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After what seemed like a longer-than-usual recovery time, he trotted to the sideline & asked for a hector. Surely he had one on. But no – he had gone for a pre-innings number 1, and left the hector on the fence post near the mens’ room, forgetting to insert it afterwards.
We questioned why he wasn’t in critical condition, and it seems it wasn’t flush contact.
After deep interrogation, it seems that the ball had initially grazed his thigh, then proceeded to ‘kiss’ spherical objects #1 then #2 before falling to safety.
After thinking about this while umpiring, the only conclusion I could make is that (to use billiards terminology) this was a classic Walter Lindrum ‘cannon off the side cushion’. Eric agreed and wanted 2 points for the effort.
Amongst all the levity it was hard not to notice the sun beaming off the smirking hector on the fence in the distance.... “
Sparsh Polepalle (C4)
Our C4 boys under the inspired leadership of Hiresh, were playing in the first T20 game of the season at Campbell Park – the spiritual home of West Penno cricket. A note I got from Hiresh says it all:
“I have been instructed to inform you by several team members that for our match at Campbell Park today, Sparsh called me 12:30pm asking me where everyone was.
Somehow, he had ended up at a Campbell Park in or around Five Dock, even after I sent a google maps link of the ground to our group chat. Somehow, he made it to the real Campbell Park just before the game began.”
Daanish Mahmud (D1 Red)
During the pre-season T20 game, while we were batting, Daanish Mahmud (D1 Red, counted the number of players on the sideline plus the 2 batters and came up with only 9 players and asked how come we only had 9 players for the game. The problem is, he forgot to count two 2 umpires.
Well done Daanish for this outstanding achievement.
Ian ‘Diggers’ Digby (D1 Red)
Coming into bat and needing a special innings to get his Team across the line Diggers strode out to the wicket all set to dominate. One problem, the Skipper forget to bring out his bat. After going back to get the weapon he strode to the wicket confident making an impact.
Unfortunately, it didn’t work out that way with Diggers watching on from the non-strikers end and the final wicket falling without having to face a ball – maybe he knew something after-all.
What West Penno players do outside cricket
Justin Edwards (A2 Grade) was on national TV recently on ‘The Chase’ TV program. Justin was star of
his Team and almost got them to a win but just went down in the final showdown. Not sure what his
playing partner, Molly, is thinking – she is either in awe of yet another correct answer or just can’t take
her eyes off ‘The Man’.