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... continued from page 1 – Low Carbon Entrepreneur 2014 meet the changing expectations of RCSU provides UROP Bursary consumers. Meanwhile, Dr. Michele Serri for student from lower income (Materials) and Physics PhD student from Imperial were also in backgrounds the shortlist. heir idea, Light-Fi, “integrates the lighting infrastructure the news that I had been awarded the to the intranet within an oice to fully Nida Mahmud RCSU UROP bursary. Without it, my automate the lighting environment. News Editor summer project may not have been he automation will be able to turn able to go ahead. Bursaries such as of lights when all colleagues have left these go a very long way in ensuring the oice for the night, thereby saving he RCSU UROP bursary has been nobody is denied a valuable research energy.” awarded to an undergraduate student opportunity purely on inancial Another Imperial group, the Energy from the Department of Chemistry. grounds and therefore allow the Defenders formulated their idea his is a new initiative where the recipient to gain essential research due to a desire to “inspire the next funding will be from the RCSU experience without having to worry generation, the way in which the road for students from lower income about how living costs are going to safety hedgehog did, but for reducing backgrounds. be met. I strongly recommend to carbon emissions”. he team is formed Plabon Saha commented: “We also anybody taking part in a summer of 3rd year Aeronautical engineers understand that one bursary might project worried about the inancial JoE LEtts / FELix Emma Dixon, Madeleine Alexander, not make a huge diference but this side apply for a UROP bursary - it James Winield and Dominic Jacobson receiving the award from Boris Johnson Oliver Bauer, Ravina Bains and 3rd is seen as a symbolic gesture that really does help!” year Mechanical engineers Jonathan we hope will encourage the faculty RCSU President Plabon Saha an exploration of the legal barriers Kirsty Kenney and Harold Craston Crawford, Mo Alemohammed, Ewan to look into this issue and increase said, ““UROP represents a great to entry to the energy markets. By (SolarBox) from LSE who plan to turn Armstrong. funding. We also hope that some opportunity for students to explore a acquiring a large amount of electricity unused telephone boxes in London hey started the idea at the start of provision can be set up for students career in research. It plays a vital role from lots of individual suppliers into public phone charging outlets the year and are hoping to continue from lower income backgrounds to in encouraging students into scientiic the team should be able to play a powered by solar panels. after graduation. Hoping to market undertake UROP placements. In the careers and I believe more should substantial role in the electricity Blocks, created by Imperial students the concept to children, parents, future, it was decided that the RCSU be done to encourage students into market. Omer El Fakir, Serge Vasylechko, teachers and government, the team will look towards pitching the idea of science careers. I hope the steps the he team plans to develop their web Alireza Tahmaseb Zadeh, Karl are “a system of services developed an UROP Bursary to our sponsors and RCSU has taken this year is the start presence and liaise with the Greater Taylor, Hakeem Javaid and Andrey around a brand, the Energy Defenders”. hopefully replicate the BP awards that of a new push towards encouraging London Authority and the Mayor’s Antyufeev, was also shortlisted for the he brand will “create interest in currently exist in Engineering.” more UROP opportunities and oice in the coming months, with a award. he team devised the concept energy saving, through activity days, he student receiving the funding increase funding for this programme. hope to begin in the new year. of a modular smartwatch (as reviewed interactive apps, engaging websites... said: “I was delighted when I received I am glad I played a role in this.”” £5000 of the £20,000 prize went to by Felix in March) that can evolve to and an animated cartoon series”. Topping Out the Halls at North Acton

