Badgers Cricket Club – Season 2026 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 little or no chance that anything will be now
Statistical Notes: There were three debutants in this game – Grace Selby, Jay (K) Patel and Jarryd Mcleroth – with Grace having the best first appearance of the three, hitting two lovely fours and opening the bowling with a tidy spell of leg breaks and her first wicket for the club. Hopefully we will see all three of them again in Badgers’ colours.
Joe recorded his best ever figures for the club, bettering the 4 for 53 he took in the final game of last season at Forest Green by some considerable distance. His last 23 balls saw five wickets fall for no runs, an almost Brian Moore-esque performance, during which span he also snared a key outfield catch off Darrell’s bowling to dismiss the opposition’s top scorer and start the home side’s plummet from 102 for 2 to 131 all out.
Jake’s innings was his 200th for the club, the 14th Badger to have batted that many times, whilst the fact that it was unbeaten represented his 50th not out over that span, on which list he is in tenth place. You might guess that 25% unbeaten is a high figure, and it is, but there are three others with more innings and a better ratio, including both his father (31.5%) and grandfather (28.6%)!? Of those with 100 innings or more Bill leads the way on 36.8% (42 of 114) with Mick Willmott in second on 32.9% (51 of 155).