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Saturday 26/9 – Tigers tamed at Midhurst

Saturday 26th September 2020
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Royal Tigers 129 all out (34.1 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 130 for 2 (20.3 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon won by 8 wickets

Those who put their kit bags away at the end of the League season miss out on great days like this. With former full-time/now current occasional Stoker Adam De Swardt suggesting his current club, Midhurst CC, might have a pitch and a team available; we got the numbers. Read more

Centuries on Debut / Time Taken to Make First Hundred

Ben Foakes made a century in his first Test innings last week, and this fitted in nicely with some other analysis we were doing after CricInfo were asked to look at one or two things by their followers.

Four Stokers have made a century on their debut, (in Claire Trafford’s case she arrived on the scene with a score of 213 not out!), and many others have got to three figures in pretty quick time. Read more

Lowest Career Averages to Contain a Century

In last week’s “Ask Steven” section on CricInfo “Irfan” from Pakistan asked:

I noticed that Ajit Agarkar has a Test batting average of 16.79 despite having a century to his name. Is this the lowest Test batting average to include a century? Read more

Debut Century for Reino Grobler as Stoke win Big at Woodmansterne

Saturday 23rd September 2017
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Stoke D’Abernon 181 all out (38 overs)
Woodmansterne 49 all out (15.5 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon won by 132 runs

In, (probably), our final match of the season we travelled to Woodmansterne and played out an enjoyable, yet unusually one-sided, match on a lovely September afternoon. Read more