Bashers Cricket Club

Nanjing 2019 Lumberjack

It was a bittersweet weekend for the tourists as the sweetness of a fun weekend of drinking, revelry and a little bit of cricket was

It’s the Final Lumberjack da da da der, da da da da derrrr

Forget the result…..in the end it was great day out enjoyed by everyone with a large turnout of Bashers supporters, a final played in a great spirit, bathed in glorious sunshine and a Basher’s moment for the ages, courtesy of Hardon; and let’s not forget the conception of a new media empire and the birth of a sports anchor, Ali ‘Fruitbox’ Brown.

Bashers Vs Dulwich….a long time ago on a cricket field not that far away

The signs were ominous when Giraffe’s first three balls of the innings were all dispatched for 4 through long off. Omega was sent to field out on the boundary only for the next ball to fly for another 4 through square leg.

Bashers vs Hot Dogs Friendly 07 April 2018

A rag tag bunch of bashers gathered at Wellington for an 8am friendly match against the Hot Dogs. With the match not a league game, there were no pies and no bus so the Bashers started to arrive in dribs and drabs. With around 14 Bashers keen to play, captain for the day Messi had declared on the match wechat that the batting order would be decided by whoever got to the ground first. According to this formula the batting order would’ve been Bambi, Messi then Tucker. This was soon scrapped.

Leisure Vs Dulwich 25th March 2018

Twas an early start to the first game of the season for the captain and author of this piece who rose at 4am to go the Mansion nightclub to put some music on for drunk people. When the police closed the club at 6am due to ‘noise complaints’, which could be interpreted as bad music choice, the skipper made an earlier than expected than journey back to cages to prepare the kit.

Leisure Semi Final Lumberjack

Lumberjack written by The Chancellor Chapter 1 Prematch The short time between the crushing defeat of the Hot Dogs in the semi-final and Leisure’s date with destiny against Dulwich in the penultimate match of the season brought some strange rumblings on the Leisure Basher’s blog.

Lumberjack Leisure vs Dulwich June 11th 2017

What is a Captain's role? Some might say it is to set the field diligently, be proactive, change the bowlers and try to out think the batsmen, but as the captain of Leisure there is more to it than that. All the afore mentioned tasks can be outsourced/delegated to someone else on the field; where the Leisure captain shows his worth is in logistics…making sure there is beer, pies, getting the team to the field on time, winning the toss (or at least predicting the toss), attending fines and making sure the lumberjack is written.

Lumberjack – Leisure vs Hot Dogs 9th July 2017

Words by mouse, photos by Tampon Bleep bleep bleep….the alarm went off. WTF, is it time to get up already? The answer, Yes!

Bashers Leisure Vs Daredevils 3rd July

Written by Spanky, edited by Parrot/Paps Bashers assembled bright and early at the camel for the bus ride but unfortunately it wasn’t very leisurely – No Beer or pies, oh wait! There was no pies! No speeches and generally nothing of note that should be mentioned in this illustrious column.

Lumberjack Leisure Vs Dulwich 16th April 2017

Leisure met at the camel at 730ish for the trip to SRFC for the second match of the season. Square Root was making a welcome return after being back in the UK on royal engagements and was obviously excited for the match day ahead. So excited that he had got hammered the night before and at about 3am Sunday morning decided to share some delightful prose in the match Wechat group, where he effused about each team member by trying to use a characteristic of their bashers name to describe them. In the lumberjack below, names will be followed in brackets by Rooty’s 3am description of said Basher.