Another successful week for most. Even myself, who has managed to get his butt round to writing his blog. I have some qualms this weekend though.

1)       The first is with a certain William Chambers, as a little birdie told me, he described me as ¡°out of shape¡± at school. Yes William, I may physically be out of shape, yet, perhaps not as much as a certain someone in cricket. Let¡¯s just check the senior batting averages this year¡­  Yes, mine may only be a measly 13, but what is yours Mr Chambers¡­? 0. Yes; zero, zilch, zip, nil, null, cero, §ß§à§Ý§î, Áã. In whatever language you put it, point proven.

2)       I was dropped from the Sunday XI this weekend by Mr Hasler. 13 is bad but it¡¯s not that bad, surely?! Even my father was asked to play in my place!

3)       Bloody great well done to Malcolm Fitzgerald¡¯s U-10¡¯s age group who are still undefeated. Thank you for proving everybody wrong: an incapable coach does NOT mean a incapable team!

4)       I would like to offer my condolences to the Australian fans. If anybody else would, I assure you that you may find them in Leicester for the next two weeks, probably munching away on some cheese around the town. However, Ricky Ponting may be even more CHEESEd off (haha, funny joke!) as he was fined 10% of his match fee for a slow over rate. God knows what fine JC would get considering how slow his over¡¯s tick past¡­

Also, sorry for missing my blog last week, yet again. I had another exam (economics this time). I did it fo the team, as I was just hoping that it may help me to aid some of our bowlers on their economy rates (oh there he goes again!).

Right, onto the senior cricket. Unfortunately, not a whole lot to report from me as I was dropped for the Sunday game so had to go and play for the arch nemesis of WCTCC, Barns Green. Don¡¯t worry, not a senior match, but an U-18¡¯s game. Yes, we lost, but at least it gave me a chance to bat up the order at 6 and finally score some runs!

The first XI game saw the debut of the Bilb¨¦ brothers, Michael and Tom. We were very hopeful as these two were relatives of Greg Brown and the legendary Steve Tuhey, therefore, between them we assumed they must have some cricketing prowess. As it turned out, both can bowl fantastically. Michael opening the bowling alongside Mr Chaloner proved to be a very successful opening partnership as JC got a few of the Belgrave Adelaide boys trapped in front and if not for some dire slip catching and some extremely unbalanced keeping, Michael may have walked away with a few wickets. His brother, Tom, had more success having one caught behind and a few good LBW shouts being turned down.  Fitz finally finished off the BA boys with his sensational spell of 4-16, again taking key wickets, and along with Aussie Mick (2 wickets) bowling well again meant it was our turn to bat. Now let¡¯s not go into TOO much depth here, but Neil Miller batted very fluently, finally finding some of that elusive form to score 28 before being bowled by a lovely inswinging yorker, and along with Captain Chambers (23) and Craig Pulling (40) again batting very well, we started to look good. However, after a few key wickets were taken and after another fantastic duck from myself, we were bowled all out for 119 off of 28 overs. A disappointing result, but lets look ahead to next weekend, away to Brighton Insurance.

For details of the other matches, I did steal other match reports (hang on, we can read that elsewhere.  Cop out!! Ed) as I don't have a Scooby Doo (clue, for those of you not in with the latest lingo) what went on! All I know is that after being marshalled and exhausted after a week of work with the famed P.J. Goring Builders, Aussie Dave managed to score a pretty big total, must have been Big Phil¡¯s influence!

Sunday XI /Ten Man Ansty away at Ansty

Right, let¡¯s just hope that I remember to write this next week, with details of the Brighton Insurance game and the fantastic annual fixture against the Fleet Street Strollers!