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Actually, there weren't really but it's a nice quote from a little-known unpublished Enid Blyton story 'Five Wickets Go Down for One Run'.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.

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