Iver Heath Sports Association Cricket Club

MISCELLANEOUS PICS 3

Club founded 1947

Website founded 1999

It took 52 years - hope it was worth the wait !

Roll On digging through the charred remains of the old pavillion in 1992

With hindsight, the fire that gutted the old pavillion in 1992 did the club a few favours. OK so we lost all of our equipment and were forced to change in portakabins for the whole season but it did mean that the Parish Council finally got their act together and start investing in the facilities at Iver. It's just a shame that they wouldn't allow us to put in a bar at the new pavillion.

Roll On is seen here inspecting the old kit cupboard. That's right - that pile of ash is a cupboard full of cricket equipment. Difficult to see from this angle, I know, but that is half a stump in his right hand. So nothing much has changed over the years, really. Ho hum.

(above and below) Skippy and Stick in the Annual Pool Competition, Royal Exchange 1991

Oh how I laughed when I got these pictures developed. It had been a tense evenings drinking in the Royal Exchange prior to our meeting with the Smackheads. As usual a pool competition had started and after many Holsten fuelled matches we finally got to the final between Skippy and Stick. Skippy was the pre-tournament favourite cuz he had his own pool stick whereas Stick was the rank (correct spelling) outsider as the only cue he'd seen was at the Tesco's checkout.

A crisp tenner was at stake and you could have cut the tension with a banana. After three gruelling frames of pool Stick came out the eventual winner after Skippy fouled on the black which I thought was a bit unneccessary since the bogs were just up the corridor but I digress....As we can see in the picture below, Skippy was a magnanimous loser and Stick, well, Stick was Stick.

Mr V looking dapper at Headstone 1998

Only reason I include this photo in the collection is the fact that it's the closest we've got to having the club badge on the website !! Not that I'm saying that Mr V isn't a handsome devil because we all know he is and, quite frankly, if I were a girl then I'd do him. Obviously I'm not a girl so I won't....unless he asks me nicely.

Anyway, for those unfamiliar with the club badge it is laid out so :

Behind all this is the flag of St George. This is there to remind us on (some of) our travels that we're playing the glorious game of cricket in England. It is also great to make a Sweaty like Mr V wear the English flag every week. Hehehe

DHB, Animal, Rocky and Skippy post-Chelsea slide at St Johns Wood 1998

It was the final match of the season against our old rivals St Johns Wood at Uxbridge CC. It had been pissing down all morning and there was a real fear that the game would be called off. However the groundsman at Uxbridge had told us that the square was being relaid after the match so he didn't mind if it got damaged which was very good of the old chap. Hope he didn't mind us buggering up his outfield, though, with an eleven man Chelsea slide at the end of the game.

By all accounts it looked absolutely fantastic with every single one of the players hitting the deck in unison and sliding over 25 feet through the mud. Some of the lads, however, are a little weightier than others and slid a little bit further. If you look closely you may see a pair of feet sticking out from underneath the scoring hut. This is not the Wicked Witch of the East but Fat Bloke. It took a JCB to get the fat git out from under there....