We are a London-based cricket club. Although we don't have our own pitch, we usually play our home fixtures in Greenwich Park. This blog records our regular triumphs and occasional failures.

Tuesday 19 August 2008

What a great tea - shame about the cricket


Cincers showed Actors Anon how to do it on Sunday with a sparking performance by Dan and Adam.
On their first outing as teaboys, the young duo - pictured above with their handiwork - floored the opposition with refreshments worthy of an Olympic Gold.
"Not so much a buffet as a banquet," said one Actor, admitting defeat straight away in the face of a groaning Greenwich Park table.
"Best tea we've ever had," said another.
Not even 'Tubs' Moynihan could have munched his way through such trays of fine sandwiches, pork pies (the Chairman snaffled the last one in the pub later), chicken legs, pasta, salad and as fine a selection of cakes as the Cincers' better halves could muster.
Why, there were even lashings of ginger beer!
Actually, there weren't really but it's a nice quote from a little-known unpublished Enid Blyton story 'Five Wickets Go Down for One Run'.
Sadly appropriate for what went before the tea interval.
Thirsting for revenge, Actors fielded a new quickie along with regular Irish Jamie who's always a handful and Cincers struggled to get the ball off the square for 12 overs or so.
Just for the record, Jamie's bowling figures were 5.4 overs, three for four!
Sanjeev, the quickie, was positively expensive at six overs, none for 10.
Manfully, Test Match opened up and stuck around to post a hard-worked 26 before unluckily holing out (one of a couple of excellent Actors' catches by Roy) and newcomer Abid - helpfully filling in at 30 minutes notice after Will pulled out 'sick' before start of play - chipped in with 23.
The rest of us, well, we didn't get any though Jim had his usual watchful four, four, four, four and out, while Rockie hit two fours as well.
105 all out short of our 35 overs was never going to be enough.
Gamefully, the Skip (that's me) invoked the spirit of Whitstable as we took the field to recall our incredible victory last month but it slowly became more spirit of Clacton as Actors lost just the two wickets.
Max bowled well to take an early wicket, caught behind by Jack, and Jim did his best given he'd spent half the night watching the Olympics.
Rockie got the other wicket but Actors strolled to victory.
After a tea like they had, there's ingratitude for you.

Tuesday 12 August 2008

Savour a triumph - forget a defeat!


For some reason, the match report from August 3 - the one the Skip missed due to a savage bout of food poisoning - has been delayed. No doubt our illustrious Chairman will send out one of his "Oi! why hasn't the blog been updated??" emails and put matters right.
In the meantime, readers are invited to feast their eyes on this fine body of men - the triumphant Cincinnati team after the tour victory in Pembrokeshire last month.
Let's savour the moment in south-west Wales and forget what came next in south-west London!
PS This picture is one of many taken by Andy O which - when I can work out how - will appear as a slideshow. Over to you, Selfish!

Tuesday 5 August 2008

The Chairman's Dive - Part II

Apologies for the angle - Selfish cameraman to blame.



With thanks to producer and editor Mrs Selfish

Saturday 2 August 2008

The Chairman's Review Tenby Tour 2008

The best tour yet? Every year I suspect there has been good reason to say "the best tour yet".

Berlin great organisation the attention of young football groupies (until we got out of the minibus) and finding a new friend. Yorkshire ah Yorkshire a story best told with beer and .....more beer late at night around a crowded table. Paris we`ll always have Paris, again organised well even if their cabbies seeemed determined to keep us from a wonderful setting complete with a pool for the chairman's dive and where better to drown our sorrows than the Sorrowful Shark. Then Galway back to the land of our skip to record our first victory.. away on a trip. And now Tenby without doubt the most beautiful setting yet hotels overlooking the beach fish being caught to eat (not scampi) great walks along the coast, ice creams brought from the whip and catches caught in the deep...sea that is, and then there was the cricket everyone playing their part no matter what role or for which team they played for one win one loss sounds about right yes I`m sure I can say "Y taith gorau erioed".....I hope.

Well done all

The Chairman