After a toughly fought out battle against the Galetti Fourths, Shebeen took the honors and managed to chase down 228 with 2 wickets in hand after being 108/5 at one stage. The match was played in great spirit with the likes of Kyle ‘WP’ attaining Shebeen’s only 50 in the match and Gary ‘There it goes’ Fouche getting 4 wickets due to some fantastic catching in the outfield by Chris ‘Fast Arm’ Vella if I say so myself.

1 nil up in the 2010 series we look forward to the return leg at the end of the year. Check out some pics on FlickR on the right.

Scorecard:

Quoniam Potuimus Bibimus

Here’s the starting XI (in no particular order) for the first Hashes of 2010. Please confirm your availability for the game; note that R70 is required for field rental and the match ball. Guys, its imperative that you bring the R70 otherwise you will not play – there guys we had to turn down

Hashes XI

1. Rolf ‘Front Foot’ Fitschen
2. Gary ‘There is goes’ Fouche
3. Tequilla ‘Offspin’ Galetti
4. Shaun ‘Hosepipe’
5. Kyle ‘WP’
6. Rich ‘Chairman?’ Connear
7. Solo ‘The Rabbi’ Nurick
8. Siv ‘Ntini’ Ngesi
9. Danny ‘Big…Shoes’ Couldridge
10. Chris ‘Fast Arm’ Vella
11. Mark ‘Matt Damon’ Bowen-Davies
12. Tyron ‘Actuary’ Fouche
13. Warren ‘Short Pitch’ Taylor
Drinks and Boeries will be on sale so bring some cash along. Specials include:

•    R50 for a 6 pack of beer
•    R50 for 3 beers and 2 boeries
•    R10 a beer
•    R10 a boerie

For the none players, bring a umbrella, sunscreen, money and enjoy the sun and some great cricket.

Title: Cricket – The Hashes
Location: TBC
Description: Get the pads on, stretch them arms and get ready for another Hashes series against The Fourths. If you interested, email gary@shebeenboys.co.za
Start Time: 09:00
Date: 2010-01-24
End Time: 18:00

Welcome to 2010 – The Year of Shebeen!!!

This year is promising to be a great one with lots of fixtures and activities on the cards:

- The first Hashes for 2010 will take place on the 24th of this month. If you interested in playing, please drop me an email to be eligible for selection;
- We planning a bash at the club on the 17th of Feb to get the guys together and welcome the new UCT students;
- We have an Australian team heading to our shores in March and there with a fixture being planned for the 13th March;
- We have the usual party buses lined up;
- The Shebeen PGA will reappear after a 4 year break;
- And finally; being soccer mania, we organizing a soccer tournament that will see the best of the internal league throwing handbags on the soccer field below the clubhouse.

So as you can see, there’s plenty to look forward to. Lets get it started this SUNDAY where we’ll begin our normal touch sessions (at Lutgensvale) at 17h00.

Start inviting mates so that we don’t begin the season looking for fatties.

The strategies were simple; get as many runs in 20 overs as possible.

The two captain met on the battle field to toss the coin. Time stood still as the coin spun and finally landed on tails. The Fourths won the toss. It was clear Fourths captain Boom Boom Milfriedie read Sun Tzu’s Art of War the night before this big encounter. He was seen walking amongst the Shebeen Camp prior to the toss asking probing questions such as:

“Where were you last night?”
“You feeling hung over today?”
“Big night?”
“Your mom’s quite hot”

It was no surprise that he sent the Been boys in to field – let the sun cook their hangovers whilst his troops regenerated in the shade….

Et tu Brute

The Galetti Fourths were quietly confident about the two games. These were men built to swing tree stumps at small objects – running was not an option. This counted in the Shebeen’s favour. Bowl straight and let the ball do the work. With 4 stumping and some great catches this proved to be true leaving the Been boys with a mediocre total of 123 to acquire with 120 balls.

The Fourths struck early with the HUGE wicket of Rich ‘the recruit’ Connear. Was this the beginning of the end? Chris ‘I’m busy at work’ joined in form Jon ‘I didn’t bring my bubbly’ Cardinelli at the crease and got the Shebeen account running. Batsmen came and left and the Fourths slowly started pressurising the Been boys. Before they knew it the ‘easy’ target was no longer – 13 runs off 7 balls. With Warren ‘big stride’ Taylor and Andrew ‘Sunscreen’ Moir facing the last 7 balls the tension has immense.

6 off 2…
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The Galetti Fourths take the first game by 6 runs

The second game started badly for the Shebeen team. The Fourths raced to 50 off only 5 overs and Shebeen lost key player Tyron ‘how do emails work’ Fouche to a dislocated finger. A total of 10 dropped catches didn’t help the Shebeen’s cause either. The Fourths continued with this dominance of the bat and set a massive total of 177. Moral was low and confidence to obtain this target was non existent.

Michael ‘Get the f*ck out my car’ Martin had a short but deadly innings proving to the Been boys that confidence is key. ‘The recruit’ decided to come to the game this time and got the Been boys to believe in Never Never Land with a retiring score of 30 runs. Anees also retired on 30 after playing the anchor role for the Been boys. With the game hanging on a cliff edge, Chris ‘MVP’ Rood aka ‘Mr Cool Head’ took the game by the short and curlies and hit the winning runs with 6 balls to spare.

