All the old news from 2010 on Badgers Cricket Club that is no longer current

This page provides a repository of all the archived news items for 2010, in reverse chronological order. If you really have a desire for the older or newer entries, then the links below will get you access to all those that I’ve saved over the twenty-four years that the site has been in existence.

20 Nov 2010: Season 2010 Trophy winners
20 Nov 2010: Presentation Dinner
10 Jun 2010: The Reddings make a baby!!
16 Mar 2010: Notice of AGM
28 Jan 2010: Indoor Nets

Badgers’ dinner – still no song and dance

A return to the South Hatch Restaurant on Epsom Downs for the second Badgers’ dinner without dancing. The food was generally good, the service a little idiosyncratic, but everyone seemed to have a good time. Allan Butt managed not to take too many of Mark’s lines and the skipper himself leavened the whirlwind tour of the season with plenty of humour including numerous references to his own outstanding performances. For the record, the trophies and a new style of memento (rather more individual to each award than the traditional shields), found their way to:


Batting	Pat Redding	478 runs @ 53.1
Bowling	Ben Valentine	8 wickets @ 13.9
Fielding	Mark Gordon	11 catches
Fantasy Points	Graham Ward	(for finishing third again this year)
Captains	Dawn Gordon
Frank Butt	Ben Valentine	(for his first fifty and five-fer)
‘Wang Fu’	Andy Iwanoczko
‘Reel Em In’ Award	Keith Miller

Both Allan and Mark mentioned a fair number of milestones during their speeches, with Allan concentrating primarily on Mark’s achievements in the belief that Mark would be too modest to mention them. How wrong can you be?? Whilst I don’t remember exactly which ones were remarked upon, I offer my own list of the statistical achievements during the 2010 season:

Graham Ward passed 100 wickets
Mark Gordon had a quiet season, breaking the record for most runs in a single season, passing Steve Pitts into third place on the lifetime run scoring chart, snaring his 300th outfield catch, sharing in his 17th century partnership which is also a club record, being run out for the first time ever as a Badger, breaking the record for most consecutive games played with a streak that ended at 37 matches, and twice breaking the record for the highest percentage of the team’s runs in an innings
Simon Fox made his two hundredth appearance
Pat Redding passed 4000 runs, almost certainly more quickly in terms of both time and innings, than any other Badger
Ben Valentine made his first ever fifty for the club, took his first five-fer, and also became the first Badger in over twenty years to be dismissed hit wicket
Chris Byrne made his first ever fifty
Darrell Pitts and Mark Gordon shared in the highest ever eighth wicket partnership
Simon Fox and Mark Gordon equalled the highest ever sixth wicket partnership

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Presentation Dinner details

The annual presentation dinner will take the same format and be in the same location as last year, the South Hatch Restaurant (in whose grounds some Badgers will have played a cricket match or two back in the early Nineties). The establishment can be found on Burgh Heath Road in Epsom and the event will take place on Saturday 20th November. The bar will be open from 19:00 (7pm) with dinner slated for 20:00 (8pm) and carriages at midnight. The cost per head is £25, with a free drink included, and once again there will not be a disco so that the chattering classes can exercise their jaws instead.

I have added the exact location of the restaurant to the Google Map showing the grounds we play on and you can obtain slightly less accurate indications of the location using this postcode-based link to a map of the area in Multimap or this rather more accurate one using Streetmap.

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Next generation Badger enters a hostile world

Nicola and Patrick Redding are now the proud (and no doubt tired) parents of a son, Oliver Louis (apparently pronounced Lewis rather than Looee). Born at 18:44 exactly a week ago (ie. Thursday 10th June) the new arrival weighed in at 7lbs 6ozs and is expected to make his Badgers’ debut at some point during the 2020 season!?

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Notice of AGM – 16 Mar 2010

This year’s AGM will take place on Tuesday 16th March at 19:30 (or half seven for those that prefer that terminology). We have a new venue this year, with our host being Ian Gregg who you will find at 5 Green Lane, Lower Kingswood, Tadworth, Surrey, KT20 6TJ. All members should have received written notification via email, along with the 2009 accounts and details of revised club rules. Please make every effort to attend and contribute to the running of our club.

Map of the area using Multimap

Map of the area using Google Maps

I rather doubt that either map represents the exact whereabouts of Ian’s gaff, but they should get you to Green Lane from where I am sure you can use your native wit and cunning to track down the correct abode.

For those of you that have lost or not received the letter in whatever form, the agenda for the meeting will be:

1	Apologies for absence	6	Fixtures
2	Minutes of AGM 2009	7	Tour 2010
3	Election of Officers	8	Bonus Ball 2010
4	Treasurer’s report	9	Presentation Dinner
5	Membership	10	Acceptance of new Rules
		11	Any other business

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Indoor Nets Season 2010

This season’s indoor nets see a break with recent tradition, both in terms of venue and timings. The new arrangement makes use of the facilities at Aberdour School on the Brighton Road in Burgh Heath (within walking distance of the skipper’s house!!) and runs every Thursday night from 19:00 to 20:00 (seven o’clock until eight) from 28th January until the last week in April (ie. the last net is between the first and second games of the season).

View a map of the area around the school

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