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This page provides a repository of all the What’s New entries for 2017,
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. They are unlikely to be of any great interest, but do provide a picture
of how the site has developed over the eighteen and a half years it has been here.
30 Jun 2017 |
A scorching hot afternoon in Beddington Park saw the Badgers extend their
winning streak to five and a much cooler one saw the cool head of the
skipper lead the team to another at Tadworth.
The usual summarised details of the games can be found on the
results page along with
statistical notes only
match reports
and the pertinent elements from the
scorecards.
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16 Jun 2017 |
PLEASE NOTE that our scheduled opposition for this coming Sunday were
unable to put out a team and thus we have another
Fixture List provided
change of fixture, with a return to Beddington. Both the Google Map with the
locations of our opponents and the fixtures page have
updated accordingly.
Since I was in Guernsey at the time I can tell you nothing about the
win two weekends ago at Old Whitgiftians – although thanks to Amy
and Mark for supplying photos of both scorebooks so that I had something
to work with – and I have nothing much to say about
our win at Maori-Oxshoot the weekend before last. Last weekend saw a
fourth win on the trot in a low scoring game at Leigh.
The usual summarised details of the games can be found on the
results page along with
statistical notes only
match reports
and the pertinent elements from the
scorecards.
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24 May 2017 |
A lovely sunny afternoon for our annual visit to Dormansland and a second
win of the season to snap the losing streak at two.
The usual summarised details of the game can be found on the
results page along with
a full
match report
and the pertinent elements from the
scorecard.
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18 May 2017 |
Another loss, but not quite as close as last week, and another good game
against long-time opponent Stoke D'Abernon.
The usual summarised details of the game can be found on the
results page along with
a statistical notes only
match report
and the pertinent elements from the
scorecard.
I have also fixed a bug in the handling of one of the level of detail tick
boxes on the dynamic multi-season averages page which either means that no one
has tried playing around with the advanced interface or that nobody has
bothered with that page at all.
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14 May 2017 |
A Fixture List arranged
fixture this week at an opponent we’ve not
played before in Hampton Wick Royal. Two of their batters gave us a bit of
a runaround but they eventually had mercy on us which set up a good game
and a loss by less than a yard.
The usual summarised details of the game can be found on the
results page along with
a statistical notes only
match report
and the pertinent elements from the
scorecard.
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7 May 2017 |
I have updated the fixtures page to reflect the change of
opposition for this coming Sunday, as mentioned below, including the usual
map link and an appropriate addition to the Google Map with the
locations of our 2017 opposition.
As already mentioned in passing the new season opened at regular first
opponents Beechwood and went down to the wire again.
The usual summarised details of the game can be found on the
results page along with
a statistical notes only
match report
and the pertinent elements from the
scorecard.
Rolling the site over to the new season involves regenerating every page
so if you find any errors do please let me know.
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2 May 2017 |
PLEASE NOTE that we have a change of fixture for Sunday, with a game
against new opponent Hampton Wick Royal CC, which is just a couple of
miles, as the crow flies, from Ham & Petersham who cried off because
of a Sunday cup game taking precedence on the common.
The 2017 season got underway on Sunday on another slightly less than balmy
day in the shadow of the North Downs at Otford, with Beechwood contriving
to give us another cracking contest to start things off. Details of the
win, pulled out with just one ball to spare this year, will follow as soon
as I’ve had the chance to get the new season stuff sorted. The
result can be viewd on our
Play-Cricket site but
has not been fully cross-checked yet.
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29 Mar 2017 |
It has been more than a month since the AGM and I have only recently got
my act together to complete the minutes (which the attendees should have
received a draft copy of to review prior to my issuing to all and sundry).
Those that were there will know that one of the decisions made at the
meeting, at my suggestion, was to eliminate the News page from this site.
It is an anachronism in these days of social media (with the club now
using WhatsApp for much of its
internal communication and also having
Facebook
and Twitter
accounts) and thus you will not find the usual
post-AGM information on nets or a report of the proceedings themselves.
The fixtures page has been updated, with the fixture
list distributed at the AGM and further updated since, replete
with map links, and I’ve created the now usual Google map with the
locations of our 2017 opposition.
One of the other legs of my proposals regarding this site was to get rid
of the Photo Gallery and move all of the images thereon, in their original
more detailed forms, onto a more 21st Century photo handling site. Bill
Jenkins has undertaken to curate the myriad photographs that have been
supplied to me down the years, whilst also acting as the club’s
social media ‘manager’ and as soon as he has found the time to
put something together (or I work out how to access things) then
I will link to those efforts from here and remove
the existing pages (along with the rest of the Clubhouse pages, since they
never did work out to be anything useful).
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2 Jan 2017 |
As promised immediately after the dinner I have completed manual entry of
the best performances information for seasons prior to 1984,
so the only information missing now is for 1981, due to the
missing scorebook and for 1984, since I
am in the throes of entering that data into Play-Cricket and it seemed
daft to do some of it twice. In doing so I have also split the lists
across decade by decade pages, in the same way as all of the other season
by season averages, in order to keep the overall page sizes reasonable.
The Statistical Sett records details of a handful of
changes arising from
the process of building and entering the additional data. I also feel that
I should point out that all of the data involved has been collected and
entered manually, so there is every chance that it contains the odd error
or three.
The addition of this data has had a couple of side effects, in that the
decade bowling pages now include more best bowling figures on both the
official bowling tables and the
complete bowling tables, with more than
60 new entries added for the period concerned. The other area to benefit
has been the personal pages, with
those same best bowling figures showing up where appropriate and
anyone that took four or more wickets in an innings, recorded 50 or more
runs in an innings or simply recorded their best batting and/or bowling
during the first twenty-five years of the club’s existence now
showing that information in their personal best performances section.
The most obvious single beneficiary of this is the legend that is
Brian Moore, who gains
more than 150 such performances (29 batting & 122 bowling),
but the following have all seen at least a dozen new entries added –
Albert Briscoe
(8 & 11),
Allan Butt
(2 & 16),
Alan Tickner
(17 & 31),
Brent Noble
(28 & 5),
Dave Tickner
(14 & 17),
Pete Legge and
(3 & 14),
Steve Card
(14 bowling).
Once I have entered the 1984 data then I also intend to add an overall
‘best performances ever’ page into the
hall of fame and thus finally replicate every table that was
included in the fortieth anniversary document.
In addition to (almost) finishing off the best performances, a process
that I only started on 27th October and had completed in almost exactly a
month, there are two other related background projects that I have also
brought to some sort of fruition for this update. These manifest
themselves on a new dynamic multi-season averages page, something that I started work
on just over five years ago and which Darrell has had access to ever since
on my local version of the site but has never found its way into the
public eye. One of the primary reasons for that, along with some
significant changes off the back of comments made by Andy Iwanozcko when
given a sneak peek all of those years ago, was that the new page
originally had no way to link back into the rest of the site and
didn’t really sit well with the standard navigation layout. For the
past year or so I have been fiddling away at trying to create a new page
layout, getting rid of the old Javascript menus and adding something more
modern and hopefully better able to adapt to the needs of mobile devices.
The end result is visible on that new
dynamic averages page
and I would welcome any feedback before I consider rolling it out across
the whole site.
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