End of Season Dinner & Awards
The 2024 awards dinner at The Bat and Ball was a fitting close to a successful season for the Brigands. Clive Barnett, drawing...
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Brigands CC
Sep 29
Team of the Year 2024
We have run this year's scorebooks through OpenAI's latest model, and here is the "team of the year" based on performances in Timed Games...
Brigands CC
Sep 29
Annual General Meeting Notice
The Annual General Meeting of the Broadhalfpenny Brigands Cricket Club will take place on Sunday 6 October 2024 at 1100 in the Pavilion...
Brigands CC
Sep 12
The Generation Game
The Brigands have had a tradition of fathers and sons playing for the Club since its inception in 1959, and that continues to this day....
Dave Henderson
Sep 10
Brigands v Windsor Great Park, 8 September 2024
Cricket lovers gathered for a match that marked both the end of the season and the end of an era. After almost four decades of dedicated...
Brigands CC
Sep 2
Brigands v Worcester Police CC, 1 September 2024
Worcester Police CC batted first and scored 249-9, with Guy Ladenburg taking 5-50. When Neil Wood went to field in the slips, Ladenburg...
Dave Henderson
Aug 28
Horsted Keynes
A recently unearthed manuscript from the National Archive has sparked a re-evaluation of cricket's origins. The document, dating back to...
Brigands CC
Aug 27
Brigands v Butterflies, 25 August 2024
The word “Par” derives from the Latin “equal” and the term was used in golf from the 19th Century to indicate the number of shots a...
Dave Henderson
Aug 19
Brigands v Ashford Hill, 18 August 2024
In the art world, Joseph William Turner and John Singer Sargant were revered artists with very different techniques. In cricket, Dave...
Dave Henderson
Aug 12
Brigands v Australia High Commission, 11 August 2024
The Paris 2024 Olympics closed with Australia's highest-ever medal tally led by the Nation's women. And it was Alice Chambers who stole...
Dave Henderson
Aug 12
Brigands v Sussex Martlets, 4 August 2024
Cricket can be unpredictable. Brigands set a challenging target of 216 for the Sussex Martlets, which looked like it was going to be a...
neilwood217
Aug 2
Brigands v Whitchurch, 31 July 2024
Time stood still literally as old friends Whitchurch visited the Down on a warm and sunny Wednesday afternoon on what was the 50th...
Dave Henderson
Aug 2
Times Unseen at Broadhalfpenny Down
Award-winning Times photographer Marc Aspland came to photograph the Broadhalfpenny Brigands v MCC match during the heatwave of 2022....
Brigands CC
Aug 2
Brigands Life Vice-Presidents Assemble
Brigands are fortunate to have an interested set of former players and supporters who continue to give their time and love to the club....
Brigands CC
Aug 2
Mid-Season Update, 2024
It's been a mixed season thus far with wins, losses, and draws evenly distributed. Pleasingly, there have been a few last-over finishes...
neilwood217
Jul 29
Brigands v Stragglers, 28 July 2024
The sun was shining and the sky was blue as Brigands welcomed Stragglers of Asia to the Down in their 99th year as a travelling side....
Broadhalfpenny Down
Jul 24
Broadhalfpenny Down, the best cricket ground in Hampshire
Broadhalfpenny Down from the air, taken during The Authors match.
Dave Henderson
Jul 23
Brigands v The Authors, 21 July 2024
A memorable day for Neil Wood in a Brigands victory against The Authors.
Brigands CC
Jul 15
Brigands v Old Seagullians, 14 July 2024
There was no Bazball at Broadhalfpenny Down this Sunday. Old Seagullians ease to victory and home in time to watch the football.
Dave Henderson
Jul 1
Brigands v Rioteers, 30 June 2024
The Rioteers is a wandering club with a long history of cricket in the South of England; indeed this was their 60th Anniversary match...
Dave Henderson
Jul 1
Brigands v Old Tablelands of New Zealand, 25 June 2024
You know you are in for a challenge when a team turns up in smart blazers, with their own chef, and have a pre-match warm-up routine....
Brigands CC
Jun 20
Brigands v Oriental Club, 19 June 2024
On a beautifully sunny Wednesday afternoon on the downs, the Brigands hosted the Oriental Club who were keen to celebrate their 200th...
gerrynorthwood
Jun 17
Brigands V Oundle Ramblers, 16 June 2024
Brigands all-rounders, Wood and Beardall force the draw. On a blustery Sunday afternoon a youthful and athletic side of mostly Old...
Dave Henderson
Jun 10
Brigands v Invalids CC, 9 June 2024
There were poignant scenes this week as D-Day veterans recounted stories of heroism, and loss, during the Normandy landings 80 years ago....
2024 Brigands Fixtures
