Bashers Cricket Club

Gents,

With the Shanghai Dragons gearing up for their tour of Beijing, they have asked the Clubs in the SCC to raise a team to take them on in a practice match this Sunday.

It will be a good opportunity to take on a team consisting of:
Sanj, Jon, Mike, Hunt, Deepak, Jasim, Phil (Basher), Nigel (Basher), Bernie, Waqar, Jasim, Aravind

Good to get them to gel as a team – but also an opportunity to vent any grievances at being snubbed by the selection committee and to put a strong performance in.

Any takers?

Open Letter to SCC & Anyone else who wants to read.

Dear Masters of Cricket in Shanghai [Not Masters of the Universe as He-Man is a sacred figure who's name I shall never take in vain]

When are we, the fine folk of Div 3 [AKA Leisure/The Leisure/The Leisure Suits/Leisure's Looseness/Gary Glitter's Glit Glit Band] getting another bowl?

We’s be ready, foaming at the mouth ready to bowl some beamers at your skull!

Kisses & yours in the pursuit of the endless happy hour in the sky.

L.L.Looseness the First.

The Shanghai Cricket Club is organizing a cricket tour of Japan to play the Japanese national team at the end of September and is looking for interested tourists. Anyone who wants to join the tour should contact Paul Howard, Ainsley Mann or Andy Scott. Click on the pic to download the flyer for scheduled dates, costs and additional info.

FYI. See e-mail copy from SCC’s Mr “Excom” below with 6’s update / news of postponment this year. Also learnt a bit of related trivia on Friday – Woodstock designed the Shanghai 6s logo 11 years ago.

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Dear Ainsley Mann & Coca-Cola

Re: The 12th Annual Shanghai Cricket Sixes

The Cricket Shanghai Committee would, firstly, like to thank you for the support given by your organisation over the years of what has now grown into one of the sporting highlights of the Shanghai calendar. Last year’s 11th annual event was another resounding success and we are planning to build on this year-to-year progress that the event brings in terms of furthering cricket in the local community and most importantly raising funds for charity and community outreaches through Sport For All.

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Gents,

Vote here for BEST SPORTS TEAM NOMINEES here:

http://shanghai.urbanatomy.com/voting

Question 5: BEST SPORTS TEAM. Strangely they have nominated the SCC but used the BASHERS LOGO! YEEEE!

Get involved!

Loose.

The SCC is gauging interest in  sending up teams to the Beijing 6’s for June 25th-27th. Initially the plan is for 3 teams to represent SCC (rather than individual clubs).

Entry fee will be covered by the SCC as will buses in Beijing.

For more details talk to your captains or myself.

Expressions of interest below. Deadline is Wednesday June 9th.

CC Filthy

Tonight I was told that the Leisure lost their first game against Pudong due to some contrived rule realated to Duckworth Lewis rule. The SCC needs to get a life. At the lower level of cricket SCC they should be encouraging people to play not revisit a bad experience with their high school maths teacher. This ruling is utter nonsense not only because it is incompensible but because every game relies on impartial umpies from both sides which is not the case. The Law is an Ass or as we say in Glasgow “total bollocks”. I might be old fashioned but I used to think that the most runs won the game and if the weather got in the way then it was a draw and off to the Pub.

Gentlemen and esteemed Bashers,

Sportzvault has since its inception been the bane of the skippers’ existences… The nongmin on the phone in the lift, the mosquito buzzing around you in bed – in other words very annoying.

The SCC have taken over responsibility of updating this system once the scores have been agreed upon by the playing captains and submitted to the Club.

We have now been given a period of a week to confirm the facts and figures in the system before they are logged in for good. So anyone who wants to keep a tally on runs / wickets / catches etc MUST double check their stats in the days following the game. If there are mistakes, let their respective skippers know by the THURSDAY (in email format please) or forever hold you peace.

To make life easier – here is the link for you all – in future, please check the fixed links on the blog

Any further questions – please talk to the voting members of the committee.

Much love,
Stats

Shanghai Cricket Hope Elementary School Opens in Sichuan

School Visit Report by Ainsley Mann

The 2008 Sichuan Earthquake saw an unparalleled response from the Government, Corporate and NGO sectors as well as private philanthropists. However not many sports organisations were able to mobilize themselves in the way the Shanghai Cricket did, a fact made all the more unusual by cricket’s almost unknown status in China. Shanghai Cricket’s endeavors finally bore fruit this month when the Si Pan Village Elementary School formally reopened. The school also carries the name of Shanghai Cricket Hope Elementary School in recognition of the partnership between Shanghai Cricket and the China Youth Development Foundation’s Project Hope rural schools programme. (more…)

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…)