A warm and friendly welcome from Badgers Cricket Club – a wandering cricket side who play only friendly cricket matches, mostly in the villages of Surrey – and who also enjoy a yearly three day tour (for many years to the Cotswolds, briefly to Dorset, for several years to Cheshire and more recently we have wandered in our touring too, taking in visits to Cheltenham, Taunton, Canterbury, Worcester and Milton Keynes). For more information about the club and this web site, take a peek at the about page.
The site continues to grow in scope, despite having made its first appearance twenty-five years ago in March 2000, and in addition to up-to-the-minute results, summary scorecards, detailed scorecards, match reports and fixtures, you will also find more statistical information than you could shake a stick at (going all the way back to the club’s inaugural season in 1959), the Badgers ‘Honours Board’, a list of the current club officers and links to our social media ‘presence’.
31 May 2025
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.
24 May 2025
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.
5 May 2025
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 older What’s New entries are now held on separate pages, to keep this main page cleaner and smaller, and you can also navigate to them using the drop down menus at the top of the page (under Badgers’ Burrow).
This site is very much a work in progress and if you have any
comments, suggestions or would simply like more information then please
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