Bashers. It's Shanghainese for Cricket

Connery Shield 2011

Lets start again. Let’s get ready to rural!
In the latest postponement the Nanjing Sixes have moved to the weekend of 23&24 April, Right before Basher week!
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Colombo Sixes

Rumesh Ratnakye http://www.espncricinfo.com/stats/content/player/50249.html has invited (2nd hand) the Bashers to the Colombo Sixes to be held August 17th through 19th.
From what I understand this is the inaugural event. A Bashers team perhaps?

Vague expressions of interest below please…….

CC Filth

Chiang Mai Tour

Anyone interested in making a Shanghai based team to enter the Chiang Mai Sixes contact CC Filth. Currently a few D2 and D3 Hot Dogs going. Cricket to come a distant second to the joys of touring Thailand.

More than 30 teams currently going!

Estimated cost per man based on 8 going would be RMB 5000 ish if we get a group discount on flights … 3 – 9 April.

Nanjing Sixes

Date is set for Nanjing Sixes 2011.

It’s on again fellas. The infamously rural Nanjing Sixes is back this year after a 2010 hiatus. New ground, more opponents and probably a slightly more tolerable temperature.

Games will be Sat 2nd and Sunday 3rd. Transport ideally the Friday night before and the Sunday return.

Anyone wishing to re-live or learn more about the 2010 Nanjing Sixes should see here. Be warned, it’s not pretty.

Expressions of interest required below for this year’s event of the rural calender. Bus/train/hotel info to come.

CONFIRMED FOR APRIL FOOLS DAY DEPARTURE. Return date subject to survival.

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.

Pattaya and Phuket Cricket Sixes 2011

THOSE INTERESTED READ BELOW AND LET ME KNOW. IF ENOUGH WE”LL PUT A BASHERS TEAM TOGETHER

Everything is looking fantastic for next years International Cricket Sixes Tournaments in April at Phuket and Pattaya, Thailand.

You can get a cost indication for either of Pattaya and Phuket, or both. Of course you will already have your own international fares organised!

Please see the attached where we through the Asian Cricket Sixes Tour (ACST) www.cricketsixes.com , with our Official Travel Partners, Asia Escape Holidays (AEH) www.asiaescapeholidays.com are after your expression of interest for quotes regarding next years Pattaya and Phuket International Cricket Sixes Events.

The specific prices are being loaded this week and will be available from next weekend onwards. Mason of AEH is very supportive of the ACST with these tournaments and through Janelle at the AEH office & her team they will get you quotes as soon as possible. The earlier you get your needs to her, then she can provide you with quotes. Give her the best indication you can of your travel needs for your trip and she will start the process of finding an outcome for you which suits your needs.

Janelle will provide costings for 1/ Player / Supporter packs, 2/ Tournament Hotels, 3/ Airfares to and from your destination, as well as stopovers and side trips which you may need, 4/ other add on’s for hotels and transport before and after each tournament, 5/ travel insurance (which is a requirement to participate in ACST Tournaments and highly recommended) and 6/ any other travel need required for you to have a great trip next April 2011.

We also have a Preferred Hotel in Bangkok for your use at a very special rate, the Chaophya Park hotel, so if you wish to have a stopover in Bangkok during your trip, feel free to use this very nice and good value hotel (it is used for our Thailand Sixes held in Bangkok every October).

Please be aware of the dates for both Phuket (12 April until 17 April) and Pattaya (20 April until 23 April) 2011 and we would like very much to see you join us for both events. Please note that there is a discount involved for Players and Supporters if you indeed do join us for both of these fun events. check out the web-sites www.phuketsixes.com & www.pattayasixes.com for all the fun involved with both!

Xiamen

A. Logistics
Those that are coming down with the main party and leaving with the main party you have a bus to pick you up to an from the airport. The rest of you (Lady Dick, Tara, Sinbad, Birdshit, Stats and Oscar) that are making your own way the following link has the hotel details.
http://asiagulfhotelxm.chinahotel.com.cn/
If you are arriving later on Friday probably best to go to the Londoner Bar directly 伦敦吧 Guanren Lu (behind Marco Polo Hotel) 官任路 . Taxi drivers all know Marco Polo. Londoner is the block behind it as you walk back from the lake. Suggest the ladies ask Sir Dick to hump all their bags as he is getting the bus.

B. Money
Birdshit has a little windfall in his ticket price and Mrs Pusher now owes him a small refund. Sinbad shortchanged Mrs Pusher who is very upset and muttering something about Indians and Pirates. Omega’s tickets were a little more expensive as the group booking had already been made. Jaguar and Parrot are serious debtors.

Gear.
Leaving everything to club captain to organise….stumps, balls, scorecards etc etc

For those on the 2pm flight Friday see you at the airport around 12.30-12.45pm.

Jimmy’s Chili Cook-off

The Perfect recovery session for the end of season function.

Our favourite rural proprietor is taking off his shirt and opening his heart again in order to open your bowels. This seems to be right up the Basher’s alley. Let’s get ready to rural, i see a train carriage full of stained Blazers!

Xiamen- Long lost Hammer to pitch up?

Just before he departed the Canny Man in Wanchai in search of a helicopter to take him to Macau, Hammer promised / threatened to come to Xiamen. We currently have 29 signed up. If 30 come we need two boats and can have a boat race to the beach party. It all rests with Hammer. The chat in Xiamen is that the wicket will have plenty of turn so all set up for leg spinners (or those that think they are). There will also be a decent breeze for Leppa to exploit.