It’s a balmy summers evening and the Millers game against The Sunsets, run by the very wonderful Devon Dumpling Bernie Wilson , is in full flow . Ben Peters is in the middle of a purple patch and as the bowler trots in off a few paces , Ben raises his bat and launches the ball towards “Cow corner” – yes he is a farmer – and this boundary runs fairly close to the mighty River Tale . The Sunsets have positioned a giant of a man – we shall call him Eric – on the cow corner boundary. As the ball flies towards Eric, he makes it obvious that he is fully committed to stopping the ball reaching the boundary and hurls himself at it, which is fine until he realises that only just beyond the boundary is the river bank and thereafter the river. Eric disappeared through the bushes and into the water at full stretch, re emerging with a gurgling noise and cricket whites that had turned see through; obviously its not very sporting to laugh at another’s misfortune but we did have a right old chuckle, sorry Eric! To be fair, he quickly changed into dry attire and returned to the field of play. The next morning he was back in his day job, teaching Watersports at Exmouth.
I don’t want to say too much more this month as the season heads to a close, the last words I uttered on the field of play were as our wicket keeper Tim Hubbard sauntered out to bat last week, along the lines of Tim not scoring loads of runs but being very good at keeping an end up, as the saying goes. Thirty seconds later Tim’s stumps were flying everywhere; it may not be The Hundred but village cricket can still entertain us, sorry Tim !
We are very fortunate that Miles and Ed are allowing us to host our End of Season Dinner at “The Stables at Yellingham” on Friday 24th September, which should be a cracking night. Tickets are available to members and non members from our secretary, Mark, on mhammett1974@outlook.com.
Ruby Red Beef coming soon !
Jon
