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2nd XI Win as OT & TT provide Wedding Gift for Jase

Saturday 16th July 2022
Surrey Championship – Division 4 2nd XI competition
Stoke D’Abernon 2nd XI 217 all out (47.2 overs)
Old Pauline 171 2nd XI all out (43.3 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 2nd XI won by 46 runs

A measure of the health of otherwise of a Club is the willingness of players to play down when not selected for higher XIs. Minus their captain – congrats to him on his wedding the previous day – Olly Trower and Toby Tarrant set a great example and batted & bowled the side to a much needed victory. Read more

2s have Lift Off. 3s Win as well

Saturday 25th June 2022
Surrey Championship Division 4 – 2nd XI Competition
Stoke D’Abernon 2nd XI 212 all out (46.1 overs)
Trinity Midwhitgiftians 2nd XI 150 all out (43 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 2nd XI won by 62 runs

After the frustration of last week Stoke’s 2nd XI ended in a similar in-game position this, but this this time got the job done with plenty of overs to spare to register a long overdue first win of the season. Read more

1st XI beat Dulwich

Saturday 14th May 2022
Surrey Championship Division 1
Dulwich 212 for 7 (50 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 216 for 5 (38.2 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon won by 5 wickets

White ball league cricket at the Stoke Rec for the first time ever and the 1st XI registered their first win of the season with an efficient restrict and chase mission. Read more

Player Awards 2021

After the last round of League matches the players made it back to base from various parts of the county to celebrate the end of the League campaign that saw the 1st XI remain in Division 1 after their first ever season at that level; the 2nd XI and newly formed 3rd XI both secured promotion. To complete the senior representation there was also a full programme of Sunday XI and Over 40s fixtures…in short a record number of senior competitive games played this year. Read more

1st XI win at Leatherhead

Saturday 10th July 2021
Surrey Championship Division 1
Stoke D’Abernon 200 for 7 (37 overs)
Leatherhead 103 all out (33.2 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon won by 97 runs

Stoke’s 1st XI scored a second reduced overs victory over Leatherhead of the season.

This time it was a 37 over contest. James Trower, (35), and Will Gudgeon, (29), set a nice platform with an opening stand of 56; Olly Trower, (42 against one of his former suitors), and Alastair Curran, (41), carried things on and a nice sprinkling of extras led to an even 200 being posted. Read more

Bank Holiday Sunday Fun. Sunshine and Raining Sixes

Sunday 30th May 2021

Something new and something to be repeated as people from all sections of the Stoke massive turned up at The Rec for a 7-a-side competition, (plans for 6-a-side shelved when the numbers better lent to an extra player per team.)

The tournament was the brainchild of Toby Tarrant and Tom Frost who had a taste of the selection issues that captains, managers and team secretaries face each week; but they eventually moved names on the table and picked four base squads: Read more

Tarrant Milestone and Career Best as 1s Beat Cranleigh

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Another scalp for Stoke’s 1st XI as a good 36 over total, (reduced overs due to the conditions but credit to the ground staff for getting a pitch playable), was followed up by another superb bowling and fielding performance.

Batting first having lost the toss Max Subba Row and James Trower were gone with 30 on the board; but a decisive partnership of 104 between Ian Hopton and Roddy Kelso set the platform for the others to follow.

Hopton, (44), and Kelso did some very hard yards in testing conditions, and whilst Kelso’s knock of 67 included eight fours and three sixes; and Hopton cleared the rope twice on the full himself; the number of deliveries the pair invested getting themselves in was an example to everyone, one that the opposition didn’t follow, but more on that later.

Alastair Curran hit a nice unbeaten 33; Robbie Blackburn hit one of the biggest sixes you will ever see in his cameo; Tom Frost and Ben Holder, (great to see him back in town), unselfishly sacrificed their wickets in the pursuit of quick runs, and Stoke closed on 207 for 7.

It was over to the bowlers and they didn’t disappoint.

Cranleigh showed their intent from the off as Bedford planted the first ball of the chase into the trees at the railway end for six; but the top order’s positivity erred into reckless territory as Stoke’s bowlers maintained their discipline and the fielding was excellent. In contrast to Hopton and Kelso only the well organised Broughton showed the necessary desire to bat time.

