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Sunday XI back to Winning Ways

Sunday 21st July 2019
Friendly
Stoke D’Abernon 206 for 6 (40 overs)
Wonersh 117 all out (29.2 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon won by 89 runs

Stoke’s Sunday XI were back to winning ways after last week’s narrow defeat. Wonersh were the successful applicants in response to our advert and they brought a friendly bunch of guys plus an umpire and scorer. Read more

Narrow defeat for the Sunday XI

Sunday 14th July 2019
Friendly
HJM CC 215 for 7 (40 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 213 all out (39.5 overs)
HJM CC won by 2 runs

While England and New Zealand served up a rather dull affair at Lord’s, two sides, meeting for the first time, fixture only agreed the day before, served up a classic at The Rec that would have been talked about well into the night but for the fact that the teams were still playing at that time.

A quick setting up after the colts fixture saw the visitors choose to bat on winning the toss; Carel Ferreira and Andy Butler did more than OK with the new ball; Butler bumping out Suleman to get Stoke on the board; but were part of a succession of bowlers who suffered bad-ball-an-over-itis as opener Khan and No.3 Singh cashed in on anything loose; racing to 69 before Ed Ashwell took two wickets in a four over burst; Khan, (31), giving Andy Page a second of three catches behind the timbers then Moinak, (15), chipped to mid-wicket where Hassan Dahir Jnr took a good running catch. 116 for 4.

A far too late decision to take pace off the ball slowed the scoring; Dahir Jnr and Harry Nawaz Snr shared 14 overs at a personal combined cost of just 45; Dad picking up Nadeem caught at the wicket standing up and Singh for 51, well held on the line by Hamza Hafeez the ball after reaching his half-century. With better support in the field Dahir Jnr would have had even better figures than his 7-1-23-0.

As is the way we do things on Sundays opportunities were given to other bowlers in the closing overs. Rod Thomson and Moumer Khara took wickets courtesy of a bowled and another catch on the line by Hafeez respectively; some slightly untidy fielding as the batsmen ran everything, notably from the home captain who basically had a mare all afternoon, saw the innings close on 215 for 7, a few more than he planned for but still very gettable on a good pitch.

After tea Khara and Hafeez dealt in boundaries but were both gone by the mid-point of the sixth over with 20 on the board.

Page played nicely and punished everything loose whilst Thomson dropped anchor. The former was bowled for 21 trying to up the rate with the total on 54; but Stoke were still nicely placed at and just after the drinks break, (extended to watch the last two overs of the World Cup Final); Rob Butler playing some nice shots before checking out on 29 from 22 in the 24th over. 99 for 4.

The plan to hold Ferreira back to take on the change bowlers proved an effective tactic as Stoke caught up with the required run rate. Ferreira scored runs all around the wicket and any dots were drilled straight to fielders; making it to 41 from 26 before the keeper removed his pads, came on to bowl and castled him with a dart. 177 for 5; 39 needed off 38 at this point.

Ashwell worked the same bowler out, and got Stoke ahead with a nice straight six to take the total past 200, (15 now needed off 24), but a disastrous start to the 37th over saw Ashwell run out by the bowler off his own bowling for 11 from 5; and Thomson’s excellent effort – that included a ‘six’ courtesy of four overthrows – ended next ball when he was bowled for 47 off the 104th ball he faced.

Stoke still had some batting left but equally the visitors had some death bowling; notably M.Khan who snicked off Andy Butler, then castled Nawaz, (10), and the captain next ball to close out a 2 run win off the penultimate ball and finish with 7.5-0-31-4.

A great game and no-one would have argued if the result had gone the other way or the teams had tied. We would have needed floodlights for any Super Over, though.

Credit to the opposition who stayed back quite a while after the game despite the near on 9pm finish; few were there to see a comical but ultimately successful bundling of six of them – plus kit bags – into one car and leave. Had there been space for the home captain as well – arguably he was their man of the match – there would have been few objections from the home support who stayed back to watch his horrific effort with the bat, ball and in the field. He lost the toss as well.

So bad news, he’ll probably be back next week. Good news, initial numbers look good for two Sunday games so get your availabilities in and we will source the appropriate number of fixtures.

