Under 12s out of the Cup / Missing Under 13 match report found

Friday 23rd May 2014
Mid-Surrey Colts U12 League Cup
Stoke D’Abernon U12 117 for 9 (20 overs)
Walton-on-Thames U12 120 for 4 (19.4 overs)
Walton-on-Thames U12 won by 6 wickets

Johnny Lawes has sent in the following match report:

Rory and Harry opened the batting on a very wet wicket. Rory looked on good form scoring 10 quickly but the loss of a few early wickets had us 25 for 4 at one point. Tom retired on 35 and then some quick runs at the end from Jamie, (9), Ben, (14), and Ollie, (8), gave us a very defendable total of 117. Another good effort keeping the scoring rate close to the requested 6 an over. Read more

Chris Gudgeon leads tributes to Rod Tappin

Tony Vandensteen popped in to Stoke at the weekend, but on this occasion he brought sad news of the passing of former Club Captain Rod Tappin after a battle with cancer.

Former Stoke Chairman Chris Gudgeon has taken time out to pen the following:

Rod was a great supporter and player with the club. An all-rounder, slow medium bowler of the Steve Finch type, and hard hitting right hand bat. His Mum Agnes, Horace were a family with very close ties with the club living in Winston Drive. Read more

Under 9s beat Effingham / Under 10s win at Woking & Horsell

West Surrey Youth Cricket League Under 9
Stoke D’Abernon U9 294 for 5
Effingham U9 271 for 7
Stoke D’Abernon U9 won by 23 runs

Julie Eves writes:

The U9s lost the toss this morning and were put into bat. They scored 294 runs, highest scores Jack O 15, (including a six and a four), Edward E 12, (two fours), and Archie H 11, (two fours.) Jamie C also hit a 6 and Maarten L a four. The outfield was quite long grass so the boundary was closer than normal. We lost 5 wickets. Read more

Sunday XI win big in front of Bob Willis

Sunday 25th May 2014
Stoke D’Abernon 229 for 8 (40 overs)
Battersea Ironsides 52 all out (30.3 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon won by 177 runs

Bob Willis, (http://sdacc.play-cricket.com/subsite/player_stats_widget/bowling_stats/10801438 & http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22462.html), was at the Stoke Rec on Sunday and was treated to a big home win. Read more