The Ginger Prince called SDCC on Monday to advise that one of Wisley Southside’s players had left his kit bag at HQ after Sunday’s match, so it was moved to a safer place ready for collection at Wednesday’s club nets practice.

The visitors kept score in an old pre-merger Southside CC book that was also left on the bar. It contained a handful of results back to the 2000 season; one of them was against Stoke, which we didn’t have, but have now added to the records. (The 2000 Stoke Sunday scorebook has sadly vanished.)

Scorecard Link : http://sdacc.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=10788251

More successful Gudgeon captaincy then, and a closer inspection of the Southside line up shows a couple of familiar guest names occupying the tail-end places, one them even getting a turn with the ball with typically devastating results…