Two in Two as Mandarins Win Again

So here we are at Brightwell once again, a small Oxfordshire village enjoying a recent population boom driven by our erstwhile PM. The Club is in some ways a ‘throwback ‘to traditional village cricket, no League membership, friendlies only and full of characters, some from my very own Hockey Club.

In line with tradition Capt. Heard, having won the toss, elected to bat, allowing time for the late arrivals to swell team numbers. Weather in South Oxfordshire had been extremely wet in the prior 48 hours and the soft wicket suggested ‘low bounce and stickiness in the outfield but ‘lo and behold’ the bounce was acceptable and the ball rolled well.

Thus out strode Williams and Hawkins to meet a carefully positioned fielding side. As the match was to be of thirty overs per innings, some confusion existed as to the batting tactics to be adopted. Thus musings suggested—10 overs of resistance, ten of acceleration and 10 of wonderful exuberance, as an imaginary strategy to be pursued. Their opening bowlers were being worn down successfully but a quick single was called, JH like a scalded cat hurtled to the bowlers end only to be dismissed by a direct hit!

Tony came forth but after some close shaves nicked one to slip. Old man Kulkarni joined Williams and the first period of resistance closed with 42 runs ,a rate of 4 per over and 2 dismissals. The middle section saw an acceleration by NK and JL, and ,as DW departed  the rate climbed to 5 per over with excellent running and hitting (the running even complemented by the opposition over a beer in the pub!). The prospect of a respectable 150 total was within reach. But now  Mandarin effervescence overflowed, more from Kulkarni reaching an elegant 50 before retiring, bringing Kishen to the wicket to continue the push. Runs were scored at a rate, JL departed after a fine vibrant and combative knock, bringing Wilmot to the crease who with a deft single clipped between his legs completed the innings with a grand total of 179.

Now to the attack, not defence. Eastaway and Heard, tearing in at ‘Mandarin Warp Speed’ threatened success but the opening bats were making good progress towards our total. AH removed a threatening bat with a caught and bowled and then ‘the oldest swinger in town’ deceived the next, gaining one of two LBW’s given this day. For a while the ball flew in the air scattering Mandarins like pigeons as they strove to  either, catch or avoid the ball and frustration was building. The Captain , with such a proliferation of skills at his disposal was inspired to bring on the multi-talented CH to bowl his swinging wobblers and make a further breakthrough. Yet now, enter Kishan who, seizing the day, sent 4 Brightwellians back to the pavilion knocking the heart out of the opposition. So for the ‘coup de grace’, Thompson and Kulkarni, smart stumping by JW we pushed for victory.

The last man fell from a spirited edge ,plucked out of the air by our substitute fielder ,young Aadi Kulkarni, with much glee and celebration.

Beer followed at the Red Lion.

Scorecard here

Cheers, David

Mandarins v Brill, 1st June 2025

Mandarins 117 AO, Brill 105 AO. Mandarins won by 12 runs. 40 over game (but neither side managed to bat 30 overs)

Mandarins have played at Brill for at least 50 years. It is a beautiful ground with an excellent approach to cricket, and a very friendly and active club and clubhouse. It is one of our oldest fixtures, and has deservedly gained its reputation for providing one of the best teas. I have played there for approaching 40 years (eek). There is a proper trophy awarded to the winner – the Ron Young Cup. This has largely been in Brill hands in recent years.

