I wholeheartedly agree wi' Golcar. It's a pretty crappy cricket club website that doesn't even post the club's results. Especially for those of us who happen to have wandered into a webcaff specifically to find out.
A little less babbling on the forum and a little more about what happened on Saturday (and matters of a similar nature), please.

Apologies for the delay gentlemen, but the scorebook is still in the boot of my wife's car and I have not been near this computer until now, due to teaching and various other commitments since the match.

The full version will appear tonight when I get home, but the short version goes like this. Munich scored about 220 off 40 overs, Ljubljana scored about 203 in reply. Johnny Reja scored 36, loads of others got between 10 and 20. Bowling Sanjay got 2 for 37 on debut, Brad got 2 for 38 and Kaushik also took one on debut (I think I caught that one from memory). A good time was had by all and the full results will appear tonight (with a couple of pictures I took).

-- Edited by El Presidente at 13:11, 2007-04-23

Practice at the nets today (Thursday 26th April) at 17:30. Matches tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday at Valburga.

Wednesday 2nd May - first match ever between Maribor CC and Meica CC. Borut has told me that they are still hopeful of playing the game on the original meadow Meica first played cricket on between 1974 and 1982. He has also sent me some great pictures of their club's "single wicket" tournaments. Click here to learn more

Luxury wrote:

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 What happened to your batting El Pres?

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 Big ugly duck. They happen sometimes.

Today 2 games. 2 wins. The first one (a 20/20 match) we got 117 (Robi Jakofi top scored) and they got about 90 (wickets to many bowlers) and the 2nd we chased 104 off 15 overs (a 15/15 match this time). Tom top scored and young Uro faced the penultimate ball needing just 1 to win and belted it for 4. I'll get the scores up as quickly as I can (but first I'll have a shower and cook something to eat). I took some nice pics which I'll upload also.

New game, new team tomorrow. Ljubljana vs Milton CC.

Loss today, Close. Eve 4 for 18. 188 off 40

Us 148 all out

Eve 31
Crawford 37
Furness 50

Great Captaincy S Fish

Scores to come either late Sunday / early Monday

-- Edited by El Presidente at 08:08, 2007-04-29

Congrats El Tres. So much nicer than 95, wouldn't you say?

Damn, I'm in the mood for a swing of the bat myself...

paichukka wrote:

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Congrats El Tres. So much nicer than 95, wouldn't you say?

Damn, I'm in the mood for a swing of the bat myself...

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Oh yes. Lucky I hit a sqaure cut in the last over to get to 100. The innings was all so perfectly timed you understand... Did have several cardiac arrests afterwards too. Still aching actually.

You coming over for Vienna, Barca Boy? I insist!

Vienna Lions v Ljubljana, 26 May.

I'll just put up what happened, more or less without comment. Attempting to garner 'positives' from it would be a challenge that even the writers of Enver Hoxha's Diary may find unreasonably demanding.

Lions won the toss and demanded (not chose, or elected, but demanded) to bat. They then proceeded to a total of 603-7 (amount in words: six hundred and three for seven).

Your brave Dragons in reply got 87 all out. Thus the winning margin was a fairly comprehensive 516.

Further details (I imagine that these would interest those who enjoy watching car crashes, public executions in Saudi Arabia etc) will be forthcoming as and when the scorebook passes from Crawf to our Bradders.

Well, in fairness it sounds like the toss was a pretty crucial one to win.
No doubt the conditions played their part as well - I suppose it clouded over somewhat as the day wore on?
And it's always difficult when you're missing a few key players. On another day, I'm sure it could have been a different story.
Anyway, you managed to take seven wickets, and that's a good foundation on which to build for the next match.
All in all, no need for panic.

Have I got the job?

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What is Enver Hoxha's diary?

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Ah, the wonderful Radio Tirana of the 1970's and early 1980's. Very serious voices telling a good news story that you knew was utter cobblers. All delivered in a mid-Atlantic/Balkan accent with cheerful disregard for the rules of English grammar. They used to broadcast on medium wave and you could hear it quite well in the evenings in England, albeit that the signal faded mid sentence then got stronger again. 
There was the News. Everything was always fine in Albania. Production statistics (ever up) were usually to the fore; bad things happened elsewhere, and Radio Tirana said that Enver Hoxha had decided to send blankets to earthquake victims. Lengthy speeches would be quoted which pointed out 1) that the world was divided into a) capitalists and b) people in Moscow, Peking, Belgrade and elsewhere who had lost their way and were only pretending to be socialists; 2) there was only one true path to communism.
There was a marvellous programme called 'Leafing through the Marxist-Leninist Press'.
And every evening there was Enver Hoxha's Diary. It was always about Enver's meetings (ever fruitful) and Enver visiting places in Albania to see how well it was all going, where he would be given flowers by grateful children. Once in a while, for a bit of variety, there'd be a story about Enver getting a letter from somebody who wanted his help. I remember one where a young mother had written to say that the construction of a new road near where she lived was really excellent, but, as they were at it 24 hours a day, her kids were being kept awake by the machinery at night and she was worried. So kindly Enver had intervened and had the family rehoused until construction work was over.

If you want to know what was actually going on at the time, which was far removed from all of the above, have a look on Wikipedia. 