So wickets fell at a canter. Toby Tarrant picked up the first when Anderson picked out mid-off – a 200th career wicket for the Club but he wasn’t done there; Will Frost secured an lbw decision in his favour and the frenetic start saw the board reading 30 for 2 after just four overs.

Tarrant doubled his count when Hopton held on to a skier that had lengthy hang time from Scrivener; and after first change Robbie Blackburn strangled Windridge down the leg-side; Tarrant completed his nap hand in double quick time; Olly Trower, (yep, brother of), was castled for a duck, Gonszor was leg before later in the same over, and soon after Broughton’s time came to an end when he couldn’t clear Blackburn at mid-on. Tarrant was running at a career best to that point, and an economical final over saw said career best of 8-1-18-5 etched on to the 5-fors board.

Ah, yes, the score. 55 for 7.

A partnership of 38 for the 8th wicket between Kent and Thompson moved the visitors from an ugly position to a moderate one; but when Kelso found the former’s edge for the innings’ highest score of 27; it was over minutes later when Hopton castled the last two to complete a comprehensive victory.

Having had one tie, one defeat and one abandonment in such a short programme, Stoke need a result or two to go their way if they are to top the group; but let’s take care of business at Camberley next weekend and see how the maths works out.

Scorecard : https://sdacc.play-cricket.com/website/results/4473265





Kohli v Stoke (2) : Consecutive 20+ Scores

India drew first blood in the Test Series this week despite a moderate contribution from Virat Kohli. However Virat added another impressive stat to his CV recently in the ODI series against the West Indies where, having made 157 not out, he made an eighteenth successive score of 20 or more in ODIs, (passing Matthew Hayden’s run of 17 20+ scores in 2007.) He then extended his run to nineteen with 107 in the next match before finally falling for 16 in Mumbai. Twelve of Virat’s knocks were also over 50, (8×100, 4×50.)

Has a run of scores of 20 or more of this length ever been achieved by a Stoker? After a trawl of the stats, the short answer is no, but there have been some impressive sequences; the longest being eleven, achieved by Chris Goode and Steve Eggleston. A couple of players will go into the 2019 season with a chance to beat that run. (See later on.)

For the avoidance of doubt, in these scoring runs below, if a player made a score of less than 20 but was not out, or did not bat in a match, we have continued the run but not counted the score of less than 20 or the DNB in the sequence.

Have you made the list? Look for yourself here…

As mentioned above, messers Goode and Eggleston have the longest run…

11 Chris Goode
45 in the last game of 1956 then 50 34 31 65 63 71 63 103* 30 and 77 in his first ten innings in 1957

11 Steve Eggleston
45 36 25 60 22 26* 27 24 and 132 in 1993 – these were all the games he played that season!
He then started 1994 with 44 and 42.

…closely followed by these four sturdy Stoke oaks who have runs of ten innings…

10 Steve Garner
21 34 32 75 32* 46 30 105* 31 89 in 1986

10 Will Gudgeon
22 54* 45 61 34* 19* 30 26 28 26 in 2013 then 50* in his first game of 2014

10 Gavin Johns
40 78 77 58*and 71 at the end of 1996 then 30 155* 43 28 and 67 at the start of 1997

10 Nick Lo
63* 23 22 27 31 38 39 30 61 29 in 2013

A few of Stoke’s all-time leading run-scorers/highest average-holders are in the next group with a run of nine innings, or eight, (Alistair McMillan and Ian Wellman have one of each, Sid Lahiri can boast two runs of eight in successive seasons in the noughties)…

9 Phil Easton
36 31* 59 100* 39 40 69 49* 69* in 1971

9 Alistair McMillan
30 18* 25 38 20 29* 30 11* 32 44* 22 in 1980

9 Ian Wellman
58 89* 39 69 51 44 64 79 61 in 1980

9 Sophie Pout Read more





Sunday XI defeated at Sutton

Sunday 16th April 2017
Friendly
Stoke D’Abernon 144 all out (33.3 overs)
Sutton 146 for 6 (33.5 overs)
Sutton won by 4 wickets

Despite a spirited display in the field a Stoke Sunday XI line up including plenty of League players was left to rue a shortage of runs on a good pitch at Sutton.

