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 [...]
11 June 2022 There was a thrilling climax to this match which produced a total of 570 runs on a lovely June day and a win for the Hogs in the last over. After some mid-week miscommunication [...]
Unusually fine weather greeted the Refreshers as we rolled up at the glorious Holkham Hall on Saturday 21 May, but most did not immediately notice, attention being drawn powerfully by the [...]
25 July 2021 This was another belter of a game at Felsted and it might never have happened. The weather forecast was biblical and it would have put off all but the most unyielding of cricketers. [...]
Saturday 18 September 2021 On a glorious late summer’s day the Refreshers played their last fixture of the season in the bucolic setting of Stonor Park in South Oxfordshire. Given our [...]
Sunday 20 June 2021 Having driven through the numerous rain showers en route to Tilford, the wisdom of proceeding with the match at all was both highly questionable and, not surprisingly, highly [...]
27 June 2021 35 over game. Good game and a tight victory. Refreshers 178-4 (A Gardner 55; Sacha Sandelson 51, Philo Wallace 33). Checkendon 164-7 (O Roach 7-0-2-24; E Faulks 5-0-2-30). Refreshers [...]
Sunday 2 May 2021 A good win to start the season. Refreshers 246-5 (R Saunders 89; C Bell 44; S Thompson 36 no). Castle Rising 187 all out (P Hudson 93, D Williams 3-29; J Maynard 3-9). [...]
