Sellsy's Sunday Supplement - on a Tuesday!

Yes, a Sunday Supplement on a Tuesday, why may you ask, well went to a very good music festival; it was so good Monday was just a blur!!!

I see England have now been confirmed the number one Test team in the world after completing a white wash against India, only Australia, South Africa and India have held that mantle. Well played England, have been waiting for this all my life and I now believe they will be at that number one spot for some time to come.

I still maintain that the West Indies side of the 70’s and early 80’s was the best team I have witnessed playing Test cricket: Holding, Roberts, Croft, Marshall, Garner, Walsh Ambrose; as for that batsmen, Haynes, Greenidge, Richards, Lloyd, Dujon, Richardson, Kallicharran.

I could go on with names, dates, victories, broken bones etc. But one thing which will always stand out for me is Malcolm Marshall, he was so quick at one game I couldn’t even see the ball, and the wicket-keeper was standing about 10 yards away from the boundary and he was still taking the ball at head high, wow!

The end of the season is now getting nearer and Over Stowey are having a break from league cricket this weekend as the club is on tour, in South Devon, well Torquay to be precise.

Two games of cricket on the Thursday and Friday, followed by a free day on Saturday (it could get messy that day). With a 20 strong squad travelling down, plus some supporters, should be a quiet weekend away.

Torquay always brings back some great memories of tours gone by, with our first ever tour taking place in 1992 when we first visited the English Riviera. Les Biffen (who likes a drink with his friends ….but not the whole of Marldon!), arranged our first tour, and also a 20 strong squad went down the M5. The cricket was fun, the evenings were funnier, and the mornings were one to forget – that’s if we ever got to bed.

The tour of 1996 will always be well remembered by the Club as a whole, as we went overseas for the first time (the other being the Isle of Wight and possibly Cornwall). It wasn’t the fact that we went overseas, is was the fact that opposition had a guest playing for them, a certain Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall brought the teas along for good measure!

Mick has a great love for the game, but our Dave Richardson got him out for a duck, plus he didn’t bowl very well either which was followed by a few rock n roll expletives! The whole episode made not only the local press, but the nationals as well; have even found the story on the internet somewhere.

Every Over Stowey cricketer who have been on any tour will have their favourite memory, but for those who went to France that year, that will always be special.

So Torquay here we come, fines have now been finalised, tour shirts printed, mini bus arranged, just need to unpack from the weekend and pack again for this weekend – shall I bother?

Best of luck to Somerset on Saturday in the T20 finals day, we shall be routing for you in some bar in Torquay I expect, and all the best for Wednesday when I know I’ll be in Bungle’s Bar watching them play Gloucester in the CB40.

Right, 10.57, time for a pint (things don’t change in the week you know), and I hope to be blogging on Sunday if I can!