Match Report: Downend vs Horfield (29 March): KO’d in the Cup

W G Grace. The man who pretty much single-handedly created modern cricket. Certainly the nexus of rising living standards and leisure time, the Victorian mania for codification, and their desire for heroes who embodied the zeitgeist meant he was the right man at the right time. But he was worthy of his status, he was …

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Match Report: Horfield B vs Thornbury (23 February): Winning the hard way

We didn't make it easy for ourselves but another step towards promotion. The evening didn’t start well on boards 4 and 5. On board 5 Nigel made his life difficult by trying to make something out of an even position and castled long-side against Hayden, but it looked like black had the better prospects of …