scraped the barrel at times with players who shouldn’t be anywhere near league cricket ., the low point being a 9 man team all out for 38 My body is hurting but I’ll continue to give it a go, maybe a year or two more league cricket before just Sunday friendlies for me. waiting for little shit to grow a bit before he can play mens cricket and then I’m gonna get a Sunday game with me and the 4 boys (petrolhead can’t hold a bat but can bowl recklessly) before I retire in to the sunset
Ones lost a low scorer away at Tillingham and are heading for a top half finish in their first season in the mid Essex prem .
Our twos all but completed relegation yesterday 124 all out for us , including a back to back league duck for me ffs 2nd bottom against 3rd bottom, they knocked em off 3 down in no time as we managed to drop 4 catches before they got to 50.
shit season having been promoted last year , availability has been appalling and we’ve scrimped and scraped the barrel at times with players who shouldn’t be anywhere near league cricket ., the low point being a 9 man team all out for 38 My body is hurting but I’ll continue to give it a go, maybe a year or two more league cricket before just Sunday friendlies for me. waiting for little shit to grow a bit before he can play mens cricket and then I’m gonna get a Sunday game with me and the 4 boys (petrolhead can’t hold a bat but can bowl recklessly) before I retire in to the sunset
Ones lost a low scorer away at Tillingham and are heading for a top half finish in their first season in the mid Essex prem .
Just looked up one of your scorecards. The way you and presumably one of your boys (WAIT NO he's been playing since 2005. Lol you have a doppelganger?) are disambiguated on the scorecard is truly magnificent work
Our twos all but completed relegation yesterday 124 all out for us , including a back to back league duck for me ffs 2nd bottom against 3rd bottom, they knocked em off 3 down in no time as we managed to drop 4 catches before they got to 50.
shit season having been promoted last year , availability has been appalling and we’ve scrimped and scraped the barrel at times with players who shouldn’t be anywhere near league cricket ., the low point being a 9 man team all out for 38 My body is hurting but I’ll continue to give it a go, maybe a year or two more league cricket before just Sunday friendlies for me. waiting for little shit to grow a bit before he can play mens cricket and then I’m gonna get a Sunday game with me and the 4 boys (petrolhead can’t hold a bat but can bowl recklessly) before I retire in to the sunset
Ones lost a low scorer away at Tillingham and are heading for a top half finish in their first season in the mid Essex prem .
That'll be worth waiting for. There can't be many teams that have fielded a father and four sons.
My mates sons play for Ashtead in Surrey and they have an overseas player Simon Keene who’s been living with them last and this summer, he’s a top lad who plays for Auckland and just been called up to NZ A squad to visit SA .
Boffin and Peter Kay played golf with him and mates son at London club on Friday He had his last match yesterday and signed off with 201(151) before he meets up next weekend with the A squad .
bizarrely last week Ashtead 1s and 4s tied and this week their 2s and 3s tied !!
Our twos all but completed relegation yesterday 124 all out for us , including a back to back league duck for me ffs 2nd bottom against 3rd bottom, they knocked em off 3 down in no time as we managed to drop 4 catches before they got to 50.
shit season having been promoted last year , availability has been appalling and we’ve scrimped and scraped the barrel at times with players who shouldn’t be anywhere near league cricket ., the low point being a 9 man team all out for 38 My body is hurting but I’ll continue to give it a go, maybe a year or two more league cricket before just Sunday friendlies for me. waiting for little shit to grow a bit before he can play mens cricket and then I’m gonna get a Sunday game with me and the 4 boys (petrolhead can’t hold a bat but can bowl recklessly) before I retire in to the sunset
Ones lost a low scorer away at Tillingham and are heading for a top half finish in their first season in the mid Essex prem .
