The Wandering Eye

Two weeks after our home double-header against the Coimbra Knights and Miranda Dragons, we made the journey down to Miranda do Corvo for the return fixtures, a twelve-player squad travelling with some confidence after the dominant performances at OCLTC. As ever, we were welcomed well to the converted football ground and, as ever, there was […]

Okay, here we are again, with Summer finally threatening to settle in, and T20 fever taking hold. Well, perhaps not fever exactly – maybe more of a runny nose and niggling headache – but back to it we certainly are. The adventure began (okay, adventure may also be a bit strong – I must cut […]

The season has now ended, whites and PWCC pyjamas tucked away for winter, bats carefully stored (horizontally, not vertically, remember, chaps), club kit left to fester in a dark hole somewhere and the covers laid over the strip once again.  Among the various novelties brought to us by the formation of the league and the […]

09/10/2021 PWCC v Coimbra Knights With the national semis on the horizon, the club played host to a rare October fixture, with a double header against Coimbra.  Fitting two T-20s into one day as the light in the afternoon is fading ever earlier meant that Premal needed to stress in his email that there would […]

18/09/2021 It had been a wait, but here we were again in action, the first time since June for either PWCC or OCLTC, and symmetrically it was a return trip south to Miranda do Corvo. Just as we have a dual identity, so do the Miranda players it seems: when I was in the middle, […]

04/07/2021 Those of a certain vintage may remember a bestselling book that sat on many parents’ bookshelves in the ‘70s and ‘80s, full of graphic line drawings and descriptions of how to achieve the perfect six, satisfying to both parties, varied in style and placement. The book also explained that it was not all about […]

27/06/2021 The triangle in this week’s title refers, of course, to three sides and three angles, appropriate because the weekend involved three teams but also three matches.  This might be the PWCC blog, but as the OCLTC’s lovechild I feel we ought to acknowledge the aged parent when the occasion presents itself from time to […]

20/06/2021 PWCC v Miranda Tigers So, after all the planning and the launch it was time to kick off our participation in the new National League and, the cool, gloomy weather with its persistent threat of drizzle notwithstanding, this was anything but a grey day. The first shock of the day was that everyone was […]

There have been a lot of things we didn’t see coming over the past year and a half or so, most of which we would much rather had never arrived, but here’s something we can be excited about. On Thursday June 10th we were able officially to launch Porto Wanderers, our vehicle for entry into […]