Cricket Team
The London Saints cricket team plays regular fixtures on Sundays during what occasionally passes as a summertime, and we’re always on the lookout for new players.
To get involved, contact Dave Thomas at davethomas@londonsaints.com
London Saints CC V Roadrunners CC – Sun Aug 6th – Houghton Regis, Beds
Roadrunners 274 – 7 (Nanton 2 – 42) London Saints 78 (Grant 19, Wathan 15) With Pearce Taxi’s selfishly deciding to go on holiday on the weekend when their services are required, the train element of the LSCC XI (well 12 after some miscommunication) had to fork out £20 to get a taxi from Leighton […]
Nascott v London Saints – Sun 30th July – Cassiobury Park, Watford
London Saints 78 (McIntyre 16 no, Griffiths 15) Nascott 79 – 3 (1 wicket each for McIntyre, Nanton and Grimes) Match Reporter A. Mayhew (Totally unbiased and all his own views – Ed) It was with a certain amount of despair that we turned up at Cassiobury Park; pissing down with rain, no changing rooms, […]
London Saints v Finland Select XI (Part Two)
Finland National Cricket Ground 20 overs (2nd innings) July 14, 2017 London Saints CC were 30 runs behind after the 1st innings: read the report here By Eric Shadick 2nd Innings – the view from the scorers’ room. Finland bat The Kerava Groundsman’s Select XI (official title – scorer’s privileged information) began their second knock […]
London Saints vs Finland Select XI (Part 1)
Finland National Cricket Ground Kerala 20 overs July 14, 2017 Finland bat With the weather far more conducive to cricket than the washout of the previous evening, offered the opportunity to bat first DT, to the surprise of nobody other than the opposition captain, declined the offer and Saints took the field. Team photo complete, […]
London Saints C.C vs Sunderland C.C At Old Haberdashers CC – 2nd July 2017 Match Reporter Ed Price
Sunderland 181 – 9 (Thomas 3 – 17, Pearce 2 – 36) London Saints 155 – 9 (R. Griffiths 33, Pearce 25, Price 20, Nanton 20) Right, let’s get this out of the bloody way. I’m briefly going to break from journalistic prose (forgive me Andy Jones) and readily admit that I dropped a few […]
Hermit’s v London Saints at Newbury, Sunday June 25, 2017 – Sunny, warm and dry.
Hermits 181-8 (Rogers 4-12, Thomas 2–8 London Saints 184-9 (Berkeley 42no, Grant 23, Jones 17, Pearce 15no) Once in a while in the history of a cricket club there occurs an event so incredible that causes you to ask yourself: Did that really happen? It was a moment which made you glad to be there, one […]
London Saints v Nascott – Tony Grimes Hattrick Victory
Sunday 4th June 2017 30 over match played at Old Haberdashers’ CC in Elstree Nascott 81 (Grimes 5 – 7, London Saints 85 – 3 (Jones 25, Mayhew 23no) It was a game which had non-playing club captain, Il Duce (last victory 2013) scurrying for his record books. A London Saints’ player who is the […]
Friday September 2nd 2016 v Ex Blues at West Wickham, Kent
Ex Blues 239 – 4 (Griffiths 1-20, Smith 1-21, Berkeley 1-26, Keenan 1-35) London Saints 140 (Griffiths 27, Wilson 14, Grimes no 13, McIntyre 13, Thomas 13) Our usual end of season game down in not so deepest Kent was, as usual, an enjoyable day and evening out against familiar and social opponents – Ex […]
Roadrunners run out winners vs. battling London Saints
London Saints 156 all out (Griffiths 50; Rogers 37; Nanton 22) – lost by 35 runs Scorecards rarely tell the full story of a cricket match. Sunday’s defeat in this season’s return fixture against Roadrunners was a closer affair than the above scoreline suggests. With 8 overs to go, a game that had been played in […]
London Saints V Coldharbour July 3rd
Coldharbour, the highest cricket ground in the South of England, was the scene of some cricketing peaks and troughs during the first weekend of July. Among the highs was the average age of the London Saints team as well as some of the shots fired over the boundary by the home team’s batsmen. Some of […]
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