Twenty-one Refreshers, WAGs and children flew out of Southampton on Thursday 26 August for our annual foreign CricketFest, this year to Alderney. A small island, just ten miles around, Alderney [...]
Kew Green, 8 August 2021 Jon Willatt (63 runs (11 fours)) single-handedly saved us from the middle order collapse to end all middle order collapses (I am almost proud of the sheer consistent [...]
Oxford, 1 August 2021 Delayed start due to rain but sunny thereafter. Refreshers lost the toss and set to fielding Chelsea openers contrasting styles, one nurdler, one whacker. Sachin [...]
President’s Refreshers XI v Arcadian Casuals With heavy rain overnight and an iffy forecast – and the Marlborough College groundsman muttering about irreparable damage to his beautiful [...]
Sunday 9 May 2021 A delight of a game played against a fantastic opposition (as usual), but unfortunately without the benefit of their delicious tea due to ongoing restrictions. On a side-note, [...]
Saturday 12 June 2021 On a gorgeous summer’s day in mid June the England team threw away their two match series against New Zealand by some abysmal batting up at Edgbaston, slumping [...]
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 [...]