Just looked up one of your scorecards. The way you and presumably one of your boys (WAIT NO he's been playing since 2005. Lol you have a doppelganger?) are disambiguated on the scorecard is truly magnificent work
There’s two David Smiths and he’s called Super and I’m the shit one
Our twos all but completed relegation yesterday 124 all out for us , including a back to back league duck for me ffs 2nd bottom against 3rd bottom, they knocked em off 3 down in no time as we managed to drop 4 catches before they got to 50.
shit season having been promoted last year , availability has been appalling and we’ve scrimped and scraped the barrel at times with players who shouldn’t be anywhere near league cricket ., the low point being a 9 man team all out for 38 My body is hurting but I’ll continue to give it a go, maybe a year or two more league cricket before just Sunday friendlies for me. waiting for little shit to grow a bit before he can play mens cricket and then I’m gonna get a Sunday game with me and the 4 boys (petrolhead can’t hold a bat but can bowl recklessly) before I retire in to the sunset
Ones lost a low scorer away at Tillingham and are heading for a top half finish in their first season in the mid Essex prem .
My mates sons play for Ashtead in Surrey and they have an overseas player Simon Keene who’s been living with them last and this summer, he’s a top lad who plays for Auckland and just been called up to NZ A squad to visit SA .
Boffin and Peter Kay played golf with him and mates son at London club on Friday He had his last match yesterday and signed off with 201(151) before he meets up next weekend with the A squad .
bizarrely last week Ashtead 1s and 4s tied and this week their 2s and 3s tied !!
I did Ashtead in a national cup game at Gravesend back in April. Keene is a good player!
1987 - Lancashire Central League. A step up on the Kent Premier League, in fact a standard way above any club league nowadays and more a question of who didn't play international cricket rather than who did. Take a look at how many overs they bowled too!
Congratulations to Whitstable for finishing runners up in the Championship and for joining the Champions, Sevenoaks Vine, in the Premier League next season following a thrashing of Folkestone (180 all out vs 44 all out) yesterday. Thoroughly deserved. Bickley Park will, following their defeat at the hands of Bromley Common yesterday, fight out third place with Canterbury. You don't beat the Vine and lose to them by 6 runs in the return by not having a decent team but the combination of too many players not turning up and performing on occasions and a tiny squad made things difficult for them.
As for the Premier League, Tunbridge Wells were confirmed winners yesterday so well done to them. Holmesdale are going to have the wooden spoon but the other relegation place will be going to Blackheath (last year's Champions), Minster or Sandwich. Next Saturday is going to be a nervous day for those three sides.
Down to only 10 players I told skipper to not bowl or bat me cos I’m injured (fell over in the inter club match and fucked my knee up batting pissed last Sunday 🤦♂️) in our dead rubber … oppo went from 60/6 ish to notch 150/9 in 40 overs , I was brought on first change “give it a go”and my 3 nurofen and 3 paracetamol body dragged itself through the motions to bowl a credible 8 overs 1-17 with their main scorer being dropped in his 20s and 30s off me and he went on to get 69 of their runs . He pissed me off not being ready twice in 4 balls when I’m as slow as fuck cos I couldn’t move properly, second time he stood away I went up and bowled underarm … then sarcastically asked if he was ready each time before I bowled the last two in the over . That wound me up and made me bowl better and go through the pain barrier … We did our usual chuff and went to 71/6 with just 3 wickets left but the skipper 37 and a seasons first 53 got us down to needing 5 off 5 and our in batsmen got run out so I entered the fray all set up to be the hero with 5 needed off 4 balls and me on strike I came down the track a Good couple of strides looking to target the less populated leg side boundary and with a gentle swipe of the bat duly missed it and got rapped on the pads long way down the track . Scrambled back in to my crease as our umpire (young player) gave me out lbw …. what a complete bell I am … I could argue I was a long way down and could easily have been given not out but it was genuinely pathetic by me completing 3 in 4 league ducks and this one a golden to sign out for this season as my faux pas saw us go bottom of the table having finished top 12 months previous.
I’m going to get scanned etc to sort out my wanky knees and get my eyes sorted with some IOL so I might be able to catch or see the ball batting again and move quicker than a snail . Our ones had the chance to finish a creditable 3rd in their first season in the mid Essex prem playing against already relegated and bottom of the table old Chelmsfordians and we were all out for 105 and lost by 3 wickets to end the season in 4th .
