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This page provides immediate access to the latest results for season 2008. The above links, and the navigation bar to the left of the screen, also make it possible to get at the running results and match reports for the other seasons since this web site has been in existence, as well as the results for the seasons back to 1959. Seasons prior to 1988 do not include information about individual performances since full scorebook details have not (yet??) been input to the database for those years.

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Latest Match Report

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[A full match report should appear here in due course, since Paul Little was persuaded to try and do a more timely job than Rako, Matt, Chris or Darrell have managed, but for the time being it is my intention to post a one paragraph summary of each game when I enter the scorecard data]

Summary: The omens were not good – a limited overs contest, late arrivals due to the vagaries of the M25 and a shortage of bowling resources – but this one ended up much closer than the previous two defeats. Badgers were asked to make first use of a typical recreation ground wicket at the Raynes Park Sports Ground and Pat was its first victim as the second over started with a wide that scuttled along the floor to the keeper followed by a snorter that lifted from just short of a length to take a glove and gift him only his second duck as a Badger and the first in nearly five years. This presaged another ‘failure’ from the top order with the third wicket going down in the twelfth over with just 31 on the board. Steve seemed determined to stop the rot, possibly a little too determined since he had amassed just four runs after fifteen overs, but good support from Matt Mann (35) and Guy Walker (27) created stands of 56 and 53 for the next two wickets and a change of bat at the drinks break saw Steve slowly awaken from his slumbers to finish unbeaten on 52 in a score of 160. The bowlers exerted considerable pressure on Morden’s top order and their innings followed a similar pattern, with Greggy and Allan Butt conceding just seven and nine runs respectively from their initial four over spells and the scoring rate barely getting above two. Despite the change bowlers breaking the second wicket partnership at 50 and taking a couple more scalps to boot the scoring rate crept up to the required four an over after 25 overs with the Badgers fielding growing increasingly ragged. With all of their middle order contributing quick runs and both of the openers coming in for some stick when reintroduced into the attack even a fine spell from Graham Ward (2 for 21 from seven overs) was not enough to stop the home side reaching the required total in the penultimate over.

Statistical Notes: Steve Pitts finally passed Brian Moore into third place in the all time run makers for the club (although Brian took a lot less time to get there), but Graham Ward only managed to inch five runs closer to his first thousand, still needing another fifteen. With Graham Davenport still poised eight runs away from the same milestone, the question still remains which of them will be the twenty-sixth Badger to reach the thousand, or will David Jones make a surprise appearance and pip them both to it??

When he came off the field at tea on Saturday Steve made the observation that his innings was the second most boring ever, and that fact is borne out by the statistics, at least in terms of opening batsmen carrying their bat. Since 1988 (the first season for which we have the full details in the database) there have been 45 instances of an opening batsman finishing not out in matches that were not abandoned, and his proportion of the final score (32.5%) is the second worst ever. Jeremy Clayton’s 42 out of 170 (24.7%) against Newchapel back in 1988 is the only innings that is worse, and that has the distinction of also being the only time that a Badger has carried their bat whilst all ten wickets fell at the other end. Strangely, Steve also has the best percentage – 80 of a winning total of 115 (69.6%) against Old Alleynians in 1989.

Season 2008 Results

Current record: 6 wins, 5 losses, 3 draws

The current season's results are arranged in reverse chronological order, to make it easier to find the most recent games.