Bashers. It's Shanghainese for Cricket

Roots and Shoots Gala Dinner

Its time to don your blazers and represent the Bashers at a great events hosted by our amazing charity partners Roots and Shoots.

For those of you who are new to the club please take 5 minutes out and visit their site here to see the great things they are doing here in Shanghai and all over China.

Gala Dinner

On October 21st, Friday from 7pm till late, the greater Shanghai Marriott group is hosting a charity gala dinner benefiting Shanghai Roots & Shoots Million Tree Project at the newly-opened Marriott City Centre Hotel.

The Bashers have a table booked and there are 6 spots still open on that. It would be great to get enough people signed up to need a second table so get involved. This is one of the best Gala evenings in Shanghai. So don’t miss out!

Please put you name below with the word Gala next to it if you want to take a ticket and I will get in contact to confirm.

Please lets really make an effort for these 2 events, Tori and the team at Roots and Shoots do so much good work the Bashers need to show there support.

Final Match Day Triple Header

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

Season finale weekend – Pub crawl!

With all 3 teams heading into the final weekend of the Bashers season next week we need to go out with a bit of a bang and that doesn’t mean a trip to Manhattans (well maybe).

BASHERS PUB CRAWL

The long awaited Bashers pub crawl will stumble into action on the evening of Friday 23rd.

Meeting at The Camel between 7-8pm we will take in some of the finer establishments around the area. The route is a mystery, but trust me it will be varied and include a couple of inter team challenges along the way. Get to the Camel, get some food in, throw up later and get wasted!

Would really be great to see all 3 teams out getting involved with this one, so commit below.

Pleasure Lumberjack: Pleasure v Leopards, Sept 11

On the anniversary of September 11, the Pleasure, pretty much on time at the ridiculous time of 6:37am Sunday morning, met at The Camel ready to tackle the Leopards and get some payback from our Muslim friends.

As it was a must win game for the Pleasure, the bus trip to the ground was spent;

• talking tactics – “we’re a better team when we chase”
• bowling approach – “keep the wides to a minimum, and take our catches”
• batting strategy – “if we bat out the overs, we should be right”
• rumour mill – “the circus is back in town”

None of these things would eventually happen, and we pray the last one doesn’t either. Plus, we welcomed our new English school teacher from Kenya via Taiwan, Andy to the team. Basher #183.

So, with a full team and Bugs not having to call up anyone’s ‘one night stand’ this week, (a bit of a shame), we arrived at the ground. Everyone got into their pregame rituals and warm-ups, such as Loose downing his second Pure Blonde before 8am, the Rock being late, and the most interesting and fortuitous being Tank’s circle of the oval moving all the cones back two metres (should have settled for two yards Tank). So, to the field we ventured… (more…)

Sunday Sept. 11th Squads

Pleasure Report: Bashers vs Pudong

With the end of the season in sight and still well in the hunt, Pleasure assembled at the Camel on Sunday morning ready for the rubber match against Pudong Power. Skipper Bugs expressed his concern that one of the two debutants had failed to show up, and upon noting that the Hot Dogs – also rendezvousing at the Camel ahead of their match at Dulwich – only had three members total, proceeded to talk them out of the luxury bus, guaranteeing the Bashers a comfortable ride to the SRFC.

While en route, Bugs’ concern over the fate of the missing debutant grew to panic levels. He called his mobile, only to wake a “hot sounding” girl who confessed that she didn’t know where said debutant was; he insisted that Tank send an email with last minute directions to the SRFC; he even broached the idea of Shanghaiing a local who was walking along side the bus simply because he happened to be wearing all white. Despite this missing man, the team’s arrival at SRFC was uneventful, though looking back, perhaps the team should have taken better stock of the bus and its driver while disembarking. (more…)

Sept. 11 Biz & Plez Dbl Hdr

Pleasure vs Leopards CC
When: Sun, September 11, 8:00am – 12:30pm
Where: SRFC Near

Business vs Bashers Hot Dogs
When: Sun, September 11, 12:15pm – 5:45pm
Where: Dulwich

Sept. 4th Squad

Butthole’s Day – Pleasure Vs Devils Doosra

A fine day it was this Sunday past, when from various modes of transport the Pleasure lads congregated around the kiddie pool to witness Birdshit bathing in a costume that Mrs Birdshit should only have to see.

A quick pep talk from the Parrot and Latex and off we set to the Far field to meet the Doosra boys ready for battle.

After a pre toss of the kooka pie box coming up heads, Bugs confidently called the toss correctly and sent the Doosra boys in to bat.

A quick fielding drill in the cloudy and breezy afternoon and off to the middle for Growler and Tiny to start the innings off against a somewhat timid batting pair with magic bats. A few umpiring anomalies regarding wides and no ball rules and the Doosra were playing and missing, swinging and snicking until Tiny broke through to draw first blood. (more…)