After two cancellations the much-anticipated Stragglers season got underway at Wellesley with not a cloud in sight, and a pitch only just dry enough for cricket. The toss was won and despite no Baker White or Smallwood, it was decided the batting line up was more than...

With the Stragglers struggling to chase in 2019, the captain made the decision to set a total against a BOFs side captained for the first time by Archie Hammond.  The game got off to a poor start as our planned opener, Joe Gordon, who managed to score a remarkable 226...

Toby Snape provided the cutting edge for the Straggler attack, having inserted a TDMB XI replete with batting talent on a glorious day at Wellesley. He removed both Paul and Lewis Bedford in a ferocious opening spell, and with Eliot Forster operating with fine economy...

No rain since February and a track like a road greeted the combatants at Wellesley House. Nigel was disappointed to lose the toss and field, but it proved the perfect toss to lose, as TDMB’s XI ultimately failed to take advantage of the conditions. The rain arrived,...

A career resurgent is the only way to describe Jonathan Neame’s contribution against TDMB’s XI at Wellesley House. He had bombarded the Match Manager with electronic reminders of his extensive range of abilities in the week before the game, and then, extraordinarily,...

Stragglers are known for their ability to ‘go large’ when offered a sumptuous tea. At Wellesley House for the game against TDM Burleigh’s XI, the school offered not just a sumptuous tea, but a substantial lunch as well, and that may have been our undoing. Straggler...