After a four-year covid interruption, Stragglers re-joined the contest with Standard Athletic Club from Paris at a beautifully sunny Belmont, but with a stiff, cold north wind blowing in from the Thames estuary. It was a particular pleasure to welcome Praneeth Kumar...

XXII Stragglers gathered to play the Inter-Straggs game to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Shepway Stragglers at a warm, muggy, overcast and, unusually, completely still Belmont. Following more than a month without rain, the outfield was brown and hard, offering...

It seemed fitting that, in the 75th season of Straggler cricket, the Stragglers should record a first win against the Band of Brothers in what proved to be an excellent game of cricket with a nerve jangling final few overs. Played on a lovely summer day at Belmont,...

An unresponsive roller saw the Stowting fixture rescheduled to Belmont, where an excellent game ended in a crescendo of excitement with fielders clustered around the bat with a sniff of last ball victory in the air.  Asked to bat first, the Straggler openers, James...

There is an immutable law of cricket, which says that if you drop Jasper three times in an innings AND suffer the inexplicable vicissitudes of an umpire of Antipodean origin calling ‘no ball’ on height, you will lose.  And so it proved in the Inter-Straggler (Fixture...

In this season of Covid fixture rearrangements, the Stragglers gathered for a second club fixture at Belmont, with teams captained by Patch Clews (Stragglers) and Seb Leggett (Fixture Secretary’s XII).  With four Stragglers on debut, the first appearance for 6 years...

Belmont was baking in early August heat, and the track had been prepared with some real spice.  Jack Wood’s decision to bowl looked fair, and with Hugo and Nick W opening at pace, and plenty of change bowling available, he was looking for early inroads.  However,...