1993 Season

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Averages, captain's report and results available.

This was the season we finally abandoned any pretence of Garscadden (the slowest wicket in the West) being our home ground.

It was always difficult playing in the Sunday League with a ground closed on Sundays, by order of the University's Divinity Department since 1926. For religious reasons beyond our understanding, no heathen cricketers were ever allowed to set foot on the hallowed turf on the Sabbath and the gates were kept firmly locked for 67 years.

Evening games did however take place for many years, until the local ruffians decided the square made a rather good golf hole. The tee was situated in the centre of the roundabout on Alderman Road and driving over the oncoming traffic, one played down over the Garscadden perimeter fence to the middle of the square; where a makeshift, but tolerably deep, hole had been dug on a good length. It was approximately a 220 yard par 3.

So abandoning the scene of many famous defeats, we have become a band of gypsies traipsing from one council wicket to the next, envying other universities the beautiful facilities with which they are provided.

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