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ir Keith O’Nions, President and Rector of Imperial College, conducted the topping out ceremony of the College’s new North SActon halls this past hursday in an event attended by College staf, representatives from Imperial College Union, and staf from Berkeley First; the irm building the hall. From the top loor of one of the skyscrapers, Sir Keith performed the ceremonial planting of a Yew tree, preceded PhiLiP KENt by a brief speech hinting that this is the irst of many undergraduate accommodation projects. he “One Victoria Road” project, which until recently had been marketed as W3, involves the construction of four towers near North Acton tube station in Ealing. Once opened to students, it will feature space for 650 residents, along with a gym, study and tutorial rooms, and social areas. he project is currently on schedule and is expected to open in October 2015; pricing is yet to be announced. his is College’s third project with Berkeley First, with the two GradPad projects in Fulham (Orient House) and Battersea being the other two. BEN FERNANDo BEN FERNANDo PhiLiP KENt

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Imperial Innovations in bid to raise College improves in Centre for Doctoral Guardian League Training Festival of £150 million via investment Tables Science next week According to the press release from Imperial Kunal Wagle Innovations, nearly 90% of shareholders have mperial College have moved up four places News Editor already agreed to the additional placing. hey to 5th in the latest Guardian University Nida Mahmud have also agreed to the placing being “non-pre- League Table. he college overtook News Editor emptive”, meaning that new investors can buy the Universities such as Surrey, London mperial Innovations, a company based at shares. he company says that the minimum price School of Economics, University College Imperial College, is planning to issue new for each share will be £4. he current price on the ILondon and Durham. he Guardian’s league he annual Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) shares on the stock market in a bid to raise AIM market is 442.50 - a rise of 6% the day after the table is based on numerous factors, including Festival of Science will be happening on Friday 13th up to £150 million. he irm, which is listed news was announced. Student to staf ratio, average spending per June 2014 in the SAF lecture theatres. It is a chance on the AIM stock market (a sub market of the Martin Knight, the Chairman of Imperial student, average grades required for attendance for CDT students to come together to organise and ILondon Stock Exchange), intends to use the money Innovations, said, “he Board believes that and graduate prospects. he College’s graduate present a showcase of current science and scientiic to fund future investments in ledgling companies. strengthening the Group’s balance sheet through prospects were ranked highest in the country, issues to the Imperial College London research Innovations has close ties with Imperial College the Placing would greatly enhance its ability to but the College’s average student satisfaction community. London, Oxford, Cambridge and UCL, and has attract high quality investment opportunities. It was lower than those of its closest rivals. he he 2014 festival focuses on the theme of “Science arrangements in place with these universities that would also improve the Group’s ability to support College’s “average entry tarif”, which is a ranking and the Media”. Featuring speakers from a number allows it to invest in ledgling companies as they portfolio companies from inception until their full that the Guardian gives based on a university’s of disciplines and positions within the scientiic start out. development, as illustrated by the recent successful average minimum exam grades for entry was world, we hope to bring you a range of perspectives Some of these ventures can prove very successful IPO of Circassia Pharmaceuticals. ranked as third in the country, behind Oxford on working with the media and engaging the public – for example, earlier this year Circassia, a maker of “We have identiied opportunities to increase and Cambridge. as a scientist. pet allergy treatments, made over £200 million at the capital deployed in a number of our leading his new league table is the latest in a string of he day is also an opportunity for the four the stock market. Innovations, who currently own portfolio companies, which, in aggregate, are tables that suggest that Cambridge has not only CDTs to communicate with each other and gain 14% of the company, raised over £80 million from seeking to raise over £100 million from investors consolidated, but is now increasing the gap between a more detailed understanding of the work that the venture. over the next twelve months. it and the chasing pack. Cambridge registered irst, is carried out in each ield. his year we will have Imperial Innovations intends to split the money “It is gratifying that our core shareholders with Oxford second and St Andrew’s third. Bath presentations of the achievements and aspirations that is raised between investing in companies have evidenced their support for this proposed jumped from seventh to fourth, whilst Surrey of the outgoing cohorts of each CDT, this being the that it already owns a share in, and for investing fundraising by giving irrevocable undertakings to (sixth), Warwick (ninth) and Lancaster (tenth) all graduation year of the irst cohort for many CDTs. in new companies. Russell Cummings, the Chief vote in favour of the resolutions needed to enable registered improvements. Durham (eighth) and the Speakers will include Johnjoe McFadden, Executive, has already rubber stamped Veryan as a the Placing to proceed.” London School of Economics (seventh) fell in the Brian Fuchs and Lewis Darnell. here is a poster company that could do with extra investment. he Last week Felix reported that Yoyo had secured table. UCL was the biggest casualty in the list, as it competition with a £250 prize for the best poster as business, which makes stents, needs £12 million to $5 million in funding, the majortiy coming from lost its top ten place and now sits in lowly eleventh well as prizes for other entrants. Find out more at: gain regulatory approval in the US. Imperial Innovations. in the table, a drop of six places. http://www.cdtfestival.co.uk IMPERIAL HORIZONS 2014/15

