Sandwich exploded into life with a first ball beamer from the Boulanger that almost removed the batsman's head. This was followed by a knee high full toss, lobbed back to mid-on, where the Chairman made a meal of a regulation catch, parrying it before leaping like a...

Renowned slip fielder, Nigel Snape (see previous blog), has become somewhat less mobile in the field in recent weeks, the result of a repeatedly torn hamstring. Following the example of some younger pros, who have ventured abroad for specialist treatment or training,...

The semi-desert conditions and tropical heat of Torry Hill may have had somethng to do with it, but the Straggler fielding entered new realms of entertainment against the BaBes. Two Stragglers short on arrival, Nigel drafted in the spare BaBe, 11 year old Jonty...

There is no stopping the resurgent Jonathan Neame. Coming in with the upper order scratching about at 67 for 3 in the 20th over at Nonington, Jonathan launched the counter attack without bothering to play himself in. When he was out for 66 he had scored nearly three...

On a steamy afternoon at Belmont, and in spite of Patrick Mitchell's third Straggler century (all of which he has reached with a six!) the Stragglers were well trounced by the Turks, much as the Germans were doing to England's finest in Bloemfontein. Straggler bowling...

The 2010 season is seeing its fair share of generational baton passing. Not since 1956 have two Stragglers taken a hat trick in the same season, and at Highland Court Toby Russell-Vick emulated Theo Allport with his first hat trick in any cricket. And what's more the...