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,...

On a day which had seen a number of events, including the first day of the Cowes regatta cancelled due to gales, Stragglers gathered at a very windy Belmont (small branches in the outfield) for the annual Club fixture, sides captained in 2019 by a brace of Attwoods....

The Stragglers of 2019 seem unable to chase a target, but given the chance to pile on runs, the attack is up to the task or running through the opposition.  For the third time in the season, a big Straggler score proved very defendable, with a substantial margin of...