Congratulations to Whitstable for finishing runners up in the Championship and for joining the Champions, Sevenoaks Vine, in the Premier League next season following a thrashing of Folkestone (180 all out vs 44 all out) yesterday. Thoroughly deserved. Bickley Park will, following their defeat at the hands of Bromley Common yesterday, fight out third place with Canterbury. You don't beat the Vine and lose to them by 6 runs in the return by not having a decent team but the combination of too many players not turning up and performing on occasions and a tiny squad made things difficult for them.
As for the Premier League, Tunbridge Wells were confirmed winners yesterday so well done to them. Holmesdale are going to have the wooden spoon but the other relegation place will be going to Blackheath (last year's Champions), Minster or Sandwich. Next Saturday is going to be a nervous day for those three sides.
Could you talk me though Bickley 3s' day of absolute seppuku that's relegated them and rendered my lot safe from relegation, btw? Like, knowing Bexleyheath and us are playing each other on the last day and still essentially tying the noose, putting it around their neck and handing Hayes the lever?
Congratulations to Whitstable for finishing runners up in the Championship and for joining the Champions, Sevenoaks Vine, in the Premier League next season following a thrashing of Folkestone (180 all out vs 44 all out) yesterday. Thoroughly deserved. Bickley Park will, following their defeat at the hands of Bromley Common yesterday, fight out third place with Canterbury. You don't beat the Vine and lose to them by 6 runs in the return by not having a decent team but the combination of too many players not turning up and performing on occasions and a tiny squad made things difficult for them.
As for the Premier League, Tunbridge Wells were confirmed winners yesterday so well done to them. Holmesdale are going to have the wooden spoon but the other relegation place will be going to Blackheath (last year's Champions), Minster or Sandwich. Next Saturday is going to be a nervous day for those three sides.
Could you talk me though Bickley 3s' day of absolute seppuku that's relegated them and rendered my lot safe from relegation, btw? Like, knowing Bexleyheath and us are playing each other on the last day and still essentially tying the noose, putting it around their neck and handing Hayes the lever?
They've had to blood a lot of youngsters throughout the course of the year but the table doesn't lie.
Congratulations to Whitstable for finishing runners up in the Championship and for joining the Champions, Sevenoaks Vine, in the Premier League next season following a thrashing of Folkestone (180 all out vs 44 all out) yesterday. Thoroughly deserved. Bickley Park will, following their defeat at the hands of Bromley Common yesterday, fight out third place with Canterbury. You don't beat the Vine and lose to them by 6 runs in the return by not having a decent team but the combination of too many players not turning up and performing on occasions and a tiny squad made things difficult for them.
As for the Premier League, Tunbridge Wells were confirmed winners yesterday so well done to them. Holmesdale are going to have the wooden spoon but the other relegation place will be going to Blackheath (last year's Champions), Minster or Sandwich. Next Saturday is going to be a nervous day for those three sides.
Could you talk me though Bickley 3s' day of absolute seppuku that's relegated them and rendered my lot safe from relegation, btw? Like, knowing Bexleyheath and us are playing each other on the last day and still essentially tying the noose, putting it around their neck and handing Hayes the lever?
They've had to blood a lot of youngsters throughout the course of the year but the table doesn't lie.
But agreeing to a 22-over game then batting first! Absurd
They only avoided relegation on the last day two years ago; last year Champions. This year, been very difficult for them - bad start, injuries, loss of form, overseas not as good as previous, etc.
Boffin got his first ton, 103(73) in a Sunday friendly at Hoddesdon , gutted I wasn’t there but couldn’t be more pleased , plenty of pies but he still gotta get em . Skipper messaged me yesterday , we needed 12/13 an over with ten or so to go , boffin was in the 70s and skipper said ‘concentrate on getting your ton have you ever got one before , he said yeah let’s go for it ‘ , they had a few good overs but couldn’t sniff oppos total of 320 off 40 overs . He told the skipper afterwards that it was his first ton but was more interested in going for the win . I’m more proud of that than the ton , so many selfish cnuts play cricket and only think about themselves but he’s as good a team player as you can get body on the line and competitive, although a touch too 🥩y sometimes .
