Jagex v Mills & Reeve - 30 May 2013

Sadly the game was called off due to inclement weather.

It may have looked a little like this...

Cricket Terminology...

A few of my favourite cricket terms...

Chin Music -  A bouncer directed to the throat region.
Corridor of Uncertainty - A bowling area around off stump. Also, the corridor leading to the HR office in most office buildings
Dibbly Dobbly - A bowler or ball that isn't that good... sometimes known as a Fardell ball
Jaffa - An excellent ball or a type of biscuit/cake that always tastes a little stale.
Drinks Waiter - Also known as the 12th Man.
A Rabbit Warren - The pavilion during a Jagex innings
Gauntlet Work - Fine wicket keeping or the title of an episode of Game of Thrones
Jockstrap - Something not to be shared - although we do have a communal one in the team kit bag
Fishing - Using the bat to feel vaguely in the direction of the ball
Giving It Some Humpty - Playing agriculturally....
Nurdle - Not often seen in evening cricket
Pie Chucker - One of our better bowlers
The Yips - Also known as what happens in Willem Amoraal's fourth over...
Sledging - Taunting the opposition in good nature. Sledging may be good (Ian Chappell), Hilarious (Daryll Cullinan, Merv Hughes, Rodney Marsh, Ian Botham) , Aggressive (Viv Richards, Glenn MacGrath), or just plain awful (Fardell).

If you manage to squeeze any of these into everyday banter and you're on my squad list, consider yourself pushed up the order...

Fielding Positions

This is a map of fielding positions...

I will try and keep a copy in my pocket. I've set some fairly ridiculous fielding setups over the past few seasons - including one game where we had 7 on the leg side for one of our fast bowlers.

We've got a logo...!

Designed by our resident hero, Piers Morgan...

 

This is just a rough preview...

Happy Times

Here is a picture of us in happy times, having just won our first game (mid 2011 season) after 6 losses on the bounce.

From left to right we have - Fardell - Nigri - Jones - McClarty - Tween - Atkinson - Harper - Tuckwell - Morgan (hiding in the shadows) - Lee - Broadbridge

The scoreboard tells you what a real corker of a game it was...

2012 Piccies

A few selected piccies from last season, courtesy of Mr Howe...

 Willem, possibly out for a golden duck...doesn't he look happy...

 Little and large having a tactical talk...

Boycottesque defence from Jones...

 McClarty being bowled. The bowler appears ready to relieve himself at any moment...

The cheerleaders... this isn't quite the IPL ...

Jeroen stretching - limber up son...

Jeroen out - after a decent knock. It's ok though, chaps, Piers is going in...

 

This what is known as the "hand grenade"...

 

Picture Quiz

This wonderful interactive WhatZat! cricket game has been put together by some bright spark.

See if you can identify all the cricket terminology from in the attached pictorial quiz.

http://www.whatzat.co.uk/index.php?start=1#_=_

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Jagex CC - 2013 Start of Season

This is the start of something semi-beautiful, a blog chronicling the ups, downs, ins and outs of Jagex CC. Jagex is a computer games company based in Cambridge, UK. We are a friendly bunch around the office and accordingly we have a number of social sports teams. The cricket club is one such enterprise. We play 20/20 evening cricket against a number of local businesses. We're not very good, but we try, 'really' hard, enjoy ourselves,drink beer and get to play in the sunny environs of some of the fine college grounds around Cambridge. There are also social events, which may feature in this blog, provided I can preserve the dignity of all concerned.

It's been an inauspicious start to the third full Jagex CC 20/20 cricket season. 12 indoor nets sessions were scheduled, and 11 took place. Sadly they took their toll. We've had several new potential players attend 1, maybe 2, and then decide that this wasn't for them. Sad, but fair enough. We've also had several players promise to play, but then not turn up to a single session. Tsk tsk...

Thankfully we've had got some new players who are keen, in particular messrs Wise, Gibbins, Beattie, Lait and Love. The latter has a name that lends itself to the most wonderful personal theme tunes.

We also have had the terrible news that resident wicketkeeper and chirpmeister general behind the stumps N Tween has handed his notice in at work, so we won't have Mr Reliable behind the stumps for the whole coming season. We also probably won't see his Jack Russell Style hat. Sad Face. We've also lost a few others who will be sorely missed. Jay Atkinson has finally decided to become the very first South African to live full time in France. Michael Howe has traded one University City for another, moving from Cambridge to Oxford. We also had a man called Kruger in the squad who smoked a pipe, but sadly he has disappeared. 

Also, with the dwindling budget we're technically out of bats, after Mr Tween decided to do this to our last remaining club bat whilst playing in the nets.

I wouldn't make him angry if I were you.

However, we have a full squad, a full fixture list and are raring to go... Watch this space for updates.