Remarkably, all 11 Mandarins were on time. As Martin commented on WhatsApp, the team was well equipped with keepers (4: Chris, Bob, Jonathan and Tim) and had even brought a specialist umpire (the author). There was a strong spin contingent (Ramani, Hurst, Nair and Baxter) with 3 seamers in Rangarajan, Keayes and Heather. The batting looked a little less deep. Brill won the toss and put Mandarins in to bat. The match started on time, at 1pm, a rare event. Baxter and McKeon opened, with Chris particularly severe on any bad balls and going on to joint top score (see below) with 28. But the bowling was tight and Tim was bowled by Chima with the score at 17. Hawkhead came in at 3 and contributed precisely nothing to a 17 run partnership with Chris and a 10 run partnership with Jonathan before falling to a blinding slip catch by Eason off the bowling of Evans. Thereafter, with the bowling still straight, the pitch offering variable bounce and some bats offering help to the bowlers, a procession of wickets fell for not very much. Jonathan got an absolute beauty from Stocker: a perfectly delivered yorker that swung in late and took out middle and leg. Horrible unless you were Brill. By the time Rakesh strolled out, Mandarins had stumbled to 65-6, with Nair just out. Very shortly afterwards, it was 77-8, with Rangarajan and Heather also back in the hutch. As so often, Rakesh steadied the ship and put on 15 with Keayes, before the latter perished to a combination of a brilliant throw from mid on and dilatory running. Crucially as it turned out, the rock that is Rak then nursed another 25 runs out of a 10^th wicket stand with Martin, before the innings ended with Martin’s dismissal at 117. Rakesh finished on 24 NO, second top score. J Extras contributed a very creditable 28. Brill had bowled and fielded very well. None of us thought we had anywhere near enough.

After a superb and leisurely tea (thank you once again, Brill), the Brill innings began. With the plethora of keepers, it was agreed that Jonathan would don the gloves initially, with the plan being that Tivey and then McKeon would assume keeping duties later in the innings if required. Sam and Martin opened, and bowled well, but neither had any luck. The score reached 48, by which point it felt all over bar the shouting. But, then, the spin twin combo of Rakesh and Abhi began to weave a spell, and the fielding stayed at an unusually high standard. Abhi got one opener with a watchful catch by Tim, and Rakesh got the other with a very plum LBW decision. Rak the Rock then took a stunning return catch to dismiss the number 3. As Bob (by then keeper number 2) said, he never looked like dropping it.

At this point, there was no hope of victory. Rather, there was hope of some degree of respectability. Given that Mandarins had not won a game in 2025, this was only to be expected. But Rakesh had not given up hope and bowled beautifully, with Abhi giving great support. 2 more wickets then fell quickly, 1 each to Rakesh and Abhi, and suddenly Brill looked vulnerable at 5 wickets down. In came captain Sweetman. Dale has done his fair share of damage to Mandarins bowling attacks in the past, and batted with great purpose, if not always great timing. At the other end, however, wickets continued to fall, with Kishen (relieving Abhi) picking up the next with a good catch by Jonathan, who saw the ball late. Relentless Ramani  threatened continuously and took another wicket before clean bowling Dale, who had been marshalling the lower order, with a ball that kept low. Suddenly, an improbable win looked distinctly possible. Rakesh took another wicket before ending his 8 over spell with the remarkable figures of 8-2-23-6. After a brief final alarm, as a few runs were snatched at the death, Abhi deservedly took the final wicket with the score on 105, ending with the excellent figures of 7.5-0-25-3.

And so, the first Mandarins victory of the season was also one of our more improbable wins. Rakesh was by a considerable margin the man of the match, but the team as a whole worked together well to support him and the other bowlers, notably Abhi. There was good catching and alert fielding throughout. Afterwards, Captain Tim received the Ron Young Cup from Brill stalwart Chris Heslop, and then handed it back as it resides in Brill. The atmosphere was, as ever, warm and friendly, and the beer (I’m told) was good. This is a fixture to treasure.

Sirtone

Four beatings and a funer…draw

A round-up of recent Mandarins matches, rather than a classic Richard Curtis romantic comedy 

Mandarins lost to Peper Harow – 20 April 2025
https://mandarins.play-cricket.com/website/results/7054693

 

Mandarins lost to HM Treasury and Cabinet Office – 1 May 2025
https://mandarins.play-cricket.com/website/results/6977873

 

Mandarins lost to Graces – 11 May 2025
https://mandarins.play-cricket.com/website/results/6809985

 

Mandarins lost to Millfields – 18 May 2025
https://mandarins.play-cricket.com/website/results/6687534

 

Mandarins drew with Brixton Barbarians – 25 May 2025

https://mandarins.play-cricket.com/website/results/6977780

 

For the record, a brief summary of four defeats, stopping only to dwell on the highlights, which itself won’t take too long. Especially as Healey has already written elegantly about Peper Harow here:
https://mandarinscc.blogspot.com/2025/04/redemption-songs.html

So that’s that done. We only hope to see him back on the field for us soon, writing his own redemption song for us.

