A ring, a ring of Ringers

LCFC v KFC 09/02/2014

Such is the rivalry between these two clubs that by the time the first game of the day between Lima Indians and Eidegenossen had finished, both teams had completed their warm-ups and were waiting to get it on!  Normally we have to wait a few minutes while one person or other has to finish off a parenting duty or is stuck in one of the many non-existent Sunday traffic jams or extracting themselves from a lady of the night or something even more outlandish.  But no, 22 players muzzles unleashed, ready for the off.

Well anyway,  Hodgy, LCFC skipper won the toss and as tradition dictates, batted first.  Cracking start from the skipper, out first ball to a classic delivery from Buesst, he of happylandia, pitching outside off and cutting in destroying the stumps.  Myers, vice-captain for the season, went on the offensive immediately pulling and driving Spry of Underwaterlandia (the west country in UK is currently suffering from heavy flooding) before hooking onto his own stumps.  A solemn walk back to the boundary befell him also. 13-2, not a great start.  Tony the finger then came in and after a brief hit was caught behind beautifully of a great ball that cut away from him and Gav Breeze took a neck choker.  Konrad was soon out LBW to a straight ball 4m up the pitch. 

The trouble was that KFC’s powder had run dry.  After Buesst and Spry they simply did not have the bowling to keep the score down.  Hans and new boy Alex Farrar set about the remaining bowlers, Finn Mclelland whose wavering spin was too often too short, which is a cardinal sin on this pudding of a wicket, was soon dispatched.  Farrar was soon retired on 25+.  In came another new boy Paul Zonka.  What is it with Australians and their ability to choose surnames that go so well with cricket?  Last year we had Donkin now Zonka.  Journalists dream I say!  Well he truly zonked the ball and achieved something I have never seen before and will probably never see again.  He managed to hit 2 sixes onto the same car in consecutive balls.  I have a meeting with club sports liaison officer about that in about an hour……  Well he came and went hitting 25+ off about 8 balls.  Hans and Walter then continued the run scoring until De Witt was retired also.  Jorge Pancorovo and Walter continued until the score was 180ish.  Walter also retired, a first I think in the Apertura, would have to check the anals, sorry annals.  So score set at 205 off 20 overs, which was pretty good considering LCFC had been wavering at 49 for 4 off 7 overs and could quite easily have capitulated.  LCFC batted in a very non-ringerish way with 4 players completing the maximum and helped ably by KFC’s rather wanton ways with the ball.

KFC came into bat and were soon into the bowling, Buesst and Mclelland hitting De Witt and Zonka around.  Zonka was not the slowest bowler on the track.  It will be a shame that his 6 month sabbatical in Peru is completed in 3 weeks.  His star has shone bright.    Buesst then smacked LCFC everywhere and was soon retired bringing in the KFC middle order.  Sorry, don't have the score card and can’t tell you the names of the KFC players but they were not able to put up much of a fight as a combination of Tony Sanford and Julian Walter soon dismantled the much vaunted middle order  Sanford of straight lines and Walter of Blurred Lines.  One day they will whisper the words Sanford and Walter in the same way they talk of Laker and Lock….. as if!  Actually it was down to some pretty spectacular catching from the field that made both bowlers look good and two downright evil balls from Sanford that practically went underground to bowl the batsmen.  Back to the catching, that man Zonks, you can’t keep him down.  KFC batsman hits it high and wide to mid-on.  Zonks runs 20m in and dives a la Nick Farr Jones to take an unbelievable diving catch.  Myers an over later then does a similar diving catch to scoop an off drive and finally to finish off an Aussie hat trick of catches Konrad running back over his shoulder took an almighty steepler.  Walter had Spry LBW flush on a full toss and Breeze, bowled, deceived in the flight.  Myers then mopped up the rest, bowling Catchpole to finish off the job.

LCFC had won by 125 runs, massive!

We better not forget the skipper, Hodgy who did a magnificent job motivating and setting both an interesting batting lineup and field, in order to maximize the most input possible from all the players.  He did a standup job. 

What did we learn today?  Recruitment is key.  Zonka is an LCFC legend, beer is drunk afterwards.

