Stoolball news tagged with ‘stories’

The Sussex County Stoolball Association have just learned of two quite amazing performances in a recent league match in Mid Division between Ditchling and Adastra who play in Keymer.  Usually, it is outstanding performances by batsmen which catch the eye, but this time it was two incredible bowling performances which have hit the headlines and one which has not been heard of before in stoolball circles.

Quite simply, an Adastra bowler achieved a hat trick during the Ditchling innings when she took three wickets with consecutive balls.  However, this amazing feat was bettered when Ditchling took the field because one of their bowlers took four wickets in four balls.  Can anyone beat that?

Barbara Parsons, well known in Sussex ladies’ stoolball, has made the local paper after a cricket ball hit for six at the Sussex county ground in Hove caught her right in the eye.

Barbara says she would have caught the ball if she hadn’t lost it in the floodlights. Ironically, she was watching cricket because her family had told her to try something safer that stoolball.

The full story is in the Mid Sussex Times.