On-line enrolment for current undergraduates entering their 2nd, 3rd and 4th years in October 2014 will soon be open.

Enrolment for current 2nd and 3rd years opens on Monday 19 May 2014 at 14.00 Enrolment for current 1st years opens on Tuesday 10 June 2014 at 14.00

Find out more: www.imperial.ac.uk/horizons

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FelixImperial MUSIC Oren Ambarchi: Two Years On Riaz Agahi looks at the latest releases from the proliic guitarist

wo years ago I wrote a review that examined three of the excellent releases by Oren Ambarchi in 2012; Audience of One, TImikuzushi (with Keiji Haino and Jim O’Rourke), and In the Mouth – A Hand (with Fire!). he guitarist, drummer, and electroacoustic improviser who started his career as a Jazz drummer in his native Australia has since continued in the same vein. Numerous other releases have since come out, including the excellent Connected, a collaborative efort with Robin Fox which was commisioned as a soundtrack for a dance piece. Ambarchi’s music touches on ambient, jazz, rock, krautrock, and, of course, noise. more raw and experimental. This time or another. sense it’s hard to review the album Certainly this track will satisfy any He has a long history of collaborating is hardly a surprise, I suppose, due To my ear, the album immediately without watching the film, but the drone cravings and comprises a with some of the most accomplished to Pinhas’ work being intertwined seemed more focused and well album presents an eerie foreboding rather exhausting musical journey, artists in experimental music (see the with some of the biggest names in constructed than Crystal/Metal sense that all isn’t quite well from tossed one way and another by the names dropped above or last year’s noise, for example 2010’s Metal/ and one of the first things I noticed the start. Opening track ‘That interplay of diverse droning sounds. collaboration with Japanese legend Crystal, which featured both was the distinctive drumming style Space Between’. comes across like Overall, the album is great at Merzbow for a few examples). Merzbow and Wolf Eyes, who are of Joe Talia (interviewed in Felix Neurosis style dirge, but expansive creating a meditative yet sinister Two years later, I find myself once the biggest name in US noise. last year), which has been a fixture rather than claustrophobic and atmosphere, but admittedly, the again staring down the barrel of a Like Metal/Crystal, the six tracks in Ambarchi’s live shows and many more acoustic than metallic, before album could be even more varied review of another impressive trio of of which sprawl over a two hour studio works for the last few years. some melodic chimes add a sense and, for my money, misses the albums, this time all collaborative double disc feature, Tikkun consists His drumming style is incredibly of comfort to the piece. ‘Temporal, explosive outburst of noise driven efforts. of three jams, two of which are over well suited to this work and really Eponymous’ starts off similarly and energy which would really send it Tikkun (Above, left) is a twenty minutes, with the other drives it along, one example when gradually evolves pretty formidable over the top. collaborative effort with the clocking in at fifteen. It’s hard not the drums join in with some jam, as a wide array of instruments Fifteen minute EP Stacte Karaoke hugely influential Richard Pinhas. to look at the album as anything classic Ambarchi guitar work at are added to the mix. is definitely the biggest surprise Pinhas, a Frenchman, is the man other than kindred spirits working the beginning of ‘San Francisco - While these tracks are all very well of the lot. An initial listen had