Bugger me, a new blog post!

But just as half arsed as all the others.......

OK, well, a dark cold evening, the rain is falling and there is a cricket blog post, what gives? I was intending to carry on the blog about the indoor season, but looking at the gap between the last post and this one it seems my enthusiasm was waning, the long warm days of summer yore are gone. However, due to the massive amount of people* asking if I was going to carry on the blog and encouraging me to do so, I thought I would indeed make the effort.

Ah yes, the eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed the term ‘indoor season’. For those of you that know about indoor cricket, no introductions necessary. If you don’t, a brief guide. The games are played at the indoor cricket centre at Hurn – a photo of a game in progress below……….

 

OK, it may not be an actual photo, more an artist’s impression…… Games last roughly an hour and are played between teams of six people in a sports hall sized building and an innings is 12 overs. It sort of plays like a cross between cricket and pin ball and I really enjoy it. Makes for a pleasant evening – turn up on time to find out just how delayed your game will be, wait, play, go to bar, chat shit, go home, have loving partner do her best to pretend that she is in any way interested in the result of the game, cup of tea, shower, bed, done.

Now the exciting bit of news for the indoor season is that I have turned my coat and will be playing for a different club – namely Bournemouth ‘F’ team, aka the Lion Kings. I would like to reassure my legion of fans that came to watch me play for Winton last season that this is not a permanent deal. It is the team I played last winter and has the recruitment rule that in the words of the captain ‘you need to be at least 40 and be able to stand unaided’. A thoroughly nice bunch of chaps they are too and lots of fun to play with. It also has the bonus that as there are no youngsters in the team I only have to worry about managing my own emotions – you know how precious 20 year olds can get…….

There are quite a few over 40 chaps that are available, although the ‘able to stand unaided’ is a bar that quite a few only just manage to get over, for this reason we are in the bottom division. The target for the team is ‘don’t come last in the league and therefore be the worst indoor team in Dorset’, which you would think would not be to difficult but meh, we shall see how that pans out………

*OK, ’massive amounts of people’ may be hyperbole but I can honestly say that the amount of people that have asked if the blog is going to carry on is almost certainly a plural number……