Eureka! Proof! Gordon's alive!

It is with some pride that the scribe of this blog can lay claim to someone having read the blog outside the PCF and its diehard supporters.
A site for cricket writers called cricketwrite.com wrote to Miles and asked for permission to publish the match report Peru v Brazil.
So now we know people actually read the blog!

PERUVIAN CRICKET FEDERATION - AGM

Dear all,

The AGM of the Peruvian Cricket Federation will be held on:

Fri 6th June at LCFC at 7pm

(please pass this message on to anyone who may not be on the email list).

Agenda

1 Apologies

2 Minutes of the last meeting - VA

- Matters arising

3 Chairmans Report - ICC Development Program - CA

4 Captains Report - Tournaments and general cricket review - HH

5 Treasures Report - TS

6 Election of Executive Committee for 2008/9 - CA

7 PCF Dinner - VA

8 Tours - HH

9 AOB

Cricket in Peru is on the cusp of massive change and development. It is with this in mind that I urge all of you try and attend this meeting.

Regards,

Chris.

Peruvian Cricket Federation Meeting – 23- April – 2008

Present: Chris Abbott, Harry Hildebrand, Tony Sanford, John Bell, Julian Walter

Matters arising from the last meeting – none

Correspondence –

There was one email regarding Brasil’s acceptance by ministry of sport.

WE are waiting for a letter from Grant to take to our ministry of sport

We need to get the clubs sorted out with a generic Constitution à CHRIS will write a standard Document and we will send it out to all clubs. We NEED at least one ‘official’ from each club on this committee. We need to perhaps affiliate our teams with already established clubs…such as El Bosque, Flaming Lions – TONY will find out the legalities

Next meeting perhaps in Harry’s Office at San Antonio….closer for everyone.

Accounts – Tony has not yet finished will do it before Chris leaves for the Development Forum…due to the ICC on June 30.

Turnover in the past year will be revealed when Report is published.

Email contact lists…Tony still waiting for Rob and Giresh to send lists.

Forthcoming events:

1. End of year function at HANS’ House…do we not have it??/ Do we look for another venue?? Do we call a meeting at the LCFC (and no one comes and Committee rolls over???) – the same committee would give us continuity…. One is a social evening and one is a formal Annual meeting…. Could we combine them…Perhaps we could have a formal dinner??? Idea received quite well….have prizes?? Somewhere in Barranco?? Perhaps AGM first – and announce the winners of trophies and then advertise the Dinner…..where trophies are presented…

Once we have a list we can send out an email to the 50 people who have played this season….and announce this..

WE have to follow our constitution – we must have an AGM – we need to agree on a date (not two weeks after the end of the season- as stated in the Constitution)

Harry is back from the jungle on 19^th May

We could follow the Kiteflyers model – this year charged S/. 150 – S/. 100 is for the dinner…so it is already paid for..

If in JUNE we could do it at Tony’s House… (He is moving in then) – Curry restaurant is an option…curry could be at Tony’s. The Indians will definitely come then!!!

AGM date – a Friday night???

Proposed date for AGM – 6 June Friday NEEDS PUBLICISING (Captains)

Proposed date for Annual Dinner – 21 June Saturday NEEDS PUBLICISING (Captains) – VIV SHOULD BE IN CHARGE – he will send out the email

AGM – reports from captain , Chairman, Tony, Chris will report on development forum.

2. Development Forum – 9-12 May Chris will be representing us – will miss Monday from work…dedication to the cause!!!

3. October tour – in the week 3-10 October – Harry to organize with Stormin Norman – Replies Harry, Miles, Tony – perhaps if wives can come Chris will be a chance. BUT MORE NEEDED if we are you reply yes à HARRY will send emails with Tony’s list.

Tony needs to run an umpiring course as part of his qualification – WHEN??? He has the resources – we need to fly the possibility at the AGM as well as an email….WE NEED THE EMAIL LIST!!!

Team training facilities – WE NEED permission/ design and make a proposal …so we need presupuestos – we need a representative of Lima Cricket club to ask for permission

BUT Before we ask for any money we have to know what we want… can the net be changed??? Can’t be moved from the current position

Julian – has permission to build nets in Hiram Bingham – HANS has offered to pay for the net…JULIAN is in charge of this – we need a design perhaps from Grant. – Possibilities of Cambridge net???

Cricket in schools – Harry’s Markham fotos sensational (of course)– Markham has challenged Cambridge to a game of cricket – to be done when Harry returns from Tambopata. Cambridge put in a request for bats and a wicket

WEBSITE – we must buy the domain name (perucricket). Blog doesn’t let me put on any comments – fix it CAN JULIAN make an effort to do what it takes to get the domain name…etc JULIAN YES

AMBOS game??? Do we try and organize it now for next year??? LCFC Captain needs to sort this out

We could invite the AMBOS to play on another venue – It is our responsibility as PCF to have an alternative venue.

The PCF wants to thank the Lima cricket club for their contribution to the development of Cricket in Peru this season.

Any other business??

Meeting closed at 9.35pm

India/Pakistan versus Rest of the World

Date:9th April 2008

Place:Lima Cricket and Football Club

Cricket match of the Titans..... please inform your captain's of your availability.
The Team for India/Pakistan is yet to be confirmed.
ROW Captain: hildebra@markham.edu.pe
India/Pakistan Captain: venusfilms@terra.com.pe

The following have been selected for the Rest of the World.
Congratulations,
You have been selected to play for the Rest of the World team on Sunday April 6 at 11am (be there at 10.30am). The game will be against the India/Pakistan team (a stronger team than the one that played in the Tournament). This game is always a highlight on the PCF calendar and I am sure this game will be no exception. The game will be 40 overs a side.

