http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/TkHvZViuzCU/

The video is 8 action packed minutes of superb winning cricket from the Leisure over the weekend… Tank is also uploading to the Bashers page on Facebook for those with a decent VPN…

I wasnt there so cant comment

Deciding to drive to SRFC – nappy changes for juniors and taking wrong turns on elevated highway placed Omega squarely in this role of reporting.

With Birdshit’s Shakespearean prose setting a new high , this report will bring it crashing back to earth .

Digital Devils bat first , and Swahili and Bugs opened with vigour, aggression and 2 early wickets , should have been 3 as an edge heard at the scorers table was somehow turned down – the resulting conceded runs – too many

First to drop a catch was Tiny . Then he took one by finger tips . Then he became the magnet by which all shots in the air were attracted, resulting in the Sanjay keeping his wicket and resulting in field changes until the 24th over.

Not to be outdone Long Dong did his best to impersonate a fielder with intent, only to back down with said catches falling safely.

All the time the Devils kept scoring boundaries , one of which Pitstop popped his ankle and our out fielding thus gifted even more runs as he took a hobbled spot at point.

The recent frugal bowlling of Swoop, Omega, Long Dong and Bada Bing impersonated Elvis with each conceding at least one 12 plus over and only Tiny , Swahili and Bugs keeping it tight.

In fact with 6 overs remaining and the opening bowlers brought back a flurry of wickets fell. Notably Bugs getting 3 more wickets and 2 run outs . The Devil’s Sanjay(83) pairing up with Parthiban (65 ret) but way too many dropped catches to allow them this total.

Digital Devils   8 / 227  and Bashers in with a fight.

As the Leisure were whooping it up on the Main field , Omega opened with Tiny as Pitstop was injured.

New Basher Nemesis Chaitanya then took Tiny’s and Omegas wicket in the first over . First ball of his second Ghengis gave his up and for a few overs Swoop and Bada Bing resisted and put some runs on the board

It was all to be short lived . Swoop with 19 and a short cameo from Swahili with 3 boundaries and 16 runs gave a little hope but once our nemesis was re introduced with a 6 man slip cordon , the remaining batters showed little resistance and an all out total of 64 was just plain crap from a team who should do better.

Few beers after the game with the only victorious Bashers team of the day , and back on the bus to what I can guess was a sedate fines session.

The one consolation, at least the beers were cold in the bus!!

Notables – Bugs 4 for 29

Swahili 2 for 33

Swoop 19 runs

Need a better showing this weekend , and with our usual players available from stepping up to Business duties a more competitive team should be on the park.

NB. Not going to drive again !!

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Pleasure are at SRFC starting at 13:30 and the Leisure are at Dulwhich starting at 09:00

Sunday 20 May

23ºC 17ºC Wunderground

Please let me know if you are available or not below as soon as possible.

Thanks

CC Latex

With mixed results this past weekend we need to get back to training and focus on the Pleasure and Leisure games on the 20th.

Training starts at 6pm as usual at 123 Yangping road.

Drinks at the Camel afterwards.

See you all there.

The date is set, the disco ball has been dusted off and its time for the Bashers to board the train to Nanjing!

Put Saturday June 9th in the diary. The Bashers will be putting in 2 teams as usual.

The plan is to head down to Nanjing on Friday 8th after work to acclimatise to our rural surroundings and enjoy the warm and hazy hospitality of Jimmys. The action starts early on the Saturday morning with a great line up of 6′s talent. Our friends from the Pudong Power and the Xiamen Typhoons will be joining us along with the Bogans and Nongmin to round out what will be a great day.

There will be the option to head back on the saturday evening if you are involved in the SCC game on the Sunday but otherwise we will be enjoying the Saturday night in Nanjing and heading back to Shanghai early afternoon on the Sunday.

This is a great event and was enjoyed by all last year.

The hotel will be around 600rmb a night for a twin room. Please bring along friends and family but let me know so we can organise the train and hotel.

Please post availability below. Hopefully we should be primed for this 6′s coming of the back of the league 6′s a couple of weeks earlier.

Live the Rural Dream!

CC Latex