Not that Wickman ever doubted it, but the Man from Del Monte has said yes. If you were down at the Wick on Sunday morning at 10.15am you would have seen a delegation arrive and a nervous Chairman Maoples usher them around. Far from checking the quality of our citrus and other fruits though they were assessing our suitability for inclusion in the Surrey Champ. Well, boys, its on the nod official that we're in. Surrey Championship cricket is coming to a Wick near you.
So now Cranesy will be able to get ducks at a completely new standard of cricket. Should we put the rate up?
Hampton Wick Royal Cricket Club * 1863 - 2013 * 150 Glorious Seasons
Monday 22 September 2008
The Man from Del Monte - he says "yes"!
Not that Wickman ever doubted it, but the Man from Del Monte has said yes. If you were down at the Wick on Sunday morning at 10.15am you would have seen a delegation arrive and a nervous Chairman Maoples usher them around. Far from checking the quality of our citrus and other fruits though they were assessing our suitability for inclusion in the Surrey Champ. Well, boys, its on the nod official that we're in. Surrey Championship cricket is coming to a Wick near you.
So now Cranesy will be able to get ducks at a completely new standard of cricket. Should we put the rate up?
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ONE duck...ONE f!*$&*$ duck ALL YEAR LONG and now look what happens in this post.
BASTARD!!
How many did everybody else get?!?!?!
(if you hadn't already guessed it Cranesy posted this!!)
WAS it only one? Maybe it just felt like more. Cranesey - any idea who might have got a blob in a corporate cricket day recently?
Dunno, perhaps someone like Clarkey? Maybe a Fudgie or a Matty D got a blob in a corporate day. Which would be much funnier.
Cranesy
All those would be very funny of course, no doubt. However none of those people really give it the Barry all that much so despite the evident humour Wickman is thinking of an even more humourous situation that he only found out about through meeting someone in a work environment. You see, the person in question has obviously been keeping very quiet about it, hoping that no one at the Wick would find out. But its a very small world this cricketing world of ours...
Give me the name and I will extract a fiver from them...
C
I got a Quack against Guildford City. Middled it straight to gully. Thats my area.
The bowler was the illegal fella. Looked like a pirate, but could smoke a cricket ball...just ask Tongy.
Student
Thanks Student.
It's not a question of volume. Hand Junaid and Copeland are top of that league with Clarky in second place.
No, its about the exquisite torture of the context. A duck in League Cricket can be even honourable if secured in a valiant cause like swishing across the line to secure a declaration or doggedly keeping someone out for 25balls because your skipper asks it of you.
But a quacker in a social game or work related game is an entirely different matter. The sort of duck I am referring to might happen when head office plays a regional office in a needle match. You are there to provide ringer skills, playing as you do, every Saturday, league cricket. To get pinged in such circumstances is close to unbearable don't you think? Such agony. Such shame. Such... hideousness.
The shame is so great that you don't even tell your mates and you leave Wickman to find it out through work. Who could it be, gentlemen, that is hiding this guilty secret almost as if it were a nasty STD or a skid marked pair of Calvin Kleins pushed to the bottom of the laundry basket???
My mate Duncan from ex-work was short of batting practise. He couldnt get a run to save his life, despite being captain of his side. He liked to open and get on with it. He is also a decent bowler so thankfully when he kept on scoring ducks he still had a part to play in the team - in fact he was bwoling well. Imagine a Mark Ealham - line and length.
Anyway, to help his batting woes, I asked him to play a midweek Wick game. Worcester Park. He comes from HItchin so it was a fair trek round the M25. He arrived and Sisso put him on bowling duty straight away - 12 overs straight. In reply he batted #3, only to get a first baller from a slow version of Dick Ewen. And then I followed him at #4 scoring a 50!
Returning the favour I played at Hitchin a few weeks ago and scored 47 (out reverse sweeping), while he got another first baller!
L-B-W!.......GONE!
Apparently he has 6 league ducks this year.
We did get a leeeetle bit drunk afterwards though.
Student
we dont want your life story student.
Not had a duck in two years. Not sure why...ah yes, duck tax was introducted. Incentivised cricket...ATS
Barry Hibby
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