Scorecard : http://sdacc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3913253





Sunday Round Up – President’s XI win big. Sunday XI lose but have fun at Oxted

Sunday 7th July 2019
With a number of players who wouldn’t normally commit to a Sunday supporting the President’s Day match, to avoid disappointing others who wouldn’t have otherwise got a game, again we raised two sides with another XI going to Oxted & Limpsfield. Contrasting fortunes for the teams but many positives.

Home Friendly
Stoke D’Abernon 233 for 4 declared (36 overs)
Chelsea Nomads 65 all out (37.2 overs)

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Career Runs in Sixes

Mr Handel from Cobham contacted the Club to ask what proportion of runs he and his peers have made in 6s. In some rare down-time over the Christmas period we’ve now managed to put a couple of things together that we hope answers his query.

Of the players that played in 2018, here are the percentages of their career runs for the Club in sixes. To make this list you must have hit a minimum of eight career sixes and scored a minimum of 150 runs for the Club:

31.58% Robbie Blackburn
26.32% Ed Ashwell
18.99% Tim Handel
18.29% Shawn Dyson
18.13% Toby Tarrant
14.46% Justin Jones
14.28% Will Gudgeon
11.23% Andy Berry
10.82% Alex Bond
10.38% Carel Ferreira
10.16% James Whitmarsh
9.52% Moumer Khara
8.41% Alistair Curran
8.28% Jeremy Connell
6.95% Ian Hopton
6.68% Adrian Taylor
6.63% Will Thomson
6.36% Jase Earl
5.80% Tom Frost
5.03% Amy Page
4.81% Stephen Finch
4.25% Andy Page
4.17% Chris Finch
4.04% Rod Thomson
3.45% Steve Wade
3.09% Alistair McMillan
3.04% James Trower
1.70% Malcolm Dickson
1.54% Jack Raimondo

Looking at the wider list of all Stoke players, here are some notable others – some familiar names appear near the top; three of them would have made the top of the above list.

The 2018 list has eleven players who have scored more than 10% of their runs in sixes; so this is the additional qualification for the all-time list below, (in addition to the same minimum 8×6/minimum 150 career runs that is in use); six people have hit more than a quarter of their career runs in 6s:

Jerry Hinds : 154 career runs (50.65% in 6s)
Greg Routley : 1443 (34.92%)
Josh Carew : 184 (32.61%)
John Crisp : 868 (29.03%)
Johnny Lawes : 1774 (26.38%)
Eugene Ford : 673 (25.85%)
Jeremy Beckwith : 353 (23.80%)
Marcus Mahne : 263 (22.81%)
Tim Parminter : 311 (21.22%)
Stephen Anderson : 799 (19.52%)
Roger Bowman : 1023 (17.01%)
Paddy Engelen : 344 (15.70%)
David Laing : 552 (14.13%)
Dan Douthwaite : 1718 (13.62%)
Roy Johns : 7207 (12.74%)
Frank Moore : 2835 (12.70%)
Matt Gottschalk : 2607 (12.66%)
Tom Oliver : 1051 (12.56%)
Mike Carty : 677 (12.41%)
Mickey Humphries : 1654 (12.33%)
Tim Goodman : 446 (12.11%)
Simon Birch : 1294 (12.06%)
John Price : 1025 (11.71%)
Navid Hussain : 2428 (11.61%)
Peter Higgs : 7140 (11.09%)
Baz Medlycott : 868 (11.06%)
John Davies : 1366 (10.98%)
Neil McEvoy : 550 (10.91%)
Jack Massey : 1612 (10.79%)
E Ledger : 898 (10.69%)
Steve Bowman : 4901 (10.53%)
Ian Tyrell : 855 (10.53%)
Gavin Johns : 2637 (10.01%)

The list of all-time leading six-hitters for the Club can be found here : http://www.stokecc.co.uk/sixes/





Carel left stranded as Academy learn the hard way

Sunday 22nd July 2018
Surrey Trust League
Godalming 288 for 7 (40 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 188 all out (29.5 overs)
Godalming won by 100 runs

Whilst the scorecard doesn’t lie a lot of good things could still be taken out of this one and if some of the errors can be ironed out between now and the return fixture on the 5th August hopefully we will see a reversal of this result and progress up the table.

