Rain - No Play

At last, after many years of endeavor (since 2010), the Stragglers, lead on this occasion by the Master Brewer, have defeated Otterden. On a cool and windy afternoon, the Stragglers chose to bat, and after a handful of overs were indulging in the batting collapse to...

I can't recall the last time sheep were allowed to graze on the outfield at Lords before a game, or ground staff required to deploy pooper scoopers in earnest. Such is the rural idyll that is Otterden, that Little Bo Peep might well have opened the batting. In the...

Both 99th and 100th Straggler centuries were reached with monstrous sixes, both struck into the garden of Otterden Place by, respectively, Simon Allport and Al Smallwood. The pair put on 195 for the third wicket (not quite a record) in setting a total of 303 for 3,...

Otterden is a timeless venue, with a backdrop of cattle under parkland trees and the big house. And Theo set about the Otterden attack with a nonchalant elegance that belonged in another age. Flicking boundaries off his legs at will, he moved serenely to his century....

Otterden Place is one of the more idyllic places to play cricket, a perfect sense of timelessness lost in the North Downs. It clearly resonates with Jasper Smallwood, who has now scored exactly 200 runs there for one dismissal, but more of that in a moment. Otterden...

A well balanced Straggler side containing a blend of exuberant youth and wily experience arrived for the inaugural fixture at Otterden, whose picturesque cricket pitch is set within the grounds of a country house. Losing the toss and being put into bat, the Straggler...