Beer and cricket

Inner West Cricketer Richie plays some air guitar at the Townie

Check out this pub crawl! These blokes play for an inner west cricket team and you guessed it they were out on the (New) Town with their team mates.

I met them at the Town Hall. One of them was a friend of my fabulous buddy Cat.

Nice chaps too. We spent the night over schooners of beer talking about love and those sorts of catastrophes. I even eavesdropped on two blokes talking about ‘relationships at crossroads, and ‘do you go for a new found love or should you opt for the long term relationship. The conversation was really intense too. Geez I never thought blokes spoke like that. It was actually quite sweet. I spoke to one of them after and at least his honesty was given to his lady face-to-face and not over a text. Class. Actually the whole evening was class minus poor Johnno who spewed at the bar at the Duke Hotel. I guess he just thought he was Andrew Symonds.

The last time I was out with a bunch of blokes from a cricket club was at the North Sydney Bowling Club. My mate Dazza is the captain of the local cricket club – grade B. The night was great. I met Steve Rixon. The only downer of the evening was during a speech given by Lenny Pascoe. One of the club boys piped up and told him to “go fuck himself.”

I didn’t really care. Lenny was quite full of himself that evening. .


1)18:00 Ricky Ponting, Drink a great Tasmanian Beer – Boags, (Michael’s Place)

2)19:00 Stuart Magill, Drink a glass of red of red, (Warren View Hotel)

3)19:30 Zoe Goss, See if you can pick the reference here.., (Sly Fox)

4)20:00 David Boon, Drink the beer of the people, Victoria Bitter (Queen Hotel)


5)20:30 Andrew Symonds, Drink Fast & Hard while guzzling XXXX (Duke Hotel)

6) 21:00 Steve Waugh, The iceman prefers Southern Comfort & Bourbon (Newtown RSL)

7) 21:30 Shane Warne, Food Stop - O'Portos, don't know if they have meat pies though (O'Portos)

8) 22:00 David Hookes, Pick a fight with a bouncer (Town Hall)

9) 22:30 Glen McGrath, You'll look great with a bad hair cut (The Bank)

10) 23:00 Michael Bevan Leave it till the last to have a big one... (The Zanzi Bar)

11 23:30 Bob Hawke/John Howard, Your choice of yard glasses or Shirley Temples (Kelly's)