Postscript:  Could not stay to enjoy the festivities at the club as I went to the theatre afterwards to watch a musical called Mentiras.  A an excellent performance of 80’s Spanish Popmusic, a parody of Mexican Soap Operas.  It was professionally produced with great choreography and much enjoyment by the performers.  She Who Must Be Obeyed, that's exactly how Lima Cricket played today.

Viv Ash Cuba Libre Invitational 2014

Another summer Sunday in Lima, grey skies lifting slothfully just in time for cricket.  Players of every denomination drifting through the doors of LCFC to indulge their passion. Setting their bags down, perusing the pitch and going off to shake hands with friends they have known for more than a decade or with some they have met just the previous weekend.  It´s always the same.  The hearty bonhomie they recognise from wherever they have played cricket before.  A chance to forget, to anticipate, to relax, to enjoy.  Just simply to be.  But enough of the reverie, on with the report.

An annual fixture in the calendar is the Viv Ash Cuba Libre Invitational, another opportunity to get one's eye in before the serious business of competitive cricket kicks in.  As so many players are involved these days it is a serious business trying to organise the cricket into a useful, meaningful, competitive practice.  So it was decided to split the 30odd arrivals into 3 teams, named Appleton, Bacardi and Cockspur. Originally it had been Cockburns but due to the alcohol not being rum related, the scorer, Juliet, decided to take it upon herself to change the name and she being from a rum making nation the organiser was not going to argue.  A v B, B v C, and A v C would be the equation.  The usual issue of the actual team not being the same as the team list obviously made for a slightly stressful beginning but some smudging of names and last minute adjustments made for 3 teams of 9 or 10 depending on the time of day. 

First off Appleton played Bacardi, Bacardi winning the toss and scoring 75 runs with Roughton and Mahoney receiving arguable decisions (more on this later).  Viv Ash, the trophy´s namesake, was playing for Appleton and, despite his advanced age of 127 he was still able to bowl Sargent, middle stump and then, while walking back to his fielding position took the most casual of catches – incontrovertible proof that cricket can be played by one and all.  I think extras was top scorer in this match.  Appleton faltered atrociously in response after Farook's quick fire 23 and no one else really deserves mention.  

What happened after though was really the news of the day.  Two players questioned the umpires decision after the game´, saying they ball had gone from the bat to pad not vice versa. Thereupon the umpire marched off the premises, uttering imprecations against upstart pipsqueeks (or words to that effect – language modified for GA rating) who question umpire´s decisions. Someone mentioned that this is always the case, the umpire is often not the happiest person on the pitch.  So the day was official umpireless.  The situation was resolved with the non-playing team provide two umpires and the scorers´ father, Denis was pressed into action.  A very correct square leg ump he was too, changing side with the change of left hand right hand bat, and at not too bad a canter either considering his dotage.

At around the same time, Spry, who had just returned from the West Country, managed the amazing trick of falling off the spectator bench while keeping his beer intact, well done that man.

On with the cricket. Bacardi then posted 97 runs with Buesst and Mahoney both being retired out after scoring more than 25 runs: 25 and 29 respectively. Bobby and Diego de la Puente took some beating with 18 off their one over respectively.  Jon 'Dementer' Heyman continues to impress with his slow, painfully accurate bowling (or should it be painfully slow, accurate bowling?) Somehow he manages to persuade the ball to go through a time distortion field after it pitches and many batsman's souls seemed to get sucked out of them as they lose their stumps.  Empty shells appear pitchside minutes later.   Cockspur were unable to reach that impressive score although James and Sonu did by reaching double figures. Bacardi had won the tournament with a game still to be played.

The final game was played between Appleton and Cockspur, Appleton scored 66, with Simon Parker the backbone of the batting with a solid 26, dropped twice on the way but carried on in an unhurried manner.  Dementer came into his own again with 3 wickets for 20.  Steve 'Hagrid' Hallett also fell victim to the Dementer who completed his soul-sucking with  Jaggi, who managed to make a typical quickfire 16 before meeting his fate.  Farook (3-7) Zulfi (1-10) and Jaggi (0-4) then bowled excellent spells, keeping Cockpsur to a below par 55, though Bobby managed to make amends for his wayward ways with an authoritative 30.

Bacardi were awarded one of the many football trophies that clutter up the cricket hut for their reward and Chris Mahoney was awarded man of the day and had to drink from a filthy, cup/box as his reward.

