Category: Candovers

Every batsman arriving at Brown Candover takes in that most deeply ‘village’ of cricket grounds and thinks the same thought. Perhaps his look embraces the patchwork fields stretching in all directions, the rampant English hedgerows, the time-softened thatched cottages, the old church, with its higgledy-piggledy gravestones. Perhaps he hears the cooing of the wood pigeons, the yellowhammer demanding its little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheese and the pleasant descending wheeze of the greenfinch. Perhaps he regards with approval the meticulously prepared wicket, the well-mown outfield and the pavilion in its elevated setting. He surely considers the long … Continue reading The Racqueteers v Candovers, Thursday, 11th July. Away.