Well done Boffin! Nobody will ever be able to take that away from you and may this be the first of many.
Dad has never really spoken about your Mum on here but it's great to read that it isn't just her intelligence, but also her sporting brilliance and selflessness, that has been passed down to you. I'm sure you've inherited some of your Dad's unique skillsets too, for example his unique way of using euphemisms when others might not be quite as subtle in describing something not particularly pleasant and of course how to best utilise your time when sitting on the khazi.
My club Chislehurst & West Kent CC have had a very good season - Two teams won promotion last weekend (2's and 4's), while the 3's are second with just the last game to go. A win for them at the weekend and they will also be promoted. Our previously all-conquering first team have had a tougher season, losing more games this year than they have in the previous four years of promotion put together! That said, they are still third in the table and a win against Division 3 champions Hayes on Saturday will give them a chance of claiming the runners up place, but only if St Lawrence & Highland Court 2's lose their game.
Off the pitch the fund raising to build a new pavilion progresses well, but is still along way short of what is required. Donations can be made here:
Congratulations to Whitstable for finishing runners up in the Championship and for joining the Champions, Sevenoaks Vine, in the Premier League next season following a thrashing of Folkestone (180 all out vs 44 all out) yesterday. Thoroughly deserved. Bickley Park will, following their defeat at the hands of Bromley Common yesterday, fight out third place with Canterbury. You don't beat the Vine and lose to them by 6 runs in the return by not having a decent team but the combination of too many players not turning up and performing on occasions and a tiny squad made things difficult for them.
As for the Premier League, Tunbridge Wells were confirmed winners yesterday so well done to them. Holmesdale are going to have the wooden spoon but the other relegation place will be going to Blackheath (last year's Champions), Minster or Sandwich. Next Saturday is going to be a nervous day for those three sides.
And so it proved. A very nervous relegation and unbelievable ending to the season.
Blackheath, who had been victorious in just 5 of their first 16 matches, succeeded in winning their final couple of matches, including against Hayes yesterday to haul themselves out of the zone courtesy of Sandwich, who were minus half a dozen players mainly due to semi-pro football commitments, capitulating to 133 all out and losing by 5 wickets to Lordswood.
That meant that Minster would need to pick up 7 points from their match at Holmesdale to finish above Sandwich. Minster secured 4 of those by setting a score of 226-9 but then needed to take 7 wickets to attain safety. With Holmesdale on 217-5 and needing just 10 runs for victory, all looked lost for Minster who had also ulilised the services of 9 bowlers! But then, on that score, Bill Prideaux took the wicket of Will McDowell (45 off 21) and then, with just 3 runs needed, Prideaux bowled Fawcitt too. Minster lost by 3 wickets but ended up surviving by a solitary point.
I feel very sorry for Sandwich who are a family run club and do suffer at either end of the season because of that clash with football. That said, they finished third bottom in each of the previous three seasons and in two of those they stayed up by one and two points respectively. As for Minster, it seems that was a change of direction from the top with the likes of James Thompson and Dan Stickels leaving for pastures new and Chris Piesley, plus David and Dan Masters playing almost exclusively for the 2nd XI when available at all.
Congratulations to Whitstable for finishing runners up in the Championship and for joining the Champions, Sevenoaks Vine, in the Premier League next season following a thrashing of Folkestone (180 all out vs 44 all out) yesterday. Thoroughly deserved. Bickley Park will, following their defeat at the hands of Bromley Common yesterday, fight out third place with Canterbury. You don't beat the Vine and lose to them by 6 runs in the return by not having a decent team but the combination of too many players not turning up and performing on occasions and a tiny squad made things difficult for them.
As for the Premier League, Tunbridge Wells were confirmed winners yesterday so well done to them. Holmesdale are going to have the wooden spoon but the other relegation place will be going to Blackheath (last year's Champions), Minster or Sandwich. Next Saturday is going to be a nervous day for those three sides.