What was learnt?  Don't sit next to an alcoholic woman at a cricket match, you'll find yourself emigrating to Mexico. An umpire's patience is finite. Beer is drunk during and after the match.

Rob Champions Trophy 2014

So the 2014 Season has begun. The first game of the season was the Rob Champion Trophy, presented to Cricket Peru by Rob Champion, a longtime stalwart of the game, before his departure for more challenging cricket environments. The only stipulations attached to the trophy are that the game is to be played in a good mood with the teams to be named the Manics and the Depressives respectively. 

Originally advertised as a 9-a-side tournament and programmed to begin at 1pm with players to arrive at 12, only 16 players had turned up by 12:45. Team captains Steve Hallet and Julian Walter decided to start with 8-a-side, a 25 over match, 5 over maximum for bowlers and batters to retire after scoring 30 runs with the possibility of coming in again if the wickets ran out.  At 1:08:34 there were 11 players for each side. In keeping with the spirit of the Champion Trophy, it is promised that everyone who turns up gets a game. Despite the promised appearance of Harikrishna and 3 or 4 others who did not turn up, by 1:23:13 it was a 12-a-side game. 

The toss was won by the Manics who chose to bat first.  Diego de la Puente, darling of the South American under 13’s (who scored the winning runs – 12 in the final over – against Argentina in October 2013) and Henry Harris, a debutant to LCFC, opened the batting.  Henry was soon bamboozled by the pace, or lack thereof, of the pitch and was out caught off Jon Heyman’s bewildering medium-slow ball, as was Bobby a few balls later.  Diego opened with some intent but was later clean bowled by David Chaplin, another debutant who´s pace increased as his spell went on.  Alex Neufeld (eventually bowled by Jaggi – owner of the first and only maiden over of the match) and Suyash then pushed the score slowly on to 50. Suyash was then bowled by Zulfi, a skiddish fast bowler.  His pace also accounted for Sonu and Hiro, bowled and caught behind respectively.  Chris Mahoney, resplendent in his signature yellow batting shorts and on a high from enjoying Australia’s 5-0 drubbing of England, shone briefly with a massive six before being given out LBW.  Miles Buesst and Captain Walter then added 36 useful for the 9^th wicket,taking the score to 106 before Walter was run out well short by an accurate throw from Gerhard Buttner.  He appeared quite relieved to be out as the partnership had consisted of many quick singles.  This also brought in Tiagi, who made a splash by hitting 24 runs in an over. However, his tardy arrival due to a rather late night with a certain Johnny Walker may have contributed to him getting out soon after for a golden bowled by Tony Sanford.  Or it might have been the sandals he was wearing.  Miles and Farook added 18 runs before Miles was brilliantly run out by Tony Sanford from point.  Manics had scored 124 in 23 overs.  Not really near enough.

Depressives began their batting with Indar and Divyansh.  With just a few runs on the board Div was caught at point, flashing.  Gerhard was then caught by Julian the Kangaroo Walter, jumping 5 feet in the air at short mid-on. Atif and Indar tucked into some buffet bowling from Farook and Buesst, but soon Farook had Atif LBW.  Buesst was rather expensive with 13 going off his one over, and as runs were at a premium, he suggested Walter bowl. Walter, hit for four off his first ball, rallied and dismissed Jaggi LBW off his 3^rd ball, bowled the debutant Simon Parker second ball and had David Chaplin for a golden after moving Mahoney into a short mid-wicket position, taking a smart catch low down.  Depressives were in trouble. 

From 54-3 to 55 – 6.  Zulfi hung about a bit before some pressure bowling from Sonu brought about a catch for Farook at long on.  The cool and collected Indar retired after scoring a 6 to bring him to 33. Buesst then engineered some skipper –on-skipper  with Steve Hallet caught by the Julian Walter for a duck.  Mahoney was brought on to try his hand at his left arm specials, so promising in nets, yet rarely replicating on the pitch.  An over that brought  4 wides also brought 2 wickets, those of the spin factory: Sanford and Heyman.  Marcus Gee and Indar then tried to wrest back the initiative for the Depressives, but the target was just beyond them with Farook clearing up Gee’s wicket.  They were 21 runs short.

