Darlington Review - June 2017
Darlington Social Cricket Club Inc “Slips, Stumpings Appeals & Silly Points”
Every now and then all the great writers hit that brick wall and have a mental block. Tonight, the Ferret has hit that very wall. My loyal readers, this is not due to any fault of his own. No it’s due to the fact that no one has confessed to carrying out any acts of stupidity lately. So it’s up to this brilliant author to conjure up a worth while tale. The club horticulturist recently offered to help out another club member who was going to be hosting a barbecue, with some of his over grown hedges and shrubs. The date was set and the Hort turned up on time at the home of Doc Bates to help him get his garden into shape. Now a lot of you would have seen the Doc driving around in his red Honda CRV, towing his always empty trailer, around Darlington and surrounding districts. Unfortunately after not too long, the Doc received a phone call from his work, he was required for an emergency. The Hort said, “don’t worry you go, I’m a professional I know what I’m doing.” The ever trusting Doc, left his mate and raced down to his work to sort out the emergency. The Hort simply popped in his head phones and went to work. Before long, he had clipped and hacked, a straggly looking group of bushes stretching about 30 metres, down to a nice neat hedge. Albeit three feet high, down from it’s original height of seven feet. He also took on the array of Bougainvillea’s, all 15 of them and chopped them down to size. Next on his agenda were the unruly Agapanthus. He felt the Doc really didn’t understand the intricacies of gardening, so he cut back and replanted the Aggies in some sort of order for him. The Doc’s parting words to the Hort before he left were, “leave any cuttings, I’ll take them to the dump in my trailer.” And that he did over the next four weeks. On the 8th of January, DSCC took on the WA Suburban Turf Umpires. As this was the first game after the Christmas break, there were more than a few DSCC members still getting over the Christmas cheer and festivities. Suffice to say they weren’t too mobile cricketers in the field. The umpires batted first and were able to achieve a total of 8/191. The chief wicket taker for DSCC was Kozack with 2/20. The rest of the wickets were shared by the DSCC pie throwers. In reply, DSCC easily ran down the score in making 4/192. Wobbly knee Earnshaw, hit 33 while Crowe and Rickard each scored 31. The next game was played on the 15th of January, against the Subi
Floreat Old Boys. SFOB normally bring up a team brimming with very fast, good bowlers. This year it would seem the emphasis was more on the Old. DSCC were able to post a very respectable total of 6/267. The main contributors for DSCC were Farrant, Ellis and Lucas (of the Mark variety), with 59, 51 and 50 respectively. The author was told by a reliable source that SFOB did indeed have a fairly quick opening bowler and a couple of the DSCC batsmen had to change their underwear after being dismissed. In reply, SFOB’s were all out for 175. The main destroyers for DSCC were Mark Lucas with 2/8 (yes I too, find it hard to believe), and Ben Harvey with 2/26. On the 22nd of January, DSCC hosted 100 & 1 O’Reilly’s. The O’Reilly mob batted first and reached 9/235 of their allotted 40 overs. The main run scorers for the O’Reilly’s were Bill with 52 and Lachlan with 45. While the best of the DSCC pie throwers were Farrant with 3/18 and the Goofy Footed Beazley with 2/17. The game went down to the wire with DSCC falling short by one run in the last over. The main run scorers for DSCC were Farrant with 67, Scrimshaw with 61 and Cliff Burns with 46. The main destroyer for the O’Reilly mob was Lachlan with the excellent bowling figures of 5/18 of 4 overs. Once again, it was great to see the matriarch of the O’Reilly mob, Micks mum Mrs O’Reilly and his uncle John, down at the game cheering on the younger generations. By all accounts it was a fantastic barbecue after the game at Mick and Cathryn’s house. My spies tell me that Matt Ellis was the last one to leave the barbecue after being kicked out by Cathryn as she had enough of Mick and Matt singing Danny Boy off key. DSCC took on their long time rivals, Nedlands Rugby Club on the 5th of February. DSCC batted first and were all out for 256. Glenn Farrant once again starred with the bat making 68 while Lucas and Ward made 49 and 42 respectively. In reply, Nedlands were all out for 124. Earnshaw 2/6 and Ward 2/13 were the main destroyers for DSCC. Remember, if you are in urgent need of a garden make over, please feel free to contact the club and we’ll pass on Graham the Horts contact details to you. Till next month The Ferret.
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