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Tour 2000 Report - the very hot weekend of 16-17-18-19 June    not so much a report, more unadulterated ramblings

"AFTER ALL, that is why I loved my team so much - not only for the joy in victory, but also for the stupid desire to cry on evenings when we had lost." Not, in fact, the thoughts of a disconsolate Salix player, making his way home after his team had met its Waterloo in sunny Kent.

No, they are the words of a French goalkeeper called Albert Camus, all goalkeepers being at heart existentialist philosophers. And he admits that, yes, you do love a thing that brings you pain and misery. You would hardly trouble with it, if it did not.

The Team prior to the Longport Game

 
In honour of Andy Foster, we hereby publish these two photos:  the swordsman and the Monkeys forehead.  

No idea why, really

Sherwin Williams bat Handle  

 

The tour was in Kent, where they grow hops, which we drank.

We stayed at the Chaucer hotel, centrally located for the town and for the decorators. The worlds smallest rooms were, however, very cheap. A couple of tour members disliked the hotel so they stayed out all night. Or perhaps there was another reason?

We played:

        • Nonington CC (lost)
        • Beltinge CC (drew)
        • Choughs CC (er, lost)
        • Longfleet CC (well, guess..)

and saw  some beautiful grounds. We recommend you visit the website of one of the oldest grounds in the country , where we played and lost www.choughs.co.uk 


Who Played

some comments from Fletch

Rich Winter

no Hawaiian shirt in evidence but showed evidence of more than one stroke

Mark Rodbert

Father of the team

Andy Bush

Winner of worst shirt competition, but lost out in the monkeys forehead stakes

Andy Foster

name now changed to Swordsman Foster

Steve Jacobs

Is that mobile permanently glued in his ear

Simon Curtis

Steady, but greying slightly

Neil Clark

We missed the funny trousers

Fletch

Fat bloke, easily injured

Dominic Guinness

didn't bother to come, citing pressure of work

Charles Hewitt

His Captaincy has matured with age, like a Beaujolais Noveau

Andy Shilling

Lurched into majestic action, but easily injured

John Lock

Chick issues kept him away

Jay Sharma

Likely to be our new man in the States just as he was getting broken in

Fred Maroudas

Chazza shoes are big to fill, but Fred showed us his size 12's

Craig Brown

or Hat Trick Craig as we now know him

Richard Cox

Hefty does of Sanatogen kept him nimble and scoring

Dave Henig

Our man in a crisis, fueled by greasy breakfasts

 

How fast does the Clarkster bowl?

This blurry shot of the Clarkster at full whack is a video still.  According to my state of the art ClarksterCam, it takes 0.83 seconds for the ball to leave his hand before being whacked for 4.  This is a distance of around 19 yards, so a little arithmetic shows us that the ball is travelling at 46 miles per hour. Give or take.

Next week we submit Andy Bush to the Machometer and time Fletch with a sand glass

We had an excellent visit to the Salix Bat factory (and Andy Bush and Andy Shilling both bought one).  you can visit them at 

http://www.cricketer.co.uk/salix/index.html

 

 

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The Team The Team The Team Clarkster says "What's a bat?"
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At Salix Bats Making the Sherwin Bat Chazza picks one Has it got a edge he asks
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Andy picks one (then pays) worst Shirt contest winner Simon and Richard arrive on tour Captain Chazza shows his true feelings
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Andy Shilling tests the wicket (like it matters) Fletch hits a 4 (rare event) Fletch hits 50 (very rare event) Showers at the Choughs - unchanged since 1762
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The Lads relax The Clarkster in Action Whoops Rich womans house. Rented from a brewery
Fred dives. Fred drops. Fred catches 2nd time. Bushy cheers Wincarnis works wonders. Richard bowls a leggy The Foster Arse Delicately, Andy Shilling plays a classic on drive (sorry, wrong caption)

 

vs Nonington

15-Jun

nonnington

148 for 6

Salix

129 for 3

winter

b

1

overs

m

r

w

clark

c and b

29

bush

5

0

17

0

bush

ret

50

jacobs

5

1

27

2

cox

no

18

curtis

4

1

13

1

fletch

ct

13

clark

3

0

17

2

rodders

no

2

ringer age 9

2

0

8

0

hewitt

dnb

cox

3

0

8

1

foster

dnb

hewitt

2

0

30

0

curtis

dnb

foster

1

0

13

1

ringer aged 9

dnb

jacobs

dnb

catches

bush fletch roddrs foster clark

extras

16

drops

fletch winter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

vs Beltinge

16-Jun

Timed Game - this was a draw

Beltinge

183 for 9

Salix

130 for 9

clark

c

8

overs

m

r

w

winter

c

6

jacobs

8

0

43

2

fletch

c

54

shilling

5

0

52

1

hewitt

b

4

cox

2

0

19

0

sharma

lbw

12

brown

7

0

30

2

foster

b

8

bush

7

1

35

3

bush

b

0

shilling

c

4

brown

no

13

cox

b

0

catches

foster (2), sharma

jacobs

no

2

drops

foster

extras

19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

vs Choughs

17-Jun

Salix

115 for 9

Choughs

118 for 5

maroudas

c

1

overs

m

r

w

shilling

b

20

clark

5

1

10

1

sharma

c and b

0

curtis

5

0

21

2

rodders

run out

1

bush

5

0

16

1

cox

b

4

hewitt

5

0

22

0

winter

b

12

cox

4.1

0

27

0

hewitt

c

12

sharma

5

1

15

1

bush

not out

27

foster

run out

10

curtis

b

0

catches

shilling, maroudas 2

clark

not out

1

drops

clark, hewitt, winter - 3, yes 3

extras

26

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Longport

18-Jun

Salix

118

Longport

120 for 6

brown

run out

26

winter

c

25

bush

7

2

22

0

foster

lbw

16

clark

6

1

20

1

rodbert

run out

3

sharma

1

0

17

0

clark

b

12

jacobs

6.1

1

38

1

bush

b

0

brown

6

1

16

4

sharma

run out

15

maroudas

c

0

henig

b

5

catches

winter foster

cox

not out

3

drops

brown jacobs

jacobs

b

0

golden

extras

13

 

 

 

 

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