What was learnt?  Patience is a virtue, runs come.  There is no ex-county player here.  Matches can turn in an over.  Beer is drunk afterwards. 

Stock Take Under13's Cricket Bag to Brazil

Cricket Bats x3

County Envy Size 6 (Rodrigo)

County Reflex Rebel Size6 (Mauricio Rivas)

Gray Nicolls GN Twin Scoop (Signed Greg Chappell) Awesome bat (Club Bat)

1 x White Board for strategy and team news.

1 x Gray Nicolls enforcer fusion junior pads slightly broken one strap missing

1 x Gray Nicolls predator pads

1 x County Supreme pads belonging to Diego de la Puente

1 x Woodworm gloves

2 x County Hunts gloves

4 x Boxes

3 x stump (1 small)

3  leather cricket balls

3  pink balls rubber soft

2  plastic balls

1 bag of assorted cricket paraphernalia scorer bails tape measure bowling mark

5 8" rubber cones

12 plastic round markers

Under 13 Peru Cricket Team - Press Release - October 2013

On Thursday 10th October 2013, the Under 13's Cricket team will be going to Pocos de Caldas in the Brazilian hinterland to play in the Campeonato de Cricket Sundamericano Sub-13.  The other teams participating are Chile, Argentina and Brazil.  The team will be Captained by Luis Paredes, with Vice Captain Diego de la Puente.  The other team members include: Henry Dixon, Alexander Dixon, George Glynn, Rodrigo Carrion, Simon Quijano, Billy Halstead, Mariono Bottger, Jean Paul Duclos,Jade Rodriguez,  Mauricio Rivas.  On the Friday and Saturday all the teams will play each.  The top two teams will play in the final The other two teams will be playing to avoid the wooden spoon.  The team will be accompanied by parents of six of the students and coached by Nicholas Barsby and managed by Julian Walter.  Under 13's cricket is now in its fifth year.  Last year the team came second in the tournament.  This year they are hoping to go one step further.

Tim Bayly Sixes Tournament

There are times in your life when playing crickt becomes a matter of playing for the benefit of the game rather than just trying to win the game. Writing this sound like an excuse for playing shit! This is not really the case

Four teams turned up to play today at the Lima Cricket & Football Club (LCFC), Chak De, Eidegenossen, Kiteflyers and LCFC themselves. Order of play was as follows:

LCFC v Kite Flyers

Eidegenossen v Chak De

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Eidegenossen v LCFC

Kite Flyers v Chak De

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Eidegenossen v Kite Flyers

LCFC v Chak De

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This is a six a side tournament which if you watch as an innocent bystander seems like a complicated kids game but as an adult is a great version of cricket. As a batsman should you puncture the fielding team you are almost guaranteed a four or a six, a mishit a one or a two. As a bowler your aim is to minimize the damage to your team.

First game up and LCFC put on 47 for their five overs. Soulsby putting on the majority of the runs. In response KFC chased down the score with two balls to spare. The report does not really do damage to game and though the game should have been won easily it was not till Ed smacked a six from the penultimate ball did the game end. LCFC fought but to no avail. (Hodgy dodgey fielding....)

Eids dismantled Chak De fairly easily in the second game. Nick Jones smacking the ball all over the park. Chak De doing little.

When Eids played LCFC a score of 52 by LCFC was deemed another slightly below par score and so it proved with both Mike Soulsby and Rob Champion’s overs both going for 20. Nick Jones and Ian Roughton chased down the score with apparent ridiculous ease. The game finished in under 3 overs. LCFC discovered a new abyss…..

The penultimate game of the round robin was between Chak De and LCFC which proved to be humdinger of a game. LCFC scored with MS RC and CS all adding runs with a late rally from JW and JP to bring the score to 44. Not quite enough. Tony went for 15 in his over, JW took 2 wickets and pulled the score back to par. CS took a wicket but was pricey. MS bowled excellently for his over leaving 12 needed off the last over. A couple of wides assisted Chak De and needing 4 off the last ball managed to squeeze it past Tony, slightly inconsolable, and gifting LCFC with the wooden spork…..

In a dress rehearsal of the final David Sharples and Kenny Steen managed to provide a rather dull interlude to the day and put on 30 odd for the loss of no wickets. These were chased down rather easily by Eids.

