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title: "A Very Long Hot Summer (Of Mallets) | Dubai Croquet Club"
url: https://www.dubaicroquet.com/blog/2026-the-long-hot-summer-of-mallets/
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> The 2025 Dubai Croquet season is in the bag. Mallets are packed up, the Captain has the cup, and everyone else has an excuse. Dubai Croquet Club news.

20 April 2026 · Piers S

# A Very Long Hot Summer (Of Mallets)

![A player shooting hoops](/_astro/tina-shooting-hoops.DpCB8GTe_Z1LNklU.webp)

## The dust (and the PIMMS) has settled

The 2025 Dubai Croquet season has drawn to a close, and the committee would like to thank everyone who took part, brought sandwiches, or otherwise did not interfere with the Captain’s victory lap.

## Highlights of the season

-   The Captain reclaimed the cup and wishes it to be known that it was “never really gone”.
-   Hywell finished second, which he described as “a perfectly sensible result”.
-   Ben achieved a personal best: losing in only four turns. We are proud of him, in our way.
-   Tina’s picnic spread was widely agreed to be the finest seen on the lawn, and also the only thing anyone remembers from round two.

## Looking ahead

Summer is coming, which in Dubai means we retire to the air conditioning like Hobbits to the shire to discuss croquet in hushed, reverent tones. But the mallets will return. The big tree will wait.

Until the autumn: keep your whites clean, your hoops straight and your excuses fresh.

_Yours in glory,_ _The Captain_

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