Bashers Cricket Club

Lumberjack: Bashers Pleasure vs. Hot Dogs, D2, 2nd July 2017 @ SRFC

“The hallmark of a great captain is his ability to win the toss at the right time.” Due to a scheduled pitch of wicket at 0830am, the Bashers pleasure XI had to arrive promptly at the Camel at 0715. This, surprisingly, was actually achieved by the greater many. It was indeed the K’s for Leisure that held the bus up due to their (re)tardiness on their respective journey’s. The only issue of note was the maiden Esky-tipping-come-ice-wasting of the Bashers post-match beers by a new basher. You guessed it; now welcomed to the Bashers as Spillage. Welcome.

Leisure vs Wellington Lumberjack – Sun. June 18

(Courtesy of Paps) FATHER’S DAY, BASHERS, CRICKET ALL HAPPENING SUNDAY MORNING! Our very sober skipper first to be at the camel only to find out it’s closed! Calls were made to the club captain, who called Alice. She didn’t answer. Bambi called Steve, Tampon called Steve, Alice called Steve, Steve didn’t answer. All the while, we were being subjected to life affirming soundbites from three gurning kunts who had just come out of Lola and decided to latch on to us. Eventually we got in, but pies not an option. It’s Ok, at least we can pack an esky but what’s this…no bus either?! So leave the Esky for business

Business vs Hot Dogs – June 18,2017

On a bright sunny (I assume from the brightness, though the sun was rarely seen) Sunday morning, saw our stand in skipper setting an example and turned up early to Camel, only to find some of the team members are late ! Angel finally turning up, much to the displeasure of a highly animated bus driver, the bus was boarded. The Bashers promptly went on to dig into some delicious pies (Thanks to Fluffer, as always), and Angel's conspiracy-theory of #PieGate was put to rest.

Nanjing Rural Sixes 2017

Captain Darling Reports: Day 1 – Wizard’s Tea The inaugural Serious Simon game on Nanjing soil was hotly anticipated to say the least. As the touring party tussled their way through the crowd at the station and onto the train, there was only a brief scare with both the touring kit and Captain Darling (Windy) being misplaced in the fracas. Both were soon located and the focus swiftly moved onto Rum & Wizard’s tea.

Lumberjack – Leisure V Wellington Sunday 14th May

The Leisure XI gathered, bleary-eyed, at The Camel for a match against Wellington early on Sunday 14th May. Pies and beers spread their way around the bus as the Bashers regaled stories from the previous evening. Bhenchod’s attempt and failure to build cross-class relations with a resident of Hull and Rash’s sleep in the park after being locked out were particular highlights. The bus journey flew by and after much hilarity, The Bashers arrived at SRFC eager for victory.

Pirates vs Shangzhen

The Pirates opened their campaign in the SCA T20 League with a loss to Shangzhen (Shanghai University of Political Science and Law) on the weekend. New Pirates skipper, Shitshoes, lost the toss and was asked to bat first on a hot summers morning at Tongji University.

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.

Lumberjack – Pleasure vs Digital Daredevils, March 26 2017

As his squad began to assemble at the Camel, early to fit in a net session before the game, Pleasure captain Skid Row took in the clear, blue skies and anticipated finally being able to lead a team in good conditions. Less positively, someone had dropped out and there was a desperate Wechat search for another player. After seemingly exhausting all options, he gleefully announced that we had Herpes, and all would be well.

Bashers D3 Leisure vs Pudong – The Grudge Match

It was labelled the grudge match to end all grudge matches. A re-match of the 2016 bodyline Semi Final game

Bash Dogs vs Pudong Warmup

After successive Sundays of warm spring sunshine, Bambi arranged a 30 over warmup game against Pudong with a combination of Bashers and Hot Dogs. So we assembled, some at the Camel for the bus (and about 200 pure blonds), and others directly, to Wellington College.

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