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Bullet Fires Up at Winter Nets

Bullet Fires Up at Winter Nets

Tom Vila30 Jan 2017 - 22:28
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Cricket is back, yay!

Cricket returned to the Knox-Johnson international arena last night as Northchurch Cricket Club commenced pre-season training.

The boys were raring to go as they replaced in the hall a meagre straggle of players from last year's promotion rivals Berkhamsted, nudged into a pre-watershed 5.30 pm slot by super keen coach Hobley's early booking. Conspicuous absence of Steve Dight who no doubt could not make this time, probably because he had not digested his mid-afternoon flax seed and goji berry smoothie.

With fresh information from our scout in Brisbane, Levi Thomson-Mathews, that this season's overseas signing, Steve McGiffin, has been cleaning up in the city's A Grade competition with his lively seamers, Lee 'The Bullet' Johnson had something to prove. Pushing off the back wall for his long run, he hurried up gun bat, genius off the back foot and all round nice guy Jimmy 'Hooker' Smart to pin him painfully on the glove. Everyone agreed that Lee could bowl tremendously fast and asked him to save it for the oppo. But we look forward to seeing him running in up the hill at the Medda this year as Steve will no doubt want the pavilion end...

Over in net one, Ronak 'poacher of singles, annoyer of barbers' Patel looked as aggressive as ever with bat and ball, while Harry 'ave it!' Chapman, still seething from the 'orns' poor show away at Millwall, took his aggression out on the leather.

Calum 'Shoulders' Lindsay demonstrated the value of rolling last season into next and showed early signs that his weekly outdoors nets since September have paid off.

Romit 'the sensible one' Patel seems to have developed a dangerous Yorker (or we put the stumps out wrong) and Ben 'weighty balls' Pine has also clearly been put the work in over the winter.

Great to see everyone else at training, Lloyd Debs, Mike, Bex and Georgey L, and we look forward to doing it all again next week. Hopefully the DOMS will have subsided by then.

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