Bashers. It's Shanghainese for Cricket

who needs any cricket gear?

Lads in HK at the moment and planning a trip to the cricket shop if I get time. Does anyone need anything (within reason)? Whites, gloves etc? Let me know by Thursday morning

Cheers Dipso

Business get less than ideal introduction to K2

Big Bamboo, 10am Sunday. After a big night such as Saturday one feels thankful for being in the Business team and not having a 7:30 am start. Hung-over red eyes soon made way for cross eyes on the bus, as KC and Oscar debated the merits of foreign currency investments all the way to Pu Dong.

We were greeted at the ground by a rather optimistic looking pleasure side, who were really talking up the prospects of a Bashers Day repeat. Shortly after Loosey took his pants off and everything went downhill for them from there.

Stats won the toss for a change and found himself wondering in the wilderness of the unknown, with the responsibility of having to make a decision. He regained himself to confidently put them into bat and entrusted the heavily bowler stacked Business team to, um…do the business. (more…)

Follow the Nanjing Tour Live

For all of those who couldn’t make the Nanjing Tour, fear not! Now you too can revel in the ruralness of China’s boonies. Want to know how the wickets are falling? Interested in what Jimmy’s bar has to offer?

Follow the Bashers tour of Nanjing live on the Bashers twitter page and through the top right column of the blog. Get Rural! get amongst it!

How much does a Basher cost?

Now we know. The services of a Basher can be bought, like an old dry piece of meat.

Earlier this fine Thursday Drinks special evening an auction was held by Santa to decide the teams for the later part of this weekend’s rural competitions.

In order of lots the price paid in Bashers Bucks for your favourite Bashers was as follows

• Desmond “Long Dong” DeSilva 2850 – Woodstock’s Purple Haze
• Allesandro “The Jaguar” Pezzani 750- Woodstock’s Purple Haze
• Neal “Birdshit” Watkins 3000 – Loosie’s Inside Leg
• Sam “Circus” White (Suspected injury) 650 – Loosie’s Inside Leg
• Sean “Golden Shears” Ringin  1500 – Woodstock’s Purple Haze
• Sam “Swahili” Finnerty 2000 – Loosie’s Inside Leg
• Andy “Tank” Scott 1800 – Woodstock’s Purple Haze
• Mal “Omega” Collins 3100 – Loosie’s Inside Leg
• Hamish “Katie” Stevens 151 – Woodstock’s Purple Haze
• John “Inquisition” L’Epagniol FREE – Loosie’s Inside Leg

The Bashers Side competing for the Connery Shield, in absence of any Business acumen will be a BAshers Presidents XI captained by the President himself

Let’s get amongst it!

Sorry for anyone who cannot make it….

Pre-Tour Drinks: Big Bamboo Thu Night!

Dear All

Drinks shall be hosted by the fine folk @ The Big Bamboo this Thu. As there is some debate to whether there is/isn’t training this week, I’ll leave the kickoff time absent at this stage. I’m resting ahead of the tour thus will be in the pub from round 7.

Special drinks specials for All Bashers and Gieshas alike! Spread the word like swine flu!

And a special note to all tourists: your attendance is absolutely necessary as we shall be going over team selections and tactics of how to survive a rural weekend in Nanjing.

Fun for all the family. And as Danny Morrison says:

Get Amongst It!

LXXXVII

Pleasure Beats Business – Loses to Dulwich

The Anti-Basher’s poorly disguised campaign to ruthlessly discriminate against the Bashers Pleasure continued unabated at the weekend when we were handed yet another sunrise start, this time within hours of the final bell at the Sheraton Showdown. However, with only Parrot failing to climb aboard Pornstar’s bus at the appointed hour the squad set off full of confidence to take on the Dulwich Knights in a sauna of atmosphere at the Knights home ground.

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Bashers Pleasure v Bulldogs

Update! Rescheduled to Saturday 27th @ 1:30pm

Division 2 @ Dulwich

At last an afternoon game!

NIHAO NANJING – CONFIRMATION

DEAR ALL

Locking in final names today for the tour of the century:  Nihao Nanjing! This is going to be huge. Confirmed attendees thus far are:

1. Mustard x 3
2. Circus
3. Birdshit
4. Loosey
5. Woodstock
6. Dessy Long Dong
7. Hammer/Katie
8. The Jaguar
9. Tank
10. Omega
11. Turtle

If I have missed anyone – reply to the thread please. Would be great if we could pull a few more players [that's you biz players] as Hamish and his rural Nanjing mates have gone to a lot of effort to get this off the ground.

Please reply to this thread or email myself on social@basherscc.org for confirmation.

Thanks again – and Tourists – stay tuned for finalized costs and timing of buses ASAP.

Cheers

LXXXVII

Business Team

Further to Birdshits post…
The rendezvous time is 10:00 at the Bamboo.
Aiming to get down to the  pitch in time to cheer the Pleasure XI onto victory.

The Business XI:
Ollie ‘Stats’ Austin
Phil ‘Filthy’ Mildenhall
Sheyan “Dipso” Patel
Rakesh “Rock” Kumar
Hadleigh “Sir Dick” Churchill
Sameer “Paps” Jolly
Kevin “Cassius” Wright (keeper)
Denzyl “Walrus” Allwright
Andrew “Jim’s Mowing” Gardiner
Dave “Oscar” Rosenthal
Desmond “Long Dong” DeSilva

Top of the table clash guys…
Make sure we are early to bed on Saturday night…