South Wilts CC v Lashings World XI – the Chase!

So as promised here are some pics from the Lashings World XI game yesterday. They are all of the chase as I was a little busy chasing orange cricket balls into Babylon hit by Yasir Arafat.

Lashings opened up with The Destroyer, Devon Malcolm

The chase of 150 began quickly with Tom Morton scoring freely, this was a pretty big hit

The star of the show, unfortunately for all in ear shot, was James Hayward who struck a quick half century

Usually a good player of spin, one of those to get the treatment was England veteran John Emburey

James Hibberd joined Hayward for a while adding useful runs

But a late flurry of wickets, with Hayward falling to Emburey and Devon Malcolm picking up Hibberd caught behind by Lou Vincent saw the game get close

A few more wickets fell, and Owen Alsop contributed before it was left to Ryan Burl and yours truly to finish it off in the final over.

A good day, albeit cold and wet, and a good win for the boys.

Some new shots from the Forest – South Wilts v Lashings World XI up later

Took a little trip out into the forest a short while back in between a number of family gatherings.

It has taken a while to edit them and get them public, but they are now up on the website for sale.

The first is a pair of New Forest Ponies out grazing near Ocknell Pond

The second is a shot of woodland near Bratley View in a new spot for me

Hopefully these two can generate some sales.

I am hoping to give a bit of a view from the cricket later this evening, as South Wilts produced a fine result beating the Lashings World XI. scorecard

Bournemouth, an opening win

First game and a good win for the South Wilts lads.

Some good performances all round, and a lot of rust. Eddie Abel the key man with 89 and 5 for 9.

Some sore bodies this morning, but a few pics of the batting effort.

To start Morts:

and Rids:

Eddie got going:

And Ryan finished it up:

Steve Warner – an apology

Following my post yesterday, I felt bad. Not so bad I didn’t share the post widely, but bad none the less.

So here is a shot of him booming one through the covers during his knock.

Also in the same fixture, our overseas Ryan Burl

Started well working a few into the leg side, but alas not quite as successful as his trip to the Isle of Wight

It all kicks off for real tomorrow, good luck to all involved!

Cricket….it starts…again

So begins the cricket season, a chance to go a live in 10 other guys pockets for 4 months.

While still in the ‘looking forward to the season’ phase, otherwise known as the ‘it still hurts on a Saturday from training Thursday’ phase, I wonder how long it will be before we start doing the rain dance and hoping for a Saturday off.

By 1:15 on Saturday afternoon there will be a few guys taking the pads off and muttering “shit game”.

Anyway, I usually have a lot of images of the season, and I started with our last pre-season Saturday last weekend. Didn’t need the rain dance, as hail arrived. For once I didn’t capture the overseas getting cleaned up, or Eddie Abel for that matter who is always a target.

My favorite picture from last weekend is not really fair on the subject, as Steve Warner batted superbly, but here he is with the bails flying.

Sorry Steve, but I hope neither of us bat much this year…here is to another tilt at the title.

Oh and to hearing a lot of Rudimental…

100 Followers, OK now its 101

Hi all

Just a quick note to say thank you for all the follows.

Just passed the 100 mark, which may not seem a huge number, but it’s pretty big for me.

To those that followed the Project 365, thanks for staying and for those recently added Welcome.

This is where it all began

Some 422 posts later, and I am still going, albeit with a gap in between.

My favourite headline ever – ‘Asbestos contaminated Spider on the loose in Cardiff’

This is entirely unrelated to the photography business I run, and in fairness photography generally.

One of the key things (so the web says) about a blog post is make it catchy, get a good headline and add pictures etc.

Now pictures are not a problem for my posts, however often the headlines are a bit more tricky and if I am honest a bit lacklustre.

Not something that could be said about this:

As one of my good friends will now probably never visit Cardiff again I should add that it is not in fact this big:

Many will point out that I am a bit slow on the uptake here, but I live 200 plus miles away…..

I’m back up there in a week or so, will see if I can find it!