Bashers. It's Shanghainese for Cricket

The Weigh-In

The long awaited photos from the Great Bashers Weigh-In. Apologies for the quality of the photos, they were taken on an iPhone.

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Vote for Best Sports Bar

Time to show some love for our sponsor, who is up for best sports bar in That’s Shanghai’s Eighth Annual Food & Drinks Awards.

Also up for awards are a couple of Bashers-run establishments: Mat “Santa” Ryan and Alan “Here’s Da Ting” Duffy’s Cuvée for best wine bar and Sandeep “Mr. Tickle” Abichandani’s Kebab’s on the Grille for best Indian.

Click here to vote.

Did baseball begin in 18th-century England?

There is an excellent article and video on CNN on the origins of baseball.

“An extract from an 18th-century diary containing the oldest known reference to baseball is among the items on display in a new exhibition in London exploring the English origins and cricketing connections of America’s national sport.

“While baseball was once claimed to have been invented in the U.S. in the mid-19th century, recent findings suggest a sport of the same name may have evolved decades earlier alongside cricket, crossing the Atlantic with English settlers to the American colonies.”

Training on for Thursday

Training is on weather permitting. (Address here)

Pleasure has a game on Sunday, sign up here if you are keen.

Leisure also has a game on Sunday, sign up here is you are keen.

Devils Say Thank You for Not Breaking Anything at Bukhara

A message from Basher XCII:

A huge thank you to Denzyl, Rakesh, Andy and all the Closet Devils…oops!! Bashers who showed up for the event..were there more than 8 in all? Well done guys, appreciate your coming and more importantly behaving! (more…)

Bashers in the Global Times

Here is today’s Global Times Shanghai Metro Section coverage of the Bashers; of special note, Circus’ respect for the family values of the newspaper and a long quote from our newest American cricketer, James McCloud [sic].

Who’s Up for Games over May Holiday?

A message from the SCC regarding playing games over the May and June holidays. Please reply below if you are available during the holiday so we can assess numbers and see if we’ll be able to get some cricket in.

To: All Teams,
From: Mike Tsesmelis

All,

Owing to the SRFC pitch situation, we now have a lot of pressure on the schedule. We may be able to make it up later on, but it will mean that teams don’t play many games – 15 teams with a maximum of 4 matches per weekend, not allowing for public holidays or weekends when either Dulwich or SRFC is unavailable due to events.

One way to ease this would be to play over the May holiday weekend, and the public holiday weekend of June 16th.  We could rack up loads of games then as Saturdays and Sundays may be available. I know some people will be away but it will be the same for both sides.  It is also unlikely that one or two key players being away for one game is going to affect the season greatly… (more…)

SCC AGM and Annual Awards Dinner

The Annual SCC AGM and Awards Dinner will be held this Saturday night, 3 April, at the new Big Bamboo in Jinqiao.

The AGM will be held from 18:30 to 20:00 with the awards portion of the program to follow on at 20:00.

As the 2009 Premiers, the Bashers should be here in force. Blazers and ties a must.

The schedule of events:
18:30-20:00: AGM Meeting
20:00-23:00: Awards Dinner
23:00-late: Socialising and Cash Bar

Package arrangements: RMB180 per person buys one buffet dinner (vegetarian options available) and 3 drinks

Sante Fe Sixes – Div 2 squad

Gents,

Good to see some of you at training last night. Further to Filthy’s blog posts, I would just like to reconfirm directly with you guys:

Squad:

1. Andy “Tank” Scott
2. Neal “Birdshit” Watkins
3. Travis “Swoop” Weir
4. Shaun “Golden Shears” Lear
5. Desmond “Long Dong” De Silva
6. Gary “Pot Hole” Dubberley
7. Michael “Sunscreen” Thomas
8. Tom “Latex” Ash
9. Dean “Loose” Lapthorne
10. Channa “Made In” Phillip

It is a 07:45 meet at the Camel with a 07:50 departure time.
If you have any questions, I can be reached at 1368 164 2562.
Let me know if you are not going to be on the bus and will be going direct to the ground. If going direct to the ground, please be there by 09:00. Thanks.

See you all at 07:45 on Sunday, unless I hear otherwise.

Cheers,
Andy “Tank” Scott
LVIII