Firstly, Alex Clinton and Thomas Dennis did a great job managing on-field operations for the first time. They were fully supported by the senior players, and they took on the help and advice when appropriate. Their only blemish was an incorrect call at the toss that committed the side to 40 overs’ hard labour in the field where the ‘Oval 1976’ looking outfield – look it up on YouTube – gave full value for shots and a lot of long, timely, trips to the neighbouring satellite pitch to retrieve the ball.

Things could have been different had a couple of early chances stuck or been called for. Openers Jones and Cox made full advantage of their lives; adding 120 in 18 overs.

Deepak Malhotra slowed things down from one end, and this allowed Max Dunn to charge in from the over. They took wickets in successive overs when Jones, (62), bottom edged a cut off Dunn to Neil Foster behind the timbers, then Stoke’s gloveman for the day effected smart stumping to account for Cox, (49), a few balls later.

All the bowlers did their best and the unrelenting nature of the outfield made for quick scoring, although Stoke continued to be masters of their own downfall as a number of balls went through fielders on the circle and on the line; and the square-leg, (player), umpire twice observed one member of the Stoke side not walking in and being outside the circle at the point of release. Double-digit runs were scored from those extra deliveries.

The third wicket didn’t fall until the 29th over when Woodgates, (29), served up a catch to Ollie John at mid-on with the total on 192. The successful bowler was Clinton who sent down six overs for just 35 runs despite the batsmen being able to play freely with such a fast start and wickets in hand.

Hamza Hafeez ran one across Baker, (65), then Stoke took a few more quick ones in the closing overs; Clinton two of them – one a nice running catch by Carel Ferreira – to finish with 3 for 35; John effected a direct hit run-out and Dunn, (6-0-26-1), bowled two good death overs.

The only downside to this flurry of wickets was that it brought 1s player Hern to the crease and he smashed the ball to all parts, hitting the last ball of the innings for six to bring up his half-century and close the innings on a formidable total of 288 for 7.

After tea, Stoke went after two very young bowlers but found themselves three down quickly. Hafeez cut what would have been a wide to point in the first over; Moumer Khara clubbed two fours before falling off the last ball of the second; then John – who looked very good during his brief visit – got the ball of the season that drifted in then cut away and bent back his off stump whilst he held the pose for a textbook forward defensive. 28 for 3 after just four overs.

For the next hour the run rate never dipped. Malhotra and Ferreira added 91 runs in less than ten overs to give Godalming a taste of their own medicine. As heads in the field started to drop and the prospect of chasing the score down became a real possibility, Malhotra, (44), fell to a worldy of a catch in the deep. Energised by this the fielding improved; Foster was particularly unlucky to see a number of nice shots go straight to or be well-saved by fielders, and intelligent field placements dried up Ferreira’s boundary count.

Foster and Dunn, (the latter got off the mark with an enormous six), fell just after the drinks break; and the luckless Dennis managed to lose his leg bail off a combination of bat, pad, thigh pad, elbow, boot, you name it.

Ed Ashwell connected with less than he wanted to but entertained a sizeable crowd with a quickfire 14. Sadly Ferreira, having completed a fine half-century, then ran out of partners as Clinton and Sameer Khara fell in successive deliveries to close the innings on 188 after just 29.5 overs – yes, ‘failtobattheoveritis’ returned in a big way and Ferreira may not get a better chance this year to register his first century for the Club. He could be very pleased with his 57 not out, though.

The match was played in a great spirit – it was also nice to catch up with Nigel Churaman and find out how a few of the Godalming boys and girls we used to play against and score with at 1s level; Agge, Milner, Dique, Ross, etc, were getting on – and we hope for a similar fun atmosphere, (but a reversal of the result!), when we meet again on the 5th August.

No cricket at Stoke next Sunday as we’re in lockdown due to the cycling event. All available resource will be pooled into Saturday and we will source an appropriate friendly fixture in addition to our league programme based on who is available and what our strength or otherwise might be if we have numbers. Kevin may have an Over 40s game or two in the pipeline too, so watch this space.

More immediately we also have the all-day game at Claygate on Thursday 26th – availability for that one ASAP, please!

Scorecard : https://sdacc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3346472

Ferreira v Godalming 2018





Highest Career Strike Rates for Stokers

This week’s “Ask Steven” column on CricInfo had a question raised about Strike Rates.

