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). [...]
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 [...]
