The Chelsea Arts Club
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Founded 1984

Season 2011: 2 Wins, 4 Draws, 0 Losses, 0 Abandoned
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2011 Season results

Prior Seasons:

Season 2004 Archive
Season 2005 Archive
Season 2006 Archive
Season 2007 Archive
Season 2008 Archive
Season 2009 Archive
Season 2010 Archive

Ground directions:

Click here for driving directions to the various fixtures.


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Quotes:

"He's usually a good puller - but he couldn't get it up that time." Richie Benaud

"Man, it don't matter where you come in to bat, the score is still zero." Viv Richards to Sunil Gavaskar at Madras 1983. Gavaskar had decided to come in at no 4 for that Test. But Malcolm Marshall got Anshuman Gaekwad and Dilip Vengsarkar for ducks. Gavaskar had to walk in at 0/2 and made 236 not out

"Cricket is basically baseball on valium." Robin Williams

"Yorkshire 232 all out, Hutton ill - I'm sorry, Hutton 111." John Snag

"It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan, it's when you realise that your wife left you in May. " Dennis Norden

"Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches." Paul Hogan

"I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want." Mike Gatting, when asked whether he feels the selectors and himself have been vindicated by the result of a Test

"There is a widely held and quite erroneous belief that cricket is just another game." Duke of Edinburgh

"I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign...Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else." Ted Dexter, explaining away a Test loss.

"For when the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, he marks not that you won or lost, but how you played the game." Grantland Rice 1880 -1954

"It's always good beating the Australians -- and it's even better to beat them out there. But the Ashes is just one thing. Ask me for the biggest highlight when I'm lying on my deathbed -- then I'll tell you." Sir Ian Botham

"I can't think of a life without cricket" -- Sanath Jayasuriya looks forward to retirement with trepidation, 16 August 2008

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Monday 13th June 2011

News | Website 2011:

Welcome back! The 2011 Season is now in full swing. We have a big squad this year, including some new faces, so lets hope it can be one of our most successful seasons yet.

Season 2011 match reports can be viewed here, as well an archives of previous year's reports on the left. Week on week you can download the match reports for each game and we'll do our best to add the odd photo and video clip.

Useful links:

In the meantime enjoy some of this classic commentary from Aggers and Vaughan in the recent test match versus the Sri Lankans.


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About:


The Chelsea Arts Club Cricket Club was founded in 1984 by David Maddocks and Stephen Bartley. The first fixture was played on 8th July against The Arts Council.

From our modest beginning of 2 fixtures in 1984 we now play around 20 matches a season. The majority of these are played in and around London and the South East.

Notable achievements of the Club include becoming Ice Cricket World Champions in the first ever competition held in Estonia in 2006. Significant media attention resulted including TV coverage on BBC’s Breakfast programme and Sky News. The story and video footage was also syndicated worldwide by Reuters.

Other touring destinations include Portugal, where we play the Oporto Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club and Malta where we take on the Maltese national side.

Nets are organised at the Ken Barrington Centre, Kennington Oval each year between March and May. For further information on the Club or if you are interested in coming to nets or playing for us, please contact our captain on the link above.

Records°:

Win Record:
Played: 443    Won: 202    Drawn: 96    Lost: 139    Tied: 7

Best Season:
2003 - 11 wins, 3 losses, 7 draws

Highest Total:
312-9 v. Valley End CC 2009

Highest Score:
153* E. Masters v. Keevil 1996

Highest Partnership:
212 S. Varma (144) & J. Akbany (66*) v. London Erratics 2007

Best Bowling:
8 for 10 R. Belfrage v. Penzance Arts Club 2005
8 for 25 C. Brown v. Hogarth's XI 1999
7 for 11 S. Varma v. Grannies 2005
7 for 13 E Masters v. Artificials 1995
7 for 14 B Martin v. Rode 2002
7 for 31 D Thomas v. Restaurant Trade 1996
7 for 36 C Brown v. Restaurant Trade 1998
7 for 41 N Goold v. Butterflies 2002
7 for 56 D Maddocks v. Penzance Arts Club 2004
7 for 64 D Corbett v. Crecy Company 1994

Centuries:
4 - A Chamberlin
3 - S Bartley, E Masters, D Wilkinson, A de Jager
2 - B Plympton, M Wilson, N Singleton, S Varma
1 - D Chisholm, P Lubbock, A Fiennes, C Lewey, R le Clercq, M Radford, J Rawes, N Goold, J Whiting

Fifties:
19 - A Chamberlin
14 - S Varma
12 - P Lubbock
10 - D Wilkinson
9 - S Bartley, C Brown
7 - G McConnell
6 - J Rawes, H Dodson, N Goold
5 - C Lewey, M Radford, J Kavanagh, R Cherry, A. Stratton, M H-Tanner, A de Jager, N Singleton
4 - G Phillips, J Akbany
3 - N Wade, B Ramos, A Fiennes, T Piper, R Belfrage, C Hickey
2 - D Maddocks, N Fox, B Thomas, T Meyer, M Wilson, R Belfrage, M Turner, M Mullen, D Logue, C Kulasingam
1 - D Thomas, A Fletcher, D Parish, E Masters, N Benson, J MacNaughton, S Bate, R Le Clercq, C Rutherford, M Richardson, E Skilbeck, M Clarke, C Payne, S Lock, S Karim, N Parry, J Rebbeck, G Hill, A Gow, B Derrin

5 Wicket Innings:
10 - E Masters
9 - S Bartley
8 - S Varma
7 - D Maddocks
5 - C Brown, N Goold
4 - B Ramos
3 - D Wilkinson, D Thomas
2 - D Corbett, A Chamberlin, A Aldington, R Belfrage, C Kulasingam
1 - C Payne, P Costelloe, B Martin, A de Jager

Catches:
81 - D Maddocks
49 - C Brown
45 - S Bartley
31 - A Chamberlin
24 - P Lubbock, D Wilkinson
22 - D Thomas
21 - M Thomas, S Varma
20 - E Masters
17 - B Ramos, D Corbett, C Kulasingam
16 - M H-Tanner, H Dodson, C Hickey, N Goold
15 - A Stratton
13 - J Rawes, M Turner
12 - B Aldington, N Singleton
11 - J Akbany
10 - A de Jager
3 - P Costelloe
2 - G McConnell, J Rebbeck, C Mair

Wicketkeeping:
H Dodson: Ct 74, St 18
N Fox: Ct 36, St 9
J Kavanagh: Ct 25, St 1
A Stratton: Ct 20, St 12
A Fiennes: Ct 9, St 1
C Mair: Ct 3

° Current as of 07 September 2010

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Links:


The website of the Chelsea Arts Club.

Lord's Cricket Ground, the home of cricket.

Commentator Christopher Martin-Jenkins reflects on his time with BBC's Test Match Special radio broadcasts.

The official laws of cricket from the Lord's site.

Cricket Statistics for Windows, a program for managing a team's statistics, including useful analytical reports. An evaluation version can be downloaded for free.

Check the weather at BBC Weather.

See what Google thinks of cricket.

Why cricket is not like marmite, an American's take on cricket.

Why there is hope for an endangered species: the winning draw, an all too familiar outcome for CACCC.
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