Highest ODI Strike Rates - CricInfo

Looking at our own stats, to the end of the 2017 season 74 Stokers have scored more than 2000 runs for the Club…only three have a career Strike Rate of over 100.00:

Navid Hussain : 110.01 (2428 career runs)
Tim Handel : 105.76 (4559)
Frank Moore : 101.25 (2835)

The full table is here : SDCC Strike Rates (Min 2000 Runs) All Time

A couple of disclaimers, though : Play Cricket only carries strike rates where the number of balls faced are entered on to a scorecard, and the system applies that as an overall career strike rate; so in the old days when this wasn’t such a well-kept stat in scorebooks, sometimes players only had a ‘balls faced’ entered where it could be worked out that they were out in, say, the early overs of a match, or we could see they were dismissed early when it could be seen in the scorebook that wickets fell in quick succession.

Two players to suffer from this glitch are Dave Willis and Ian Lipscombe who certainly would not have accumulated the runs they did for the club at strike rates of less than 15 runs per 100 balls! (Sorry, boys!)

Adrian Black and Ollie Hood have no scorecards with balls faced against their names so appear at the bottom of the list. Adrian’s numbers would have been interesting as he had the potential to score his runs quickly, although he was also very patient when the match situation dictated; so we are confident that the Navid, Timmy and Frank are the only three. (The biggest beneficiary of the glitch is Neal Heaton who has a recorded strike rate of 475.00!)

Some more realistic numbers for players who have some amazing strike rates in shorter careers are Jeremy Beckwith who took time out from umpiring our Saturday 1st XI matches to bludgeon his Sunday runs for us at 215.00 runs per 100 balls; Greg Routley, (1443 runs / 131.69 strike rate – inc 84 sixes), Johnny Lawes, (1774 / 128.90), Andy Berry, (1030 / 102.53) and Roger Bowman, (1023 / 140.00), have all scored more than 1000 runs at better than a run-a-ball.

Jerry Hinds, (150.98), and Anthony Alleyne, (139.86), are two others who scored very quickly in a handful of competitive games; and in his one season so far Shawn Dyson has scored his runs at 113.97. Ed Ashwell currently has a career strike rate of 125.56.

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Bowled Out by a Stoker

This week’s “Ask Steven” feature on CricInfo saw one follower ask:

Which bowler has the best record of hitting the stumps, given a large amount of wickets?

The answer was:

Of the 181 bowlers who have so far taken 100 or more Test wickets, the two with the highest percentage of bowled dismissals are the 19th-century England pair of George Lohmann, with 51 out of 112, or 45.53% bowled, and Johnny Briggs, with 52 out of 118, (44.06%)

Next comes the first post-war bowler, Australia’s Ray Lindwall, who bowled 97 of his 228 victims (42.54%) – the Australian Charlie “Terror” Turner, (42/101 or 41.58%), and England’s Brian Statham (102/252 or 40.47%), both also bowled more than 40% of their victims.

Bottom of the list is the Indian slow left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha, who rattled the timbers for only eight of his 113 Test wickets, (7.07%)

Statham is one of only seven men to have bowled more than 100 batsmen in Tests. The others, most of whom played significantly more matches, are Muttiah Muralitharan, (167), Shane Warne, (116), Jimmy Anderson, (104, before the Adelaide Test), Fred Trueman, (103), Waqar Younis, (102), and Wasim Akram, (101)

A look at percentages of ‘bowled’ dismissals by Stokers sees – with a bit of filtering – Bob Willis head our list…

Percentage of Wickets Bowled (Minimum 62 Wickets Taken)
(To generate this screen – you may have to click on it to enlarge it depending on what device you’re reading this on – we put in a minimum number of wickets taken to Bob’s count of 62.)

Bowled Willis

Imagine the prospect of turning out for your club at the weekend and finding him tearing in at you from the Railway End – his Stoke career bowling average was 6.85!

Either side of Bob’s count, a look at the highest percentage of wickets bowled at other milestones would suggest that it was easier to bowl players out in the past than it is now:

10 wickets minimum – L.Strange (pre-war) – 72.73% bowled, the other 27.27% were caught

20 wickets – Syd White (pre-war) – 72.55% bowled, the other 27.45% were caught
At this point Ben Dunjay, (13/22 or 59.09%), appears on the front page, as does Charlotte Elworthy, (22/32 or 68.75%), who is the highest ranked player from the Stoke Molesey Ladies. Nat Sciver bowled 26 of her 49 victims, 53.06%.