 

The Treasury game only had one real talking point (or should that be honking point?), when a Chiswick goose deprived us of a much-needed boundary. Wisden’s actual cricket writer of the year 2025, believe it or not, did his best (or should that be worst?) with that here: https://mandarinscc.blogspot.com/2025/05/mandarins-vs-treasury-goosegate-t20.html

Some might say that actual ECB-qualified umpire Hawkhead also deprived us of a much-needed batter when he triggered t20 specialist Vijay, but the light would have probably defeated us anyway, even if the Treasury’s excellent bowlers hadn’t. The game will hopefully also be notable to future club historians as the debut of Kishen Rangarajan, in which he scored his first and took his first of what promise to be many Mandarins runs and wickets.

 

Graces and Millfields can perhaps be combined to say that we batted well in one and bowled and fielded brilliantly in the other. Unfortunately, well, you know the rest…
In our defence, Graces was a bad toss to lose on a rock hard pitch on a hot day with a short boundary. They had good bats who got away from us (not helped by dropping all of them at various points). And we kept it under the club record worst runs conceded with Abhijit, Saad and Chanath all also making encouraging debuts. Thanks to Ramani’s career-high score of 87* we also scored a credible 206/9. And the oppo themselves recognised that it would have been a very exciting finish in a timed game, which is what we agreed to play next year.

Millfields also had a very good bowler in Callum Hughes who swung it in later than we were able to get our bats down onto. And we got it over the club record worst score thanks in part to debutant Eddie Hyde. And we really did bowl and field well. Rakesh’s catch at point to get the dangerous Collis was as good as any you will ever see on a Sunday. The highest compliment I can pay it is that I'm not even sure Baxter would have got a hand to it. Rob was superb with the new ball, and Abhijit showed himself to be a very skilful leggy, while Wahaj got his rewards in his second spell for putting in a fine first shift. It was just such a shame that having kept them to an in-the-game-here 142 we didn’t really stay in the game at all… but let’s not dwell on that.

 

Let’s dwell instead on a lovely first game against the Brixton Barbarians, played in true Sunday spirit and showing the best of declaration cricket in allowing everyone to play a role and going down to the very final ball. After arranging to bat we soon rued giving them Kishen to make up their numbers when he clean bowled all four of our top four. In fact, all nine of our first wickets fell to capped Mandarins bowlers, with Adam Eastaway accounting for Stan Forman in the offspringoff, and Abhijit, Saad and Wahaj accounting for the rest. But it took a good while to account for our ninth wicket stand. The 88 partnership between Raki and Rob was a new club record, first rescuing us and then taking us somewhere past respectability towards even what you might call dominance.

 

It was a dominance that Rob then helped continue with a typically miserly opening spell of 8-3-13-1, with Owen Jackson also getting a quick three-fer at the other end to put us right on top. But Wahaj and Kishen put up an outstanding rearguard action, with a 50+ partnership that took 14 overs to separate and kept the Barbarians in the hunt themselves for most of it. But the returning Jackson trapped Wahaj lbw, which left an exciting six to bowl with three to get. There were appeals aplenty, there were oohs, there were aahs, there were increasing numbers of men around the bat, as Adam came and went and Owen got his first five-fer for the club. Nikhil pushed at one just in front of Stan. Kishen refused to be moved until the big man eventually got him with four balls to go, to give Owen 6-39 and the best figures of his life.

 

Could he go one better again with three to bowl at their number 11? He gave it his all and gave himself an eight-ball over with two wides that were sportingly signalled by the Brixton umpire, despite some barbarian barracking about dots being more helpful to them at this point in proceedings. On Owen’s very final effort he dug it in and got one to lift. Did he catch an arm, a glove, or was it even a bit of bat? Was it enough for the umpire to give it or the batter to walk? Alas, we will never know as, slightly unsighted, keeper Wilmot put down the ‘chance’. But let’s not dwell on that…

 

Although, if Richard Curtis is asking, it was glove, actually.

