The schools over here are like small Tassie towns. Eton would easily cover Kempton and Haileybury is bigger than greater New Norfolk. It is easy to get lost. We are being billeted by Haileybury and if Haileybury was New Norfolk then some of our boys ended up at Black Bobs and some others at Ouse. We played poorly.
A new weather front came through. We were worried. There was overnight rain and cool temperatures and the thought was that the English might thrive in cool. They did.
Enough of that. Lets talk bout last night. Staff were hosted by Haileybury staff and they took us to pub. The Coach Of Haileybury College is Geoff Howarth. He were captain of NZ in The 80’s. He nice bloke. In relation to our team he played a lot with Sam Williamson’s uncle Brett. Me and Geoff and Wayne and Justin really hit it off. We even touched on the grubby topic of underarm bowling and Piggy Muldoon without the spilling of an ounce of blood. Bless his kiwi heart. Or so I thought. Geoff tried to trick me you know. Sneaky man. He told me if we had beaten Eton then we would smash his poor codlings.
Lost toss. Sent in. 2 for 2. What the hell. Geoff Howarth told me they were striplings. Peter was fantastic and Harry was Harry. We regrouped. They fell. We regrouped again through Penny Lane and The hair razor and then the amazor and Chuck Bury dug in but no one passed 25 and 114 was all we could do. If what Geoff Howarth (OBE) said was to be believed then it might be enough.
Tea was terrific. All and sundry and then some. Of note we got Chocolate Crackles but I want my mum Mary Green to know that hers are better. So there.
I put in a call to Yorkshire but manager of Yorkshire club said ‘Our Harold Larwood has gone down pit’ so we had to go with what we had. Harry Nichols and Nicholas Russell failed to penetrate. James and Jono looked a little more menacing. 2 for 30 gave hope but 114 aint enough with or without spicy country jam and we went down fighting but by 7 wickets. James Will an Pete were the pick and the rest of team is still wondering who was that stylish older lady we saw down Windsor and whether she may be someone famous. One boy was heard to say “isn’t she on Home and Away?”
Have long day tomorrow so won’t tell you bout Tom Green and haircut, or the bloke that wanted to buy a ham and cheese sandwich for his mum. A story for another day.
Good night!