30 wickets – At this filter point, Syd White still tops the list, but Charlotte is now second.

40 wickets – Syd again, but two other recent debutants start to move up the list. Ed Ashwell has 43 career wickets for Stoke, 24 if them, (55.81%), have been bowled.

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T20 Cup Defeat at Sunbury

Thursday 8th June 2017
Surrey Championship T20 – Round 2
Stoke D’Abernon 120 for 5 (20 overs)
Sunbury 121 for 3 (18.3 overs)
Sunbury won by 7 wickets

Stoke weren’t at full-strength for this one but gave a good account for themselves against the cup holders who only crossed the finishing line with nine balls to spare.

The match was decided in the first half of both innings. Batting first having won the toss, Stoke openers Ian Hopton and Jack Raimondo were given little to hit by both the quicks who shared the new ball, then the first & second change pace-off options; taking just 53 runs from the first twelve overs.

Raimondo fell for nineteen to sixth bowler Knight’s first delivery; leaving James O’Gorman and the rest of the order much to do to post a score. O’Gorman added some impetus to the run-rate; hitting five of just ten fours hit in the innings, plus the match’s only six.

Hopton checked out on 41 to left-arm tweaker Knight; then Kane Fullalove and Roddy Kelso were lost in the pursuit of quick runs, the latter unselfishly giving himself up after the batsmen ended up at the same end.

O’Gorman was bowled for 42, (from 23), in the final over; James Corbishley and Jase Earl scrambled a handful of runs off the remaining deliveries to close the innings on 120 for 5.

After a quick turnaround Sunbury’s openers Hussain and Roland-Jones, (brother of), made a fast start and Stoke were unable to separate them until the tenth over with the total on 73 when the impressive Ed Ashwell picked up Roland-Jones, caught on the line by Raimondo for 51 from 36 balls with ten fours.

Ashwell struck again when Hussain, (21), hit to Tarrant on the circle; and the returning Will Frost made things interesting when he pressured Duran to mis-cue a second catch to Tarrant. 89 for 3.

The home side were still ahead of the rate, though, and No.5 Hughes made sure things stayed that way; a crucial sixteenth over saw him pierce the field three times and a helping of four-byes meant sixteen off the over and the equation down to 13 off the last four.

A controlled spell of 4-0-14-0 from Hopton and a good comeback over from Tarrant saw Stoke take the game as deep as possible, but the winning hit was made with nine balls to spare.

Sunbury progress to take on Cranleigh in the next round. As the saying goes, Stoke are now left to concentrate on the League, but will take a lot from their night’s work into Saturday’s match against Weybridge Vandals.

Scorecard : http://sdacc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3100458

Stoke T20 v Sunbury 2017





Chaotic day for the Sunday XI ends with a Win

Sunday 4th June 2017
Friendly
Stoke D’Abernon 101 all out (33.4 overs)
Richmond Nomads 69 all out (26.3 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon won by 32 runs

Another mad day in the life of the Stoke Sunday side but it all worked out in the end!

A sunny day, all the Stokers present and correct, clock ticking towards the point where the opposition should be starting to appear…but no sign of them. A speculative call to them to see how they were getting on was met with a rather surprised voice at the other end suggesting that the fixture was next Sunday. Cue panic with the tea lady now on site too!

So to the list of clubs looking for fixtures. Could anything be done? Was there a side out there with a similar plight to ourselves? Anything local we could scramble across to? As is tradition, most of the clubs on the board had fixed themselves something but not deleted their adverts; but for those who believe in miracles, a call, (the thirteenth in the call-history), at 2.10pm produced one.

Richmond Nomads had travelled to Englefield Green to play the fixture in their card, only to find that EGCC were tossing up against a another opposition; and attempts to try and play a triangular tournament, (as Stoke did many moons ago when a previous fixture secretary booked two oppositions for the same day to come to the Rec), were wholly unsuccessful.

