Pleasure and Rain

Some things are better when wet; beer, sails, vaginas, but not necessarily cricket.

Alas, Skid Row’s ‘rain’ as Div 2 Captain has been a moist, damp one, but has seen Pleasure the only undefeated Basher team to this point of the season and firmly in the hunt for finals…and no-one has bowled a wide.

Pleasure’s first non-game was April 3 against the Devils. Skiddy lost the toss to Frank Costanza and the Pleasure were put into bat. The Devils started with some vicious body-line bowling that had Soggy Biscuit pulling, ducking and weaving, and had Swoop just kinda stand there and take it in the ribs. The all Aussie openers took the game away from the Devils early dispatching anything loose, so it was a shame when Soggy failed to move and he was bowled by a straight one. Cassius joined Swoop and promptly accelerated the run-rate with actual cricket shots for the next few overs, but then Swoop snicked an absolute jaffa to an arsey-diving-lucky-fucker first slip and was out just 78 runs short of his century. With the wicket of Swoop, God had seen enough cricket for the day, and duly brought the rain to end the day’s play with Pleasure in an unassailable lead. Bashers 2-74 from 10 and the Devils left scarred for next time!

Big-ups to Fluffy for hanging around after Leisure to not actually play for Pleasure. A fine session ensued, Soggy was christened, Hawks beat the Eagles, and Pleasure were on their way…….

Batting

Swoop 22

Cassius 21*

Soggy 17

Bowling

Skiddy 0-0-0-0

Pleasure’s second non-game was April 23 against Pudong. Paps and Pope (Happy Birthday) were kind enough to send their weather forecasts for Saturday, on Friday, so we knew what the weather was likely to be. Skiddy saw it slightly differently. It was a chance to show what will surely be his ‘never give up, never, ever, never, never, never give up’ style of Captaincy.

So, with Paps finally on the bus and so confident of play that he left his kit with the uber, and Swoop playing Lupu/Nanpu Who’s On First with deaf bus driver, we were off for a game of cricket* (non-game of cricket*). The beers were cold, the Wechats came thick and fast from those not in the bus, and Skiddy constantly wiped the condensation from the window to see if it had stopped raining outside…better off just drawing cock & balls on the window.

After crossing both the Nanpu once and the Lupu once we found ourselves in Pudong (work that one out) surprisingly at Wellington…and well ahead of schedule for our start time. We asked Bus Driver Nanpu not to leave, just in-case it ‘started’ raining, and he actually managed to park the bus on the other side of the road without Pap’s help, which was nice to see.

Pudong were happy to see us, I think we got to with-in 50metres before the whining started. Skiddy did the right thing, chances of play were ‘fuck all’ and ‘none’, but those are chances. It stopped raining about 4:00am Sunday morning, just 14 hours too late. No cricket, but still managed to win the sledging match with GMcK who obviously had something better to do cause he told us twice…but not a third time.

Parrot arrived which shows that there was some kind of a chance, but he wasn’t happy and you know a death threat is genuine when you #tag it.

We got back on the bus, kind of went back the same way we came. GI joined us for the return trip…and the next seven hours, and provided us with the tunes. Skiddy took the time on the bus back to The Camel to write an apology to Parrot for letting him get all the way to the ground for no reason……

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzc3OTkwODMy.html?from=s1.8-1-1.2

I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted to one time to see you playing
I only wanted to see you
Batting in the pleasure rain

The fine session was rather large for a game that didn’t actually happen and not surprisingly a lot of pre-game and post-game fines. Korean was a shambles as fines master, Skiddy had a fake Indian accent and was a mess; Soggy and Paps had regret playing Credit Card Roulette; Bambi, GI and Swoop played a monster game of Nibbles; Paps and Skiddy ended up at Indian restaurant, I think, or maybe that was last week, maybe……it got real messy.

I never wanted to be your weekend lover………..