me behind influential space rock group together. Both musicians have T2V2’. and good, I’m sure I wasn’t alone in scrambling to the internet in an Heldon. Since then, he’s continued similar approaches to collaboration The aforementioned guitar work wondering at this point where the attempt to confirm that this was to release excellent work under his and sounds which blend together is of course Ambarchi’s favoured drone and experimentalism was. actually a new Ambarchi release own name, dabbling in tape loops seamlessly, with the mind altering scratchy abrasive tone, although It need not be mentioned to any and not some elaborate hoax. and delays, collaborating with kaliedoscopic sounds of space rock the word tone may not be the best Sunn O))) or Ambarchi fans that Further inspection revealed, much many noise musicians and making and exploratory forays into noise to describe the abrasive atonality of the nature of the artists’ work often to my surprise, that the album’s music which, for my money, stands and ambient complementing each Ambarchi’s guitar assaults. Other involves a more abstract take on classic rock n’roll boogie feel is due somewhere between Heldon’s other. than these elements and, of course, music and this is somewhat realised to a rhythm section comprised of sound, which had so much influence Both artists’ work has featured the classic Pinhas sound, it’s hard on ‘Circumstances of Faith,’ famously bearded Southern rockers on industrial music, and something elements of both of these at one to pick out distinct elements and which opens with five minutes of ZZ Top. I have to admit that this attribute them to restrained feedback and drones wasn’t a collaboration I could have sources. It should be which creep along menacingly until foreseen at the start of the year. noted that Merzbow they are punctuated by a rousing As far as I can tell, opener ‘Milk is also involved, drum beat and bassline. a Cow with a Monkey Wrench’ is contributing some The mellow and relaxing more or less a classic 12-bar blues electronics to ‘Sometimes’ adds to the meditative pattern and, similarly, the second the amorphous aspect to the album with its use track ‘Park It Where the Sun Don’t cacophony this of acoustic instrumentation and Shine’ is based on a repetitive catchy excellent effort often persistent rhythms. “Sometimes” riff. In both cases, we are treated to creates. has a very static quality to it, and explosive shredding blasts from the Shade Themes from a comforting melody is acheived aforementioned cathartic guitar Kairos, released on with vocals from Japanese singer- tone and other extra layers from Drag City on May songwriter Ai Aso. The final track Ambarchi. 27th sees Ambarchi on the album, ‘Ebony Pagoda’, is the While Ambarchi’s Black Truffle working with twenty minute culmination of the label is often home to some of his Stephen O’Malley album. most experimental work, what (of Sunn O))) fame) It certainly satisfies any hunger makes this EP stand out is the and producer and for drone that may have built up element of whimsy and humour Master Musicians over the course of the album (it surrounding the work, a rare of Bukkake founder certainly did for me). Waves of moment of frivolity and simple rock Randall Dunn. contrasting drones, sounding at in experimental music. The album was times disconcerting and harsh, Beyond that, however, it’s simply intended as a score and at other times melodic and relentlessly catchy and the short for Kairos, a film by comforting give the track a sort length makes it hard to avoid Belgian filmmaker of cleansing feeling which is a repeatedly playing these two great Alexis Destoop. In a perfect way to close the album. tracks.

