{"id":775,"date":"2009-04-15T14:25:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T06:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/?p=775"},"modified":"2009-04-15T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T07:12:08","slug":"mvp-imbibing-cricketer-hadleigh-churchill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/mvp-imbibing-cricketer-hadleigh-churchill\/","title":{"rendered":"MVP: Imbibing Cricketer Hadleigh Churchill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityweekend.com.cn\/shanghai\/articles\/blogs-shanghai\/shanghai-sports\/mvp-imbibing-cricketer-hadleigh-churchill\/\" target=\"_blank\">City Weekend interviewed Sir Dick<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Classic!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"item_title\">\n<div id=\"title\" style=\"text-align: left;\">MVP: Imbibing Cricketer Hadleigh Churchill<\/div>\n<\/h2>\n<div id=\"item_images\"><a class=\"first_image\" title=\"\u00c2\u00a0\" rel=\"imagebox-light\" href=\"http:\/\/files2.cityweekend.com.cn\/files\/images\/image-20090414-y6q5s13b92ptyomgci5j_t_h480.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"item_image alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 3px; \" src=\"http:\/\/files0.cityweekend.com.cn\/files\/images\/image-20090414-y6q5s13b92ptyomgci5j_t_w618_h300.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"markdown_text\">\n<p><strong>The name Bashers sounds pretty violent, where did it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I believe it originates from the style of playing that the Bashers    play\u00e2\u20ac\u201cwe just bash the heck out of the ball.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you get involved with the Bashers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was looking for something outside of work that would keep me entertained on the weekends. I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t played for 10 years. I went along and met all the Bashers guys, and they are great\u00e2\u20ac\u201c heaps of Kiwis and Aussies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What kind of equipment do you guys use?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got your bat, your leg pads and a box to protect your jewels and    basically that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all you need.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teach us some cricketing terminology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you hit the ball and someone    catches it then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153golden duck.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Also, there are    lots of different positions for the fielding    team\u00e2\u20ac\u201cone position is called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153silly mid    off,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d basically because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a dumb place    to be standing when guys are hitting the    ball at you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basherscc.org\/\">Bashers website<\/a> seems    really extensive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah! We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re actually    probably one of the only cricket    clubs with a weekly podcast, where    different players and special guests    talk about current cricket issues and    other leagues in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Leaning is a specialty of the Bashers, often indulging to horizontal extents.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Could you expand on this intriguing sentence found on your website?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, we lean on the bar drinking a lot.    We have a bus that picks us up from Big    Bamboo before the game, and then we travel    out to Pudong. We have beers on the bus    going there, and beers on the way back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you guys ever played drunk?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regularly, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s    not a problem because most people have been    out the night before on Saturday and need a    few to get started.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us in one sentence why we should join the Bashers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bashers are just    a really good bunch of guys who want to have    fun and get a little bit of exercise on the side\u00e2\u20ac\u201c    beer with a side of activity!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Danielle Jenster<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Every Thursday (training)<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong> San He Yuan, Yanping Lu \u00e4\u00b8\u2030\u00e6\u00b2\u00b3\u00e8\u0160\u00b1\u00e5\u203a\u00ad, \u00e5\u00bb\u00b6\u00e5\u00b9\u00b3\u00e8\u00b7\u00af<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> play@basherscc.org<br \/>\n<strong>Web:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.basherscc.org<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Weekend interviewed Sir Dick Classic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[121,389,125,5,153,124],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-profile","tag-city-weekend","tag-cricket","tag-hadleigh-churchill","tag-history","tag-propaganda","tag-sir-dick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}