 

Dan Forman

Mandarins Vs Treasury - Goosegate T20

Feathery shot from Kishen. Bird was fielding at third gander.

Just did enough to take some pace off the ball and gaggle it in. 

Didn’t have much of an arm so a treasury teammate had to come over and go-sling it back in. 

A lesser, awardless, writer might describe it as fowl play as there were now 12 a playing. But I wouldn’t go there.

Redemption Songs

Sometimes the score book doesn’t tell the whole story of a game. A casual glance at the numbers here would suggest that we got a bit of a battering; in reality, it wasn’t quite that close. But a good Mandarins fixture has more to offer than a mere result.

So I won’t allow this match report to focus for too long on the match. That would be narrow, reductive, and unresponsive to the way truth is mediated by linguistic structures and desire. Also, we got battered. Initially, by batters - Peper Harow had a string of players with good technique and the ability to hit a verrry long ball. We actually did pretty well to peg them back to under 200 from the 35 after a flying start (101-2 from 15), but ultimately, they were too good for us, and wound up scoring more runs in boundaries than we did in total.

But still, I reckon almost all the Mandarin side went home with something good to remember from the game. Here are some of those stories.

Gary Plahe, whose bowling has been extremely valuable in previous Peper fixtures, was very short of practice (ie none) and confidence (ditto), and responded to being given the new ball with a slightly horrified “ARE YOU SURE THAT’S A GOOD IDEA??”.  His insecurity proved entirely justified alas, but redemption came later with the bat when he hit one of the three Mandarin shots of the day, a perfect straight swing depositing the ball over the bowlers head for four and holding the pose with superb confidence.

The other two shots of the day for us were gorgeous pick ups over mid on. One was by Ollie Chadwick, whose bowling had also, like Gary’s, not gone to plan, a mid-over attack of the yips requiring some deep breathing and holding of nerve. The other was by Gary’s stepson Aaron Harris. Aaron had actually bowled a very good little spell already, but must have been gutted that two of the three wickets he should have taken were spilled by Mandarin fielders (Sam Brand’s see-it-late drop-it-early routine was a particularly entertaining mix of doomed fielding attempt & last minute self protection). Aaron’s sweetly timed pick up off the bowling of Arras was a thing of beauty and our only six of the day.

(By the way my own role in this game was just to stand in the field directing traffic, last week’s innings at Dulwich having wildly aggravated some pre-existing conditions of tennis elbow, golfers elbow, and RSI. This is all mildly perplexing as I don’t play tennis or golf. The RSI… we’ll pass over I think.)

As well as later batting stylishly at no. 7, Sam Chadwick was (with Martin Hurst) the pick of the bowling. He too had to battle through a tough period though, his trough of despair coming after a startling first three overs had disappeared for 37 runs. (I’m hoping that sentence will wind up on an EFL course.) Redemption came from cannily flattening the flight a little, the next 4 overs producing a fine 4-19 to reward the captain’s confidence in him and keep us in the game. Well bowled young man.

To return to the match narrative for a moment: our batting could not cope with Peper Harrow’s bowling attack either. David Williams blobbed (but hopefully left smiling about the very nice stumping he had effected earlier); Sam Brand was pressured into a swish; by the time the Chadwick brothers and Gary/Aaron joined them in the hutch we were 69 for 6. At this point we were dead and buried - it may have been Easter Sunday, but we weren’t coming back from here.

Fortunately however, more Mandarins found some late pleasure to take from the game. Jon Porter had gone wicketless but by scoring an unbeaten 32 topped his daughter’s recent excellent debut for Glamorgan. (He made three more runs than Gemma; I imagine there was a phone call later in the evening with a red-faced clenched teethed Jon channelling Ray Winstone in Scum: “WHO’S THE DADDY?!”). Rob Eastaway - also wicketless despite a very good spell - joined Jon after a carefree Heard vignette, and facing an ask of 108 from 8 overs wisely opted to have fun instead, carving it away through point for a fine 28 runs of solid red ink.

