New Season - same old Wickman

Good evening readers

The 2012 Wick cricket season is underway with games all of a sudden coming in a flurry like London buses. At the weekend four teams represented the Wick in league cricket - which is unique in the (barely living) memory of the balcony.

We should quietly pat ourselves on the back here as its some achievement to get what is essentially a club attached to the hamlet of Hampton Wick into four Surrey Championship competitions from a position less than a decade ago where we were struggling to get 22 fit men and boys out there.

This weekend saw four excellent performances with wins for the newly promoted 1s by a comfortable margin (a ton for Normy and a Michelle for Daisy), the 2xi in a game which saw a quite astonishing and impudent knock of 117 from Zo Tughral which transformed the game and the 4s who won on debut after Phil Linter's five for wrecked Egham's challenge. The 3s had to endure a titanic rearguard from a depleted Walton side who managed to prevent a Wickwash scoring at just over 1 an over for 50+ overs...

And so the blog is slowly coming back to life after a quite unpardonable Winter off - with a plea... We need more writers. Wickman is a busy boy these days and would appreciate some musings and contributions from members. Just let m know, whoever he is, that you are interested...