Bashers Cricket Club

Record turnout! Well done everyone, especially all those new faces and our Devil friends making a good showing coming in third. The Drop Bears in disguise continue their recent form coming second. In the end the old timers in 3 seconds showed how it was done old school style with a record 500 points!

Of the twelve buzzer questions only three or four were struck with success and most of those by the winning team, learn your lessons folks. Good wildcard selection was  again proven to be important.

Statistical analysis;
Average team score : 301.5 (last quiz 343)

Range of scores: 355 (last quiz 175)

Section averages;

• Science & Technology: 40
• History & Geography: 36
• China: 54
• Sports: 42
• Entertainment: 53
• Freestyle: 36
• WILDCARD: 51.5 (last time:63)

Teams picking best round for wild card: 3/10 (last quiz 5/8)

And of course a huge shout out to the Inquisition himself and the staff of the Camel who seemed to handle the looseness with aplomb. Johnny is hanging up his marking pen for this season but the next Bashers quiz night will be on you sometime… um.. well sometime… stay tuned.

Hands up who wants to be the next quizmaster!

I think i’ve already said enough so i’ll leave to to all of you to recount your tales of the night below in the comments. i have included a few pictures to speak a few thousand words and maybe jog some memories

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Well that’s not the kind of controversial ending we expected but exciting it was.

Most importantly we made a whole bunch of cash for the Million Tree Project – enough to plant 250 trees!

Just as importantly many good times were had, much beer and lambrusco were drunk in a lovely new venue.

Thanks must be extended to our generous prize sponsors;

Coca-Cola, Donelli, Diageo, Just Beer, Kooka Pies, Mrs Pusher’s cakes & One Wellness.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

And thank you Bashers, Geishas and the entire extended Basher family. Also great to see so many fresh faces.

i’m out on bail now so can present the results.

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It all seemed perfectly normal for a bright sunny Sunday morning; Birdshit slept through the first alarm, Tank was late, Swahili wasn’t sure where he slept.  But it wasn’t until the Pusher revealed that he had got in a massive 24 hour kip the day before that it became clear the Pleasure team had been quietly building up its reserves.  It’s possible the impending afternoon of complimentary booze at Cuvee was a factor, but still, there was something different.

The Dulwich security guards were the first to feel the sting; tension mounted as a dozen Bashers armed with near empty tunnel beers faced off against a trio of uniforms bearing framed certificates warning us not to trespass.  Birdshit’s quick decision to conduct the team’s first ever warm up with a lap around the field defused the crisis, and possibly sowed the seeds of brilliance to follow.

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Once again a special evening in fine company. So much action was taking place at the Bamboo last night that nary a soul did more than peek at the final ashes test unfolding on the peripheral screens.

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Here it is! The long winded and all too detailed account of 11 guys on a mission to the heat pit of China.

Bashers Go Rural: Hello Nanjing Tour 2009

Friday June 19 at 3.30pm Woodstock, Tank, Omega, Loose, the Jaguar, Long Dong and Birdshit assembled at the Big Bamboo to await departure for Rural Nanjing.
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Further to my post – which seemed to coincide with the rain…

training is cancelled.
any complaints – come and discuss with me in the Boo.
I am aiming to get there for 6pm – but that is taxi dependent.

Bashers,

Sunday saw the Grudge Match take  place at Dulwich College.
Having parked the bus, erected the tent and settled ourselves for the game – Stats managed to lose the toss (again) yet still manage to set the Bashers up for a chase, with Ben ‘the Skipper of the Hot Dogs’ Goodwin opting to bat first.

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Gents,

Once again I am in the office on a Monday morning, needing to input details of VICTORY into the new SCC database… Two matches, two victories and top of the League – a truly fantastic way to start the season.

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