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Nicholas Farmer Long may she reign Television Writer

all what you can expect from Reign. Reign: Season 1 Even for a CW show the series is not without taking its risks, both in terms of how much blood is shown but also with how much flesh. Violence and sex go hand in hand particularly in a costume drama such as this one, and while it may not be as raunchy as John Park some of the cable greats The Tudors Television Editor or Rome, it certainly gets its job done in suggesting away. There was report- edly a masturbation scene that had to History buffs, look away now. Avert be trimmed for the fear of angering Bergerac your eyes and don’t be a buzzkill to concerned parents. This 80s gem comes to us from the ruin television’s top guilty pleasure, Mary is thrown into the deep end scenic island of Jersey and stars good the CW’s interpretation of the life of from episode 1, having to deal with the old Cornish boy John Nettles (now Mary, Queen of Scots. It must have complexities of being a part of a roy- better known for top German TV hit, been a rather bold decision, choos- al court, and how not to be killed by Midsummer Murders) as recovering ing to base an entire series around the one of the many, many who want her alcoholic Jim Bergerac. Jersey na- English period drama concept, focus- Catholic head. She has support from tive Bergerac rails against his island’s ing on an individual who clearly is her four ladies in waiting, Lola (Anna transformation from a tight knit pas- not someone who comes up as a daily Popplewell), Greer (Celina Sinden), toral fishing community to the arch- conversation topic across the Atlantic, Kenna (Caitlin Stasey) and Aylee (Je- Thatcherite tax haven where Dave let alone here in the U.K. And yet the nessa Grant), all of whom are some- Cameron’s dad hid all of his money, all channel whose main audience target is what based on real-life counterparts. the time driving around in his trade- teenagers, has done remarkably well. Like most women in those days, their It’s a gradual change and maturation the designated 40-minute slot of her mark vintage sports car solving the Giving the tale a suitable twist, Reign number one priority is to become shown well through Kane’s steadily di- single appearance. Here is hoping she palest of white collar crime. is a deceptively well-polished drama someone’s wife - hopefully a man of versifying performance, getting us all will be further utilised in the upcom- Now, all good detectives have de- that makes it okay to have the well high standing, good income, and no- excited for what she has to show in the ing season, although nothing has con- mons, and Bergerac’s comes in the worn-out storytelling mechanism of a ble background. Reign has a way of next season. firmed this yet. classic form of a drink problem that love triangle, because the stakes here skillfully juggling the highly soapy na- But the one performance that truly Being a historical drama there is resulted in the break-up of his mar- are not just about broken hearts and ture of the plotlines, and once again, stands out among everyone else is heavy emphasis on what the char- riage and a serious accident that is hurting someone’s feelings, but it also the premise and medieval setting Megan Follows as Queen Catherine acters are wearing, where they are partially revealed through flashbacks concerns whether someone’s head helps enormously. These aren’t some who is simply perfection in every standing, and what kind of grand in the course of the first series. Un- gets chopped off or not. lovestruck high school girls looking scene she is in. She out-acts everyone event they are attending. No female like most TV detectives, Bergerac The French Court is never a safe to get laid. Whether they get married just by standing in the frame, and it’s character wears the same dress twice, beats his alcoholism, demonstrated place to be, and yet poor Mary (Ade- or not makes or breaks their lives, and game-over whenever she opens her and the same can be said for the men well by a particularly strong 3rd series laide Kane) has already been betrothed their future safety depends on it. They venomous mouth to speak, twist and in a higher class. The exquisite range episode in which he is kidnapped and to wed Francis (Toby Regbo), the fu- can think of love later, affection can manipulate words to get her way. She of costumes on display here is an forced to neck a bottle of whisky. ture King of France, from a very early be worked on, but their potential hus- is loyal only to herself and her son, and amazing one, and although not all of Bergerac is also joined by a host of age. Love counts for very little around bands’ social standing? Not so much. this means she makes lots of friends, the shiny, over-the-top garments may recurring characters, the most nota- here, as stable alliances between pow- The performances are uniform- then