Club Dogsbody wrote:

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I'll just put up what happened, more or less without comment. Attempting to garner 'positives' from it would be a challenge that even the writers of Enver Hoxha's Diary may find unreasonably demanding.

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One major positive, in my humblest of opinions, apart from the mighty 6 that Steve Fish belted far into the bit that used to be a ropy old cornfield, is the ability for the members of this forum to discuss the finer points of 20th Century Albanian political propaganda so articulately in a situation where words might normally fail - ie a rather thorough defeat.

Next week we discuss evil would-be Central African Republic Emperor Bokassa and why we couldn't put together a partnership of more than 10 for the last three wickets.

 

-- Edited by El Presidente at 11:58, 2007-05-30

Naturally, had CB Fry had the necessary income of 10,000 quid a year and thus become king of Albania, we would've destroyed the Vienna Lions.

I've got no idea how much Bokassa enjoyed his cricket (probably quite a lot, though), but certainly Idi Amin, when he wasn't eating his victims, was a wicketkeeper who "tended to rely on the ball hitting his bulky frame to stop it going past him, rather than putting out a hand to catch it" and a cannibalistic dictator who "saw himself as a fine opening batsman". So in both respects he seems to resemble Tom Furness.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030908/ai_n12703725

-- Edited by Club Dogsbody at 08:25, 2007-05-30

Meica v Maribor on Friday, Vienna Road Trip this weekend, the return of 2 prodigal sons, and the 10th anniversary of the first game ever. Big weekend really.

I'm looking forward to my first game of cricket since April, hopefully I won't be too rusty.

Indeed. This time, for once, no t-shirts with "We went to the heart of the Habsburg Empire and all we got were two mighty thrashings and a lousy hangover" written on. Saturday was probably the best team effort from your beloved LjCC ever. If Carlsberg made team efforts, they'd make this one.  Off we went to Seebarn for day two and the game against United Nations. Not that much to say about it, really. Your gallant but elderly, overweight warriors had too little left in the tank to mount a serious challenge. We looked at one point like getting 200+, perhaps as many as 250, but we only managed 148. The UN got there before the end of the 25^th over to take a maximum 14 points. Ah well.

The weekend, our 10^th birthday party, will be remembered for a) us taking a squad of 13 to Vienna rather than the usual 9; and b) the magnificent, thrilling, hauling-ourselves-out-of-a-hole-of-our-own-digging victory on the Saturday.

Yes a thrilling match and a rookie Slovene calmly forcing their paceman's yorker through the point region.

Nice to see the return to the field of mr Geldart. Nice slips catch he grabbed also to add to his regulation "cover" catch and nice wicket.

We also heard some great things about the Mezica / Maribor match up in Mezica on Friday.

Slovenia is a great place to be with regards to cricket at the moment.

LjCC v Salzburg, Velden, 1 July.

Salzburg batted 1st and got to 107-2 at the first drinks break. Oh, lordy, here we go again. But no. Your beloved aged overweight superstars, who've rediscovered useful things recently such as how to get 11 blokes to the ground and how to bat, bowl and field, fought back marvellously, removing both their set batsmen in the 18th over. There was then a steady clatter of wickets via some good bowling and injudicious shots and we kept them to 215 all out. Plaudits to all, good team effort.
You may find it hard to believe, but there was then a 170-run opening partnership. Yes there was. By Ljubljana. Well done Mark O. and Rob C. Wonderful. Salzburg were a bit of a rabble, to be honest, with heaps of wides and overthrows to supplement the excellent aggressive batting.
After that, we did our best to make it an exciting game, losing 5 wickets for the addition of 9 more runs, but once again Steve Mayland came up trumps to help Mark to steer us home.
And we got 13 points. Blimey. Here they are, all 13 of them:

El Presidente wrote:

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LjCC vs Lords CC Sat 7th July 2007 at Velden.

7/7/2007 wasn't so auspicious for the club apart from the fact that our number 7 batsmen socred his highest score and helped smash a new 6th wicket club record.

Dave "the batsman" ibbotson was the man of the day. Smashing sixes and fours all round the ground he quickly raced to 50 before being dismissed. Rob Crawford (30) kept things ticking along as they put on 90 for the 6th wicket to give us a small target of 151 to defend.

As we lost 2 players and were only able to replace 1 (thanks to Steve Fish for coming along at the last minute) we were always going to struggle to defend such a target. However we did grab a couple of wickets along the way as we tried desperately to pick up at least one bonus point. Hats off to Tom's nice catch a2nd slip off a reasonably quick Brad Eve ball. The other wicket was pretty tasty too, but I don't want to be accused of bloewing the own trumpet too hard.

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Congratulations to Dave Ibs on his excellent innings, and to Brad on his fine bowling during the match... if only he were as accurate and task-focussed when typing out the match report.

El Presidente wrote:

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7/7/2007 wasn't so auspicious for the club apart from the fact that our number 7 batsmen scored ...

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How many "number 7 batsmen" can we have on any given day? Is this a new ploy, of which the MCC have yet to become aware, designed to bolster our normally fragile lower-middle order?

If it is, I'm all in favour.

2 games against Prague over the weekend. 2 close defeats. How about that ball I bowled where the bail flew for 6 eh? Beat that, Ryan!



I'll get the scores up in a sec, now my internet connection seems to be working again


-- Edited by El Presidente at 11:42, 2007-07-24