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A sunny September Sunday saw the Refreshers arrive at the glorious Exning Park, outside Newmarket, for a new fixture, against the Philanderers (the other Philanderers, apparently: we played, and [...]

HEADLINE:We gave them a good stuffing! Refreshers lost the toss, and they chose to bat, they looked to have an ok couple of lefty/righty opening pair. Burton and Finch opened the bowling and [...]

2020 has been a very strange year. Nothing has been normal. And that includes cricket. For until early July 2020 everyone in the country (apart from self-isolating English and West Indian test [...]

In late September 2019 a dozen or so Refreshers and a cadre of WAGS sallied forth across the Med to land on Malta, a lovely warm island with a long history, beautiful architecture and close [...]

Sunday 11 August 2019 saw the Refreshers play their second ever fixture at Kew. It’s a glorious ground, on the Green directly in front of the entrance to Kew Gardens. The game brought a decent [...]

In this fixture last year, Refreshers fell just 5 tantalising runs short in the final over chasing 250. It was a wonderful game, but a painful loss. So, we journeyed to Felsted this year very [...]

Tuesday, 5pm: a telephone call between Club Captain and Fixtures Sec: CC: Joe, I am not going to be able to make it on Saturday, but we’ve got 14 without me, all confirmed, so I hope that’s ok [...]

After an amazingly laid-back start, it was decided that we should play time as opposed to limited overs, the toss being won by our captain, J Cannon. Batting was the obvious choice on a hot, dry [...]

The Australian Women’s XI, preparing for their Women’s Ashes campaign, had asked us to give up our usual venue for this fixture, namely the Marlborough College first XI pitch, so we took the 2nd [...]

Refreshers v CIPA CITMA A new fixture against the Patent Attorneys and Trade Mark Attorneys of London – all of whom looked worryingly young and worryingly ready when the Refreshers ambled up to [...]