Following weeks of pre-match electronic pressure on the Match Manager (apparently relieved by the storm overhead), Jonathan Neame re-invented himself as a fielding all-rounder at Wellesley House against TDMB's XI. Leading the rearguard with both ball (5 for 16) and...

On a generally cold Bank Holiday weekend the sun shone on the touring Parisians of the Standard Athletic Club, playing at Belmont in memory of Toby Cox. Both teams were hosted very generously to lunch and tea by Jimmy and Libby Cox, with tributes paid to Toby's...

The season has begun very much as the 'Theo Allport' show. Within a month Theo has scored his maiden century in any cricket at Bossingham, and followed this with a maiden hat-trick at Goodnestone against Wickham & Stodmarsh, finishing with 5 for 20. He is racking...

The fixture against the Standard Athletic Club, Paris at Belmont on Sunday 30th May, is to be played in memory of Toby Cox. Toby will be familiar to Stragglers of all ages for his enthusiastic flourishes with the bat, and he will be sorely missed by all who knew him....

The undoubted highlight of the first game at Bossingham was the very well constructed first century by Theo Allport. Theo opened the batting, and built his innings with a calm maturity that belied his years, hitting out with a brace of sweetly struck sixes after he...

The start of the 2010 season has been touched with tragedy, with the untimely death of Toby Cox in an avalanche while ski touring on the Monte Rosa glacier on Sunday 18th April. Our thoughts are with Libby, Jimmy, Andrew and the family. Toby awarded himself the...

Welcome to the Shepway Stragglers web site and the 2010 season. Cricket is already underway with a first well attended net session. Olla Tennant made a comeback from injury; some of the senior players were comparing rates of live weight gain over the winter; the...