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The annual dinner and awards presentation is unusually late this year, taking place this coming Saturday, 14th December. Hopefully all those that would like to be there, and are able to attend so close to the festive season, will have found out about it via the usual channels and will have it booked and paid for. If you feel you have been missed out and would like to be there please contact the skipper immediately.

The season report for the season just passed is now available and all of the other pages have been updated with the 2024 figures, including all decade by decade averages pages, the personal pages and the individual records page. In addition you can now find historical results for 2024 along with the leading performances and partnerships for the season just gone.

As ever the end of season update brings a lot of other (mostly automatic) changes under the covers, so if you see anything that looks wrong please let me know and I will endeavour to sort it out.

After rather more effort than I would have liked we finally have support for two games in one day in both the database related code and the web site generation logic but I have yet more work still to do on some aspects that only affect my management of both elements behind the scenes. The length of time this has taken me means that in addition to the usual summarised details of those two T20 games you can also find details of the subsequent contests with Blindley Heath and Horsley & Send on the results page along with statistical notes only match reports, the detailed scorecards, and the traditional Badgers’ focused scorecards.

The season as a whole rather petered out over the closing weeks with games lost to the weather, opponents being unable to raise a side and the original final game of the year cancelled by the intended opposition before the season had even started. All in all a disappointing year from the perspective of only thirteen games being played. Expect to see the final update regarding the 2024 season, with the season report et al, in a couple of days time, but I thought getting the results and statistical notes up on the public web was worth doing before finishing things off.

We played two T20 games at Banstead last weekend, one on the back pitch whilst the women were playing on the main pitch and the other on the main pitch after they had finished but using black sightscreens and a pink ball – whoever decided that those were a viable replacement for the normal red ball clearly did so for other than cricketing reasons – and the Badgers won both of those games. However, as things stand I can only offer you the details on our Play-Cricket site because two games on the same day has broken things in a number of interesting ways across my whole code base and it may well take some considerable time to fix them all.