Quokkas Cricket Club

Quokkas CC 135-10 (Saad 39, Haider 28, Haider Jr 15) beat Wantage & Grove CC115 all out (Jatin 4-10, Haider Jr 2-12, Seagull 1-10)

I love the game up at Wantage. The sun always seems to shine, the Oxfordshire countryside provides a lovely backdrop to my drive north and invariably it’s a great game of cricket. We were fortunate to have Steve the Pirate in attendance this year, and he pointed out that Tweaky’s fabled pink cowboy hat had been framed and mounted on the clubhouse wall for posterity. It made me consider what the Quokkas would have on the clubhouse wall should we have a clubhouse. The last surviving Quokkas sweatband, Skip’s 1970s bucket hat, Mantis’ leather tie, any one of many dreadful Birmingham City away shirts, a deflated skippy with Evil Dave’s knife through its heart?

Quokkas CC 143-7 (Haider42, Saad 29, Jatin 24) beat ACME CC 139-6 (Radio John 3-28, Rashid 2-9, Jatin 1-9, Seagull 1-14)

In a summer of many hot days, this one was roasting. My sweat was sweating. Not a good time then for the air con on Mrs Seagull’s car to give up the ghost. I spent half the day with my head hanging out the car window like a dog. A communication breakdown saw a world first: the entire Quokkas line up in attendance before the first of our opponents had arrived. The 1:30pm start time slipped to 2:00pm and then 2:30pm. It was almost dark by the time some of us got home, which is saying something for the longest day.

Croxley Green CC 235-4 (Rachid 2-19, Evil 1-37, Jatin 1-35) beat Quokkas CC 185 all out (Faggie 60, Rashid 32, Slick 26, Seagull 25)

Damn. I played in this game. So, there are no excuses for a piss poor match report on my part. Except that it’s October now and I remember more about the live football on the TV we watched in the bar afterwards than I do about the actual game. One thing I haven’t forgot is how dangerous it is to play here when you have batsman hitting the ball very hard and having to field in what is basically a ploughed field. I am grateful for retain all my teeth. There was a Tim Flowers moment for Evil Dave that would have been a lot less funny is he was a few inches taller. We stopped pretty much nothing and about 20 of their runs came from overthrows due to obscure bounces. That was the difference between the two sides.

Quokkas CC 123 all out (Faggie 45, Rashid 18, Evil Dave 14 no) beat Dolphins 98 all out (Evi Dave 3-22, Haider Jr 2-33, Jatin 2-20)

First game of the season and I’ve yet to turn the central heating off. Not sure the Dolphins like us very much. It’s bloody April for god’s sake. Sod that for a game of soldiers. I wasn’t the only one still heavily invested in the football season, but thankfully we had eight Birmingham Quokkas.

Quokkas CC 191-5 (Rashid 60, Haider 42, Slick 29no, Saad 26) beat Belhaus CC 160-8 (Seagull 3-26, Rashid 3-29, Radio 1-29)

Prior to the game the discussion was whether the Bulgarian Eurovision Song Contest entrant, Dara, was the singer we saw in the nightclub full of gangsters in Sofia. Seagull, too drunk to notice that the lives of all Quokkas in the club were in serious jeopardy said no, that was Emilia. Funny how these vital pieces of information are retained.