Stoke D’Abernon Advent Calendar 2016 (17)

Despite some periods of awful weather in 2016, Hoppy’s great work enabled us to play Championship cricket on 17 of the 18 Saturdays at The Rec this year – only the 1st XI home match against Haslemere didn’t start…

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…look at the final league table and see just how important an extra match or two played, (Chertsey at home springs to mind), made…

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#GetTheGameOn

Hoppy could also lay claim to #18 in our Advent Calendar, (16ct + 2 run-outs in the field), but we’ll give him his day of glory today.