Bashers Cricket Club

Bledisloe Cup, Hong Kong, 30/10/2010

Tickets are out. Pot Bellied Pigs have provisionally allocated me 10 of which 4 are spoken for. Price is HK$1000 (B class). Can't remember who else asked although I think Woodstock and Golden Shears asked for tickets previously. Need to confirm by Saturday. Let me know if you want one.

Cuba – Update

Cubans have come back and suggested that the tour takes place in their winter before May as the weather can bit iffy in May & June. So maybe CNY next year. They also mention that New Year's Eve in Havana is pretty special. They are suggesting a triangular tournament together with the Cayman Islands who also want to tour around the same time so possibility some Bashers can pick up two Intl caps. The tour would be organised through the Caribbean Association to which Cuba belong as cricket is not yet an official sport recognized by the Govt although the Govt Sports Institution would help with logistics. Americans are welcome (Tank:take note).

Beijing 6’s

The SCC is gauging interest in Â sending up teams to the Beijing 6's for June 25th-27th. Initially the plan is for 3 teams to represent SCC (rather than individual clubs).

Cuba & The Bay of Pigs

Further to the discussion on Wednesday night some of us had with the Pot Bellied Pigs Chairman, Anson Bailey, the Pigs have now fedback that they are on for a joint rugby and cricket tour next spring to Cuba with The Bashers. This would be a two week trip and the plan is to fly around the World following the Sun with a stopover in Italy on the way there and either Toronto or Vancouver on the way back. So it really is a World Tour. Players from both teams can play for the other team so if Bashers fancied lacing up their rugby boots there would be games of rugby as well.

Bashers in KunLunQi, Inner Mongolia

Bashers Cricket in Inner Mongolia "Hi, I'm Richard, do you want to see my underpants?" What better way for a Basher to greet the Million Tree Project representative Heather Wigmore on arrival at Kun Lun Qi, Inner Mongolia, a town of 50,000 in one of China's poorest areasÂ The Bashers trio of Parrot, Pusher and Woodstock had just traversed 200km of arid zone, invigorated by fresh air, sunshine, blue skies, and a third place at the Frank's Place pub quiz the previous night. Parrot was understandably euphoric after making up severe deficiencies in hisÂ underwear ensemble during a snack stop on the way from TongLiao airport.Â The Bashers faced a busy few days in the desert, and it was not the time for wardrobe malfunctions.

The lovely ladies.
just wanna do something special for all the ladies in the world

Bus from Wu Xi Station to madness

Hey fellas, Bus will leave Wu Xi station at 10am on Sunday May 2nd heading to Hong Shan for the ensuing madness. Let me know (below) who needs to be picked up from there with exact numbers if possible . I'll leave you to make your own arrangements to get to Wu Xi station!

Shanghai Cricket Gives Back

Shanghai Cricket Hope Elementary School Opens in Sichuan School Visit Report by Ainsley Mann

Sichuan School Trip – April 16th

Any of you old enough to remember the 2008 Sixes will recall that the two auctions we organised that week in HK and Shanghai raised enough money to rebuild a school destroyed by the Earthquake. Together with a couple of my staff I am going there on April 16th (leave Chengdu on 15th) so if any of you have business in Chengdu and want to join the trip let me know. Its a hell of a road trip. Guanyuan is halfway between Chengdu and Xian up a mountain somewhere. The school classrooms and dormitories are now finished so the school is fully functioning. The funds raised have allowed the school to get an extra piece of ground for sports facilities and work is just about to start. The school is actually called the Shanghai Cricket Project Hope school although no-one is sure the good citizens of Guanyuan know what cricket is.

Inner Mongolia U11 Cricket Team

Woodstock and I will be taking cricket to the mighty Mongolian race at the end of this month when we head to Ku LunQi in Inner Mongolia to plant Bashers Bush. At the Baga Tala Sumu elementary school we will be doing a spot of coaching for Inner Mongloia's finest cricketing prospects so if anyone has any junior size bats we could borrow let me know. A few spare Bashers caps would also go down well. The arrival of Woodstock in Baga Tala Sumu will be the biggest news item in those parts for at least a generation.

Nanjing Sixes – POSTPONED

Hey lads, Bad news. Due to snow and heavy rain the pitch for the Nanjing Sixes is underwater. It will be in no fit state for the games and as a result the Nanjing Tour '10 has been postponed.