November 2016

Remembrance Sunday so we'll begin this latest puff of guff with a two minute silence

Lest we forget

Winchester & District Indoor League

Longparish 1st VI

Began the defence of their Winchester & District league title with a defeat to Easton & MW in which Callum Giles was in the wickets and William Samways top scored with 24.

A 5 wicket win over Winchester University restored some semblance of order with Matt Jackman and Michael Taplin striking 25 each.

Matt Jackman took 3 wickets in a 3 wicket win over the mighty RAM in which Scott Sturt top scored with 25.

Longparish 2nd VI

Have only had one game, a tight game against Sparsholt in which Harry Samways and George Kousseff picked up a wicket each. Kousseff also hit 22 and Dan Bearpark 18 in a Longparish II reply that closed 21 runs short of the target.

Dummer Indoor League

Longparish Lightweights

First game up and Old Basing are the opposition. Harry Samways and Callum Giles picked up a wicket each and Michael Taplin hit 25 to seal a 3 wicket win.

Taplin also top scored against Crikitstanis with 37 and Paul Blackmore took 2 wickets as the Lightweights fell to a 1 wicket defeat.

Callum Giles struck an unbeaten 28 against St Marys Climbers in a convincing six wicket win for the Lightweights and in a high scoring game with Haymakers, Justin Jackman scored 20, Callum Giles 26, Michael Taplin 30 and William Samways 41 in a 38 run win.

Against a very strong Hook Hammers side, William Samways top scored with 25 and Dan Pomroy was unbeaten on 16. Samways also picked up a wicket in a 5 wicket defeat for the Lightweights.

Longparish Longhops

Against a strong Yateley side the Longhops posted 130 with Jamie Blackmore scoring 20 and Matt Jackman 33. Barry Blackmore picked up a brace of wickets but could not prevent Yateley passing the target with 2 balls to spare.

Jamie Blackmore top scored with 28 in the 4 wicket win over Ramsdell and Alex Brinton and Jordan Blackmore took wickets and Dan Bearpark hit 28 in a 5 wicket win over Candovers

Jamie Blackmore starred again with the bat striking an unbeaten win 29 in a 3 wicket win over Sherfield Foxes that made it three wins in a row for the Longhops.

Longparish Lappas

Kicked off their campaign with a 4 wicket win over Bumbles, due in part to a wicket each from Nathan Smith and Alex Bundy, a brace from Christian Dawson and an unbeaten 30 from Gary Taplin.

Gary Taplin's fine form with the bat continued in the game with Team KaKaPaPa, opening the innings with an unbeaten 32. Paul Blackmore and Tally O'Farrell picked up wickets in a 13 run win.

Taplin Snr was also in the runs against St Marys with an unbeaten 29. Alex Bundy added 25 and Tally O'Farrell and Nathan Smith took wickets in a 23 run win for the Lappas.

However the Lappas winning streak was terminated against the Oaks who ran out winners by 20 runs.

North Hampshire Indoor League

Longparish U13

In the opening game of their winter campaign Longparish U13 took on Andover U13 who batted first and posted 115 for 4 with WIlliam McDermott and Oliver Oram bowling brilliantly and Alfie Smith and Jude Cooper-Smith picking up wickets. Myles Cole top scored 20, Zac Allen struck 18 and Alfie Smith added 13 in a Longparish U13 reply that closed 12 runs short.

Hook U13 were the next opponents, who batted first and were dismissed for 89 with William McDermott, Oliver Oram and Alfie Smith picking up wickets. Zac Allen was unbeaten on 19 as Longparish U13 passed the target with 5 wickets and just under four overs remaining.

The Ground

The front of the pavilion has been boarded up to deter footballers and their associated detritus, for which we thank Steve Aldridge.  Hedges are about to be cut and the square remains square, well not quite. The many mowers are all under assessment for next season, I counted them all out and I counted them  all back. This is Brian O Hanrahan reporting from Longparish Cricket Ground for BBC News.

