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*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
That's how it used to be in Wiltshire. Measuring the vibrancy of cricket in an area shouldn't be done by only looking at Saturday league cricket. Stuff like the old Tuesday night games organised by a local church, the annual youth six a side games where we'd play against a couple of female sides, pub cricket, the local cup matches... so much of that has gone in 20 years. Cultural habits change, working habits have definitely changed, and so cricket has suffered in the area.
Got a cheeky 150* Minor Counties v ESCA in 1994/5 ish ironically at the old Lloyds Bank ground in Beckenham- their attack was Tudor, Kerwin and Jamie Dickson- 6'5", 6'6" and 6'7" respectively!!
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Their combined heights would have been the combined height of the entire Wiltshire U-16 XI around 1994. Our batting order should have read Sleepy, Sneezy, Doc...
You played with/against Luke S?
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
You know you've made it when you've had some pissweak sledging from a Saffer quick. Mine came in an Old Boys School XI against another Old Boys School XI during their annual cricket week. One of my best friends batted at 9, I was somehow promoted to 10, and we were deep in the batting shit being seven down for under 100. Oppo had pulled in a local overseas professional who was both quick and accurate with it. He'd knocked over the top three and came back to try to wrap the innings up. Our time together could be summed up by his comment to me in the first over of our duel:
"You really are fucking shit" - "I am, and I'm still here, so hurry up and get me out".
After a few overs of not dismissing me, I break the seal and crack away a beautiful check cover drive for four. He didn't applaud, instead serenading me with "You Fucking cunt!". I elect to say nothing and simply hold the pose. I'm still holding it by the time he's back to his bowling mark and turns around, a sight which makes him visibly bristle and makes the slip cordon start giggling. The bouncer was inevitable, his yell of rage inevitable, and my friend and I put on 70-odd by end of innings. Mr Saffer didn't stick around for a drink afterwards.
Once the move back to Yokelshire is done at the end of this month, I'm going to try bowling again with a view to doing something next year if my consultant says that I don't need a full knee replacement as the expiry date on the 2005 operation was last year...
Did you come across Chris Heron?
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Granta, I thought.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
ECB publicly seen to do the right thing, no serious consequences for Robinson. Was always going to be the outcome.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.