Such is the shortness of the 2020 season that, having used our allocated space in July to give an update on the revised fixture list, we now find ourselves in August with just two and a bit weeks of the season to go. Alas, t’will soon to be too dark for us to play in the evenings. Our season began at The Mill with a local derby ( most of our games are) against the serfs and villains of Plymtree, mostly the latter really . The Millers batted first and the highlights were the return to health and runs for Mark Hammett and his new eyes and after …
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At long last Boris allowed us out to play in July! After a successful fully risk assessed Club Night to get the season up and running, we then entertained near neighbours Plymtree and came out on top with the Millers scoring 134-6 and Plymtree replying with 97 All Out. Four of our batters reached the magic retirement score of 25, Shane Tout, Ben Peters, Mark Hammett (new eye) and Si Kittow (new knee) whilst wickets were taken by Shane Tout, Will Wood, and Oli Kittow amongst others. We then moved onto a home game with our friends from up Tale …
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Apologies, readers, for the radio silence – Cricket hasn’t really been up there at the top of the agenda over recent months, not a clue why. We are in the process of preparing the pitch for some training sessions and hopefully by early July a few of us will be able to gather and reacquaint ourselves with long forgotten skills - some of us will need a very good memory. Of course, we had a good spell of weather whilst we couldn’t play, so no doubt our release onto the field of play will coincide with thunderous showers! We still very much hope …
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Incredibly another cricket season has been and gone, I’m not sure where time goes in Payhembury but it certainly seems to pass much quicker than in other places we’ve lived! The season started and ended a bit damp but in between we have had some great games and probably lost a couple more than we won overall. Our successes have been finally gaining the right permissions to play cricket legally in the field, having a published author looking after the bar, a couple of very entertaining Gin Nights and our club Open Day coinciding with the …
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      Well done to the Mighty Millers - a score over 200 against Plymtree! …
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Avid readers of the parish mag will have noticed that we didn’t have a piece in last month’s edition, for which I can only apologise. Due to the poor weather and various opposition crying off we reached the end of June having played only seven games, of which, we won………..er………… um………none (although we did manage a tie on one occasion!) So nothing to shout about really. However July has seen a much needed upturn in our fortunes in many ways. Firstly, Umpire John Somers has returned to fitness and is able to stand once more for us, lovely to …
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