2010 Dodgers Fixtures List

April

Sun 25, Buckhurst Hill, High Road/Roding Lane, Away, 2.00pm

May

Thu 6, MOJ, Chiswick, Away, 6.00pm
Tue 11, Superstars, Chiswick, Away, 2.00/6.00pm (time TBC)
Thu 13, Tilburg Regions, Chiswick, Home, 6.00pm
Thu 27, EHCC, Chiswick, Away, 6.00pm

June

Wed 2, Weasels, Chiswick, Away, 2.00pm [note new time]
Thu 10, ATOC, Regents Park, Away, 6.00pm
Wed 16, LSE, Berrylands, Away, 2.00pm
Thu 24, RSSB Stingers, Chiswick unavailable, Home, 6.00pm
Tue 29, Guy's XI, Chiswick, Home, 2/6.00pm

July

Thu 8, Superstars, Chiswick, Away, 2.00/6.00pm (time TBC)
Thu 22, Exiles, Chiswick, Away, 6.00pm
Fri 23, SPARTA Sports Day, Teddington, all day
Thu 29, Science Museum, Barnes Common, Away, 6.00pm

August

Wed 4, Superstars, Chiswick, Home, 2.00pm
Tue 10, Tilburg Regions, venue TBA, Away, 6.00pm
Tue 17, MOJ, Chiswick, Away, 6.00pm
Wed 25, Exiles, Chiswick, Home, 6.00pm.

September

Sun 12, Buckhurst Hill, High Road/Roding Lane, Away, 1.30pm

Dodgers website restructuring

Eagle-eyed Dodgers will have spotted that the Dodgers website has a slightly different address now - play.dodgerscricket.org. This is thanks to those chaps at Google/Blogger changing the way in which Blogger blogs can be published to the web.

Nothing else has changed! And if you plug in the old address you will be re-routed to the new address. Simples!

Player Profile - Rob Cooper

Rob Cooper joined Dodgers in 2009 via the TQ/Warwick Castle connection as part of the ongoing Dodgers Youth (i.e. under-40) Policy. He immediately took the eye with his stylish (and highly competent) batting and bowling and sure enough won Best Bowler at a canter. Good things are expected of Rob in 2010.

2009
 
Batting and fielding
 
 M  I    R NO    Avg  HS 50 100  C St
11  8  103  3  20.60  27  0   0  4  0
 
Bowling
 
 O  M    R   W     SR    Avg  Econ
42  4  201  12  21.00  16.75  4.79

Player Profile - John Cooper

John is rightly revered for his excellent organisational skills and the marvellous (and newly-restructured and hosted) Dodgers website. His wank batting, dodgy fielding and pisspoor accountancy prove he is human though (although in 2009 thus far there was a certain improvement)...

2009

Bowling
 
 O  M    R   W     SR    Avg  Econ
85  5  472  14  36.43  33.71  5.55
 
Batting and Fielding
 
 M  I    R NO    Avg  HS 50 100 Ct St
19  7   72  4  24.00  24  0   0  4  0
 
All-Time
 
Bowling
 
  O      M     R    W     SR    Avg  Econ  Best
163  630.5  3133  132  23.73  28.67  4.97  4-20
 
Batting
  
  M   I  NO    R   Avg 50 100  HS    C St
163  81  22  477  8.08  0   0  32*  21  0

Player Profile - David Pope

Saqlain Mushtaq has a dart; Muttiah Muralitharan has a Doosra; Shane Warne has a Zooter. But none of them has anything as potent a weapon as David Pope's speciality ball - the Doobler. It pitches on off stump drawing the batsman forward, then pitches again on middle-and-off, forcing the batsman into an ungainly swipe across the line, then hits middle.

A desperately reluctant batsman, he has struggled in the field except for one sublime moment in the 2001 season when he trapped the ball at mid off a la Tony Currie, then stooped and threw down the stumps in one sweep. The batsman hasn't stopped shaking since. David is feared and revered in places as far apart as Buckhurst Hill and Croydon.

We were all sad when David hung up his Dodgers boots in 2009 so those who took up that bet (a double with Russell Brand to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury) with Ladbrokes on him taking his first catch are gonna be SOL*.

David was honoured with the prestigious Life Membership at the AGM in 2009.

2009
 
Bowling
 
 O  M    R  W  SR Avg  Econ
10  0  119  0  --  --  11.90
 
Batting and fielding
 
M  I  R NO  Avg  HS 50 100  Ct St
3  1  1  1  --   1  0   0   0  0
 
All-Time
 
Bowling
 
 M      O     R   W    Avg     SR  Econ Best
74  248.2  1782  55  32.40  27.09  7.18  3-3
 
Batting and fielding
 
 M   I NO   R   Avg 50 100 HS   C St
74  27  9  24  1.33  0   0  5*  0  0

* - shit outta luck