In the final Eids scored 67 and the Flyers only hopes were dashed in the first and second overs with Barsby being caught and bowled by Mahoney and Skipper Baxter being run out by the occasional Jack in the second over. KFC ended on 45 odd.

It is a shame that words can not really describe such a day with just shy of 30 people enjoying themselves enormously. To Eids the spoils of victory but to the other teams the feeling of belonging. Come next year, new games, new players, new batting, new fielding and new bowlers. Sixes is a kids game but played oh so enthusiastically by adults

Live long Cricket Peru 2011

LCFC Secure Clausura for Second year running

Sunday 10^th April saw Lima Cricket retain the Clausura tournament for the second year running. After having a somewhat disappointing opening half of the seasons when the batting guns had refused to fire, this was certainly not the case in the clausura.

In the first game LCFC managed to post 130 odd thanks to Tony Sanford hitting his maiden fifty against Eids who was ably assisted by Seb Navarro, who was finally getting some time out in the middle, largely due to circumspect batting and running between the wickets at the top of the order. In reply Eids were pretty much done in by not really having enough players availbale and were bowled out for 70 odd with Walter pitching in with 3 for 15 and miserly bowling from Grandjean and Sanford.

The second game can really be defined by one innings, Louis Grandjean hit 112 from not many balls to secure a scoreline of 204 to ensure that the Kiteflyers would not be able to repeat the painful defeat they had inflicted on LCFC earlier in the season. What was more remarkable about this is that at the 13^th Wicket the score was only 60 odd for 1. Ed Baxter was hit for 31 in one over, including 5 sixes. Nick Myers watched amiably on (44 not out) as Louis crashed 13 sixes aound the ground almost managing to land the ball in all the tennis courts. This is his personal goal for next season he says. In reply Flyers managed to reach 150 with E Baxter hitting a half century to make up for his bowling figures in LCFC’s Batting (UNPRINTABLE). Again the bowling was tight by LCFC and with regular wickets the unlikely scoreline was calmly defended. The Guns of Lima Cricket had really fired this time.

So last Sunday saw LCFC having to win the game outright against Chak De as Flyers had defeated Eids by nearly 100 runs due mainly again to Eids having squad selection availability problems this year. Barsby outhit Grandjean with a score of 120 with the flyers putting on another double tonne score. LCFC Skipper Walter sent an email out to all and sundry to make sure they voted early and be at the game on time (The skipper himself was nearly ordered to remain at the voting booth to assist but was able to run away crying "I have a cricket match to Captain!", Surprisingly this fell on deaf ears here in Lima.). With a full squad and welcoming Mike Soulsby back from his beach sojourn on the Riviera they call Asia here and also Jorge Pancorvo our redoubtable keeper who had been on wedding mission in the States LCFC were looking up for the fight. On losing the toss LCFC were put into the field and were up against it fairly quickly with a steady six an over being hit by the confident Chak De with Kash putting up the greatest fight. But LGJ quickly put a stop to that and the wickets began to tumble. Walter came on and bowled his miasmic nonsense and during his spell four wickets fell, which allowed the LCFC to feel confident about chasing the target of a gettable 124. Gordon Hodgson and Desmond Soulsby went out to sort. Gordon was soon gone holing out to Kash at Long off and LGJ was soon LBW to VV. But the resolute Soulsby (50odd not out) steadied the ship with Myers until another blip at the end of the innings and with 30 left to hit he and the skipper saw the team home with 4 balls to spare.

No doubt LCFC will be plundered by other teams this year with players being tapped up by unmentionable teams....

Thoughts on an issue earlier in the season

Estimado Presidente

En la fecha 24 de Enero 2011, un equipo de football de Mexico estaba practicando en la cancha de cricket, una parte del terreno en la que nos han prometido que nadie va jugar. Por suerte yo estaba viendo y honestamente no podia creerlo. Casi 20 jugadores, con chimpunes, destruyendo exactamente el area donde es sumamente importante que no se maltrate. El senor Cesar Drago, el director de futbol, estaba presente y no hizo nada para evitarlo. Yo tuve que intervenir. Ni nosotros entramos a la cancha con zapatillas durante la semana, especialmente el dia despues de regar la cancha. Tengo que decir que por ciertas partes la cancha esta arruinada y estuvimos pensando practicar cricket este Domingo. Ya no va ser posible y vamos a tener que usar la cancha artificial otra vez.

