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About us

The Village Cricket Club is a small club based loosely around its roots in North East London. We were formed in 2004 by a bunch of singularly talentless but enthusiastic cricketers...

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We're always on the lookout for new recruits of all abilities. Batsman, bowler, enthusiast, novice; The Village welcomes all. If you're looking to get involved you can shoot us an email, fill in this nice little form or even track us down on twitter.

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Let's be honest, it's the only reason most of us play the game. The chance to slice, dice and disect every inch of your game then talk about it at the pub. That's real cricket.

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Pacific CC (133 for 3) lost to The Village (224 for 9) by 91 runs, 28 April 2024

Pitcher is still in A&E playing talk-talk with doctors. In the absence of no other responsible homosapien willing to risk their brains being used for creative purposes, the only player outshined by 10 other player...

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London Welsh CC 2nd XI (274 for 9) beat The Village (143 all out) by 131 runs, 20 April 2024

Our remaining regular reader will know that a developing theme of these reports is to massively overcomplicate the whole affair by mixing in contemporary events into what is normally a retrospective narrative. So I am writing this having just arrived at Homerton A&E to look over a dodgy digit with - if memory serves - the benefit of a direct line into their medical malpractice office via Mrs ...

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London Itinerants (223 all out) beat The Village (192 all out) by 31 runs, 10 September 2023

Many Villagers are keen students of political history and will be delighted that it is the 60th anniversary of Harold Wilson’s famous “white heat of technology” speech this month. We can only speculate what the Baron of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSS would make of the advances in computing between then and now. In the same year as Suparmac’s conference address the first tape cassette was develop...

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