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Sunday – Three matches and much fun

Sunday 3rd September 2023

A busy day at a sun-drenched Rec that saw three matches and the till ringing with bucket hat and other sales, competitions and raffles.

After a colts’ 50-ball match in the morning, there were two other games for people to watch whilst the day, set up to help raise funds towards the nets, was in full swing. Read more

Defeats for all League sides

Saturday 26th August 2023

A tough day for Stoke’s league sides…

1st XI
Surrey Championship Division 2
Stoke D’Abernon 47 all out (19 overs)
Worcester Park 48 for 2 (10 overs)
Worcester Park won by 8 wickets

Needing a win to boost their chances of survival Worcester Park made short work of a Stoke side who registered their lowest ever total in the Surrey Championship; only Oliver Trower, (20 not out), making it to double figures after Stoke were inserted. Read more

Sunday XI : Batting, Bowling and Biryani

Sunday 21st May 2023
Friendly
Frimley Green 234 for 5 (40 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 104 all out (39.4 overs)
Frimley Green won by 130 runs

The fixture gods were kind to us. With the advertising boards full of requests for away matches, a speculative call to Frimley Green, who were advertising because their opposition couldn’t raise a side, scored a hit. They had a good relationship with the opposition they were supposed to be playing and secured used of the ground. Things got even better when, expecting to make it a ‘no teas’ arrangement; the opposition informed us that they were going to provide biryani for all the players. Read more

You Tube Sensational Sunday XI

Sunday 14th May 2023
Friendly
Stoke D’Abernon 125 for 6 (35 overs)
Wonersh 85 all out (26.5 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon won by 40 runs

Stoke’s Sunday XI completed a clean sweep of wins in senior cricket for the weekend with a great win at Wonersh who kindly offered us a fixture after losing their originally scheduled opposition. Read more

Sunday XI beat Warfield – Ali Mac 300

Sunday 7th May 2023
Friendly
Stoke D’Abernon 205 for 9 (40 overs)
Warfield 132 for 8 (40 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon won by 73 runs

Strong Saturday availability led to the chance to assemble a team and source a fixture for Sunday. Thanks to those who made themselves available, and to George for being able to get another game out of last week’s strip. Read more

“I get out caught a lot”

Followers of our Twitter page would have seen us recently capture details of our active players with the most number of innings having never been dismissed leg before. (For those who hadn’t seen it Geoff Vinall tops that list with a current run of 51 innings from debut and never been lbw.) Read more

Local Derby Win in Rod’s Last Match

Sunday 28th August 2022
Friendly
Stoke D’Abernon 218 for 7 (40 overs)
Maori Oxshott 123 all out (31.1 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon won by 95 runs

If Carlsberg did ways to end a career.

This match saw Rod Thomson’s playing days at Stoke come to an end, and he would end with the wicket to close out victory against Maori Oxshott who were not only kind enough to come to us to play having advertised for a home game themselves, but they would also provide a guard of honour and invite us to bat despite winning the toss on a warm afternoon. Read more

Sunday XI rack up runs and injuries

Sunday 8th May 2022
Friendly
Battersea Eagles 263 for 7 (40 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 226 for 8 (40 overs)
Battersea Eagles won by 37 runs

With the need to prioritise numbers for the Saturday selection this one happened late; thanks first and foremost to the ground staff for recycling a pitch that played superbly; to those who could only play Sunday being patient, others helping make the side Saturday night, the opposition hanging on for us when they could have gone elsewhere and for having some manpower on standby for us to complete our XI if needed. Read more

Justin Jones cracks 133 as Season extends into October

Sunday 3rd October 2021
Friendly
Wraysbury 202-14 (35 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 198-11 (35 overs)
Wraysbury won by 4 runs

This one will take a bit of explaining but stay with us!

Firstly the thirst to continue the season resulted in an initial pool of 15 players available so an advert was placed. At one point only a Saturday fixture came on to the table, (good job we didn’t have enough as the deluges would have made that a non-starter), but we did get a call for a Sunday fixture from our friends at Wraysbury. Not all 15 were available come team announcement and we were indebted to Chris Finch for coming good, Justin Jones bringing his son along for a senior debut, and then Khalid Harris redirecting after his own wandering side’s match was called off first thing. Read more