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    I’d like to announce that, in order to better honour The 2012 Shanghai Cricket Festival

    and The Game, I today purchased the book :

    Cricket For Dummies

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0470034548/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1337851423&sr=8-1

     

     

     

  2. Beer Bus to Girls Like Mystery Show Saturday 28th April

    Hey Guys,
    My band will be playing a show Saturday the 28th April at Live Bar. The venue is quite far away, so I am putting on a bus to take people to and from the venue. The bus will be leaving from the Camel and returning people from the venue back to the Camel afterwards. The bus will cost 35 kuai, but we will be providing some bus beers for the journey. It would be great to see a few of you there this time, so please let me know if you are interested. Confirmed already includes Sinbad, who had told me that he would be at every gig, but has failed to show-up for one. Hope to see more of you with him.
    Gig details:
    Bands:
    Death to Giants
    Girls Like Mystery
    毕恭毕敬
    Hello Money

    Live Bar 28th April

    800 Guoshun dong lu, near shuangyang lu

    The bus will depart The Camel at 8:20pm and return after the last band.

    Party Bus + 4 Awesome Bands = Fun Times

    GLM

  3. “You make take our lives but you will never take our FREEDOM!”

    The SRFC is hosting some historic football, rugby and cricket matches during April. More on the cricket later which will feature relatives of Shanghai Recreation Club and and Shanghai Cricket Club players pre WW2 and some of the guys who organised , played and umpired in the first game in the modern era in 1994. Much more importantly the Shanghai Scottish are reviving a 100 year + tradiiton against the English.  We have challenged the English to a a number of sporting encounters (which may get violent) and God bless them they have accepted. It all kicks off with a massive football game in April followed by a huge rugby match and cricket double header in Oct. The golf  game is a foregone conclusion which we we will enjoy.

  4. Gary (Pothole) Dubberley – Our New Secretary

    All,
    It is our pleasure to announce the appointment of Gary (Pothole) Dubberley as our new Secretary. He replaces Rakesh (Rock) Kumar who will leave Shanghai sometime soon. Gary has been with the club since the beginning of 2010. Please join us in welcoming Gary (Pothole) Dubberley in his new role and responsibilities.

    We take this opportunity to thank Rakesh (Rock) Kumar for his contributions to the club in the last two years as Secretary. We wish him all the success in his new assignments.

    Executive Committee
    Bashers Cricket Club.

  5. Cricket For Smiles wins ICC Award

    Last year quite a number of Bashers stood up and supported Japan Cricket’s Cricket For Smiles programme. If you recall Cricket For Smiles was set up to bring a bit of joy to kids in the Tsunami affected areas. several thousand kids have now benefited. The ICC have just awarded the 2011 Spirit of Cricket Award to Japan Cricket. Alex Miyaji the CEO of Japan Cricket has asked me to pass on his appreciation to the Bashers for their support. In 2010 Alex made the long trip to Sichuan with Badabing, Woodstock and myself to support the school in Sichuan and last year some of you will recall he sent Ema over here to spend a week coaching Chinese kids in the SRFC’s Sport For All programme. They are good people over there at Cricket Japan who totally get how the power of sport can be channeled for the greater good and as such no surprise to me that they won such a prestigious award. It was good to see the Bashers get behind them in their hour of need.