The first is to be held at the Gary Kirsten Oval at WPCC on 8 Jan 2011.

Costs: Awaiting notification
Time: Awaiting notification

If you interested in participating, please leave a comment on this post and the captain will contact you during the course of this month. Only members who have paid their 2010 subs will be eligible…

Shebeen are the current holders of the Hashes

SHEBEEN

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