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My dear old things, these are not merely handsome round numbers. Set against 727 names in Binfield's recorded all-time averages, Paul Edgington stands first for runs and appearances, Michael Carson owns the club century record, Peter Henly has entered the wicket-taking top ten; nine more players have added chapters of real substance to the story.
Milestones reached
2026 Honours Board
Binfield Cricket Club
Milestone
21,500
career runs
Milestone
300th
maiden over
Milestone
10,500
career runs
Milestone
300th
appearance
Honours Board
Andy Mills
Career milestone reached in 2026
Milestone
3,500
career runs
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Peter Henly
Career milestone reached in 2026
Milestone
250th
appearance
Milestone
2,500
career runs
Milestone
150th
appearance
Milestone
100th
appearance
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Rhys Hunt
Career milestone reached in 2026
Milestone
500
career runs
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Mehul Garg
Career milestone reached in 2026
Milestone
500
career runs
Milestone
50th
appearance
Milestone
500
career runs
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Will Guest
Career milestone reached in 2026
Milestone
50th
maiden over
The standard-bearer
Paul Edgington
One must begin with Paul Edgington, because the figures leave one very little choice. His 21,500-run landmark has carried him to 21,503: first among 664 recorded Binfield run-scorers and a quite extraordinary 6,984 clear of Colin Canty in second. Paul's 1,144 appearances are also a club record, 377 beyond Ian Goddard, while his 111 fifties lead the list too. Add 11 hundreds, 486 wickets (fifth in club history) and now exactly 300 maidens, ninth on that roll, and this ceases to look like a single milestone at all. It is an atlas of a cricketing life, the sort of thing that ought to make even the most self-important pigeon on the square pause mid-strut.
The century king
Michael Carson
Then comes Michael Carson, who has sailed beyond 10,500 runs to 10,663 and into third place on Binfield's all-time list, behind only Edgington and Canty. Yet the most glittering column may be the hundreds: Michael's 25 are the club record, nine more than any other Binfield player has made. He has another 65 fifties, a highest score of 197 not out and a career average of 48.25 from 268 innings. His 300th appearance has become 301, eighteenth in club history; because one discipline would apparently be altogether too simple, there are 252 wickets as well, including five five-wicket hauls. My goodness, what a player and what a ledger.
The established order
Peter Henly & Andy Mills
Peter Henly's double deserves its own flourish of the scorebook. His 358 wickets place him tenth among 474 recorded Binfield wicket-takers, with a best of 6 for 17, two five-wicket hauls and a career average of 18.80. His 255 appearances place him twenty-fifth on the club list, and 176 maidens sit eighteenth. Beside him in this splendid middle order of achievement is Andy Mills: 3,501 runs, twenty-eighth all time, six hundreds, a highest score of 136 not out and an average of 35.72. Andy has gathered 607 of those runs in 2026 alone; the milestone has not crept up so much as arrived at the gate with a brass band.
The next generation
Jaden Slaughter
And now to Jaden Slaughter, the young cricketer whose upward flight is becoming rather difficult to ignore. His 2,504 runs already place him fortieth among those 664 Binfield run-scorers, accompanied by two hundreds, 12 fifties and a highest score of 106 not out. More than a quarter of that career tally, 711 runs, has come in 2026, and there are 107 wickets in the other column for good measure. Two thousand five hundred is a lovely landmark; the speed of the journey towards it is the still better story.
Side by side
Kali-Ann & Zoë Docherty
The all-time list has contrived a particularly pleasing piece of scorebook symmetry for Kali-Ann and Zoë Docherty. Kali-Ann's 150 appearances put her fifty-seventh in the club's recorded history, immediately followed by Zoë in fifty-eighth on 148. Kali-Ann's wider record contains 142 wickets, 92 maidens and a best of 5 for 14; Zoë's 150-wicket landmark has already become 151, placing her thirtieth on Binfield's all-time wicket list, with a best of 5 for 15. Two neighbouring places in one table and two serious bowling records in another; a statistician could hardly arrange the tea things more neatly.
The all-round contribution
Abinandan Venkatraman & Will Guest
Abinandan Venkatraman's 100th appearance has become 102, joint eighty-sixth on the club list, and it comes with 683 runs, 78 wickets and 29 catches: the properly rounded contribution of a cricketer who has been busy in every column. Will Guest's 50th maiden is similarly only the headline. He has now delivered 51 of them and taken 138 wickets, thirty-sixth on Binfield's all-time list, across 122 appearances. These are not decorative numbers; they are overs bowled, chances held and appearances faithfully accumulated.
The breakthrough trio
Mehul Garg, Rhys Hunt & Carter Daines
Mehul Garg has raised two landmarks together, 500 runs and 50 appearances, and has already moved on to 603 from 52 matches, with two fifties and a highest score of 72. His bowling offers a mischievous postscript: 34 wickets and a best of 5 for 9. Rhys Hunt's first 500 runs have become 536, all recorded in 2026, with a century, three fifties and a highest score of 104 not out. Carter Daines has reached 552, with a highest score of 113, two fifties, 21 catches and seven stumpings. Three first 500s, each with its own flourish: the scorebook has been busy, my dear old things, and rather boldly so.
So the honours board groans again: 12 players, 16 milestones and rather more history than a simple row of round figures can contain. Raise a cup to every one of them, permit a passing bus a respectful toot, and cut the cake with a generous hand. Records of this sort are built one innings, one spell and one appearance at a time, and Binfield's book is immeasurably richer for them.