The Jolly Boys Cricket Club

The lovely summer evening sees the squad all ready and present with time to spare.

This week it's Will and Ian who open the batting with Will having the honour of facing the first ball of the innings.

And he wastes no time settling in and is soon stroking the ball around like a good 'un.

It's such a lovely evening Mrs Moon has decided to put her bonnet on and join Mr Sun in a parade round the heavens (this also proves that, whilst the 18x zoom of the new camera is a splendid thing, it can't quite capture evidence of the moon landings - ed.).

At the other end Ian is also getting into the swing of things with some lovely cricket shots.

Wham, bam thankyou Mam. Will hits a quickfire 28 to become the first Jolly to retire this season.

So out comes Stuey just in time to see Ian opening up the bat even more. So, not long after Will, in comes Ian having made an undeaten 25. Well we're certainly not hanging around this week as the run's are positively piling on.

Stuey is keen to get into the action and carries on where Ian and Will left off.

Ably supported by Frosty who's swapped his umpiring skills for a spot of on field action this week.

No matter the amount of high quality action on the wicket there's always time for a spot of pocket billiards back at base camp.

Botheration. Stuey gets one that stays down and his wicket has gone.

So in comes Powelly keen to get some runs in after last weeks disaster.

But after getting a well put together 23 Powelly gets bowled by one that just clips the top ofthe bails just before he manages to retire. But the score's moving along nicely and we've got wickets in hand.

Which means it's time for Jol to enter the fray where he soon shows he's keen to keep things moving along.

Meanwhile at the other end "Cockeny" Stu has a disaster as he's bowled for 0. Still at least it wasn't a golden !

Make way for the Ogden-Burger (Breck Club karaoke mega star that he is) who's looking to get himself some runs with his new bat.

As soon as Jol regains the strike he hits a splendid 4 to retire on 26 therby bringing Dave into the action for the last couple of overs.

A quick fire 7 from Dave and 3 from Ogs brings us to the end of the innings giving us a grand total of 161 for 4 from our 20 overs.

Naturally there are no fielding pictures but we can reveal that we managed to stop EVH from beating our total leaving us winners of this weeks contest.

But the excitement hadn;t quite peaked as out on the boundary Shannon is having a quick net with Stu where she shows the Jollys how to really hit the ball !

So it's all back to the Old Town Hall where Baz looks positively bemused by Si's addition of sliced peppers to this weeks buttie feast !

And we end this weeks report with a message from our sponsors... Roken Is Dodelijk !

(But it must be said that it makes for a good animation test for the multi frame shooting mode of the new camera - ed.)