Bashers. It's Shanghainese for Cricket

Bashers summit roof of Africa

The Pusher and Cranky didn’t let snow, sleet, hail and rain stop them in their quest to conquere the worlds highest free standing mountain.

On the 14th December at 7:25 am at an altitude of 5895m/19,453feet, two Bashers braved 10 minutes (at -22 degrees C) to take this epic photo, making the other 6 days well worth the struggle to get to the top.

Finally back in Shanghai and a little battered, both men are extremely proud to been a part of such a historic adventure.

Asia Games

Hot off the press from the Pusher who is “Enjoying beer in the sun watching Mei Hua rip through Malaysia’s batting line up here at Asian games.”

Apparently China won!

Can’t believe we didn’t organise a sweepstakes for this event.

Currently our friends from the Japanese Women’s team are in battle with Nepal.

Autumn Future Prospects Round-Up

The 2030′s look to be a stellar decade for the Bashers with a bumper crop of new recruits springing forth in recent weeks.

First we had Mrs Unit making early delivery of Tommaso Lapthorne at 9:30pm on Wednesday 29 September. ”T-Man” clocked the scales at 3.5kg after a “smooth and clean delivery”

This momentous event was followed by a spring lamb in Sydney last week. Basher Yi Hao sired his second son Henry Michael Turner with the help of Princes Fiona on Thursday 21 October at 6pm just in time for happy hour at Marrickville Bowling club. Also 3.5kg.

the future is bright!

2010 Archive

Dear the Basher Family,

There’s plenty of action remaining before the winter proper hits, just look at the upcoming events in the sidebar.

I just want to take this five minutes i have spare right now to ask you to do the same and have a look on your cameras, hard drives and phones for any Basher materials, specifically any photos from the action on and off the pitch this year. If you have anything worthy of it’s own post then go ahead and get it on here otherwise contact me by email blog@basherscc.org

thanks, we don’t want these moments to be lost to history.

More to come soon from the committee on the end of season awards Bash (right committee?). If you’re a newby then all you need to know is make no other plans for the 26th of this month (and possibly a day or two after)

One way you can all potentially help them is to think about any restaurants with a room we could use for this. Last year we had 60-70pax, this year could be more. Keep it in mind and let Sir Dick know of any leads.

cheers.

Sports day at Shanghai Cricket Hope School

The Shanghai Cricket Hope School in Sichuan continues to grow from strength to strength and after the efforts this week of some cricketers from Shanghai and Japan it should soon have the best cricket team in Sichuan.

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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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Pushing in SA

If you go to a football game in a strange land, get drunk and fraternize with the locals always advisable to use a pseudonym.

Bashers v Hot Dogs Div 3 Happy Snaps [Thanks 'Queen Mary']

Bashers in KunLunQi, Inner Mongolia

Bashers Cricket in Inner Mongolia

“Hi, I’m Richard, do you want to see my underpants?”

What better way for a Basher to greet the Million Tree Project representative Heather Wigmore on arrival at Kun Lun Qi, Inner Mongolia, a town of 50,000 in one of China’s poorest areas  The Bashers trio of Parrot, Pusher and Woodstock had just traversed 200km of arid zone, invigorated by fresh air, sunshine, blue skies, and a third place at the Frank’s Place pub quiz the previous night. Parrot was understandably euphoric after making up severe deficiencies in his  underwear ensemble during a snack stop on the way from TongLiao airport.  The Bashers faced a busy few days in the desert, and it was not the time for wardrobe malfunctions.

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