And so it proved. A very nervous relegation and unbelievable ending to the season.
Blackheath, who had been victorious in just 5 of their first 16 matches, succeeded in winning their final couple of matches, including against Hayes yesterday to haul themselves out of the zone courtesy of Sandwich, who were minus half a dozen players mainly due to semi-pro football commitments, capitulating to 133 all out and losing by 5 wickets to Lordswood.
That meant that Minster would need to pick up 7 points from their match at Holmesdale to finish above Sandwich. Minster secured 4 of those by setting a score of 226-9 but then needed to take 7 wickets to attain safety. With Holmesdale on 217-5 and needing just 10 runs for victory, all looked lost for Minster who had also ulilised the services of 9 bowlers! But then, on that score, Bill Prideaux took the wicket of Will McDowell (45 off 21) and then, with just 3 runs needed, Prideaux bowled Fawcitt too. Minster lost by 3 wickets but ended up surviving by a solitary point.
I feel very sorry for Sandwich who are a family run club and do suffer at either end of the season because of that clash with football. That said, they finished third bottom in each of the previous three seasons and in two of those they stayed up by one and two points respectively. As for Minster, it seems that was a change of direction from the top with the likes of James Thompson and Dan Stickels leaving for pastures new and Chris Piesley, plus David and Dan Masters playing almost exclusively for the 2nd XI when available at all.
It was very exciting watching the stream from Holmesdale for an impartial like me, but imagine what the Sandwich guys were going through...I do feel sorry for Zak Fagg, who's a lovely bloke, good player, and decent skipper.
Any of you Old Colfeians fruits coming to the wrong side of the river for Sundays friendly at South Loughton ? Boffin is playing , I’m out injured but will endeavour to get down there later if I can cos little shit has a golf match ffs our Oppo pulled out and fixture secretary has put message out we’ve got them .
We play in a park have a little clubhouse and you’ll catch something if you use our showers . oppo changing room is not the biggest our track is a bowlers paradise . looking at the side we have out it’s reasonably strong one old pie chucker who launches grenades a couple of fruit bats and a couple of decent players
Sunday feels like it might be a dangerous one to play cricket on tbh. Didn't hang with the missus at all last weekend + Millwall Day on Sat + it's Open House weekend + the season's over. Highest difficulty setting for any cricket match attendance ever I fear
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2nd bottom against 3rd bottom, they knocked em off 3 down in no time as we managed to drop 4 catches before they got to 50.
shit season having been promoted last year , availability has been appalling and we’ve scrimped and scraped the barrel at times with players who shouldn’t be anywhere near league cricket ., the low point being a 9 man team all out for 38
My body is hurting but I’ll continue to give it a go, maybe a year or two more league cricket before just Sunday friendlies for me.
waiting for little shit to grow a bit before he can play mens cricket and then I’m gonna get a Sunday game with me and the 4 boys (petrolhead can’t hold a bat but can bowl recklessly) before I retire in to the sunset
He had his last match yesterday and signed off with 201(151) before he meets up next weekend with the A squad .
bizarrely last week Ashtead 1s and 4s tied and this week their 2s and 3s tied !!
As for the Premier League, Tunbridge Wells were confirmed winners yesterday so well done to them. Holmesdale are going to have the wooden spoon but the other relegation place will be going to Blackheath (last year's Champions), Minster or Sandwich. Next Saturday is going to be a nervous day for those three sides.
oppo went from 60/6 ish to notch 150/9 in 40 overs , I was brought on first change “give it a go”and my 3 nurofen and 3 paracetamol body dragged itself through the motions to bowl a credible 8 overs 1-17 with their main scorer being dropped in his 20s and 30s off me and he went on to get 69 of their runs .
He pissed me off not being ready twice in 4 balls when I’m as slow as fuck cos I couldn’t move properly, second time he stood away I went up and bowled underarm … then sarcastically asked if he was ready each time before I bowled the last two in the over . That wound me up and made me bowl better and go through the pain barrier …
We did our usual chuff and went to 71/6 with just 3 wickets left but the skipper 37 and a seasons first 53 got us down to needing 5 off 5 and our in batsmen got run out so I entered the fray all set up to be the hero with 5 needed off 4 balls and me on strike I came down the track a Good couple of strides looking to target the less populated leg side boundary and with a gentle swipe of the bat duly missed it and got rapped on the pads long way down the track .
