CJ (John) Burley was a larger than life member of the Club from the mid-‘60s. He made his debut for the Stragglers in June 1965 with a brief innings against the West Kent Countrymen, and for the next eight seasons was a stalwart of the Club, turning out in at least...
Stragglers will be very sad learn of the death of George Denny, well known local church architect and a Straggler whose playing days were (mostly) in the nineteen sixties, and one who remained a supporter of the club for many years thereafter. There will be many...
Some 75 years ago, Wyndham Fletcher and a group of friends founded the Shepway Stragglers Cricket Club. Cricket in the Kent countryside seemed like the perfect way to leave the war behind them. Why “Shepway Stragglers”? Shepway was the name of Wyndham’s house, and...
Welcome to the 75th season of Straggler cricket to which I will return in a minute. Many thanks to Fi for her patience and persistence since offering to host this event way back in 2019, with the 2020 cancellation in full lockdown, and then catching covid herself in...
It seems an age since we last met, in April 2019 to celebrate the performances of 2018.
Stragglers from the senior generation will be saddened to hear the news that Lieutenant Commander Neil MacLeay passed away recently at the age of 87. Neil’s Straggler career lasted more than two decades, from debut at Saltwood as an opening bat in 1953 to a final...
2020 will forever be the season of Covid-19, a virus, possibly originating from a Chinese bat, that turned the world upside down. No cricket was played in a glorious English April and May, or in a very slightly damper June. The season finally came to life in...
Guy Yerburgh, Lord Alvingham passed away on 29th March at the age of 93, the oldest surviving Straggler. He had been encouraged by Wyndham Fletcher to play Straggler cricket, while serving at the Small Arms School in Hythe shortly after the founding of the Club. In...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/the-nightwatchman/2019/dec/04/ethics-walking-cricket-socrates-nietzsche-aristotle-plato-kant To walk or not to walk, that is the question. What would Aristotle, Plato and Kant have done had they felt a nick? By Anthony McGowan for The...
My old school had a tradition of some wonderful school songs, one of which was entitled “Giants” - you can relax, I am not going to burst into song. The thesis of the song was that the giants of yesteryear were more capable, more athletic and in many other ways...