Bus arrived to find Leisure as comfortable victors but Pleasure on the receiving end of a hiding. Not chance at another Basher’s Day today but an opportunity to get one foot in the semi’s and keep the pressure on the Devils at the top of the table.

Filthy lost a key toss to the Anti-Basher, who inserted the Business weary off the heavy skies ahead and knowing the rain rules are skewed heavily in favour of the chasing team.

Third new opening combo in four games walked out and Filthy quickly walked back in. Cassius and A’Trois in his Business debut putting on 52 for the 2nd wicket. However Cassius and Dazzler quickly followed the wicket of Artois and the Business were 92-4 after 18 overs. Stats and Tubby put on 57 for the 5th wicket, Tubby and ‘TBC’ 37 for the 6th and the Chitty and Tubby 55 for the 7th before Tubby was tragically caught at mid-wicket for 99 off 77 balls in the second to last over of the innings. Business finished up on their highest score of the season so far, a respectable 248-7.

The Anti-Basher quickly switched into cunt-mode and the umpire was persuaded to delay the game. Out come the Doggies umbrellas and the usual whinging and yapping associated with aforementioned mutts. Finally they decided they’d reduced the target enough and wanted to play. 175 needed off 27. Bullshit compared to 249 off 40 but defendable.

Business got off to a good start with Paps picking up two early wickets in a great 6 over burst, conceding only 20 runs. V. Rathore was quickly yanked off “hurt” after his 5 off 13 and the Anti-Basher slithered to the wicket. Not for long, as Chitty picked up his first Business wicket. I would tell you the FOW but the Dogs couldn’t score ina fucking brothel so our scorebook is a disgrace. B. Goodwin and J.Keel then chased down the remaining runs at close to 8 an over winning in the last over with a ball remaining.

• Sunday 13 May 2012 SRFC Near
  Bashers Business 248/7 ()
  DPR Hot Dogs 176/4 (4)

Still in the top two but in danger of losing touch with Devils in first. Two games aganist them in the following two matches look key.

2012 Division One

Playing Squad for Monday’s Pirates Trial:

1. Amogh Kasyap
2. Santosh Yadav
3. Biplav Pokhrel
4. Manish Lohani
5. Kamal Dhuper
6. Jack Osbourne
7. Adarsh Lobo
8. Manan Jhaveri
9. Navin Alwani
10. Mohamed Yahiya
11. Philip Mildenhall
12. Sameer Jolly
13. Ben Collins
14. Manoj Zalpuri
15. Mark Henwood
16. Jon Radford
17. Tim O’Connell
18. James Gooding
19. Andy Baggott
20. Graeme McKim
21. JJ Lim

Game starts at 10.15am at SRFC Near.

Anyone else wishing to come along can be involved in one or possibly two games. Positions still open!!

Cheers,

Philip Mildenhall
SCC CC

Filthy won the toss and inserted the opposition  were quickly in trouble. Dazzler was nipping it both ways and Paps was hooping the new ball round corners under the cloudy skies. Tiny clung onto an early Sajid waft at 3rd man giving Dazzler his first wicket at 7/1. Paps quickly followed that up with a viciously swinging delivery that caught the inside edge of Saleem’s bat and thundered into the stumps making it 20/2. 10 runs later Waqar took a suicidal single to Filthy, whose underarm lob from a few feet away found Waqar well short of his ground (30/3 after 6 overs). A maiden from Dazzler followed and in his next over he claimed his second wicket with a sharp caught and bowled to dismiss Mujahid with the score at 39/4 after 9 overs. This brought Meer and Shafqat to the wicket with their team in trouble. Shafqat had caused us and many others trouble in the preceeding seasons and his wicket is key to dismissing K2 cheaply. Tiny was brought into the attack following Paps’ sharp 5 over salvo and promptly had a Tiny meltdown as is his habit. 6 wides and 2 no balls later Tiny had finished with 16 off his over and it was drinks. K2 humming along at almost 7/over but 4 down.
That quickly became 5 as Tiny rewarded his captains faith in him by claiming Shafqat LBW in the first over after drinks. 93/5 after 14 overs. In came Najeeb to join his captain and the two put on another 15 runs before Tiny yorker shattered Meer’s stumps after another unseemly hoick. 108/6. Mehmood, in his first game back with K2 after a season with the Dogs, came in at number 8 and disappeared pretty quickly. Cassius claiming a sharp catch behind of the red hot Tiny. At 119/7 the Business really felt the business. That was all to change with Zahid coming in at 9. Along with Najeeb, Zahid put on 74 runs in quick time as Filthy and Growler both grassed catchable opportunities. Sinbad was introduced and deposited several times into the bushes sourrounding the ground including enormous 6s of consecutive deliveries. His 2 overs costing 39 runs. Stats finally held a catch for the Business to dismiss Najeeb of Tubby for 71 off 47 balls. 193/8. From here Zahid (40*) really put the foot down and dominated the remaining partnerships off 38 with Ziafit (7) and 15 with Shoaib (4). Filthy returned to mop up the tail and K2 were dismissed in the 35th over for 246.

