The weather was fine for the last home game of the season at the Hirschanger. The sun was shining, around 20°C, and I did my usual trick of cycling there in good time and realising half way that I had...
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MCC Black 157-8 (30.0 overs) (T. K. Butt 65, X. Wides 29, J. Deverill 2-16, V. Gattinger 2-38) defeated by MCC Gold 158-6 (28.4 overs) (M. Ayub 50, J. Deverill 33*, P. Bowes 2-42) Man of the match
Read MoreAnother beautiful hot, late summer day, to welcome the Crossbats, a touring team from England consisting of players older than 50 with a single 40 year old exception. They had special kit made for the...
Read MoreAnother first for MCC as it was the first real fixture Burghausen have ever played, only appearing in the Serendib sixes before. They are captained and organised by Salim Ibrahim who played a couple o...
Read MoreThe fixture was arranged originally against PAK Augsburg but they bailed the day before the match. Fortunately the Breakaways are always ready for a game and two T20 matches were arranged as our secon...
Read MoreThe second fixture of the day against the Breakaways who were replacing Serendib, the team that bailed on Wednesday. MCC won the toss and chose to bat, opening with Butt – rejuvenated after his exhaus...
Read MoreAnother T20 friendly against the Breakaways scheduled to start at 15:30 after the BCV T20 semi-final against Erlangen. However the best made plans of mice and men gang aft aglay and the game actually ...
Read MoreBlades enters the 25 wicket club, the South Coast Mafia pay match fees but the gulf to the T20 final was just too “wide”
A sunny day again at the Hirschanger for the BCV T20 semi-final but the atmosphere was more like Friday afternoon training sessions with seven of the “regular first” team making themselves unavailable...
Read MoreHarit Khanna very James Cross after losing the top place in the bowling stats against Göppingen B
The MCC B team arrived in good time for the 15:30 start only to have to wait an hour because of the tardiness of MCC A. Surprisingly a number of the Serendib Breakaways also turned up thinking our fri...
Read MoreA sunny day, 28°C and two twenty over friendlies against Göppingen arranged, their first ever match since their cricket department was formed a couple of months ago. You would think that as everyone k...
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