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King’s School XI

After a number of years of weather frustrations, the Straggler fixture at the Kings School Canterbury has opened the season. And it was a rather faltering start by the Stragglers, for whom the absence of winter nets was most obvious. Batsmen gave their wickets away at... Read more

The Grannies

The covers at Kings came off (for the third time of asking) on a dark and damp May afternoon some two hours after the planned start. The game against the Grannies was thus reduced to a 25 over thrash, albeit one that finished in almost total darkness, with players lit... Read more

King’s School XI

A new fixture to open the season against a Kings School XI saw a mixed bag of pretty underprepared Stragglers saunter out to the middle of the beautifully groomed and green square at Birleys. After the first two overs had been summarily despatched for 16 by occasional... Read more