Checkendon was this year the site of some destructive and mighty batting in a quite one sided 35 over match. On a dry wicket and lightning-fast outfield – on which the groundsman apparently uses [...]
Holkham An unusually warm and sunny day greeted the arrival of eleven Refreshers to Holkham Park, to bear witness to the new and improved Holkham Park Cricket Pitch. It did look, [...]
17 May 2025 Sometimes… Sometimes a cricket match, while played in a beautiful place, and by doughty, enthusiastic players, and featuring a superb tea, can meander. The dramatic tension can [...]
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 [...]
