Quokkas Cricket Club

Quokkas CCC 173 for 7 (Irfan 100 n/o) beat Wantage & Grove 169-6 (Ali 2 for 9, Radio 1 for 25, Josh 1 for 37)

I’ve not got a long-winded intro to this match report. My free time seems to have totally consumed by managing a hoard of unruly under 9 cricketers. I will never mention the amount of teacher’s school holidays again. They should get more time off. You’ll just have to make do with the basics, which are as follows:

Quokkas CC 237-4 (Saleem 51 not out, Seagull 47 not out, Faggie 43) beat Wantage & Grove CC 172-5 (Hamza 1-20, Sohail 1-11, Dave 1-24)

I’m a `Clarkson’s Farm’ fan. OK, the guy is a proper wazzock, but I like how the series shed a light on the reality of farming and provided some insight into just how bloody hard it is. My Dad worked on a farm in his younger years, and consequently we were regularly forced to visit the Teesdales at their farm in Sykehouse whenever we ventured back up to Yorkshire. Helping to deliver, what turned out to be a dead calf, was a particularly haunting childhood memory, but it wasn’t all bad. Getting to ride in the cab of a cattlebox, drive a tractor and load hay bales in the glorious summer sunshine created a lasting affinity to farming.