Chairman’s Blog

Rash Declaration puts Stragglers under the cosh

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...

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Catching with precision

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...

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2013 Highlights

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...

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Jim Woodhouse

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...

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Official Announcement – BRS to replace DRS

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...

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