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4s Swashbuckle past Stokey ‘Imagine needing 1 to win and f***king it up’ These were the words delivered by a member of the Stoke Newington cordon as new batsman Ali Kazmi prepared to face his first delivery for HCC 4s with just a single required to secure victory. 30 seconds later and Ali had ripped […]
Du Toit and Blackett star in Bushey runfest! As is often the case at 3rd and 4th team level you may find yourself playing a team some distance from their home patch. That was again the case this weekend as we travelled not to the leafy surroundings of Brondesbury but to Bushey in Hertfordshire a […]
What’s our philosophy, with regard to putting out teams in lower leagues? That’s the question this week. That’s been the question all season, really, for players at my end of the club’s spectrum. When Freddie had to pull out of the ones on Saturday (Congratulations Freddie! Welcome to the world baby Craig), there was trouble […]
A close game, but Pushkev beat us in the end. Pushkev? Not the famous chess manoeuvre (Fischer vs Spassky game 31, Reykjavik 1972). Nor yet a Pushkev penalty. I refer, of course, to the Nomads’ deadly bowler, Pushkev. The first team sheet for this game included two keepers, one skipper, and several alternate skippers. But […]
John Cleary, the esteemed President of Highgate Cricket Club, has sadly died at the age of 81. He was the longest serving member of the club having joined in the late 1960s. John was a stalwart member of the 3rd XI in the days where we fielded three teams, a useful off-spinner and very enthusiastic […]
Please find below links to our Summer Camps for the 2022 season – everyone is welcome and if you or anyone you recommend us to has any questions, please do get in touch! Week 1 (18th – 22nd July): https://www.openplay.co.uk/view-course/62845 Week 2 (25th – 29th July): https://www.openplay.co.uk/view-course/62847 Week 3 (1st – 5th August): https://www.openplay.co.uk/view-course/62848 Week […]
A quick note to let you know that we will be running May Half-Term Cricket Camps on the below dates: Monday 30th May Tuesday 31st May Wednesday 1st June Camp Timings will be from 11-4 and here is our booking link – https://www.openplay.co.uk/view-course/61445 Prices are £45 / day or £125 if you book 3 days. […]
The 1s final game of the season was against Wembley CC at Vale Farm, home to some of the more eccentric Middlesex league icons over the years. After a difficult April/May period where it appeared cricket would be having a year off, somehow we’ve managed to eke out an enjoyable little half season, under the […]
Many of us hadn`t played against Stoke Newington CC on Hackney Marshes before, so finding the tiny bridge (across the river Lea) to get to the ground proved challenging. Especially when there was a queue of traffic so there was a wait for other cars to leave the car park before our players could get […]
Cricket in a Covid world is an odd place in the sense that it generally creates more problems than it solves. The list of considerations of a club captain is long enough as it is, with drop outs, lift co-ordination, batting orders etc, before you get to questions that perhaps no other generation of cricketers […]