With a week to go before the Provender game, Charlie proudly revealed a team of ferocious talent, all in the form of their lives. Unfortunately, come the day, it seemed that he had relied on sundry 'yoof' to manage their diaries for more than 24 hours at a time, and...
An early Straggler breakthrough at Belmont saw Belmont skipper, Tony Brown, shoulder arms to the ferocious pace of Stabber. A pretty frustrating way to get out. But not the only instance in the match, as Straggler opener Al managed to level things up as he also waved...
IPL style boundary fielding practice will be introduced for Straggler pre-season training, following the casual boundary step over on Sunday. Having induced a modest miscue which sailed perfectly into the waiting hands of Hugo Ward at deep long on, you can imagine the...
It is with great sadness that your correspondent has to report the untimely passing of Straggler Roddy Child-Villiers, peacefully at home in Switzerland after a two and a half year fight with cancer. Roddy is remembered as one of the Stragglers finest keepers, and a...
On a wildly seaming green top at Wellesley House, the Stragglers struggled to keep the bowlers at bay, and, in an innings requiring absolute concentration, limped to lunch (76 for 4), reaching 100 off 38 overs, and then needing plenty more to get to a vaguely decent...
Stragglers have a wonderful ability to take impossible catches, while routinely shelling the more straight forward. The first two fixtures of the 2014 season have seen three examples of the former, and each quite special. In the cold, dark and windy conditions at...
2013 Season After the deluges of 2007 and 2012, and the gloom in the intervening years, 2013 had the benefit of a more typical English summer, with only one game interrupted by the weather, and many played in glorious conditions. In most games the Stragglers rose to...
AJP 'Jim' Woodhouse was one of the greats of the Shepway Stragglers, and his passing at Easter 2014 is a sad day for the Club. Jim's achievements with bat span a 30 year Straggler career, beginning with a single innings (12*) in 1949, and came to a close with four...
Four Straggler batsmen had metaphorically waved Jasper off to the ski slopes, and set their sites on overhauling his average at Hollingbourne. In a season of challenging wickets, Jasper was relentlessly able to adapt to the conditions and score heavily. It would have...
After a summer of controversy dogging the DRS system throughout the Ashes series, the ICC have run a discrete trial of the alternative BRS (Brewer Review System) at Otterden. And it proved to be a huge success, with one of the Brewers present asking for a review, when...