Bashers Cricket Club
Lumberjack – Pleasure vs Leopards Aug 16
Pleasure arrived at the SCSC well ahead of time, with bellies full of pie and an Esky full of beer. An Esky full of beer that they would never see again. THANKS LEISURE, but more on that later.
Inspired by a fantastic all round performance by Cranky to win the game for Leisure and still keep them in the running, stand-in skipper Tinder won the toss and elected to bat.
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Pleasure’s innings started with Tinder & Lunchcutter trotting out to the middle on a slightly overcast afternoon. Wide after wide after wide was bowled. Dot ball after dot ball after dot ball was played out as the match had a test match feel to it. As the Leopards seemed to have figured out how not to bowl wides (not for long), Tinder & Lunchcutter settled in and played some glorious shots to actually score a few runs of the bat!
Tinder ultimately fell for a hard fought 13 to be replaced by Tucker. A man on a mission, being promoted up the order, presumably after his strong showing in the nets the previous day. Lunchcutter was in good touch, getting good value for his shots with a couple of boundaries. Just when it looked like he would get a big score, the umpire adjudged him out LBW despite having edged the ball onto his pads. The umpire seemingly too lazy to even raise his finger, just nodding LC off the pitch. Yet another contentious LBW decision goes against the Bashers. Shit Shoes was lucky to survive a caught behind shout as he edged the ball but didn’t walk.
Tucker was dismissed next, but not before he was struck on the toe, or so he claims.
Shit Shoes was unlucky yet again. Try as he may, he was unable to throw his wicket away as the Leopards were doing their best Basher’s fielding impression. Overcome with regret for his earlier decision to not walk despite edging the ball. On the other end, Pope stood tall, playing some glorious shots including a wristy flick for 4 and a lusty blow for 6.
In the end, Saturday’s net practice seemed to have helped Shit Shoes as he top scored for the Bashers, with Pope close behind. As SS perished to a catch that was finally taken, Slag got a chance to live show he can score as well on the field as he can off it despite his off-field heroics from the previous night. His quickfire innings helping the Bashers to 148.
Pleasure played out the full 30 overs for the first time in a long time. Massive positive fine for the whole team!
Tinder’s rousing speech at the innings break, seemed to have worked wonders on Spanky as he was charging in and breathing fire. He struck early to get rid of the dangerous Leopard opener with Korean taking a comfortable catch behind the wickets.
JR in what might well be his final Bashers game (for now) didn’t seem to have the same luck. Good balls were being hit for boundaries and edges flying too far from the fielders. As the Leopards seemed to be running away with the chase, Tinder was quick to ring in the changes and brought in Lunchcutter & Tucker to get things back on track.
With a drunk and raucous crowd shouting… um… their names (among other things) Tucker despite his broken toe was able to get an early breakthrough. Lunchcutter not one to be left behind picked up a wicket too. Skid Row was brought on to replace Tucker and was unlucky to not get a wicket.
Lunchcutter continuing from the other end bowled a tempting flighted delivery outside off which was destined for the fence. But the Leopard didn’t account for Skid Row at point as he flung himself to the ground, pouching the ball to keep Pleasure in the game. The partisan Bashers crowd grew more and more raucous and ‘friendly’ trying to guide Pleasure to a win. Lo and behold, the motivation worked. Sadly it worked on the Leapord batsman who despite being like Shohaib Akhtar in front of a rowdy Wankhede crowd, played a sublime innings.
Sensing that Leisure was about to leave the SCSC with the beers and the bus, Shit Shoes and Tinder took it upon themselves to finish the game. SS going for 20+ in his only over and Tinder bowling a 14 ball over to make sure the game was well and truly over.
Bashers Pleasure Fines
Taking a cue from Leisure (not that there was a f****ng choice) Pleasure had an extended fines session at the SCSC. Apparently a certain Basher finds Shit Shoes’ voice to be very arousing after knocking back a few beers! While the other Bashers made their way back, Tinder, Tucker & Skid Row decided to help the SCSC as Tinder attempted and almost succeeded in selling a few rugby jerseys to a Chinese Lad looking for a place to take a piss! Shockingly Tinder & Tucker’s walkie-talkie etiquette earned them a job offer at the SCSC.
Note: There may or may not have been an unsuccessful attempt to potentially steal the SCSC dog as the last remaining Bashers made their way out of the SCSC.
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nice write up Skidders!
Great read skids - good job
Decent lumberjack Skiddy!
Thank you good sirs!