Bring on the Jams... Hedge End Jams Preview

Young Barry contemplates 12th Man Insult.

The Mighty Village take on Hedge End Jams in a top of the table clash between two undefeated teams at Turnpike Way.  We’ve never played here but as far as I’m aware, the track is usually decent enough so it should be a good game, a fine contest between bat and ball etc.   There is a pattern emerging at the top of the league with these two teams and Kerala being undefeated.  This is the first match between two of these sides as the early season encounter between Kerala and Jams was called off.  So, as far as Southampton Evening League Division 3 can be… this is huge.

Lining up for the Village will be.

1 Colin Day – The Big Dog will possibly be arriving late because of a course he’s on.  If the food is a buffet then I don’t expect him to turn up at all.

2 Tom Richards – back on form after last weeks gem of a knock.  The return of Tom Huxley to the side means that two of our players will be comparing hairstyles.

3 Steve Paul – Try writing a sentence about Steve without using ‘rich vein of form’ in it as well.  Try writing another one without ‘Big Nose’ in it as well.

4 Sean Tongs – It’s the Guru, now 49 but with as much youthful enthusiasm as ever.

5 Tom Huxley – “He’s a batsman” says Jonjo, “he’s a bowler” says everyone else.  No surprise that Jonjo doesn’t know the difference.

6 Glen de la Cour – The Skip, that is all.

7 Phil Jewell – “He’s coming for you, he’s coming for you-oo-oo, that Danny de Vito, he’s coming for you”

8 Luke Blackwell – Master of the stop-start-fling bowling technique which was far too mysterious for the opposition last week.  Also, the safest pair of hands in the team, bar none except maybe Geoff.

9 Rob Saunders – he’s back having reduced large swathes of Syria to rubble on a one man army wrecking spree.

10 Jonjo Stovell – Ginger Magician still down at No 10 following the shouldering arms incident which is going to bug me for years.

11 Geoff Edwards – A vital component of the ‘in and out’ fielding set up.  If Geoff is ‘in’, you have to have someone behind him.

12 Barry Shipman - in case the Big Dog is eating.

Big Game, Come on….