Peter Budden, President of the Shepway Stragglers for 10 years, passed away on September 19th. As a player, committee member, supporter, scorer, umpire, recruiter and then President, Peter was at the heart of the Club for very nearly five decades; it has been a...
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for coming to help us celebrate 70 years of Straggler cricket. It is such a pleasure to be able to welcome so many Stragglers past and present, supporters, family and friends here this evening. And I am delighted to welcome our guests,...
Alastair Gordon It is with very great sadness that I report the passing, on 16th August, of Alastair Gordon, a stalwart of the Stragglers through the "middle years" of the Club. Alastair was the second generation of Gordons to play Straggler cricket, his father,...
Much like an early medieval monarch (turning up late after a trip to the Holy Land) Patch Mitchell lead the Stragglers to a clean sweep of the former English possessions of Gascony in la sud-ouest. Somewhat unusually for a touring cricket team, now often with more...
The Straggler season got off to a flying start in glorious sunshine chez Smallwood with the pre-season drinks, a look forward to the coming season, the presentation the multiplicity of awards for 2016, and remembering those Stragglers no longer with us. Jimmy Cox...
It is with very great sadness that we have learnt of the death on Boxing Day 2016 of Jimmy Cox, one of the Straggler stalwarts, and a former President of the Club. Jimmy's Straggler career spans some 37 years as a player (more than half of the life of the Club), and...
The glorious spell of late summer weather, which had seen the hottest September day since 1911, ended 24 hours too early for the Stragglers. A wonderful season, with only two matches called off previously, came to a disappointing end with a rain affected...
is the ball coming in your direction, or is the rotation of the earth moving you towards the ball? Straggler bowling has varied from some ferocious, well-directed pace, to something much more leisurely (indeed long-time opponent, Sasha Azizi, was overheard coaching...
With the bat Stragglers have piled on the runs in a few games (283 for 9 in the first innings against SAC; 275 for 5 at Hollingbourne; 276 for 5 a week later at Tenterden; and 255 for for 5 at Wellesley House), and we enjoyed a pair of century opening stands by Jack...
A great summer of sport is coming to an end, with Icelandic and Welsh footballers coming off cloud 9 (and the former getting back to fishing), the Rio gold rush almost over, and the Pakistani tourists on their way home. Your correspondent has been so busy playing or...