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Winchmore Hill Tigers Season Review 2023 Whilst Winchmore Hill’s Saturday teams may not have had the best of seasons, the same could not be said of the Sunday elevens. The Tigers had their second-best season ever, winning 16 of their 19 completed matches. From Tigers cricket correspondent StevieB The highlight of the summer was clearly Jon Ranger’s innings of 200 not out against Arkley on the…

LOWER THAN ANGELS – Stephen Bignell “These days, the word ‘village’ is cricket code for the aspects of the game that are basic and inept, played at the lowest level by the least effective players, often in bizarre circumstances. So begins the author’s description of his second novel – the follow-up to the critically acclaimed ‘The Last Ball of Summer’. ‘Lower Than Angels’ is set in 1953,…

High-Fives all-round for resilient Tigers

Tigers 196-9 beat Fives CC 168 all out by 28 runs By new Tigers correspondent, Rashad Jurangpathy The Tigers were once again given the red-carpet privilege of showing off their skills on the club’s showcase ground on the August Bank Holiday weekend. And what a picturesque and unfamiliar lush green outfield we were treated to after our long hot summer. Our opponent was the ‘Fives CC’, local…

Poetry on the Hill. By Chris Wright, with apologies to Edward Lear On the Top of Winchmore HillCricket pitches there to mow,In the middle of the woodsLived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.Two old chairs, and half a candle,One old bat without a handle–These were all his worldly goods,In the middle of the woods,These were all his worldly goods,Of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo,Of the Yonghy-Bonghy Bo. Once, among the…

Tigers 2021 season reviewed The Tigers celebrated their 10th year of cricket at Winchmore Hill with the first winning season since 2014, recording 10 victories and 9 defeats, with three matches having no result, all abandoned due to rain. It was a difficult summer, what with the poor weather, opposition crying off and emergency fixtures having to be organised, not to mention coming to terms…

The Summer of ’76. To anyone over 50 it’s shorthand for long, lazy days under Mediterranean azure skies, for brown, parched fields and short, sleepless nights. For me, on the cusp of my teenage years it was all these, but also the year I fell in love with cricket. If there was a single day in that surreal summer that turned me on to cricket it was Monday, August 16th, when, accompanied by my…

From our Kuala Lumpur correspondent, Chris Wright I am writing to let you know that ‘Sausage’ sadly passed away yesterday. She was almost 16 so had a decent innings, she was always lively in the field and had no equal when it came to chasing down a ball. She had a fine pedigree, literally, a dignified demeanour and a graceful and elegant style. She attended her first cricket match down at West…

The Last Ball of Summer – Part 5

a novel of cricket and the great war by Stephen Bignell CONTENTS Chapter 14 – KITTY AND EMILY TAKE THE OFFENSIVE Chapter 15 – RARER GIFTS THAN GOLD Chapter 16 – THE BATTLE FOR GOMMECOURT Chapter 17 – THE CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD CHAPTER 14 – KITTY AND EMILY TAKE THE OFFENSIVE When Phyllis goes a-cricketing, and revels in the cloverThen have a care, it’s not the thing, to bowl a maiden…

The Last Ball of Summer – Foreword

A novel by Steve Bignell Foreword by Chris Dane We live in days of bluster. Deeds of men and women are seen as commodities, while promises of even greater deeds and vows of future magnificence are the real currency. Steve Bignell Sometime in the mid-noughties Steve Bignell, cricketer, organiser, scorer, treasurer and WestX1 cricket club founder, announced he would be writing a novel over the…

Sticking it to the Aussies

England vs Australia – November 1986 – The Gabba, Brisbane By Chris Wright So, there we were, seven or eight of us, all standing in the back bar of the Greyhound pub in Childerditch, Brentwood, on a Sunday evening in June 1986, telling jokes, exaggerating our Saturday night exploits in the night clubs of Essex, (Racquel’s in Basildon – ‘lucky to get out alive’, Zero 6, or Tots in Southend),…

In the first half of 2020, as the coronavirus wrapped the world in a blanket of inactivity, two Tigers cricketing legends have decided to hang up their boots. Steve Bignell, founder member of WestX1 (which became the Judd Street Tigers which became the Winchmore Hill Tigers) and Stewie Taylor, the club’s original angry young man, will play no more.

On top of that Chris Wright, club record run…

Dominant Tigers smash records

Sunday 4th August 2019   Paulin Ground, Winchmore Hill WEALDSTONE CORINTHIANS  242-7 (A. Shah 62*, Wakling 62, M. Webster 2-32) WINCHMORE HILL TIGERS 342-4 (Blundell 100*, J. Webster 83, Nawagamuwa 81*, Ward 50)

Guest contributor and occasional runsmith Emile Nawagamuwa writes

It is the opening weekend of the Ashes and there are high hopes for what could be the England cricket…

Review of the season

If your memories of the season are starting to fade this exhaustive review is for you. Lovingly created by poetic yet pessimistic opsimath StevieB, it recalls the occasional ups and the numerous downs of the season that was 2017. Factually unimpeachable, it’s essential reading ahead of Friday’s AGM.

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Scott Walker – Unsung Cricketing Icon

From JST arts correspondent Christopher Wright-Herbert

Existential angst! – its not just a common cricketing complaint. As the BBC4 Proms have so recently reminded us, Scott Walker has been consumed by it for a lifetime. (more…)