Gents,
Although no encouragement
should be needed I have detailed below the Tour ’01 details in the hope of
‘whipping’ you all into a Tour frenzy……
1999
Saturday Sunday
Stanton CC 161 for
9 Rained Off
Mulberry CC 162 for
6
2000
Saturday Sunday
Stanton
CC 163 for 10
Dudley Ramblers CC
192 for 5
Mulberry CC 223 for
10 Mulberry CC 194
for 8
Enzo Mauro Vs Stanton
8-0-44-6
Neville Harrington Vs Stanton
Ian Wickes Vs Dudley Ramblers CC
87 runs
83 runs
2001
Saturday Vs Stanton CC
Sunday Vs Charlbury CC
In my influential and, dare I say, educated position I recommend we only
field our reserve team for the Stanton match which will ensure our first teamers
are fit and eager to play Charlbury (who will be strong again I suspect).
This obviously means we need to get a first team together by August
as the reserve team are currently available and have already booked their
rooms in the pub.
More History….
1998
Oxford House: The ideal base
for a Cricket Tour (Pub with Beds)
1.
Rooms that fit between 2 and 10 people (depending on the quantity of Z-beds
available)
2.
A bar that shuts only when people ran out of capacity for booze
3.
The nicest Host/Hostess you could wish to meet
4.
The dogs of a breakfast (large & not greasy)
5.
A flight of stairs Sir Edmond Hilary would have been proud to conquer
6.
A pool table that sometimes became free….
7.
A dart board
8.
Easy going locals who suffered Cricketers on Tour
9.
Easy walk to more Pubs
1.
Same rooms
2.
A bar that shut when the owners started getting ‘The Arse’
3.
Two Italian blokes who thought running a B&B would be easy
4.
A Semi-Full English breakfast that swam in grease
5.
Same stairs
6.
No Pool table
7.
No Dart board
8.
A Restaurant/Bistro that served nice food
2000 The Piggeries: Nice Building with Beds
1.
Nice rooms with no stairs (godsend when carrying cricket bag)
2.
No bar
3.
No social area (except patio)
4.
Slightly odd owners
5.
Nice Breakfast
6.
No Pool table
7.
No Dart board
8.
Hike to Pub along potential ankle breaking road (nearly Boomie twice)
2001 Horse & Groom: Pub with Beds
A new venue for Mulberry CC which has great potential
1.
All 7 rooms en-suite and booked to us
2.
Owner is Kiwi/Aussie with (hopefully) some tolerance to sick/noise
3.
All rooms are recently fully furnished (Oh Dear for above)
4.
£60 per room per night including breakfast
I advise all players to get there orders in quickly as there may be a
limited number of Twins……..the rest will be getting cosy.
As a rule the players will get first shout, with better halves (for once)
having to wait for the blokes to decide.
There
a small contingent of people who are not satisfied with Cricket and seek the
meagre excitement of Golf……all those who enjoy wearing flares and dodgy jumpers
should contact Boomie who will decide if your handicap (if playing cricket
for Mulberry wasn’t enough) is upto his exacting standards.
Maps to guide people to the tour accommodation will be available nearer
the time but for those ‘eager beavers’ the local town is Upper Oddington.