Magdalen 2014

The September evenings are drawing in, spelling an end to mid week evening cricket, but Sunday cricket still continues...3 more games, including this afternoon, taking us into the first week of October. Its been so far a fun packed season, lots of Leisure in the ranks, some lovely grounds (West Wycombe, for example), a 3 game July tour to Margate. We've lost a couple recently, but went 3 months without losing. Great victories against Northfields, British Airways and Windsor Great Park, a thriller v Woking and Horsell...

Wendel, our skipper for 2014, is on the verge of breaking a 43 year record; most runs for the season, 875, set by a Hugh Grant (not that one) in 1971. A few have come close in recent years, but WS, with 2 double tons and 2 single tons, sits just 60 runs away. He's already broken the highest individual score in 70 years of Mags history (226), now has the most individual tons (10) but will he get those 60 runs required? Paul currently tops the bowling, with 38 wickets, already having topped the Hounslow list with 22, and now sits 8th in the all time Magdalen wicket takers list with 267 victims (no.1, having taken a mere 1500!).

Eds note. Monday...He did it, in style, another friggin double ton, also passing 1000 runs for the season in the process...