Another cancellation ::)

Hmmm, very lean month in terms of games played by the club. Tomorrow's been cancelled due to the pitch being unplayable, which is weird since it hasn't rained much over the last few days. Though I had heard a rumour that the place was recently soaked by someone dumping the contents of a swimming pool onto it I've only managed to get three games this month so far, one of which should have been rained off.

Myself and a housemate comandeered the use of the tennis courts in our estate to get in a bit of tennis ball cricket yesterday evening, seeing as the weather was so fine. It was good enough fun, though I didn't enjoy being clean bowled by him third ball especially since he doesn't play cricket. He has a great eye with a bat though. It's the usual thing - he's one of those guys that thinks cricket looks easy, so he cross bats all and sundry and somehow gets away with it

I didn't mind too much though, I was bowling a bit short, and it being an old tennis ball was sitting up in front of him begging to be pulled away with disdain. I fairly quickly learned my lesson and started pitching it up a bit further, and it seemed to do the trick, in that I managed to bowl him a few times, and get him plumb lbw once. He's still a better bat than I am, and with a bit of practice to give him a drive as a shot option he could be very useful. I might have to redouble my efforts to recruit him next season.

Speaking of next season, as things stand I'm likely to be taking on the role of secretaty of the club ... unless someone else decides they want to do it. If this does happen, then the holder of the position will be decided in a fight to the death with a piece of cricket paraphenalia. I'm thinking about using a stump - it's lighter than a bat and it has the added advantage of a pointy end.

We've also got training this evening to make up for the fact that we've had none all week. Our pitch is in a public park which is sometimes used for music gigs. In the past two weeks it was taken over by no less than 6 artists/bands co-inciding with training days. I just hope that none of the stage equipment was hauled away over our pitch - last year a truch got bogged down on the outfield and had to be hauled away by a tractor. I get a headache even now thinking about the mess the ground was in.

Hopefully it's survived intact this time.

I've added some pictures to my blog entries from the past few weeks. Hope you like them.