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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.