Were they willing to come to Stoke rather than spend an afternoon in the pub? Absolutely! So armed with our post code and a self-appointed person to wait on the Stoke Road to wave the convoy in we were on. The first arrival was just after 2.30pm – some serious speed camera avoidance there if the AA Routeplanner was to be believed – and by 2.50pm the rest of the new opposition were at the Rec.

Pre-toss discussions led Stoke, with a few League players in the XI this week, looking for a bat first. The visiting captain was happy – for the record the coin came down correctly anyway – and Doug Gilbertson faced the first ball of a 35 over contest at 3pm. Credit to the opposition for bowling their overs in two hours.

So to the cricket. Well, with one notable exception the batting effort left a lot to be desired as a moderate bowling attack were gifted a succession of wickets. Alistair McMillan was first to go when he missed a straight one; Malcolm Dickson was stumped, Gilbertson was well caught trying to hit the ball over the in-field; and not even Tim Handel, in his first outing of the season fared any better, a second to be stumped after hitting a nice four. Pictured here…

Handel v Richmond Nomads

Rod Thomson looked good for 13 before being caught, Charlie Hill followed next ball. 49 for 6 after 18 overs at drinks was not in the script; and it was tricky for the opposition to indulge in any game management as it was a couple of lobbers who were taking the majority of the wickets anyway.

Now to try and build a score, any score. Thomas Dennis used all his skill to manoeuvre the ball around. He lost Ed Ashwell after a partnership of 20, then Paddy Wilson, (77 for 7); but finally found someone to stay with him in the form of Patrick O’Neill who was making his Sunday XI debut.

It was looking like Stoke might actually bat all their overs. Just as this looked possible, though, the returning opening bowler castled O’Neill in the 33rd over. 89 for 9. With just No.11 for company Dennis took seven off the next over, including a single of the last ball to keep the strike, and took the total to 101 with a glorious four back over the bowler’s head in the next. Sadly two balls later he was bowled behind his legs, but 29 from 73 balls was a tremendous effort on a pitch that offered the bowlers a lot.

So, something to bowl at after a reduced, (in time, not quantity or excellence), tea. The hope was a decent start might create some scoreboard pressure. It was better than anything we could have dreamed of.

Hill, making a tentative comeback after his hamstring strain, rattled off five successive maidens from a shortened run-up; and collected three wickets, two bowled and one leg-before. With moderate assistance from the other new-ball bowler it was 10 for 3 after ten overs.

Having declined the offer of the new nut, opting for a first change role from his preferred Railway End; O’Neill made an immediate impact. Bowling with good pace and keeping to one side of the wicket negating the need for a fine-leg, he castled opener Raby, (15), and Cundy for 3, the latter offering no shot. 28 for 5.

Wilson bowled a nice mix from the other end but a partnership was building and at drinks the visitors were nearly half-way there at 46 for 5. Time to mix the bowling up a bit…

Ashwell replaced O’Neill and struck in his first over castling R.Swain for 11 – he returned figures of 3-1-7-1 in his last game before he goes travelling – and other bowling changes all seemed to work. Singh was still a problem to Stoke, though, as he found the boundary a few times in a knock of 25.

At 66 for 6 O’Neill was tossed the ball again and he took out Singh straight away, finding his edge and Handel doing the rest behind the timbers – thanks to Timmy for volunteering to take the gloves –and next ball Bridgeman was cleaned up. The hat-trick ball was just about negotiated.

Dennis was another to take a wicket on introduction to the attack, breaking Charteris’ off-bail with a serious seed, and at 68 for 9 it was nearly job done. Somehow No.11 survived the rest of the over.

This left O’Neill with the chance of a 5-for on Sunday XI debut; and No.8 Spark was bowled after a ball that hit him somewhere around the thigh-pad area and cannoned onto the stumps. 5.3-1-16-5 were the final figures, and Stoke had won by 32 runs.

So given where both clubs were at 2pm, this can only go down a great success and the opposition also made a decent contribution to the bar afterward now they had less of a trip home. They latterly tweeted this…

Richmond Nomads Tweet

We’ll stay in touch and see where we can fit a game in next year; most probably twin it with a Trust League weekend to level off the respective standards a bit.

As for Stoke’s next match, we’ll double and triple check the fixture card and go again. For now, the author of this match report is off for a lie-down!

Scorecard : http://sdacc.play-cricket.com/website/results/2889364