by Dillan Unadkat | Sep 13, 2026
There are many ways to prepare for a cricket match. You can arrive early. You can inspect the pitch. You can consult an expert. You can even order McDonald’s. Salix somehow managed to do all four, and still lost by 81 runs. It was the return fixture against the...
by Dillan Unadkat | Sep 6, 2026
This week, away at The Recreation Ground to face Jordans Taverners, the Salix eleven (minus one) turned up and played what can only be described, with some suspicion, as actual cricket. Salix won by 8 wickets. Nobody quite believed it either. Jordans Taverners won the...
by Dillan Unadkat | Aug 2, 2026
It is often said that cricket is a game of glorious uncertainty. Unfortunately for Salix CC, the uncertainty appears to have been replaced by a rather more predictable pattern: losing heavily. Having been comprehensively dismantled by Quokkas CC the previous week,...
by Dillan Unadkat | Jul 26, 2026
It was the weekend cricket’s corner of social media lost its mind over a finger. Up in North Yorkshire, a Saltburn CC slip fielder had allegedly clicked his fingers to manufacture the one sound this game takes entirely on trust, sold the umpire an edge that never...
by Dillan Unadkat | Jul 19, 2026
Another sunny Sunday saw 10/11ths of a Salix Team turn up at Winchmore Hill’s beautiful ground, which definitely isn’t in London, to play longstanding and personable opponents Hetairoi, our first match in a few weeks after a couple of cancellations. For...