It could not change the game alas. We were going to the inevitable, like Larkin. But most clouds have a bronze lining (hey I’m a realist too). While we thank Peper Harow for the game and congratulate them on a fully deserved victory, there were still plenty of happy memories to take back up the A3 with us. We hope our newer players took a few with them.

Chris Healey

Normal Service Resumes

Sunday dawned bright and warm. What a spring it has been. Memories of playing in the snow at Peper Harrow were long forgotten. Several players were seen reaching for the sunscreen. Was this to be the year when everything changed for the better? No early season wash-out. Tim wouldn't be involved in any more unnecessary runouts. We'd take our catches. Harry wouldn't get out straight after hitting a monstrous 6. Jonathan would turn up on time. We'd wean ourselves of our reliance on the batting rock that has been Chris Healey for as long as anyone can remember.

Well, the short answer is "no". 10 Mandarins had arrived in good time. Jonathan had headed for the wrong ground and got caught in traffic. The opposition, St Anne's Allstars, also had several laggards so on winning the toss chose to bat. Tim bravely took the gloves. Our sharp opening pair of Harry and Wahaj both bowled with speed and accuracy, testing out both Tim and the St Anne's openers. Unfortunately, one of those openers was seriously classy and started to get into a good rhythm. Of course, we missed chances to get him out. I dropped him off the sort of missile I might catch once in a Mandarin career. Raki dropped the sort of chance he'll miss once in a Mandarin career. The other batsmen were a much more mixed lot and with three quick wickets from Dan we were certainly still in it at 95-5 at just over halfway. Then things rather deteriorated. Stan tested out the umpires' knowledge of all the different signals for wide, no ball, boundary etc and all in his first over. And then the rain came. Gentle at first but driving later. The St Anne's opener had now been joined by the capable ("I played a couple of times for Sussex Seconds") Dindyal . The pace picked up until an incredible catch by Tim (nothing new there...) running in from the boundary and diving forward did for the opener for 113. The innings ended rather tetchily as the rain got worse and with the ball now like a bar of soap, the new batsman was hit by a Wahaj beamer. Wahaj apologised. The injured batsman calmed down. Dindyal didn't and as we left the field for tea/a rain break he was heard loudly promising to come in off his long run up to our tailenders and we could borrow his helmet as we would need it.... Happily, his teammates (a nice Mandarin-esque bunch) calmed him down.

The rain happily relented and St Anne's declared on 213 off 38 overs. Tim and Sam started our reply. Unfortunately, Sam went early followed by Jonathan, caught sharply by Dindyal. But Harry arrived and upped the pace. Even the opposition applauded a stunning leg side 6 off one of their better bowlers. But then Harry "Kiri" played on next ball. This brought Chris H to the crease and he and Tim put on an excellent 63 with Tim's new pads surviving just the one clear LBW appeal. We were up with the rate before Tim was (inevitably?) involved in mix up in the middle and was run out by Dindyal. Stan carried on where Tim had left off and at 171-5 needing 6 an over, we were well placed. However, Chris jarred his problematic elbow and was forced to retire for a superb 70. With Stan and Wahaj also falling to Dindyal who had belatedly begun a 9 over spell of quality seam and the rate creeping up to 10 an over, playing out for the draw was now the instruction. As the gloom deepened Dindyal went to his long run up but was beginning to run out of energy and Nikhil and I saw out the last few overs for the draw (despite one rush of blood from Nikhil who managed to hit the ball straight up in the air a yard in front of himself attempting a big swipe - 6 fielders trying to take the catch converged in a confused huddle inches away from where the ball landed a foot in front of Nik). 

184 for 7 off our 34 overs - a respectable enough start to the season. The odds of snow at Peper Harrow next Sunday?

John Hawkins

Full Career Digest, 1978 - 2024

This digest is based on seasons from 1978 till 2024, plus a few earlier games. Alas, our records are incomplete, and this will be the best we can unless scorebooks or other data are discovered. Bar seven games, no records exist before 1978. And there are no scorebooks for 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997 (except vs Reading). Some records are missing from 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004.

In the following tables, * indicates a player active in 2024, with power to add.