Por otro lado no solamente es la cancha de cricket que esta en mala condición, sino tambien la cancha el de fútbol y de hockey estan muy maltradas. No crees que seria un buen momento para dejar de usar la cancha tanto, para que se pueda recuperar?

Honestamente estoy sorprendido y decepcionado por la falta de interes a largo plazo. Seria posible que podamos trabajar juntos por el bien comun?

Estimados:

Hoy en la mañana tuvimos entrenamiento con la categoría libre y en realidad el campo estaba igual a como estaba el Domingo o los días anteriores por lo que el término “destruyendo” me parece demasiado exagerado.

Por otro lado, dudo que césar tenga que ver con que el hecho de que este equipo mexicano haya ido a entrenar al Club por lo que me parece totalmente fuera de lugar ese comentario de que “no hizo nada para evitarlo” (es mas, dudo que alguien haya podido hacer algo al respecto ya que me imagino aquel equipo había coordinado el tema con anticipación).

Realmente me molesta un poco la actitud de este señor y su poca colaboración, sería bueno hacerle recordar que varias veces, en plena temporada de fútbol, se les permitió jugar Cricket cosa que nunca antes, en todos los años que voy al Club, recuerdo haya pasado.

Saludos,

(No estoy copiando al Sr. Walter)

Reply from Eduardo Borobio

Asunto: RE: Reclamo: Coordinacion de Football

En el caso del equipo Mexicano que fue a hacer ejercicios de soltura en el club, la decision fue tomada por mi. Si bien es cierto no se comunico en el comite fue porque desde fines de noviembre tuvimos varias solicitudes de diferentes equipos que vienen a Lima y que muchas veces la desicion es de un momento a otro como esta vez, que el pedido fue el Sabado en la tarde.

En cuanto a las afirmaciones del Sr. Walter de que se habian producido DESTROZOS en el club, son totalmente falsas, aparte los ejercicios hechos por los mexicanos ni siquiera tocaron la zona del cricket, esto nos indica que aveces algunos socios consideran que son dueños del club y aparte traen discordia dentro de nuestra institucion, citando a la persona textualmente en un parrafo dice: que por ciertas partes la CANCHA ESTA ARRUINADA y estuvimos pensando practicar cricket este Domingo y no va a poder ser.......... considero que estas afirmaciones son falsas y lo pueden comprobar ustedes mismos caminando por la cancha.

El sr. Walter tambien se ha olvidado que en epoca de futbol se le presto la cancha para jugar cricket, en diferentes oportunidades una de las cuales fue para festejar el cumpleaños de su hermano, aqui se le demuestra que podemos trabajar juntos por el bien comun, sin pensar que cada uno es dueño del club y de la verdad.

Tanbien me entere que el señor Walter se acerco a gritarles a los mexicanos, dañando la imagen del club y los directivos, puesto que si estaban los mexicanos ahi es porque se les dio el pase, en cuanto al Sr. Cesar Drago no tiene responsabilidad alguna sobre lo ocurrido ya que la decision fue mia y gracias a el la cancha a llegado a la fecha en buenas condiciones por traer un ingeniero que apoyo en el mantenimiento de la misma.

Tambien les recuerdo que el Sr. Walter para pedir la cancha de futbol para el cricket se dirigio a Cesar Drago y no se convoco a ninguna reunion de comite para su aprobacion, fue tambien decision mia y tambien hubo quejas de los futbolistas pero supieron entender.

Tambien quiero recordar que el señor Walter fue invitado a tres reuniones con los capitanes de deportes en la cual al parecer solo se entero de una afirmando su asistencia a la cual hasta ahora lo estamos esperando.

Considerando de que nuestro club se llama Lima Cricket and Football Club y respetando nuestro nombre y la tradicion deportiva del club, consideramos el tiempo de tres meses que se le otorga a este deporte, teniendo presente que la mayoria de los que forman los equipos de cricket no son socios del club.

Estas visitas de equipos extranjeros son muy beneficiosas para la imagen del club y para el contacto de nuestros niños deportistas, ya que estan en contacto con profecionales de diferentes diciplinas de nivel internacional y si observaron el nombre del Cricket estuvo en todos los canales y periodicos.

