Fixtures List 2026

 

MW	WC	Date	Ground	Opposition	Notes	Result
1	11th May	Tuesday 12th May	CASS Centre	CUP	Friendly	Won
2	18th May	Tuesday 19th May	Latham Road	Leys School	Friendly	Cancelled
3	25th May	Tuesday 26th May	CASS Centre	Sharks	Friendly	Won
4	1st June	Tuesday 2nd June	Stapleford	Stapleford	League	Cancelled
5	8th June	Thursday 11th June	Queens	AVEVA	Friendly	Cancelled
6	15th June	Wednesday 17th June	Waterbeach	Waterbeach	League	Lost
7	22nd June	Wednesday 24th June	Queens	Telugu TAC	League	Won
8	29th June	Wednesday 1st July	Queens	IPH	Friendly	Lost
9	6th July	Wednesday 8th July	Queens	Dobblers	League	Won
10	13th July	Wednesday 15th July	Queens	Madingley Mulch	League	Cancelled
11	20th July	Tuesday 21st July	Queens	Fen Ditton	League	Won
12	27th July	Wednesday 29th July	Queens	Cambourne 2’s	League	Won
13	3rd August	Monday 3rd August	Queens	IPH	Friendly	Won
13	3rd August	Wednesday 5th August	Queens	Tamil Sangnam	League	Lost
14	10th August	Monday 10th August	Stapleford	Stapleford	League	Lost
14	10th August	Thursday 13th August	Histon	Histon	“Friendly”

2026 Season Planning Update

Hello Everyone who reads this (Hi, Mum!). I wanted to give a general update on planning for the 2026 Jags season.

Our logo says we were established in 2011, but the truth is we played our first ever game, a one off, in 2010. It was mid August, Paul Broadbridge opened the batting with Justin Edwards at Churchill in a game we lost against Mills and Reeve. Justin got 25*, I got an amazing golden duck and was proper immature and angry about it despite it being entirely my fault, and we went to the Punter afterwards for drinks. We've played every summer since, including the Covid impacted period, and also including when I went off on a little summer jaunt in 2016 to "find myself". I did indeed find myself, and discovered I am, as most of you know, a bit of a twit.

That makes this the coming season the 17th successive season of Jags cricket. Many, many names and times have come and gone in that period (I'll do a bit of a pre-season re-cap in the coming weeks, it's currently in draft form/a total mess of prose) and we've played league, friendly, one weekend fixture, had nights away (Nottingham, you gorgeous city you) and frequented most of the pubs and grounds in Cambridge (other than Jesus College, which is still on my to do list). In truth I continue organising as every year I ask if I should keep it going, and ever year people say yes, so it is what is is.

This year I won't make the league kick off meeting as I am skiing, so Captain Fantastic will be at the Dobblers passing paper around in my stead. I'm not sure skiing in my advancing years is the best idea, but I will do it nonetheless and see how it goes. It's cold, so I thought I'd do something that suits the cold.

How I imagine I look on the slopes.

The Cambridge Business House League currently has a revised format where we will be in Division 2 with 7 other teams, which allows us to pick up a few friendly games of our choice. I currently have 12 fixtures lined up, 5 league and 7 friendlies. 5 of our chums in the league division are good at communicating with other humans and 2 aren't, but hopefully we should get those 2 plus one more other fixture in to get us to around 15 or so for the season ahead. We should be at Queens for at least 9 fixtures, all being well, and will also play at the CASS Centre ("Grenade!"), Waterbeach ("Mind the manhole cover"), and Histon. But mostly the loving and tender environs of Queens.

We're once more signed up to the Cambridgeshire Cricket Association, and the Cambridgeshire Cricket Board and Fraser Daws are helping us be insured for general trips and slips. I'm also signed up for criminal records checks, and safe hands courses and have updated our safeguarding police - TL:DR - "don't do bad stuff".

There is sadly, a lot of not so positive stuff in the world at the moment, but this is positive, so let's lean into the joys and not the miseries. 

May the drops be ever in your favour.