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...