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 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.