Sunday 17th September 2023 A delayed start forced by waves of rain meant this became a shortened game of 30 overs. Our skipper R. Jory having won the toss, we gleefully went in to bat (still in [...]
23 July 2023 The weather gods saw fit to allow this fixture to take place. The seemingly unending July rain broke about two hours before the first ball was balled and did not resume its onslaught [...]
6 August 2023 Result: Refreshers won by 20 runs There was something of a scramble to field a full XI in the lead up to the game but that was achieved at the 11th hour with the loan [...]
Sunday 18 June 2023 In the idyllic village green setting at Tilford the home team won the toss and batted on an outfield only slightly damaged by the travelling community who had set up nearby [...]
10 June 2023 Under a blazing hot sky we met the Hampshire Hogs at Warnford for the fourth time. It has proved an enjoyable and competitive fixture; the tally to that moment was 2 to the Hogs, 1 [...]
Is there anywhere better to be than north Norfolk in the late spring? No. In case there was any doubt, no fewer than THIRTEEN Refreshers assembled more or less on time at Holkham Hall on Saturday [...]
September 2022 Twenty years after our first ‘modern tour’ the Refreshers went back once again to Cornwall – this time across the water to the Scilly Isles. Arriving by plane, helicopter and ferry [...]
President’s Match, Marlborough On a baking hot Saturday at the end of Wimbledon fortnight, the Refreshers hosted Joe Cannon’s Casuals at Marlborough College for what has now become an [...]
Warborough, Oxfordshire 35 over game; David Alexander lost the toss (actually given that no one seemed to have a coin, it was a stone in one hand and nothing in the other with the winner being [...]
Notwithstanding the rather dismal medium-range weather forecast and it being Father’s Day, the Refreshers managed to assemble not only 11 players but also an Umpire – with thanks to Tim Lord – in [...]
