Preamble: “I say, Charles, don’t you ever crave To appear on the front of the Daily Mail Dressed in your Mother’s bridal veil?” And so I checked all the registered […]

Schadenfreude – noun – pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune  It’s always funny when it happens to someone else…  “What do any of these have to do with […]

Streat. 8:05 pm. Game on. The sun is setting behind the trees and the shadows are creeping inexorably across the square. At mid-wicket it is beginning to be difficult to see the ball. Streat are eight […]

Weather: it turned out lovely.  Ground: splendid ground surrounded by some epic trees and allotments in the distance.  Opposition: not sure really as we were under strict instructions to stay on the other side […]

9PM Friday 11th June   After loosing the inaugural Friday T20 tour game on the last ball, when an edged run took Tale Millers to victory, The Mighty Greys returned to the Hayloft tour house and […]

Bodle-aaay-eeee-hoooo! By Hat Rick Arriving at Bodle Street is for Sunday cricketers what that bit in The Beach where Leonardo DiCaprio sees the mythical beach for the first time is […]

Almost immediately my suspicions were confirmed. This shed nonsense was just a cover; we were on some sort of spy mission. Le Clunc had barely gone to the trouble of […]

Cricket  , eh ,  bloody hell…….. WHAT A GAME ;  This has to go down as one of TMG’s best victories  in all the years I’ve been playing . A […]

The Greys are more aptly named with each passing week it seems. Elderly people benefit hugely from keeping what is left of their minds active and so a big welcome […]

The Greys got off to a good start of the season with two wins in a row as we convincingly beat Upper Beeding by 76 runs.   The Greys batted first. An inconsistent wicket […]

This week’s match report is takes the form of….

6:15 AM Monday 28th of September: a postman slowly making his way to Newhaven  Delivery Office “for sale: 1 keeley bat, 1 masuri helmet, 1 Denton C C sweatshirt……. why […]

This week’s match report comes in the form of a comic strip… a Grey’s first I believe? (Full text transcription below for accessibility purposes) 1. After a night of fine […]

Nothing beats a good old stitch-up. However it’s never as fun when it’s you, or in this case me, who is on the receiving end! The voting process on the […]

CONFESSIONS OF A GREYSMAN Those familiar with the antics of Timothy Lea in the popular 1970’s series of British ‘adult’ comedies may wish to look away now.The following match report bears […]

Operation: Three of Diamonds. Crack Team: Field Agents Wig, Biff, Robor, Shadow, Zonk, Clunk, Amstel, Hat-Rick, QB, Eeyo, Postie. All make a circle with your hand and place it around […]

In 1987 a crack commando unit was sent to Ford Open Prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from the minimum–security stockade to the Hanover underground. Today, still […]

Perhaps, more than any other team sport, cricket is influenced by playing conditions, and perhaps, more than any other team sport, over the course of the game, the swing in […]

Sayers Common. Never the most celebrated Common; it certainly lacks the clout of a Wimbledon or even a Clapham. Nevertheless, not two years previous I remember the place as green […]

Audio match report by Hatrick

Findon Cricket Club, nestling under the Downs; deer cavorting in the lynchets – was a perfect setting. The Greys were keen to get a forty over game under their belts […]

The Mighty Greys has a number of enduring traditions. Whether it’s Terry telling anybody that’ll listen about his century at Bodle Street; Jerry getting caught at slip or gully; Robbie […]

Nothing beats a sunny September day. Clear and crisp but warm enough for t-shirts, and so it turned out on the morning of our fixture against hard to beat Cutters […]