James Trower won the toss and chose to bat; Peter Phipps and Malcolm Dickson added 17 before the latter, who hit the first two balls he faced for four and three, chipped to mid-wicket and departed for 9.

Phipps was joined by the captain and moved the total to 42 with little alarm before Phipps, (15), became one of three wickets for youngster Griffin when he edged to the cordon and the ball ended up in Foster’s hands via a deflection, possibly two.

Oliver Trower kindly stepped in to the final XI late in the week and having drilled one through the covers to get himself going, was next to depart for 7 when playing away from his body and edging Griffin to keeper Moore, just the fifth ball he faced. 51 for 3 was 82 for 4 in a matter of minutes when the elder Trower, who hit four nice fours, was caught at slip for 22 from 21 balls faced.

Griffin would finish with unusual figures of 6-0-57-3, his economy rate, or lack of it, suffering courtesy of aggressive field placements, or was it a reluctance of some of the more senior players to leave the cordon and join the ring.

Chief beneficiary was Jase Earl who carried his good form from pre-season nets to the middle and made most of his runs through his favourite scoring area. Rod Thomson stayed with him as the total moved to 115 by the mid-point of the 23rd over; but Thomson’s progress was cut short when he was bowled by debutant Premasinghe for 6; the bowler would go on to have a good all-round debut.

Stoke were in a precarious position at 115 for 5 but had batting depth, but things took a turn for the worse when, surprisingly, neither Kane Fullalove nor Deepak Malhotra were able to add to the total as veteran Hall, (6-1-10-2), dismissed them with successive deliveries.

When Earl followed in the next over, caught at the wicket off Premasinghe for a fine 57, (61 balls, 10×4); it was 124 for 8 with just Will Frost and the Townsend brothers left to post a defendable total.

As he did the previous day, Frost hit a couple of nice shots in his knock of 11; but when Premasinghe, (8-2-20-3), castled him with the last ball of his spell; Stoke’s final pair still had eight of the allotted 40 overs to bat.

A five wides from sixth bowler Schofield lifted the total to 144, but the innings closed two balls later when Ben T was caught trying to clear the infield. The last six wickets had fallen for 29 runs in just ten overs.

After tea Stoke needed early wickets to get any sort of foothold in the game, and they managed two early strikes when Earl knocked over Foster’s off-stump, then Oliver Trower took a great catch in the covers off Frost to account for Lewis for 5. 7 for 2.

Schofield and Ratnasapbathy were at the crease early, but showed why they had scored 1,541 runs between them last year with a rapid partnership of 43 in just under seven overs. The Townsend brothers bowled well in their first outing of the season, but the pitch, the quality of the batsmen and the wet ball after a brief shower left little margin for error.

Jack T picked up the wicket of Schofield, (28), when Earl made good ground at mid-on to take a fine low catch, (50 for 3); but the board continued to tick over as No.5 Nonis played positively, making 21, including the match’s only six, before he was caught at the wicket by Malhotra off the first ball delivered by Ben T following a switch of ends.

90 for 4, (Ben T 5-0-24-1), was soon 99 for 5 when Malhotra effected the stumping of Clarkson to give Fullalove his first wicket for the Club; but Stoke were running out of runs to play with and Ratnasapbathy was still going well.

They had a sniff when Ratnasapbathy, (33), eventually fell to a great catch at slip by Fullalove off the returning Earl, (6-0-33-2), to make it 121 for 6 in the 27th over, (Stoke were 121 for 7 at the corresponding stage); but this would be the last strike as Premasinghe, (27 not out), and Griffin, (14 not out), knocked off the remaining runs with little alarm despite some economical bowing by Fullalove, (5.5-1-17-1), Thomson, (3-1-4-0), and Frost, (8-0-22-1), the latter back in the groove after the previous day’s ring-rustiness.

Despite the result, we will benefit from both games played this weekend, and we’ll look to get more batting time, overs and fielding into our legs next week.

Our thanks for Sutton for their typically excellent hospitality – and for sourcing two umpires for this match to give them some early season practice. Hopefully we’ll have the same April weather next year to allow the continuation of this enjoyable fixture.

Scorecard : http://sdacc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3143691

Photos from the game are on our Twitter Page : @StokeDabernonCC https://twitter.com/StokeDabernonCC

Jase Earl