A frustrating couple of weeks leading up to the Band of Brothers fixture, this year at a dry Belmont with an electric outfield, found Match Manager Patch juggling players between Cricketer Cup and other old school obligations; and the frustration was compounded on the...

For the very first time since the founding of a second wandering side in Kent, some 70 years ago, it was with considerable anticipation that the flags of the Band of Brothers and the Shepway Stragglers were raised together at Torry Hill. The Stragglers, lead by Patch...

Stragglers and The Babes gathered at Torry Hill to find that they were short one component – a pitch. Fortunately the grounds-man was to hand, a pitch prepared in quick time and the sides launched into a furiously high scoring 30 over match. The Stragglers tried a...

Rain - No Play

Rain - No play

The BaBes looked to have formidable batting strength at their disposal, and so it proved in the early overs with the Smallwood brothers marching smartly on at over 8 an over in spite of good opening spells from Harry Pattinson and Charlie Sinclair. It took the guile...

The BaBes of 2010 are not the force of yesteryear, and, in spite of the usual Straggler frailties when confronted with modest opposition, were undone in the heat at Torry Hill. Early Straggler wickets fell and at 16 for 3, Theo Allport, leading the BaBes, was being...

The Straggler side to face the Babes at Torry Hill was neatly divided between those on the down slope of long cricketing careers, and young thrusters. The top order were the latter, with Archie Hammond and Theo Allport getting the Stragglers off to a sound start. It...