Lumberjack

The Bashers that awoke on the fine Sunday morning of the 29th April could be categorised into three groups. The first were the keen, fresh and alert Bashers who spent the previous day meditating and resting up before this important fixture against Pudong. The second group were blurry of eyes and sore of head following an evening of revelry at Parrot’s leaving do chez Cages. The third, and perhaps most alarming, subset of Bashers, were the zombie-like cricketers who arrived for the game in person, if not in spirit following a very heavy (and unsuccessful) tour in Suzhou and the Former President’s party. More details to follow in the tour’s Lumberjack.

  It started as any good Basher Double Header should, full of anticipation and desire to win. After an early scare the leisure were missing a treasure and what was left were a few rough diamonds hoping to shine. But replacements were quickly sorted, and all arrived at Cages raring to go. In typical Basheresque style and organisational prowess, vehicles were arranged for both teams to go their separate ways. Pleasure making full use of the 30+ seater coach, filled to the brim with all four Pleasure players; the full complement of the Leisure Eleven, squeezed snuggly into their mini podmobile, where the seats were tighter than Cliff Richard’s pants during his police raid and the soundwaves helping us feel like we were going on an actual summer holiday.