With Patch needing another partnership breaker, Heals talked himself on with the guarantee of a wicket. And he promptly produced a great piece of exhibition bowling, asking many questions that Toto Berger had never found the need previously to answer. For the older...

Cephalopods stop play...or at least they encouraged Giles to focus on the tea to come.  Not since the great days of the Parry lobster extravaganzas, have we seen such an eclectic contribution to a Straggler tea.  On a day favouring the bat - 526 runs scored for the...

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...