Back by popular demand, a Fantasy Football League for Stoke members has been setup to join for the 2013-14 season.
If you aren’t already playing the game then you can register at http://fantasy.premierleague.com
Once you have logged in and entered your team, click on the ‘Leagues’ link you can find on the right of the page.
Quiz Time. Which player suffered this, but still ended on the winning team at the weekend.
A pint of Asahi for the first correct entry, (one entry per person, please!), to stokecc@hotmail.com.
PS. The person who was hit is not eligible to enter!
We have an excellent relationship with Parkside School who allow us use of their pitches for colts matches.
Recently the numbers of players, officials and supporters at matches has increased and has thrown up issues like parking, litter, etc.
To ensure that relations are maintained, we have produced the following guidelines. Can all match managers and away supporters/officials please adhere the following:
Once or twice a year SDCC contacts former captain David Willis, (brother of RGD and still a massive supporter of Stoke from afar), to see how he’s getting on.
The exchange is worth posting here…
DHW : Very good to hear from you and in case nobody else says it or hasn’t said it recently thanks so much for the remarkable work you guys have done, (refer Matt Gottschalk and Adrian Mills here), on the Club’s history and statistics. Have you found the match in about 1957 when the Stoke team was dismissed for 11 all out with seven extras? See you in the summer!
The 2013 season saw some familiar names lead the club/individual XI runs, although some topped the charts for the first time.
Click here for a link of the leading players in all seasons : Leading Players per Season
In 2013, Greg Routley and Dan Douthwaite jointly topped the Stoke Sixes League with 24 maximums. Thirty-five different players cleard the boundary on the full, (26 in 2012); the new entries to the list taking advantage of more T20 and 3rd XI cricket being played than ever before. Here’s the table:
The argument that cricket is a batsman’s or a bowler’s game is always one for debate. Statistically it is harder to score a century than to take a five wicket haul. 71 different players have scored 180 centuries for Stoke, but 187 different bowlers have taken a 5-for.
Seventy-two different players have scored a century for Stoke, (we also have one double-centurion); the earliest recorded was by the not-so aptly named Mr.Pratt, who scored 120 in his only appearance for the club in September 1948.
Ian Wellman and Phil Easton have scored the most centuries for the club, (twelve each); closely followed by Don Weller and Siddhatha Lahiri who each have eleven to their name. Don scored the last of his eleven hundreds in just his 70th innings for the club. (In 74 knocks he made 31 scores of 50 or more.)
The 2014 Surrey Championship fixtures have been released.
As per previous seasons the first four and the last five matches are 50-over contests; the middle nine fixtures between the 7th June and the 2nd August are played over a ‘declaration’ format.
The 5th annual Surrey CCC OSCAS, (Outstanding services to Cricket at Surrey), event took place on Tuesday 21st August at the Oval. The event was attended by 600 members from numerous amateur cricket clubs in Surrey, the purpose being to recognise the outstanding work which is being done by the volunteers who run these clubs. The award categories included: