Badgers Cricket Club – Season 2024 Match Reports
This page holds the match reports for all games completed so far this season. It is my intention to post at least a summary report for each game, at the same time as the result for the game, with full reports becoming available as and when those designated for the task turn in their copy. The current report will always be available in the latest section of the results page but will also be available here.
The links below provide a direct route to the report for each game plus access to the reports for seasons from 2000 to the present. It is also possible to link to them from the associated rolling results page entries and I hope to extend that facility to include all of the historical results pages, once I’ve figured out the best method of doing so.
Unless otherwise noted both summary and full match reports are written by your host and webmaster, Steve Pitts, as are all editorial comments and statistical notes. For reasons that are now lost in the mists of time, the reports are laid out in reverse chronological order, but hopefully the links above make that an unimportant detail.
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My apologies for the lack of a report for this game, but nothing was written at the time and there is only an outside chance that anything will be
Statistical Notes: Daniel made his first ever century for the club, becoming the nineteenth player to score one hundred or more in an innings, whilst bettering his previous zenith (against the same opponents last year) by just shy of fifty runs. His 117 is the fifteenth highest individual score by a Badger and the 134 that he and Dean put on together was the fifth highest for the second wicket. Ten of those eighteen made more than one ton for the Badgers but there was often a considerable gap between numbers one and two (Dave Tickner took nearly 22 years to register his second) so there is no pressure Dan (unless you care to chase Jake who did it in back to back games).
The 277 the Badgers posted was our highest ever team score, surpassing the 270 made at Tadworth in 2022, whilst the home side’s 226 is the most runs we have ever conceded after batting first, tying the (winning) total made by Seven Sports in 2006.
Sam Eade became our first debutant of 2024 earning a baptism of fire bowling his three overs whilst the opposition’s fourth wicket pair were in full flow. Hopefully that will be the first of many to come Sam.
Billy’s two catches took him past Mick Willmott into 13th place on the lifetime outfield catches list whilst the frugal 29 runs conceded during his eight overs were nonetheless sufficient to take him past Wardy into 17th place on the all-time runs allowed slate. There are three other bowling stalwarts not far ahead of him before he starts chasing Vinny in 13th spot.