Scrambled back in to my crease as our umpire (young player) gave me out lbw ….
what a complete bell I am …
I could argue I was a long way down and could easily have been given not out but it was genuinely pathetic by me completing 3 in 4 league ducks and this one a golden to sign out for this season as my faux pas saw us go bottom of the table having finished top 12 months previous.
Our ones had the chance to finish a creditable 3rd in their first season in the mid Essex prem playing against already relegated and bottom of the table old Chelmsfordians and we were all out for 105 and lost by 3 wickets to end the season in 4th .
Skipper messaged me yesterday , we needed 12/13 an over with ten or so to go , boffin was in the 70s and skipper said ‘concentrate on getting your ton have you ever got one before , he said yeah let’s go for it ‘ , they had a few good overs but couldn’t sniff oppos total of 320 off 40 overs .
He told the skipper afterwards that it was his first ton but was more interested in going for the win .
I’m more proud of that than the ton , so many selfish cnuts play cricket and only think about themselves but he’s as good a team player as you can get body on the line and competitive, although a touch too 🥩y sometimes .
Dad has never really spoken about your Mum on here but it's great to read that it isn't just her intelligence, but also her sporting brilliance and selflessness, that has been passed down to you. I'm sure you've inherited some of your Dad's unique skillsets too, for example his unique way of using euphemisms when others might not be quite as subtle in describing something not particularly pleasant and of course how to best utilise your time when sitting on the khazi.
Off the pitch the fund raising to build a new pavilion progresses well, but is still along way short of what is required. Donations can be made here:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/cwkcc-savethepavilion?fbclid=IwY2xjawMjpqpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETB5dm5xYjZmOW04Wlp6MzBoAR7Qp2X1sMpG41CO6juIzTEc_yj-KhZGcY6rkXbOHzIM9jmttsODmyHVWDuQMg_aem_wguZtmzc6Q18QybLoqot5g
The re-creation of our 1846 Marrieds versus Un-marrieds match on Bank Holiday Monday went well, the scores tied at 201 each team!
And so it proved. A very nervous relegation and unbelievable ending to the season.
Blackheath, who had been victorious in just 5 of their first 16 matches, succeeded in winning their final couple of matches, including against Hayes yesterday to haul themselves out of the zone courtesy of Sandwich, who were minus half a dozen players mainly due to semi-pro football commitments, capitulating to 133 all out and losing by 5 wickets to Lordswood.
That meant that Minster would need to pick up 7 points from their match at Holmesdale to finish above Sandwich. Minster secured 4 of those by setting a score of 226-9 but then needed to take 7 wickets to attain safety. With Holmesdale on 217-5 and needing just 10 runs for victory, all looked lost for Minster who had also ulilised the services of 9 bowlers! But then, on that score, Bill Prideaux took the wicket of Will McDowell (45 off 21) and then, with just 3 runs needed, Prideaux bowled Fawcitt too. Minster lost by 3 wickets but ended up surviving by a solitary point.
I feel very sorry for Sandwich who are a family run club and do suffer at either end of the season because of that clash with football. That said, they finished third bottom in each of the previous three seasons and in two of those they stayed up by one and two points respectively. As for Minster, it seems that was a change of direction from the top with the likes of James Thompson and Dan Stickels leaving for pastures new and Chris Piesley, plus David and Dan Masters playing almost exclusively for the 2nd XI when available at all.
Boffin is playing , I’m out injured but will endeavour to get down there later if I can cos little shit has a golf match ffs
our Oppo pulled out and fixture secretary has put message out we’ve got them .
oppo changing room is not the biggest
our track is a bowlers paradise .
looking at the side we have out it’s reasonably strong
one old pie chucker who launches grenades a couple of fruit bats and a couple of decent players