Quokkas Cricket Club

Quokkas 266-4 (Faggie 100no, Irfan 68, Rashid 38, Marcus 26) beat Croxley Guild 232-9 (Faggie 3-16, Irfan 3-20)

Perhaps the most important prerequisite of writing a quality Quokkas match report is witnessing the encounter. Watching others play the game is perhaps my strong point, but this year eve doing that is proving challenging. This week my vantage point was supping gin and tonics on a sunbed at Profs villa in Majorca. When Paolo is batting, that is perhaps the best seat in the house, but when trying to offer you some insight into the game it is unhelpful. All I can offer you is that there was no shortage of runs but there was a lack of sausage sizzle. Depending on whether you were scoring an unbeaten century as Faggie was, or hankering for hot dog like Radio will determine how much you enjoyed this game.

Croxley Guild CC 164-9 (Dave 4-35, Irfan 3-6) beat The Birmingham Quokkas CC 154 all out (Hurreira 50, Rashid 25, Faggie 23)

The great Oasis ticket frenzy passed me by. I saw them at the Hull Adelphi back in ‘94. It cost me £4. £12, actually, as Prof and Skip were dragged along. Seeing Liam lauding above the rest of the world from a 12-inch-high stage about three feet away from me was a brilliant experience. He walked off stage half-way through an eight-minute version of `I am the Walrus’, which is exactly the too-cool-for-school front man presence I’d been waiting for since the Roses went on their hiatus. Once the rest of the world caught up, as they did with Blur and The Verve, I gave them a swerve.