Por favor Mabel convoca al Sr. walter a una cita el Sabado a las 11.00 am por confirmar y adjuntale este correo. Saludos cordiales, Eduardo Borobio.

Defence of complaint:

Was quietly reading at home

Noticed football being played near green, saw it was directly on the wicket. Went immediately to do ask what was happening. No one seemed to know, so felt I had to act sooner rather than later. I yelled at them to leave the wicket. They did and were very well behaved in the manner.

The reason you may not see many marks now is because I went round the wicket and pushed the turf marks up where they had dug up the ground.

My question is this? Why were the groundsmen told not to mark off the square which is something that is always done when the cricket pitch is being prepared?

Why did the football players set up exactly where the square is? I don’t believe it was deliberate but I do think it was thoughtless. This should not have happened and would not have happened if the square should have been cordoned off. This simple action could have avoided all the trouble it has created.

I think it is unacceptable to start talking about past events, which in the case of letting people play cricket during the football season, as a sign of good will has nothing to do with an action that has led to yet more bitter feelings between sporting clubs.

You can see the pitch is not ready for playing on now, look at how deep the lines are from football. It wasn’t my brothers birthday, it was his farewell, he has left Peru after 18 years here. If it was Eduardo’s responsibility why did he not respect the wishes of other sports in the club? This seems a little one eyed in respect to a sports director. Should not all sports be considered?

Apologies for not making the meetings, don’t see how this effects my complaint.

How many people who play football are members of the club? With respect I have always encouraged team players to join, and yet again what does this have to do with my complaint.

These prestigious visits by other foreign teams do good for the club I agree, but don’t you think other people should be informed of the happenings. This generally leads to more effective communication and less likely to lead to things happening like they did on Monday.

I aplogise if I come across strongly with my complaint, but if noone says anything how will we be able to get things done.

With regards to transparency, I have later found out that Gianfranco Danessi wrote an email on which yours Eduardo borrows much information. Which rather surprisingly I was excluded from. Is it not important to have mark rosevere transparency in this club? Also with this second email which is a personal attack on cricket and not at an action why does he not send this email to me? Seems strange.

Should something like this, which we have known about since November not be actioned better?

En cuanto a las afirmaciones del Sr. Walter de que se habian producido DESTROZOS en el club, son totalmente falsas, aparte los ejercicios hechos por los mexicanos ni siquiera tocaron la zona del cricket, esto nos indica que aveces algunos socios consideran que son dueños del club y aparte traen discordia dentro de nuestra institucion, citando a la persona textualmente en un parrafo dice:

This is simply not true, yes parts are destroyed we can go and look at the pitch now, I have photos to show this.

I asked the mexicans to remove themselves from the wicket.

If I am bringing discord to the club and think I am an owner then what do you think you are doing here?

THE NET RESULT IS THAT WE GOT EXTRA CRICKET PRACTICE!

Peruvian National Legue Apertura Week One, AKA the Peasouper

Last Sunday 13^th February 2011 saw the recommencement of the Peruvian National League. In this early season league, called the Apertura the four main teams battle out over three weekends for the Chimu Holidays Trophy. LCFC were playing Eidegenossen to defend their unbeaten run in all the league games last year. As usual the game did not start as planned but half an hour late and was quite stopstarty as the ball kept getting lost in the bushes after Clint Donkin kept depositing it there off some pretty wayward bowling by the Eids. Incidentally LCFC had won the toss and decided to bat first. Hodgy was out with the score on 22 so new boys Donkin and Grandjean, both hit about 70 odd, don’t have the stats to hand)set about the bowling, putting on a stand of 140 odd taking the score to 170 when disaster struck. Clint was stumped by the Eids wickey off John Bell’s slow slow bowling. Good technique to use on this pitch with the ball practically stopping when it pitches. Hans was out immediately next ball for a Golden being bowled off another incredibly slow ball. It literally stopped on top of the stumps. Walter was then runout in comical fashion and Champion was yet another victim to Bell’s slow Boa Constrictor like bowling. John Bell must be mentioned in despathces for his bowling , showing the majority of other bowlers how important accuracy is. LCFC scrambled to 180. An adequate score.