Cake Sale

Will be on 17th December, thank you to everyone who has already baked a cake and sent  it to either Julie Taplin or Katrina Samways.  Despite a multi million pound offer  to move the cake sale to the other side of Stockbridge High St, the cake sale will once again be outside Robinsons Butchers, who we thank for the pitch. If you've half a mind for meat give theirs a go, it's really good!

If you have already baked a cake or intend to bake a cake or something like a cake, could you let either Mary Berry, Mel and Sue, Julie Taplin, Katrina Samways or Julie Sturt know, but do it quietly as we don't want Ming the Merciless (Paul Hollywood) taking the thing down with his death ray from Mongo.

Christmas Draw

In an attempt to freshen up the Christmas experience and also secure trade deals with Trump of Trumpton, and thanks for that Brian Cant (google him kids, he was very much both the Ant and the Dec of his day) Longparish CC will break new ground and  seek to combine  the Christmas festival that marks the birth of the son of Christ with the wild west traditions of gun fights at the OK Corral,

What times we live in

I  may have dreamt that last bit (or not), and we can take comfort that, as in previous years, the Christmas Draw is a raffle held in a bucolic setting (and thank you The Cricketers Inn for that) without handguns during December (bar 2014 when a previous  attempt to freshen the thing up saw it held in April) that raises money for the club and provides an opportunity for all club members to come together and talk Cricket and Christmas and forget about the madness that is the outside world.

It takes place on Tuesday 13th December at 7.30pm in The Cricketers Inn along with the final Hundred Club Draw and its associated BIG CASH PRIZES. Raffle tickets are on sale and priced at a pound they afford the purchaser an opportunity to walk off with the following prizes:

A Speed boat   tbc

 A family holiday for four in Byzantium   tbc

A small kitten tbc

A Mini Metro  (3 dr,9 months MOT vgc)   c

Several soup spoons   tbc

Wine  c

Whisky  c

     Song   tbc

Puppies tbc

    Chocolates   c

A miracle elixir for hair loss that  really works!  c

A baby elephant tbc

 Luncheon Vouchers  c

Crackers (Jacobs Cream or something similar) c

Sherry c

Fish c

And much more besides   tbc

A list of prizes that somebody may once have described as "life changing"

Please buy tickets, all money raised is deposited in the empty void that is the club coffers.

If anybody has any prizes they would like to donate or know anyone who has a spare baby elephant please make yourself known to Madam Secretary.

The facts as we have them:  Christmas Draw & Hundred Club Draw  Tuesday 13th December 7.30pm The Cricketers Inn.  All welcome on the night for Cricket/Christmas/ Raffle based conversation.

Hundred Club Draw - July

£35    Rachel de Cani     £15    Martin Savage   £15    Malcolm Spence Herbert

I don't know why this is still on here, please can you make it go away Mr Gates?

Hundred Club Draw - November

Thanks again to everyone who wrote in for the hugely popular "fonts with a tale" feature. with their font of first choice to herald the winners of this month's hundred club draw. It's been a difficult choice this month but thanks to everyone who wrote in with their font of first choice to herald the monthly hundred club winners.

This month's winner of font of first choice is a Mrs Gina Roberts who writes:

"Johnston is a much favoured font as it reminds me of happy times riding the London Underground. A key player in the Sans-serif canon, it is simple and plain and always reminds me of my recently departed husband Norris who I met while riding the subterranean rails; the letter O is a particular favourite as it looks like the opening of a tunnel from which a train is about to emerge".

Thanks Gina, a moving tale, but unfortunately our version of Microsoft Word doesn't have Johnston, so here are the lucky winners displayed in the font of Book Antiqua which I believe was used in the closing titles of Ivor the Engine.

Enjoy

£35   Peter Herbert      £15  Netta Wills       £15 Martyn Clarke

If anyone out there has a font that they are fond of with an accompanying tale, that they would like to see used to display the Hundred Club winners, please send a postcard to:  Fonts I am fond of, Stable Cottage, Bransbury, Winchester SO21 2QJ.