It was a tie breaker – Shebeen 1, Fourths 1

Captains got together and decided that sharing the days success was like kissing your sister – not ideal. A 10 over game was decided to be the deal clincher.

Once again the Shebeen team took to the field to try restrict all runs to singles. Some great bowling and vastly improved fielding (only one drop catch *cough-Rolf-cough*) saw the Fourths being bowled out for a shocking 63 runs.

63 all out…Embarrassing

Rolf ‘Daddy Cool’ Fitschen and Mike ‘get the f*ck out my car’ Martin walked onto the field. They were calm and collected, 63 runs off 60 balls. Mike continued his dominance of his previous innings hitting three 6′s while batting partner ‘Daddy Cool’ only managed one. Both batsmen occupied the crease until Mike pumped a 6 over square leg to clinch the game for the Shebeen.

64 – 0

Shebeen win by 10 wickets

Ouch

All eyes now look towards the Hashes – can Shebeen continue their dominance on the cricket field?

Things to look forward to:

- taking our young team to the finals of the internal league and WINNING
- participating in the Social Rugby World Cup 2009
- Hashes cricket games
- Tunnel Parties
- and of course lots lots more

Pete is organising a cricket tour to Knysna on the 22nd of November. It will be a once off game on one of the Pezula fairways. If you able to make it, please drop an email to both Gary and Sparky ( gary @shebeenboys.co.za & sparky @shebeenboys.co.za). Galetti Fourths members are free to join as well.

There’s been mentioned of another waterpolo game versus the Galetti Fourths. Suggested date has been set as either the 15th or 16th of November. If you keen, please drop and email to both Gary and Sparky again.

Rugby season is officially over. Touch will still however be held at Lutgensvale on Sundays at 15h30. Remember to keep fit boys (or at least try); the Social World Cup is around the corner!!

Most importantly, keep an eye on the website for other events (soccer, cricket, paintball, etc) that will be happening in the off season.

Match report to come…

Scorecard can be found here: Third Hashes

Sunday:
Cricket: The third game of the Hashes cricket series will take place on Sunday at 09h30 at the WPCC Gary Kirsten field. The boys are 2 down in the series and are in good form to change the tide after three draws in previous sporting events. The day will consist of two 20Twenty games.
Teams have been picked, but if you coming to support bring your kit in the case that someone doesn’t pitch..

Rugby: We playing a practise game against the Turtles on the bosch fields (the ones we practise on). Be there at
16h00 so that we can have a warm up and run a few drills before playing.

Monday:
The Ikey Tigers and Maties secured their places in the final of the 2008 FNB Varsity Cup in two nail biting semi-finals! Now come watch these two teams fight it out at the Danie Craven Stadium in Stellenbosch. Intervarsities don’t come much bigger than this! It’s going to be an absolute spectacle! The Ikey Tigers are 80 minutes away from cup glory! Lets make it a home game for the men from UCT! The plate winning UCT Colts will be playing in the main curtain raiser against Steinhoff Dagbreek, the Steinhoff Koshuis champions for 2008

SHEBEEN!!

Scorecard:

Ant Chucker Chuckles                                        49
Jamie                                          Bowled           33
Tim the Toolman Marsh                                      51
Gerry not Kevin                            c Tony b Rolf  11
Graham Boom boom Milfridi Lindemann                25
Ant Moby Warne your daughters Burns             c Rolf b Siv        8
Richie Benaud Smith                     b Mike             2
Adam Gilchrist van Niekerk            b Gary             2
Ant White Frightening Walton                              25
Ant Greens                                caught b JC        9
Matt Hayden Mey                                                29
Ross Veet Shepherd                                           5
Extras                                                               49
Total                all out                298

Shebeen Boys
overs    wickets    runs
Mike Low                    4      2           25
Gary Fouche               3      2           15
Heath Odendaal          2      0           23
Andrew Moir               4      0           34
Chris Vella                  4      1          30
JC                             4      1           48
Warren Taylor            4      0           21
Rolf Fitschen              4      3           14
Siv Makhaya               4      1           30
Dave Bryant               2      1           20
Dave Moir                   2      0           7
Tony Galetti                3      0           31
40     11        298

Shebeen Boys
Warren Wide Arc Taylor                    c & b Ant Walton        11
Jon Stand back and deliver Cardinelli  NOT OUT                    39
Mike Low                                         c Jamie b Moby           31
Rolf Fitschen                                   caught b Milf               16
Gary Inswinger Fouche                     caught b Moby            12
ChrisVella                                        bowled Gerry              13
Andrew Moir                                    bowled Richie               6
Dave Moir                                       run out (Richie)           22
Siv Black Bradman                           c sub (Keith) b Adam   13
Tony Galetti                                    c Moby b Ant Greens     1
Heath Odendaal                               bowled Gerry                8
Mark Sparky Kritzinger                     caught b Moby            20
Extras                                          34
Total                   all out                226

Fourths.com
overs    wickets    runs
Ross Shepherd               4            0            14
Ant Greens                    3            1            27
Ant Walton                    3            1            9
Matt Mey                       4            0            25
Adam van Niekerk           3            1            14
Rich Smith                     3            1            8
Moby                            4            4            37
Milf                               3            1            17
Ant van Vlaanderen        2            0            13
Gerry                            3            2            23
Tim Marsh                     4            0            24
Jamie                            3            0            15
39        11            226

Fourths.com won by 72 runs.