ROW TEAM
1. Harry Hildebrand(Capt)
2. Chris Abbott (Vice Capt)
3. Miles Buest
4. John Bell
5. Tony Sanford
6. Henry Southall
7. Nick Appleyard
8. Jorge Pancorovo
9. Jon Hawkins
10. Lachlan McKinnon
11. Tim Flack

If your name is not here and you would like to be considered, don't feel too downheartened, it is likely that one or two will pull out. Send an email to Harry and tell him you would like to be considered if there is space.

Umpires / Scorer

Julian Walter / Viv Ash

SUNDAY'S GAME- 30th MARCH 2008

Roll up Roll up! The Carnival's coming to town.
This Sunday extra special 30 or 40 over match to be played, a few spaces left. Still no smoke signals from the Indians as to who will be representing them. Apparently Mike Soulsby will be rolling in to bowl his mean line of mangoes. The usual supects have signed up for the chain gang, so drop a line to your skip and tell him you can play.
Here is a list of the students available:

Sunday 30 March – Cricket game - Available

1. Tony Sanford

2. Jorge Pancorvo

3. John Bell

4. Miles Buesst

5. Tim Flack

6. Chris Abbott

7. Harry Hildebrand

8. Viv Ash

9. Jon Hawkins

10. Prabhu

11. Hero

12. Chandan

13. Mohan

14. Mohammad

15. Nomi

16. Mike Soulsby

17. Geriant Langford

18. Peter Furst

19. Adrian Eyre?

20. Dave Murphy?

21. Chris Mahony?

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Summary of the 20/20 tourney

Life in Lima continues unabated, the cricket season has reached its climax and everyone can give themselves a big slap on the back if they can reach round after so much cricket in the last three weeks. The second 20/20 Lima Super Sunday Festival came to a close and all manner of cricket was witnessed, to outrageously onesided, ringer infested jamborees to tight than tight finishes with appallingly low scores, countless dropped catches, some excellent fielding and 48 people taking part in what has become an important fixture in the Lima calendar. Over 3 weeekends part time footie players aka the Kiteflyers, the highfalutin Lima Cricket and Football Club, The impeccable Indians and Southern Continent contingency also known as the Boyband "Chak De", and the felt capped cricketers Eidgenossen battled in mortal combat to decide who should be crowned glorious champions. First up were Flyers v Eidgenossen, a good game was played by these two teams, with the Eids having it in the penultimate over when the 1st Eids ringer James from Stroud hammering two maximum's in the penultimate over, ably assisted by Barnesy's custard pies. Up came Lima versus India, so gallant and brave with a young team in transition against the gunslingin 'Chak de'. A target of 115 seemed doable, after Prabhu had carried his bat from opening with a great 73. That was until Atul the Terrible bowled a double hattrick to remove the experimental middle order. With hindsight this over rather defined the tournament for the LCFC and they never really did recover in any of the following games. All out 80 odd. The following weekend Lima played the Flyers and were unable to chase the 120 odd set by Abbot and respective football hooligans, even with the aggressive bowling of the part time spin of Walter forcing the aformentioned off the field with a shiner. Abbot came back when the cruise missile like (not) bowling had abated and laid waste to Lima again. Eids then managed to beat India off the penultimate ball with one wicket left after India had managed to creep to 75, when Buesst had been very mean and efficient in his bowling, and James (cough.......ringer.....another one) hit a maximum off the penultimate ball. There was a minor altercation in the game too, when a semi-stand off took place between 'Chak de' Skip and square leg, but that was resolved by the ICC umps, doing there job well. All in all the umpiring was pretty good, Harry Hildebrand, Rob Champion, Tony Sanford, Miles Buestt, Chris Abbott and John Bell, all played their part in wearing the red t-shirts that made them so distinguishable. Viv Ash John Bell(again) and Julian Walter did the scoring. This could be better as there seems to be a deficiency in this department. Maybe Brandy from Buenos Aires could come to Lima and give us a course in this most important system of historical documentation.
Come the final day the Fellowship team of Eidgenossen needed to beat the underdogs LCFC to claim the trophy that had belonged to the Kiteflyers last year. And so they did, Lima, underfiring underperforming, undercatching, under everything really, skip was under his duvet apparently...... Eids ringed up or should I say rung up 200 runs, a tournament record, with Nick Appleyard making hay and one incredibly long six, clearing the tennis courts on the far side of the club. Stand in skip Walter tried to do his best and had to call on all manner of bowling but to no avail. John, also tucked in to the below par tripe and hit 80 odd (plus his first ever six). Lima's one consolation was being able to creep over 100 in response..... nuff said. India played Kiteflyers and once again Prabhu batted brilliantly for another half century. Atul bowled excellently, both players benefiting enormously from the tour to BA recently. The Flyers were never in the chase of 160 odd and rather tamely surrendered to 'Chak de' after both Harry Hildebrand and Chris Abbott had got out rather cheaply.
Afterwards the players congregated for a delicious bbq, to watch John Bell receive the tournament trophy for Eidegenossen, Atil and Prabhu Bowler and Batsman of the tourney respectively. With Prabhu receiving player of the tournament. His prize....... a pair of smelly flip flops.

Well done everyone, sadly no Easter Internationals took place, mainly because of its earliness (apparently it won't be this early again until 2145) and the recent shenanigans in Argentina, Just two important fixtures on the horizon, Ambo's 11 versus Lima Allstars, plus India-Pakistan versus ROW. Plus the all important end of season barbie a la Dutch at Hans' and Yvonne's.