Twenty - Weston Creek Cricket Club

Weston Creek, Cricket ClubIh©MFF^W©TMJiBy Barney DevlinOur Irish connection reallyonly took an active interest incricket in his mature years.Nevertheless, for one whopicked up the game so late,Barney had considerablesuccess. His most memorableinnings would have been the150 not out he scored in a 50over match. To take a little ofthe sheen off this, however,was that he opened the inningswith a young whipper snapper,David Bertram, who scored283. Barney is a raconteur ofnote and a teacher with theDepartmentof Education.Chris HarrisIt is one of the sadder facts about the melancholy historyof the Emerald Isle that the game of cricket never managedto capture the Irish public's imagination. It was, perhaps, withthis sense of historical loss that a few years after my departurefrom the Shamrock Shore and my arrival in this land ofsunburnt plains that I commenced my cricketing career.The date was Saturday, 8 October 1977, just a couple ofmonths before my 33rd birthday. It was not the first time thatI had actually held a cricket bat in my hands, but it was thefirst time that I was going to try to use it to strike a movingcricket ball.The team for which I was selected was the Weston Creek subdistrict one-day team. The captain was another expatriate40