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Space Cadets
The Space Cadet Award is a prestigious achievement for those privileged enough to be considered for this memorable award that acknowledges random acts of basically being dumb.
Rob ‘sharp as a bowling ball’ Knapman
Rob is our B1 Blue skipper. After winning the toss and with rain around the boys were 1/59 and doing it easy. When a wicket fell it went downhill fast. A wicket fell and padded up to bat was Asees Rajput who was a week 1 player only. Asees explained to Rob, numerous times, that it may not be a good idea to
bat him as Nikhil Ninan, a “Supreme batsman” according to the great Eric Junkkari was his replacement next week. Anyway, a wicket fell with what turned out to be 3 balls before rain stopped play and the 2/59 became 3/59 with Nikhil not being able to bat next weekend.
Our B2 side
The story from Rob (C4 skipper) is a good one:
We had a lengthy lightning/rain delay out at Northholm. After a little while, some of our more senior team members Zia, Kamran and Sreeni decided it was time for a proper afternoon tea and hopped into their car in search for a cafe. The problem was they were probably enjoying it so much they didn’t hurry coming back.
Anyway, rain moved on and 30 mins passed since the last lightning strike and we were out on the field again.....but no Zia, Kamran and Sreeni in sight. Reyhan who came down to support his team (not playing due to HSC) had to sub field. But we were still 2 players down.
After two overs they slowly drove into the carpark, finished their coffees and came onto the field the following over. Hopefully not something that happens too often this season.
What makes this worse is Sreeni was halfway through an over when we left the field, so another bowler had to finish the over for him!”
Connor Mayoh (D1 Red)
On one of those 40+ degree days, Connor had the foresight to bring along an esky and ice to keep the drinks cold. The problem was that the esky was one of those large rounded ones. The lid, was one of those square ones that was never going to fit. This is where the genius status of our space cadet comes in. After about 3 minutes of manipulating the ‘never to fit lid’ one of the players mentioned straight away that the lid was never going to fit. The reality then struck – the lid was never going to fit. Such special awareness and persistence in trying to achieve the impossible is sheer genius.
Tarun Lath (C2 Blue)
Fresh from recently scoring his 2,000th run and taking his 100th wicket Tarun Lath (C2 Blue) could do no wrong. During the game we had a runner adding 3 players into the batting mix. Tarun, being a highly experienced cricketer, knew the problems that can occur with runners. So none of this marking the extended crease line with his boot. Tarun to the rescue – out comes the can of spray on chalk.
These spray cans are difficult things to master – they had a push button and a child proof safety pin. Anyway, Tarun understood the push button part but the challenge came with the safety pin. The result, Tarun ended up covered in chalk.
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