Cricket Week a damp squib

Appalling post-Wimbledon weather decimated the cricket week and left us with only one home game, the final second-Sunday fixture against the Frogs.

We lost four home games to rain – Sunday (Eton), Monday (Grasshoppers), Wednesday (Kings Canterbury) and Thursday (Charterhouse). Although the Monday and Thursday were actually quite sunny, so much rain had fallen in the previous 24 hours that the square was unplayable.

Only once before has the week been so blighted by poor weather. In 1987, the Saturday game was washed out at lunchtime and the next four days were abandoned before play finally resumed on the Thursday.

The two weekday matches we did play resulted in a six-wicket defeat at Old Georgians on the Tuesday and a thumping eight-wicket win at Tonbridge on the Friday.

The low of the week came on Sunday night when Rick took a number of young and old OCs to his favourite pub, the Fox in Bucks Green, for a meal of stunning appallingness which cost an arm and a leg.