Category: Matches

Grantchester Cricket Club: Updated All Time Averages

Baggers gets advice and helmet from AP

Batting, AP looks unreachable… Bowling, Sam reclaims the #2 spot!

The 2021 Grantchester Cricket Club Bowling Averages

Bowling, See the next post for the 2021 Batting averages Congratulations Sam!

The 2021 GCC Batting Averages

Congratulations Ferg!

GCC vs Philanderers

GCC found their own pot of gold in beating the Philanderers by 6 wickets by chasing down 145 in 14 overs in last Wednesday’s T20 at Spring Lane. Photo: Clementine Farman

Grantchester Cricket Club

Some photos from a couple of matches earlier this season Under some leaden skies, GCC took on the Woodcutters at Spring Lane in mid-May… …but the sky was blue when the Menzies XI won a tense match a month later!

Grantchester Cricket Club AGM, 22 February 2021: The Secretary’s Report

This is the 10th Secretary’s Report of the reformed Grantchester Cricket Club. I have usually started by saying that it gives me great pleasure to present my report but this year that would be a hollow sentiment…

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The Great Average Update (Part 1)

GCC’s master statistician has been at work and not only produced this year’s rankings but also updated the GCC’s all-time (well 21st century) rankings (see Part 2 below). First: Batting 2020 sees the return of a familiar name as…

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The Great Average Update (Part 2)

The all-time rankings updated to reflect the results from our pandemic shortened 2020 season show some mid-table changes. Short the season was but especially sweet for some such as Baggers as he continues his inexorable rise through the Batting rankings, casting me down to 26th position with barely a backward (downward?) glance. Bigger scalps await with Chr….

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Square Repair

After the last Home Match against Madingley over the August Bank Holiday, it was time for the annual “Scarifyin’, Seedin’, Brushin’, Fertilisin’ followed by the Loamin’ & Lutin’ to which we so much look forward” to prepare the Spring Lane square for its annual winter slumber. But first, of course, there was the annual ‘Jerry, Can you fix the Scarifyer?’ routine.

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Mad(ingley )men in Grantchester

Madingley visited Spring Lane Field for, an extremely rare, if not unique, Bank Holiday Home fixture for GCC. With shielding, storms and all, this was the first time I had made it to Spring Lane for a GCC game and…

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Foiled by the Tempest

A good weekend for ducks of the feathered variety…

TK a.k.a. JA…

Recently, as I failed to explain cricket to a Chinese teenager, he did what they all do and Googled the GCC only to have me read a blog entry I’d not seen before…

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Cricket Returns

Finally! GCC hosted the Gentlemen of Cambridge last weekend and Spring Lane was looking truly resplendent. Geoff Robinson Photography was on hand to capture the spectacle from his drone.

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GCC Fixtures Sign-up

Tasty

A handy list view or a snappy Calendar view

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GCC’s Season is underway

The Gentlemen of Cambridge visit on Sunday, July 12th followed by our annual Gents vs Players match on Friday, July 17th. Full fixture list and sign-up sheets will be posted shortly!!!

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