Club History
1990 To The Present Day
Part II
Lamma roams around the region
As grounds became increasingly difficult to find and our enthusiasm grew we began to tour. Our tours have included Manila,
in the Philippines (played at the Nomads ground in 1993); Bangkok, Thailand (at the Royal Bangkok Sports Club in 1994);
and Colombo, Kandy and Kalutara in Sri Lanka in 1995.
Lamma C.C. in Bangkok, 1994
Back row: (left to right) Martin Snape (captain), Glen Perkinson, Daryl Bending, Andrew Thompson, Ian Harling, John Fox.
Front row: Mike Duggan, Grant Hume, Mark Thomson, Ed Balchain.
Jan 1995: Tour to Sri Lanka — the team for the first “Test” in Kandy. Back row: (left to right) Daryl Bending (captain), Jim Hughes, Clive Theobald, Robert McGregor, Giles Grimston and Mike Duggan. Front row: Ian Harling, Glen Perkinson, Bob Simpson, Mark Thompson, Brad Tarr and Chris Davies.
Kandy, 1995. Lamma bat in the first match of the tour.
During the tour to Sri Lanka the opposition got stronger while the pitches deteriorated and injuries grew and grew. An account of this “Tour from Hell” even made the pages of the South China Morning Post (read the article).
In a return to the Philippines in 1995, we visited Angeles City where we won the First Mount Pinatubo Ashes Sixes Tournament. The tour to Angeles City generated some interest from the local tourist board as they wanted to promote the area after the pull out of the American Air Force from nearby Subic Bay. The match was played in a disused American football stadium and we were honoured with a marching band which paraded around the empty stadium. It was one of the most bizarre things to happen on a Lamma C.C. tour — and that is really saying something!
Aug 1995: Mount Pinatabo Ashes, Philippines Tour Presentation. Back row: Brian Nolan, Sandy Stewart, Paul Sweetnam, Brad Tarr, a John Newcombe look-a-like and Alan Rogers. Middle row: Grant Hume, Ian Harling, Glen Perkinson, Andy Haddon and John Fox. Front row: Troy McLachlan, Fraser Wilson, The Tourism Minister for Angeles City, Peter Boulsbee, Clive Theobald and the late Jes Dane.
Aug 1995: Mount Pinatabo Ashes, Philippines Tour Victorious Team — our first win on a tour due to a combination of a relatively strong team and weak opposition.
Back row: Ian Harling, Brad Tarr, Peter Boulsbee, David Pool, Clive Theobald, Paul Sweetnam, John Fox and Dick Jones
Front row: Grant Hume, Troy McLachlan, Glen Perkinson, Fraser Wilson, the late Jes Dane, Andy Haddon (Captain), and Alan Rogers.
The marching band at Challenger Stadium, Angeles City, Philippines, 1995
In 1998 Lamma C.C. were the sole representatives for Hong Kong at the Bangkok Invitational Sixes Tournament and reached a very creditable quarter final, placing amongst high-quality opposition. Later in the same year we went on a tour to Perth, Australia, and also took in an Australia vs England Ashes Test match.
Apr 1998: The Bangkok Invitational Sixes — a top-class competition with professionals involved. Lamma still managed to reach the quarter finals... with some help from ‘imported’ specialists. Back row: Greg Dimery, John Fox (scorer), Chris Agar, Paul “Poorly” Olliver and Terry “Wardeee” Ward. Front row: Mark Burns (captain) and Brad Tarr
Nov 1998: Perth, Australia Tour Team — an impromptu team at Brad’s old club Nollamara, while down under to see the second Ashes test. Back row: Cameron Blair, Garry Holden, John Traynor, Russell Tyre and Paul Hutchinson. Front row: Chris Agar, Derek Wintle, John Gaffney, Brad Tarr (captain), Ian Harling and Tim Fanowrios
In 2001 we visited Vietnam, where we played two matches against what looked like the Sri Lankan national team and played inside a greyhound stadium. A second match was played at Hanoi’s air force base. More recently, for the last two years, we have played in a sixes event in Shanghai, China as well as Chiang Mai, Thailand attending the world’s biggest amateur cricket sixes tournament.
Hanoi Air Base, Vietnam, 2001
Henry Pettit drives the ball in an exciting run chase. We were to lose the match by one run.
The footballers were much further away than it looks. It was a strange venue though, with young Vietnamese
militia marching around looking bewildered at what was going on in their own backyard.