In response Eids were none for two in the first over with Hans dismissing the openers very cheaply, bringing Gary ‘workaholic’ Sargent to the crease with Revolving Door Mahoney. Chris has switched teams more times than Nicolas Anelka, good thing he is a jolly nice bloke! Both batsmen were making fairly good headway in the chase which required at least two boundaries an over until Gary holed out to Donkin off Sanfords bowling. Then the pivotal moment of the innings came and it belonged to LCFC’s youngest player Sebastian. Sebastian failed to grab hold of a catch by Ravi but the batsmen decided on a suicidal single. Seb quickly picked up and flung in to Jorge who ran out Mahoney with some aplomb, who it has to be said was the danger batsman for the Fellowship team. Nick the new English teacher from Cambridge then tried to give Eids some credit batting with Ravi until Ravi was stumped by Jorge again off Walter’s bowling. And although Eids managed to only lose by ten runs due to some pretty wayward bowling in the back ten by LCFC the result was never really in doubt. Hans and Louis came back at the end to shore up the runs. Tony was the pick of the bowling for LCFC, bowling neatly taking a couple of wickets and not giving too much up in way of boundaries. A satisfactory but slightly untidy result for LCFC. Kiteflyers next weekend.. Below is the match report for the second match as provided by the exLCFC player Ed Baxter, now skipper of Kiteflyers. Interestingly two of the three players to leave LCFC last year are now captaining their respective teams. And Derek Jones has gone onto Head a school in Doha. Make of that what you will.

An ominous wisp of fog blowing across Lima Cricket Club on Sunday preceded the much anticipated Kiteflyers vs. Chak De Cricket extravaganza which was to bear witness to one of the best team batting performances (or worst bowling performances) the 20-20 tournaments have seen. It was a game that was played in good spirits and was notable for a number of debuts and enthusiasm on both sides.

2 o’clock, the proposed starting time came and Chak De were ready in their whites sat in a beautiful team building circle with Vish in a ridiculously good mood as always (always a bad sign for the opposition) and cackling away over the 3 different batting orders they had. As for the Kiteflyers team 4 of us were there, with one standing around in pants not sure whether to actually bother getting changed or not in case the rest of the team didn’t turn up. As it turns out they were in the bar and shuffled over for the eventual 2:30 start.

Manfully taking to the field with 10 players, (I bet you can guess who didn’t show up), the Kiteflyers first over went for about 8 runs. As it turns out that was probably the lowest scoring over of the innings as Chak De piled on the runs amassing a ridiculous 248 for about 6 off their 20 overs. It was however strangely enough, a reasonably enjoyable experience for most of the Kiteflyers many of whom got a chance to bowl. There were some great batting performances, top scorer was Suresh I think with around 50 and lots of other players chipped in here and there. Particularly memorable was the 3 fours he hit in a row of one utterly rubbish Baxter over. E. Xtra got his top score of all time I would imagine too.

Jimmy on his debut deserves a mention as he got 2 wickets in his one over of er, 12 balls I think. One of the balls was so cr@p however it wasn’t even allowed to be called a wide. Anyway he should be congratulated for getting Vish out on his full debut. In other comedy moments Dave Sharples bowled the best ball of the day (a dot), fell over and then turned to be relieved that his girlfriend and dad were still having lunch by the swimming pool.

The mist continued to roll in and the Kiteflyers took some great catches and strangely for the score actually fielded quite well. Gerhard must be mentioned for the fine catch he took near the start of the innings.

After a quick turnaround Abbott and Nick were sent in to chase the small matter of 12.4 runs an over. They started pretty well hitting a couple of lusty blows for four but then Chak De started to turn the screw, bringing an LBW appeal straight off the middle of Abbott’s bat. Needless to say that went down well with the batsman and wickets began to fall. Nick somehow hit the ball behind him to be caught by Kash and the batting order began to disintegrate. Lovely shots included a meaty six by Gav over mid-off and a Dave Sharples four courtesy of Anish’s foot (or knee) which was actually 20m from the boundary at point of contact.

Some good blocking by the lower order kept Chak De at bay until the 14^th over and the Kiteflyers were eventually all out for around 80. After the last shrieking huddle of the day by Chak De it was time to retire to the bar and strangely enough the mist by now had begun to recede...