Having tied with the Devils in the previous game chasing 242 the Business were confident they could do it (except Stats who later admitted to thinking we’d already lost by the halfway stage). Sir Dick and Oscar opened after their relative success in the first game. They more than matcched in on this occasion with Sir Dick thrashing his way to 41 off only 32 balls, including 6 4s as his first six scoring shots. He fell to a well judged catch at 73/1 off 10 overs. With the platform set Oscar and Growler set about accumulating singles, Oscar in particular accruing a large number of wides bowled to him (a direct result of his batsmenship if one was to ask him). At 91 Oscar fell LBW for the 2nd game running for 18 (off 38 balls). Stats joined Oscar and they put togther 25 off 7 overs before Growler was harshly judged caught behind (off his thigh pad) for 13 off 32 balls. 116/3 off 20 overs meant the Business were slightly behind the run rate at the halfway stage but with the big guns still to bat. Dazzler joined Stats and the two put on a quick 34 in only 4 overs before the introduction of Shafqat to the bowling crease saw Stats slash a wide delivery to Saleem at point. 150/4 off 24 overs. 97 needed of 16. Tubby joined Dazzler fresh of his bludgeoning 70 in the first game and was quickly into his stride the a boundary through cover point of his first delivery. Runs seemed very easy to come by as Tubby and Dazzler scored at almost 10 an over during a dazzling 78 run partnership. It was ended only when Shafqat held another sharp chance of a lofted Tubby drive to leave the Business 228/5 off 32 overs. Only required off 8. It took Dazzler and Cassius only 3 overs to polish of the runs and give the Business and the Bashers club an unbeaten start to the season. 249/5 off only 34 overs.

• Sunday 8 April 2012 Dulwich College
  K2 CCC 246/10 (0)
  Bashers Business 249/5 (4)

Dazzler: 8-1-42-2, 59* off 44 (8 4s/2 6s) 1 catch = MOM
Tubby: 5-0-25-1, 37 off 23 (5 4s/1 6s)
Tiny: 8-0-56-3, 1 catch
Sir Dick: 41 off 32 (6 4s/1 6s)
Fithy: 4.2-0-31-2, 1 run out
Stats: 23 off 31, 1 catch

2012 Division One

For those that want some practice before Wednesday practice the courts are booked for an hour, 8pm – 9pm tonight.
Get along

Filth

Dulwich Knights vs Leisure
When: Sun, September 25, 9:00am – 12:15pm
Where: Dulwich

Pleasure vs Devils Digital
When: Sun, September 25, 9:00am – 1:30pm
Where: SRFC Far

Business vs Daredevils CC
When: Sun, September 25, 12:15pm – 5:45pm
Where: Dulwich

Last training of the regular season. 123 Yanping Road, San He Hua Yuan, Thursday 6pm to 8pm.
All three teams playing this Sunday so should be a good turnout (or at the very least more than the 5 than come last week!)

CC Filth

Training this Thursday from 6pm until 8pm at San He Hua Yuan, 123 Yanping Road. Please put your name down so I know to contact you when it rains and training is cancelled.

CC FILTHY!!

Training is booked for Thursday 6pm – 8pm at 123 Yanping Road, San He Hua Yuan Tennis Courts.
Both Business and Pleasure are still alive with two games to go. Let’s get along to training and make sure this weekend is a winning one!!

Attendance below please!

CC Filth