The Eternal Optimists – OCC’s new Over 40’s team is now ready for action
This coming weekend, we will be hosting our first ‘International Over 40’s Cricket tournament’. We have formed a new team of gently ageing players ready to play under the team name of ‘The Eternal Optimists’ in special new shirts. Visiting Walferdange to participate will be our old friends from Nijmegen CC in the Netherlands plus new friends from the Forty Club in the UK. It will be a triangular 25 over match tournament for a newly commissioned trophy. The timing plan is a follows:-
- 10.00am Optimists CC vs The Forty Club
- 12.30pm All-day BBQ begins
- 2.30pm Nijmegen CC vs Optimists CC
- 10.30am Nijmegen vs The Forty Club
- 2.00pm Lunch and Presentational Ceremony
Our squad includes these brave souls – Phil Burleigh, Deepak Gianchandhani, Robbie Williams, Jem Pearce, Anand Pattabiraman, Wayne Codd, Graham Cope, Brad Mole, Jan Stembord, James Verity, Shiva Arunachalam, Arvind Pandey, Nishith Gandhi and Johan Terblanche.
The team will welcome strong home support at the ground throughout the weekend for what should be a great occasion.