More Than 100 Appearances

Chris Baker*	506		Nick Davidson	177
Paul McIntyre	473		David Williams*	172
Rob Eastaway*	424		Bob Tivey*	164
Chris Healey*	327		Graeme Tunbridge*	162
Mike O’Shea	292		John Hawkins*	151
Peter Lewy	289		Jeremy Crump	151
Andy Heard*	288		Steven Wood	140
Andy McKeon	286		Tony Gray	126
Martin Hurst*	275		Gus O’Donnell	126
Jonathan Wilmot*	253		Dan Forman*	126
Mike Pattison	251		J C Gray	122
Graham Hadley	235		Paul Mills*	122
Tim Baxter*	221		Olly Gardiner	118
Mike Richardson	220		Chris Roberts	118
Tony Hawkhead*	212		Chris McKeon*	113
Barrie Temple	196		Luke Mayhew	112
Jon Porter*	193		Malcolm Field	104
Jeremy Jarvis	178		Arvind Manian*	104

 

1000 Runs

Chris Healey*	10208		Robin Pharoah*	1716
Peter Lewy	5851		Tony Hawkhead*	1560
Jonathan Wilmot	5598		Martin Hurst*	1553
Chris Baker	5479		Jon Porter*	1544
Luke Mayhew	5227		Tony Gray	1498
Graham Hadley	5011		Denis Parsons	1497
Mike Richardson	4966		Andy Heard*	1472
Andy McKeon	4850		Stephen Dunmore	1381
Barrie Temple	4494		Roger Holmes	1329
Tim Baxter*	4334		Paul McIntyre	1317
David Williams*	3115		Stephen Wood	1193
Graeme Tunbridge*	2737		Arvind Manian*	1190
Sam Brand	1153		John Hawkins*	1123
Rob Eastaway*	2607		Rob Foot	1079
Paul Mills*	2188		Drew Somerville*	1068
Nick Davidson	2137		Gavyn Davies	1053
Bob Tivey	2113		Mike Pattison	1029
Jeremy Jarvis*	2024		Gus O’Donnell	1008
Marc Thomas	1853

 

500 in a season

Season	Player	Runs
2009	Chris Healey	518
2003	Barrie Temple	569
1994	Rob Foot	822
	Chris Healey	554
	Tim Baxter	517
1991	Chris Healey	753
1990	Chris Healey	563
	Luke Mayhew	557
1987	Luke Mayhew	522
1986	Luke Mayhew	631
	Graham Hadley	509
1984	Peter Lewy	534
1983	Graham Hadley	606
	Jonathan Wilmot	513
1981	Mike Richardson	589
	Peter Lewy	522
1978	Graham Hadley	608

 

Seasons Reaching 300 Runs

Players	Seasons of 300
Chris Healey	17
Peter Lewy	10
Graham Hadley	8
Luke Mayhew	8
Mike Richardson	7
Barrie Temple	6
Tim Baxter	5
Jonathan Wilmot	5
Chris Baker	3
Andy McKeon	2
Parsons	2
Mark Roberts	1
Sam Cook	1
Bob Tivey	1
Zac Stancombe	1

 

Hundreds and Fifties (qualification: 20)

Players	100s	50s	Total
Healey	10	60	72
Mayhew	10	42	52
Wilmot	4	27	31
Hadley	0	30	30
Lewy	1	27	28
Richardson	1	26	27
Temple	0	26	26
Baxter	1	25	26
A. McKeon	1	20	21

 

Conversion Rate to 50

Mayhew	46.4 %
Mark Thomas	45.0 %
Healey	24.4 %
Wilmot	14.1 %
Temple	13.5 %

 

Catches/ Stumpings (min: 50)

Player	Catches	Stumpings	Total	Per Match	Note
Peter Lewy	141	40	181	0.63
Chris Healey	140	7	147	0.45
Jon Wilmot	99	36	135	0.55
Bob Tivey	89	26	115	0.71
Chris Baker	99	5	104	0.21
Paul McIntyre	101		101	0.22	(a)
Tim Baxter	80	17	97	0.43
Mike Richardson	78		78	0.37	(b)
Luke Mayhew	49		49	0.44	(c)
Graham Hadley	64		64	0.27
Mike Pattison	61		61	0.24
David Williams	49	11	60	0.38	(d)
Jeremy Jarvis	56		56	0.33
Gus O’Donnell	41	9	50	0.40

 

(a)      Highest number of catches by a pure outfielder

(b)     Highest of 13 in one season by outfielder

(c)      Highest ratio for an outfielder

(d)     TBC – total maybe 72?

