The first weekend of club cricket means excitement and a sense of anticipation of what the season will bring. Only 75% fit after succumbing to the ‘flu all week, I made the call to play on Saturday. I’m still deciding whether or not that was a wise decision.

Along with the cricket this weekend was the bi-annual Glebe record fair - my first stop for the morning. Bumped into a few people and picked up some gems:

The Future Sound EP - Juan Atkins (ULR)
One & One - Chelonis R. Jones (Get Physical)
Happiness - Superpitcher (Kompakt)
One, Two, Three, No Gravity - Closer Musik (Out of the Loop)
Limited 2 - Swag (Version)
Unreleased Dubs - Swag (Version)
Reign (Remixes) - UNKLE (Mowax)

Perhaps that’s where I should have called my day off. I rocked up to play Old Ignatians at Artarmon - one of the worst grounds going around at this time of the year. With all the touch football and soccer that gets played during the off season, the ground hasn’t had time to recover. To say the outfield is bumpy is an understatment, with balls literally turning at right angles when they bounce - quite ridiculous.

We won the toss and bowled - taking the new ball, I bowled 3 overs and was hit for 2 sixes back over my head - the first time I’ve ever experienced that. Anyhow, I came back, with my last five and went for considerably less, taking 1/50 of my eight overs - not flash at all, and the ‘flu certainly didn’t help. Old Iggies were kept 208 and we were crusing at 5/190 with plenty of overs to spare when we lost 5/8 and that was it! Not the best start to the season, let’s hope it doesn’t come back to bite us when we need the points.