Iver Heath Sports Association Cricket Club

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Club founded 1947

Website founded 1999

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

Smackheads (A) 1990

Top Row (L-R) : Pete Abell, Ian Mitchell, Mike Busson, Eddie Stocks, Alan Ferris, Richard Evans, Mike Rigarlsford
Bottom Row (L-R) : Kevin Cottis, John Knight, Neil Darby, Dave Williams

Our first trip down to sunny Gloucester for what would prove to be the highlight of our fixture list for some years to come thanks to the hospitality shown by those great folks at the Royal Exchange in Hartpury. Highlights of the inaugral tour were :

"I've only been drinking for 12 hours, of course I can still drive - I can walk in a straight line" from Magnet
Roll On being given out LBW after hooking the ball onto his toe by Evans  (not that I bare a grudge)
Fat Blokes li-lo
The smell from the bog at Tom Davies' place after Fat Mike had emptied his 28 bottles of Holsten into it

Watchet (A) 1992

Top Row (L-R) : Nigel Barker, Ian Mitchell, Hugh Mitchell, Pete Abell, Phil Terry, Richard Stocks
Bottom Row(L-R) : Colin Terry, Mike Busson, Neil Carver, Iain Stanfield, Kevin Cottis

We'd just beaten the Smackheads on that uncut strip in the middle of a football pitch so no wonder we arrived in Watchet full of enthusiasm ! Our second tour and we were playing one of Somersets premier sides and our hosts for the week so we knew we had to put on a good performance......ho hum. Still the 153 run defeat did provide us with a few laughs....

The highly disputed "Bound over to keep his crease" incident (the Terry boys vs the Rest of the World !)
Stocksie and his amazing Inspector Gadget arms
6:24pm - Roll On to Neil Carver "It's OK, they're bringing on the Spinners"
6:25pm - Roll On hurling bat at dressing room door
6:26pm - Fat Bloke to Neil Carver "This should be easy - we'll pad it out for the draw"
6:27pm - Fat Bloke hurls bat at dressing room door

Smackheads (A) 1991

Top Row (L-R) : Ian Mitchell, Iain Stanfield, Colin Terry, Mike Busson, Richard Stocks, Nigel Barker, Chris Gough
Bottom Row (L-R) : Pete Abell, Tom Druce, John Knight, Kevin Cottis

This game will be forever remembered as the match where Barker got 6 wickets and the beginning of our first ever tour and what a crack that turned out to be. I can't remember much about this particular game but that tour....

"Excuse me but is your fine leg fielder dead cuz he hasn't moved for 30 minutes"
Tommy - the deaf, dumb and blind roofer from Ashcott & Shapwick
Tin Legs outrunning Stick despite the combine harvester accident
Asking if we can substitute our own wicketkeeper cuz he was shite
Arthur and his neighbours coming on tour....what a giggle
"That blokes crappin' in Pappins !"

Uphill Castle (1991)

L-R : Julie, Liz, Arthur Kenward, bloke with long legs doing something with clock, Ian Fisher, Ian Mitchell, Kevin Cottis, Richard Stocks

Simply got to be one of the hottest days cricket ever - ranks right up there with Pinkneys Green a couple of seasons ago. Fairly uneventful game (i.e. we got hammered) but I remember walking out to open the innings with Fat Bloke and seeing 5 slips and 2 gullies behind me ! Of course the game did see the one and only Dave LeRendu make his first (and only) appearance for Iver Heath. Oh, and I almost forgot, the Ian Fisher "kick it over the boundary to avoid running in this friggin' heat" technique so favoured by Iver fielders.....