Calling all Aussies in London
Are you a) Australian, b) in London next week and c) interested in cricket? If so, JRod of the Cricket with Balls website needs you!
In a moment of extreme cockiness, JRod accepted a challenge from The Village Cricketer blog to play an Ashes game of cricket, Australians v Natives, for charity. The match is in Barnes, southwest London, and starts at 3pm. The charity is for Everyman Cancer Research (Just Giving website up the spout but I'll post the link to that when it is working again).
Trouble is that JRod is a few Aussies short of a barbie. He's done all the usual things: checked the pubs in Earl's Court, approached people in Hyde Park who have good physiques, even given Joe Mangel a ring, but he is still in need of some countrymen. Heck, even Kiwis will do. We Poms can't tell the difference. If you fancy playing, email him at cwb@cricketwithballs.com. We'd prefer it if you weren't any good (is Jason Krejza up to anything?).
And as for the Poms? Well they have a full XI already including Andrew Miller of Cricinfo, Edward Craig of The Wisden Cricketer, Nigel Henderson of Nigel Hendersonshire and yours truly. Daunting, eh? No wonder the Aussies are wearing yellow.
The match is taking place in 'Barnes'?!
You have got to be bullshitting.
Barnes.
How your chief sports writer will revel in the irony...
Come on fellas!! Thommo is in town at present is he not, enjoying Sir Mick's considerable hospitality? Respond Sons of the Southern Cross!! Poms manage to import a quarter of their bloody Test team...surely WE can manage to find some foreigners in a foreign land? GO LADS.
Don't let Nige's Nixonesque presence behind the stumps and Kidd's recent slashing 16 not out intimidate you! There's a Bazza McKenzie in you all. God's speed. We're all counting on you down here.
Posted by: Peter McGuinness | 23 Jun 2009 11:37:52
Gday Paddy...
Please let JRod know that my passport, quarantine and animal hygiene requirements are currently in order for the United Kingdom.
I've been on the outer with Mrs Bear lately anyhow thanks to my stupid bloody accountant letting her in on my big win on Scenic Blast. What about 'discrete recreational account' doesn't the silly bugger understand?
Anyway, it's probably best I make myself scarce around the cave at the moment. Sure, sharing a few scotch & honeys with you blokes would be fun, but not half as much fun as rippin' a few late risers into the guts of the rag tag bunch detailed in that last paragraph above.
Bring it on.
I do need Business Class though JRod. Part and parcel of being 6'11" and 504 pounds. Sorry.
Seeya soon mate.
Posted by: Humphrey B Bear | 23 Jun 2009 12:12:34
Hello again Patrick,
Love your work, as usual.
As you know, I've been a bit busy of late, sorting out matters pertaining to used utes and spending $AUD 85 000 000 000 000.005.
Mind you, I'm never too busy to support our boys over the seas. All the best to JRod. I call on all Australians in Great Britain to give JRod a fair shake of the sauce bottle and do their bit. He is a one man stimulus package. I like that kind of thing. I shall watch (and wait) with intense interest (non-indexed).
Talk again soon, no doubt. Warm Regards.
Posted by: The Hon K Rudd | 23 Jun 2009 12:42:37