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Blind & Visually Impaired Cricket
Broadhalfpenny Down has hosted Blind & Viusally Impaired cricket for many years. The Primary Club Memorial Cup Final was played in 2017...
Brigands CC
Oct 20, 2025


End of Season Dinner, 2025
The season closed in style at the Bat & Ball in Hambledon, where a good-humoured crowd gathered for the end-of-season awards dinner....
Dave Henderson
Oct 7, 2025


Brigands Grace
At this year's Club Dinner, Clive Barnett, President, said the following grace. With profuse apologies to Sir Henry Newbolt: There's a...
Dave Henderson
Oct 7, 2025


A Bat as Wide as the Wicket
On 23 September 1771, amidst the flint and flannel of Georgian Surrey, a bat was raised, not in triumph, but in challenge. It was wider...
Dave Henderson
Sep 23, 2025


A Cricket Season in Numbers
A warmer summer and a series of flatter wickets produced a season more suited to the Brigands batters. Across the campaign, they amassed...
Brigands CC
Sep 18, 2025


A New Chapter in Cricket History
For over 25 years, the Broad Halfpenny Down Association (BHDA) and the Preservation Trust (BDPT) have been charged with the promotion and...
Broadhalfpenny Down
Sep 15, 2025


From Hampshire to the World
A guest story by a Friend of the Brigands, Ray Mead I thoroughly enjoyed Bill Evershed’s blog on these pages back in May (The Great Grey...
Brigands CC
Sep 15, 2025


Win a Toyota car and support cricket
Cricket is more than just a game - it's where friends and communities come together. Toyota understand that clubs rely on volunteers and...
Brigands CC
Sep 14, 2025


Ground Closed for the Winter
Thank you to all the lovely volunteers who lent a hand to take down the sight screens, take the canvass of the covers, and ready the...
Broadhalfpenny Down
Sep 13, 2025
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