One Egham family member who was famed for her teas was Mary Bell wife of Geoff ‘Dinger’ Bell who played for Egham for over 50 years. While Geoff, who was a mean fast bowler in his prime, and a stubborn
batsman towards the end of his career, battled out on the field, Mary produced some of the finest cream teas in Surrey. It was not unknown if, due to an early finish, an Egham side playing elsewhere in the county would rush back to make sure they were back in time for Mary’s tea.

Excellent teas have long been a trade mark of the club and over the years we have been very lucky with the wives and girlfriends who have taken on this vital role.
Indeed, we have had visiting teams who felt compelled to include a glowing reference to the Egham tea in their local press reports.
As a club we owe a massive vote of thanks to all those ladies, too numerous to mention individually, for their fantastic efforts over the years.

Up to 1973 all matches were friendlies, but league cricket was becoming the preferred route for clubs and in that year the club joined the Fullers County League and in 1992 was promoted to the Surrey Championship League.

With the advent of league cricket the ability to retain records appears to have improved.
Kevin Bradley became the first and, to date, only Egham player to take all 10 wickets in a game against Turnham Green, one of his victims being a chap called Allan Rutter who obviously saw the error of his ways and joined Egham and was to play a big part in running the club through the 80s and 90s, including a spell as Chairman of the club.

In 1985 and again in 1987, three batsmen achieved over 1000 runs in a season. Gary Denne, Gary Clark, and Tom Scully were the three who either set or chased down some very big scores.
One of these occasions was the blistering hot President’s Day game in 1987
where Gary Clark was on the pitch for the whole game as Egham fielded first, when it was Egham’s turn to bat he opened the batting and saw the side home with an unbeaten 188. His method of re-hydration was a bottle of Red wine with lunch and a few beers after the game.
The result: ~ a week off work with sunstroke and dehydration.

Talking of big scores, in a Sunday League game in 1996, Egham set Chertsey a total of 290 in 45 overs without the loss of a wicket. Graeme Few achieved the top score ever by an Egham player of 217n.o. while his partner Chris Watmore just made it to 50, only a ‘FEW’ balls
before Graeme reached his 200.

1996 Egham's Year of Achievement