Congratulations to Pat and Nicki who are now the proud parents of a newborn baby. To satisfy the curious who would like to know other pertinent details I have added an entry to the news page with all of the information that has found its way to me.

A new fixture last weekend saw the Badgers visit Leatherhead’s Fetchgam Grove for the first time and sidle off with their third win of the season. Full details can be found on the results page along with Andy Iwanoczko’s debut as the writer of a full match report and the pertinent elements from the scorecard.

I have also found the time to edit Graham Ward’s match report for Woldingham although no doubt most will already have read it since it was attached to last week’s team sheet email.

For those of you wondering why this week’s update is so late, it has taken me all week to lay out the Leatherhead report in a way that I am happy with plus I have tried to do something clever with the footnotes. I would be interested to hear of any bad experiences with the tooltips, but what you see is very much determined by your browser with recent versions of Internet Explorer definitely providing a less pleasant image than all of the others that I have tried (ie. Opera v9 and v10, Mozilla v3, plus the latest versions of Google Chrome and Apple Safari).

A damp start but a sunny finish for Sunday’s trip to Woldingham which resulted in the second win of the season. Full details can be found on the results page along with a summary match report and the pertinent elements from the scorecard.

The previous Saturday’s visit to Leigh was stymied by the wet weather, although it has been suggested that we might rearrange for a Saturday later in the summer (a tour of Surrey anyone??) The extra time ought to have made it easier for me to finish off the full match report for Dormansland, but the usual displacement activities meant that it was still a chore that took longer than it should have done.

Something that should have been noted in the last update was that we now have a date for the Twenty20 evening game at Tadworth, details of which can be found on the fixtures page. This update also brings a refresh of the personal pages, which affects the best performances and partnerships but not the averages, and it might be worth noting that I continue to keep both the Hall of Fame lifetime averages page and the Hall Of Fame partnerships page up-to-date on a weekly basis.

A blazing hot day for the trip to Dormansland where a gaggle of spectators saw the Badgers lose for the second time this season. Full details can be found on the results page along with a summary match report and the pertinent elements from the scorecard.

Apologies if this update is full of errors but I am putting this up in something of a rush before leaving for work today and setting off to collect Darrell from Plymouth later. I will tidy it up and hopefully post a full match report on Saturday morning.

Last Sunday saw the Badgers visit Stoke D’Abernon for the first time in three years and the weather was kind enough – a torrential downpour about an hour after we’d finished left the outfield with large areas of standing water – to allow us to register our first win of the season. Full details can be found on the results page along with Foxy’s match report and the pertinent elements from the scorecard.

Let’s hope that the weather stays fair for the Dormansland game tomorrow, as this is the first of our ‘alumni’ matches, with all past and present Badgers specially invited to attend in the hope that as many folk as possible will turn up on the understanding that there will hopefully be others that they know in attendance. If you haven’t already received an invite by email, don’t worry, just turn up anyway and I can guarantee that you’ll receive a warm welcome – just make sure that you let Simon Fox have an email address via which we contact you, and then we’ll keep you informed of all such events in the future.

Given the tardiness of the previous update I’ve decided to revert to the original intention of the summary match reports, which was to avoid holding up the posting of the factual details by providing a quick summary of the game rather than a condensed report of everything worthy of mention. On that basis I will hopefully be able to update the site by the middle of each week rather than at the last minute before the next game!?

We were lucky with the weather on Sunday, but the performance was a different matter. Full details can be found on the results page along with a summary match report and the pertinent elements from the scorecard.

Despite the extra week granted by the cancellation of last Sunday’s visit to Broadbridge Heath, I still haven’t found the time or the inspiration to come up with a full match report for the first game of the season, which is a shame because it was worthy of proper reporting. I have been able to check over the new season changes and have finally finished the tidying up process that really ought to have been complete before the AGM, so please let me know if you find anything that looks wrong anywhere on the site.

The new season got underway in splendid fashion against Beechwood the Sunday before last, with the weather being kind to us and the cricket providing an exciting finish to boot. Full details can be found on the results page along with a summary match report and the pertinent elements from the scorecard.

Another rushed update, with the first game of the season less then three hours away (assuming the weather improves a little and we actually get to play) and the tenth anniversary of this site having passed without fanfare exactly a month ago. The site remains a labour of love for yours truly, albeit that I am often a lackadaisical guardian, especially during the off-season. Hopefully the in-season updates will be nice and regular again this year, and we start the process with an updated fixture list and an associated Google map of the locations of our 2010 opposition.

You could probably tell that the last update was posted in a bit of a rush ahead of the AGM the day after and as such there were a couple of errors that sneaked through. I have updated the capsule review of the dinner to include a couple of missed milestones and have changed the nets entry to remove a misunderstanding on my part about the normal nets at Nescot running alongside the new ones.

Once again my apologies, but I never actually got as far as posting the update listed below to the public site, despite a fair amount of tweaking and twiddling in the background between the dinner and the New Year. The past few months have been manic – my company was taken over just a couple of weeks after the presentation dinner and the fall out from that has left me with little free time and even less energy to do anything with it – and this update should have been posted a few weeks ago when Allan announced the date of the AGM.

Even now this update is going to be incomplete – I have had provisional fixture details for weeks and there has been an email about the prospect of resurrecting tour – but there is a news item about the AGM tomorrow night and details of nets (albeit that they started more than six weeks ago).

The presentation dinner has been and gone and once again the Badger settles down for its winter slumbers. Details of who won the various trophies can be found on the news page along with a brief report of proceeedings. The season report for 2009 is now complete and official, and all of the other pages have been updated with the 2009 figures, including all of the decade by decade averages pages, the personal pages and the individual records page.

For those that prefer paper copies of these things, and didn’t take their copy home on the Saturday of the dinner, I have also uploaded the ‘for print’ version of the 2009 season report ready to be downloaded and printed. You’ll need Abode Reader to view or print the PDF file but it is a free download from the Adobe web site and may already be installed on the system you are using.

A minor panic in the run up to the event made it apparent that I had misattributed the destination of ‘Wang Fu’, which was in fact awarded to Richard Ward last year, and I have corrected the two erroneous references. The historical trophy winners page reflects that change along with another for the 2006 winner of the same trophy and the details of this season’s lucky recipients.

Since we have just completed our fifty-first season it did not seem to make sense for the main page to still be bearing the fiftieth anniversary image and related text, so we've reverted to the old layout (although the fiftieth anniversary page still exists as an archive of the event). If anyone has any good ideas on improving the visual appearance of the home page, or indeed any other aspects of the site, then please get in contact and explain your ideas as that is the weakest area of my web design skills and I would be more than happy to receive assistance.

As ever I have some fairly grandiose plans for the site, taking advantage of the improved facilities that we have access to since the change of hosting provider, but I will avoid making any specific statements for the time being especially given my track record in regard to such things. Watch this space over the winter and hopefully I will find the time to bring at least one of the ideas to fruition.