Proper cricket is that

So I scored 8 runs off 43 overs to get my side the draw the other day:

http://tuskers.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=10815163

Feel free to praise and be astonished and generally admire me and perhaps campaign for me to open the batting for England.

Have you been adopted by Yorkshire, Tom?

Tha sahnds in fine fettle, me ol flower.

I bet you were popular with the oppo! They cane your bowling, declare early and watch you make no attempt whatsoever to get the runs, but block from the start?

Must have been a thrilling afternoon...

Not expecting the Kingstonians to invite you/the Weasels back are you Tom?

PS - you guys on the ECB website coz we are...

2 wickets as well, Tom? This was clearly your Headingley 81......

We're actually the Weasels but stumbled upon the fact that bits of pieces of my career are preserved on the ECB website going through the Tusker's site. Where can we find you then Merlin?

Bit of context was we had few late withdrawals and were weak as a kittens in the field- no frontline bowlers, couple of young non-cricketing lads in shorts and a girl (who did very respectably) making up the numbers. Kingstonian still took it upon themselves to absolutely metaphorically rape us with the bat so I had no qualms about blocking them to oblivion.

Ah, that puts a slightly different spin on it then. So you probably didn't care if you never played them again anyway?

There is a certain pleasure from infuriating teams like that. We have one league opponent we quite happily play out for a draw against because they're simply so obnoxious.

and a girl (who did very respectably) making up the numbers

Jeff?

They're usually quite agreeable to be fair to them but they took it a bit too far on Sunday- imagine their centurions have been a bit shy of runs this season. We have come up against a number of genuinely obnoxious sides down the years- not that we know too much about it but if you are massively stronger you shouldn't put the boot in too much.

If only Australia had done the decent thing down the years in the Ashes and had their batsmen retire at 50 and then bowl some donkey drops to help make the games a bit more competitive...

Eric Air Emu wrote: Kingstonian still took it upon themselves to absolutely metaphorically rape us with the bat so I had no qualms about blocking them to oblivion.

Quite right too.
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Geoffrey.

It can be a little bit tricky with massively weaker oppo though. We had a Sunday game a few years back where they were truly awful in the batting, which we didn't quite expect. We must have got about 250, and after one of the fourth choice bowlers started off with a spell of 6-7.....

Anyway, it finished so early we decided to have a beer match, and reversed our batting order. Got about 120 in 10 overs, and we were all set to lob the ball up so they could have a thrash, then their skipper wanders over and says "Good idea, we've reversed our batting order too...."

Henry wrote:

and a girl (who did very respectably) making up the numbers

Jeff?

Definitely fielded better then Jeff does. He'll bite the noses off paras but he's terrified off cricket balls.

You're England's next allrounder Tom, never mind opening bat.

8* in 43 overs eh?

Having never played proper club cricket how does one resist the temptation to thwack the fark out of t'ball?

43 overs but the runs were scored off 0 balls. Great strike rate.

I like how your team was going to give the poor, confused bloke at 10 another go at 11.

So what ever happened to the OLD Barbarian Weasels!?!?

Henry wrote:

and a girl (who did very respectably) making up the numbers

Jeff?

Rachel?