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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.

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.