Badgers Cricket Club – What’s New Archive 2025

The Badgers stumbled to a second consecutive loss last weekend, with only a 60 run ninth wicket partnership saving the worst of our blushes. The usual summarised details of the game can be found on the results page along with a statistical notes only match report, the detailed scorecard, and the traditional Badgers’ focused scorecard.

We were able to raise a team this week and therefore will be visiting Tatsfield today, starting at one o’clock.

Sadly this coming Sunday will remain a blank on the calendar, as it seems we cannot raise a team again, and things are currently not looking great for the following weekend either. There may be more to come when I have confirmation either way but I will be off the air for much of the coming week so other sources may be more up to date.

The Badgers largely self-destructed last Sunday having managed to restrict Hook & Southborough to a score that felt gettable, despite only having ten fielders. The usual summarised details of the game can be found on the results page along with a statistical notes only match report, the detailed scorecard, and the traditional Badgers’ focused scorecard.

The ECB have been pushing clubs to score electronically in recent times, with the dashboard for administrators opening with a lovely infographic view of how many times your team’s games have been scored that way. However, if Sunday’s experience is anything to go by, I would not trust Play Cricket Scorer much further than I could spit a rat. Because of my injury I live scored using my own program and when I came to upload the results over the top of what PCS had perpetrated, courtesy of the home side scoring on a tablet, I found several astounding errors none of which resulted from bugs in my code.

Despite the home side fielding with twelve for the first part of our innings the Badgers managed to squeak past Woodmansterne in a tight and exciting contest last Sunday. The usual summarised details of the game can be found on the results page along with a statistical notes only match report, the detailed scorecard, and the traditional Badgers’ focused scorecard.

There have not been many rainy days this season but those things that were waiting for a rainy day included my spending a little more time reviewing the live version of the web site rather than my local copies. A combination of my injured hamstring and a genuine rainy day finally saw me doing so and that revealed a flaw in the logic behind the charts on the detailed scorecards page which only manifested itself on the public site, and which as usual you had all been too polite to mention. The underlying issue has now been fixed so all of that unintentionally empty space has been replaced with the intended run worms and Manhattan charts.

With both the slated second and third games of the season called off due to a lack of players on our part (we had just three for the first weekend in May) our visit to Dormansland last Sunday became the second game of the season to be played and the Badgers notched up a second win of the year against our longest standing opponent (62 matches over 63 years). The usual summarised details of the game can be found on the results page along with a statistical notes only match report, the detailed scorecard, and the traditional Badgers’ focused scorecard.

The table of bowling spells starting with five maidens in the Churchleigh match report has been finished off, as best as I can manage given the information available to me, with a couple of instances from the early 2000s.

It is with great sadness that I have to report the passing of a Badgers stalwart, and indeed legend. Brian Moore fell just short of 84 years old on 16th March and several Badgers attended his funeral. In addition to being possibly the finest all round cricketer to ever play for the club he was also a gentle man with not a touch of arrogance about his skills and a quick look at this week’s match report will give you a flavour of his significance to the club on the field.

The new season kicked off with a new fixture against Churchleigh in the green and pleasant surroundings of Greatpark in Chelsham near Warlingham. The usual summarised details of the game can be found on the results page along with a statistical notes only match report, the detailed scorecard, and the traditional Badgers’ focused scorecard.

Whilst almost entirely automated these days the start of a new season brings significant changes to the site, many of them hidden under the covers. I have looked over almost everything affected but if I have missed anything please don’t be backward in coming forward to let me know about it.

The 2025 season hopefully kicks off tomorrow afternoon and I have rather belatedly managed to get the fixtures added to both our Play-Cricket site and the fixtures page here.

I should also have updated the Honours Board cup winners page following the presentation of the awards at the dinner last November but outside of the statistics derived cup winners I cannot for the life of me remember who won what!?.

The next update to the site will almost certainly be after the first game of the season has been played, which enables me to roll everything over to the new season in terms of adding 2025 pages for the week-to-week detail.