 

50 PARTNERSHIPS

 

Between 1978 and September 2024 Mandarins have scored 610 partnerships of 50, of which 69 were converted to centuries. For each wicket the numbers are:

Wicket	50s	100s	Notable Performances
1st	117	20	current record 188, 29/6/91 vs Royal Oak Taverners (Healey/Williams)
2nd	126	21	193, 13/7/89 vs Reading UASCC (Healey/Wilmot)
3rd	105	13	169, 15/8/14 vs Framlingham College (Thomas/Patterson)
4th	79	9	c150 20/6/00 vs Jesus? 135 24/7/14 vs Benenden (A McKeon/Wilmot). 166 vs St Annes Allstars (Wilmot/Sajjan/Vijay/H Forman-Wilshaw)
5th	52	6	138, 9/9/1984 vs Chaldon (Lewy/A McKeon)
6th	25	3	149*, 21/05/09 vs Lords and Commons (Healey/Martin)
7th	17	0	97, 5/8/18 vs Mickleham (Baker/Eastaway) (see note)
8th	8	0	95*, 11/8/19 vs Streatham and Marlborough (Manian/H Forman)
9th	5	0	79*, 8/05/22 vs Millfields (Stancombe/Eastaway)
10th	3	0	56 21/5/23 vs Brill (Keayes/Heather)

 

Note: extensive anecdotal evidence suggests a partnership of c 110 between Hawkhead and O’Donnell for 7^th wicket vs Sixpenny Handley c. 2001. To be confirmed?

Most 50 partnerships (qualification 7 plus)

Healey	87
Wilmot	66
Lewy	58
Hadley	57
Mayhew	55
Richardson	52
Baxter	47
A McKeon	44
Temple	41
Baker	34
Williams	31
Tunbridge	26
Tivey	22
Mills	22
Jarvis	19
Dunmore	18
Thomas	17
Davidson	17
Brand	17
Parsons	15
Pharoah	14
Hawkhead	14
Wood	12
R Eastaway	12
Hawkins	12
Jono Maher	11
Somerville	10
Manian	10
Lowen	10
T Gray	9
McCarthy	8
Madzarevic	8
J Porter	8
Holmes	7
Hannah	7
Day	7
Crosse	7

 

1000 Overs

Player	Total Overs
Eastaway	3446.1
Hurst	3200.3
McIntyre	3031.3
O’Shea	2970.2
Richardson	1810.1
Heard	1664.0
Pattison	1375.5
Healey	1285.2
Baker	1255.0
Crump	1227.2
Gardiner	1045.0

 

100 WICKETS

Player	Total Wickets	Strike Rate
Eastaway	677	30.29
O’Shea	640	27.76
McIntyre	567	31.93
Richardson	427	25.17
Hurst*	385	34.70
Pattison	318	25.86
Baker*	309	24.66
Healey	302	24.68
Heard*	298	32.99
Crump	227	32.25
A McKeon	176	31.97
D Forman	173	24.20
Gardiner	172	36.92
Hadley	147	30.28
Ramani	142	Tbc
Murphy	140	33.85
JC Gray	139	33.56
Tony Gray	131	35.79
Wynn-Owen	101	32.19

 

50 wickets in a season:  O’Shea 3 times (and 49 twice); R Eastaway once.

5 wickets in an innings

O’Shea	28
Richardson	18
R Eastaway	17
Ramani	7
Pattison	6
Crump	5
Baker	5
Hurst	5
McIntyre	4
Murphy	4
Healey	3
A McKeon	3
D Forman	3
Julian West	2
Wynn-Owen	2
Paul Eastaway	2

 

Chris Baker, Archivist
November 2024