by SCCC | Jun 11, 2019
Cryptics Tour to Malta, 2005by Peter Andrew Cryptics on tour in Malta This was familiar territory for previous Cryptic tourists. Pippa was carrying an injury. Tom Ware was enthusiastic, dogmatic, reactionary. Fat piemen were a little older, greyer. Our opposition were...
by SCCC | Jun 11, 2019
Played 17 Won 12 Drawn 3 Lost 2 Sunday 4 September SCCC 165-8 (40 overs) Ottershaw 150 all out (39 overs) Won by 15 runs SCCC won the toss, 40 over match With only seven players on the ground at the scheduled start time, none of whom could keep wicket, the decision to...
by SCCC | Jun 11, 2019
Played 15 Won 9 Drawn 4 Lost 2 Tilford 12.09.04 SCCC 242-7 dec (42 overs) Tilford 175-8 (44 overs) Match drawn Tilford won the toss The share of the overs suggests that the declaration was about right, maybe even generous. On a fast scoring ground it was a shame that...
by SCCC | Jun 11, 2019
SCCC v Mosman Vets Friday 14 November 2003 MOSMAN 145 all out (39.3 overs)SURREY CRYPTICS 150-8 (38.3 overs)Won by 2 wickets VICTORY DOWN UNDER!Simon Davidson, Ross Greenwood, Bill Wilkinson, Greg Andrell, Douglas Lamont, Richard Seeckts, James MacDonald, Robert...
by SCCC | Jun 11, 2019
Played 12 Won 7 Drawn 3 Lost 2 Tilford 14.09.03 SCCC 209 all out Tilford 193-7 Match drawn An odd game really, ultimately providing a rather flat end to a generally successful season. Unusual things happened, some for the sake of it and others out of end of term...
by SCCC | Jun 11, 2019
Menorca Tour : 27-30 September 2002 Peter Andrew writes: Jingle Bells? Hardly. A squad of 12 Cryptics took on the Menorca Cricket Club on one of the most picturesque grounds we have yet graced, and sportingly allowed our opponents to win 40-over games on successive...
by SCCC | Jun 11, 2019
Won 5, Drawn 4, Lost 4 and won the Shackleford Sixes. Tilford 15 September SCCC 186-8 dec Tilford 96 Won by 90 runs A glorious late summer day at beautiful Tilford started for some with lunch in the child unfriendly Barley Mow, but for the second successive week we...
by SCCC | Jun 11, 2019
Played 10 Won 2 Drawn 5 Lost 3 Follies Farm 13/5/01 Follies Farm 141-6 (40 overs) SCCC 135-9 (40 overs) Lost by 6 runs In real cricket it was a draw but in this age of instant gratification and cheap thrills Follies have decided to adopt the limited overs, hit...
by SCCC | Jun 11, 2019
The Surrey Cryptics in Oporto 20-24 July 2000 Played 2 Won 1 Drawn 1 In spite of the considerable efforts of our Australian contingent to sabotage the trip to Oporto by not getting visas – two out of three failed to leave England – the Cryptics first...
by SCCC | Jun 11, 2019
Played 14 Won 6 Drawn 4 Lost 4 Kingstonian 7 May 2000 Beaten by Kingstonian – a grim fact indeed but…………….we scored 186-7 with no Cryptic getting a duck, we unearthed 4 new faces all of whom made an impact of one sort or another, our bowlers used up their...
