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You need me on the team. Loud shouter for any appeals. And as I watch the Luchbreak programme on Channel 4 earlier I may be able to understand the LBW law at long last, maybe, just maybe.

DD, you are more than welcome

And can I please take this opportuntity to jump up and down an shriek with pleasure about how England won a test series

Aye and first time in my life time, though I was a sizeable bump last time they beat the windies.

Englands stupendous win reminds me of the series the Windies played against NZ last year.

The Tests - NZ 3 WI 0. The one-dayers - NZ 5 WI 0.

It's hard to be humble.

Toasts the Pommie success by passing out Y Y Y Y Ys all round.

Glug

Hi Swiv,

Great idea - that's just what this village needs!

I'd love to be Club Archivist. In fact this is a cover - or possibly an extra cover - for the fact that I'm hoping to do a project on Cricket at the University of Life. Can I use your page to seek assistance?

As for my playing abilities, I bowl medium-slow dobbers, wobblers and assorted other rubbish, and have made something of a speciality of going in No. 11 and getting agonisingly close to saving games. Yours seems like a team in which a talent such as mine can flourish.

Now it's back to Eleanor...

GVI

Wow - competiton for the coveted no. 11 spot; are you similarly blessed with the batting talents of Devon Malcolm, Alan Mullally and (my batting hero) Phil 'the cat' Tufnell rolled into one?

* Beaming happily *

I'd brought some champagne to celebrate, but see that everyone has already started.

Fresh Y's anyone?

If only I were as entertaining as Devon

No, I model myself more on Pat Pocock, doggedly battling my way to ducks lasting half an hour or more. I'd volunteer to be night watchman, if I though any of our games would last that long...

though -> thought.
D'oh!

I'd love to be involved in this venture, but I can't bowl, I can't bat, I can't catch, and I don't understand the lbw law. Until a few weeks ago, you might have said that I'd be right at home in the England team, but it seems that we beat the Windies!!! Hurrah.

I make a very good virtual Dundee cake though, and a virtual cup of tea so strong that you can walk across it and leave virtual footprints. I'd be happy to tend the roses outside the pavilion too.... there is a pavilion isn't there?

What?? You dare to suggest that we might play cricket on a pitch without a pavilion?? Heresy!

Well, I would have thought that a pavilion was essential, but if there was mention of it anywhere, I must have missed it. I was merely making sure rather than making assumptions

So, what kind is it? On old-fashioned wooden one with shiplap planks, like the one at Lancing College, or a newer brick building, like Fenner's? Or how about a rather grand mock-tudor affair with red roof tiles like The Parks?

May I quote from A414208? "These devotees of the Cricket Ground hope that eventually it will have a pavillion"

So does this mean that Swiv has managed to build one? I hoppe he has aged it effectively: I see it as a gently peeling, white-painted clinker-built sort of thing, but please feel free to out vote me!

Ah, yes - I can see it now in my mind's eye... A rather small but comfortable little place, with a large open front looking out onto the pitch, benches and kitbags strewn about the floor. A rudimentary kitchen prepares a huge urn of tea and clingfilmed trays of cucumber sandwiches.
The two changing-rooms are heady with the smell of linseed oil and aging pads. In the room open to the pitch, fading sepia photographs of great sides past and present cast a stern eye on proceedings. A rather battered scoreboard is propped by one corner of the building, its freely-hanging numbers on pieces of metal knocking against the black-painted wood in the slight breeze that has sprung up...
The sound of heavy pieces of willow being knocked in drifts over the outfield, as does the scrape of spikes on the weather-beaten steps up to the pavilion...

The dewy-eyed lyricism of Cricket... magnificent...

Actually Swiv is away on holiday for another week or so, so i think we should try to get the pavilion built before her return as a nice surprise. I'm not to bothered about the style as long as there is plenty of space for the scorer - preferably near to the tea and sandwiches.

Ahhhh, that's just the way I imagined it *wipes a wistful tear from the eye*. I hope too that it faces west so that it catches the warm rays of the late evening sunshine, lighting the interior with a golden glow, and giving everyone a fine view of the sun going down over the pitch. I think I may cry now.

Forget the pavilion - Swiv's a GIRL???!!!???

Yes, Swiv is indeed a girl. In fact she is an attractive, witty, intelligent girl who is interested in cricket - pretty much my idea of perfection - so of course she is not remotely interested in me.

BTW, Swiv is going to kill me if she reads that previous post. Just thought i'd let you all know.
So anyway - back to the pavilion.....
please....
anyone....

Swiv's off to St Andrew's - she'll recognise the pavilion I described in my last posting immediately she sees it on the Uni playing fields there.