Badgers Cricket Club – What’s New Archive 2026
This page provides a repository of all the old What’s New entries for 2026, in reverse chronological order. If you really have a desire for the older 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 twenty-six years it has been here. Please bear in mind that links to external sites may have atrophied over time and thus you may see ‘not found’ or similar errors when trying to follow them, especially the further back in time the link was first created.
23 May 2026
PLEASE NOTE that Darrell has found us a fixture for this coming Sunday when we will be making a return visit to Headley Heath for the first time since the 2011 season. Usual details, including map links, can be found on the fixtures page.
Our latest visit to Dormansland, for the 63rd contest between the two sides, took place last Sunday in conditions much more conducive to a game of cricket, and watching same, than the previous week on Ham Common. 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.
16 May 2026
A bitterly cold Ham Common saw the Badgers fall to their first defeat of the season last Sunday in a high scoring contest. 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.
PLEASE NOTE that I have also updated the previous statistical notes to reflect the fact that Mark’s diving one handed catch at slip in the Churchleigh game was his 500th catch for the club in games that counted towards the averages. Quite why this feat was not on my list of pending milestones I cannot say, but my apologies to the skipper for not acknowledging it at the time.
3 May 2026
Sadly today’s game at Long Ditton had to be cancelled earlier in the week due to our inability to raise a team.
A return trip to Churchleigh, in the verdant surroundings of Greatpark in Chelsham near Warlingham, after last year’s maiden visit, got the new season off to a green and pleasant start. 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 start of a new season brings significant changes to the site, many of them hidden under the covers, and whilst the process is almost entirely automated these days it is still possible that problems creep in so please let me know if you spot anything that looks to be awry.
26 Apr 2026
The 2026 season should begin this afternoon and I have rather belatedly managed to get the fixtures added to both our Play-Cricket site and the fixtures page here.
The next update to the site will not be until after the first game of the season has been played, at which point everything can roll over to the new season by adding pages for the 2026 week-to-week detail.