Quokkas Cricket Club

ACME CC 181 for 7 (Skip 2-15) beat Quokkas CC 142 all out (Faggie 32, Seagull 29, Driver 25, Evil 25)

Another day, another BBC news story about Seagulls, this time a bird has been banned from a store for shoplifting. The gull, named Steven has a penchant for BBQ beef flavoured crisps apparently and due to a six-year thieving spree, the desperate owner has put up `Wanted’ posters. This follows a story last month about a gull, also called Steven, that was regularly raiding a Bangor store for croissants whilst picking up his daily newspaper, the Cambrian News. Why are am I telling you this? Filler, just filler.

Quokkas CC 198-7 (Faggie 93 no, The Driver 34, Sohail 26) beat ACME CC 97 all out (Smruti 3-2, Driver 3-14, Seagull 2-17)

It is independence day and if you weren’t aware, Major League Cricket is here, debuting at a sold-out stadium in Texas of all places, backed by IPL brands and with an array of international stars only too happy to have another set of franchises willing to pay them big bucks. With the sport intrinsically linked to spectator eating and drinking, offering a never-ending series of breaks for television commercials, a feast of stats and continuous point scoring…it is perhaps the sport the yanks have always wanted. Actually, cricket really was the US national sport back in in the 1800s and in 1844 a cricket match between the United States and Canada was the first international sporting event, predating the first England Australia test by thirty odd years. Cricket is said to have been played in the US since the early 1700s, but it was Benjamin Franklin that helped to formalise the game when bringing a copy of the Laws of cricket back to the States after a visit to England.