Match Facts
Date: Sunday, february 12th, 2023
Location: Poplar Oval, Royal Park, VIC
Time: 1pm start
Captain: Alex
The Big Picture
Being a pub cricketer is a life of dichotomy. You love the game and want to play, just not at the expense of anything else you have in your life. A warm Summers day spent at the markets may lead you to think “This’d be a great day for cricket” wistfully, and then you move on to the fish aisle.
And so we enter this, our last YPCA match for the Season, with only the Big Day Not Out and a couple of tour matches to go. Will we miss our afternoons in the field together? Absolutely. Will we find spreadsheets play with and seats in the MCC to kick during the cooler months? Probably.
It’s been a great season so far with a couple of grouse additions to the team, as well as the return of old and newer faces. The “net session” at Animals place was definitely a highlight. Lots of fun to be sure.
The Vic Hotel is a team that, I believe, we haven’t crossed paths with as yet and so look forward to getting past that awkward stage where our eyes initially lock, before we are slow dancing in the middle of the field.
We were all in and properly committed and behind each other and that’s why we finished the game with our nose ahead. Well done Peter-the-younger-Sforcina for a level headed, accurate final over. Top work all. A memorable win. Thanks Slug for the pictures and updates.
Form Guide
The Quokkas are coming off a rollicking good time in The Pride Game last week, which we lost, but that was hardly the point. Everyone had a great time and we are stronger as a club for it.
Before that, though, was our first win against the mighty Nomads. This is territory so uncharted that Id almost expect Jean Luc Picard to be involved.
The Quokkas are putting together an awesome season together with great work in the field, some big hitting and disciplined bowling. Well done all, let’s go and enjoy The Empress on Sunday afternoon.
In the Spotlight
He’s back baby. After a couple of years of sea-changing (or is that changing the sea?), The Sizzle has returned to the Quokka fold.
The man in the Bluey returned in last weeks Pride game and showed us what we had been missing; flat sixes smashed over mid-wicket, a complete disregard for skin cancer and the ability to produce young-cricketing prodigys.
Welcome back Sizzle.
Team News
It’s been a busy schedule for the last few weeks, but we’ve managed to get through it without injury or disinterest and as a result still have a full complement for Sunday:
- F1
- Prez
- Dutchy
- Radar
- Jay
- Alex [c]
- Sizzle
- The Animal
- TBC
- Fargo
- Oscar
Pitch and Conditions:
This is the first time we have been invited to play on the wrong side of Sydney Road (excluding the game in Adelaide) and we welcome the opportunity to play at the well-tended Poplar Oval ground that is part of Royal Park.
It will be interesting to see what Royal Park is renamed to once we become a Republic, I for one nominate the name: Beers on the field.
It’s looking cloudy on Sunday with a top of 20 and possibilities of showers, so we should get a full game in and hopefully some ring-a-ding-swing.
Stats and Trivia:
- Sizzle has some lovely and symmetrical batting figures: 111 runs at 11.1 and a top score of 33;
- Thailand uses the Buddhist calendar, we are currently in the year 2566 BE using that Calendar;
- Dutchy is 2 runs off 200 for the season, fair effort that;
- The scene in which Toby Maguire catches all of the food on the trey in the Spiderman movie (2002) was not done with CGI, but he actually caught everything – it only took 156 attempts (much like my attempts at hitting a 30)