enemies, then friends again, and fit into the period this show is depict- ble of which is his ex-father in law, the erful countries to stand united against ly outstanding. Kane, Regbo and so on, throughout the series. It’s head- ing, it hardly matters as they all look delightfully dodgy tax exile Charlie a threat are what every monarch is af- Coombs deliver their often corny spinning to try to keep up with where stunning in them. Hungerford, who manages to be in- ter. Mary, as her title suggests, is the lines in regards to their love triangle everyone’s loyalty lies, and it’s safe to When it comes to the soundtrack, strumental in all but one of Bergerac’s Queen of Scotland, although being of without flinching and backing them assume that it’s a deadly game of free- the series makes no apologies for 91 cases. We also meet a string of 80s- such a young age, her mother Mary de all with serious emotion, an admira- for-all, and the only person one can shamelessly using songs from the haired girlfriends, the first of which he Guise (Amy Brenneman) rules as act- ble skill of course. And they excel too truly trust is oneself. charts, as many backing tracks are seems to have stolen off his dead best ing regent in her place. Francis brings exerting their authority - Mary in par- Speaking of an older generation from the likes of The Lumineers, friend (best not judge); his annoying with him France of course, and this ticular is the one having to undergo the actress out-acting everyone else in Bastille, London Grammar, Gabrielle ex-wife and adolescent daughter; and union is supposed to deter the English most significant change in personality the cast, the best episode of season Aplin, there is even a string orches- his police colleagues, led by the com- army from getting too feisty. - at first she is just a shy, clueless girl, 1 comes when the equally ruthless tra’s rendition of Lorde’s song Royals bative Inspector Crozier. But danger lurks around the many but as the first season wraps up, there and scheming Mary de Guise drops subtly playing in the background of a Bergerac’s cases, first as a Detec- corners of the palace, with every- are many scenes the audience is treat- by. Amy Brenneman only shows up ballroom scene. tive Sergeant of the absurdly titled one up to something to further their ed to the young Mary standing up for for one episode to play the mother of Human threats are not the only ones and completely fictional ‘bureau des gains. The series opens with an assas- her rights, fighting for her interests, the Queen of Scots, but she has a lot that plague the palace. Dark, super- étrangers’ of the Jersey police and then sination attempt, and that is in no way plotting and scheming for her benefit. of fun and stirs up a lot of trouble in natural forces that hide within the as a private detective, span the full 80s the last you’ll see of someone trying deep, dark woods surrounding the gauntlet of shady financiers with gi- desperately to end another’s life. The French Court also have a part to play, ant beige computers, crooked arms current King Henry II of France not further adding to the sense of para- dealers supplying apartheid era South only keeps his wife Queen Catherine noia and unsettling fear. Africa, the New York mafia (yes, they de’ Medici (Megan Follows) around, Of course, it’s a show that is not sup- make the Jersey/New Jersey joke, they but also his mistress, Diane de Poit- posed to be taken too seriously, cer- go there), shady sheikhs, and the usual iers (Anna Wolton), with whom he fa- tainly not within the historical con- common villains. thered a bastard, Sebastian (Torrance text anyway. But it remains a highly Even though some of the storylines Coombs). Sexual tension runs high as entertaining period romp, with some may seem corny to the discerning 21st both Sebastian and Francis become killer performances to attract even the century viewer (because they really potential candidates for Mary, and the snobbiest of viewers. Mary Queen of are), Nettles’ likeability and light com- two women surrounding Henry II are Scots lived a complicated, colourful ic touch carries the series, and makes ready to spill blood at any moment for life, this should provide more than Bergerac prime 80s TV viewing. Just further control and power. enough source material for the show. don’t let the sax nightmare of a theme Treachery, plotting, scheming, are Long may she reign indeed. tune put you off!

“Keep the SPORT Cat Free” Editor: Kunal Wagle [email protected] 06/06/14 Issue 1579 felixonline.co.uk Water Polo? How do the players teach the horses to swim? IC Water Polo: Review of the Year

Adinda de Wit Imperial thump Chichester iC Water Polo Zain Rizvi reports as iC record big win

fter losing most of last year’s players (half the team were MSc students) the IC ladies water polo teamA had their ingers crossed for lots of girls to turn up to the irst couple of training sessions of the year. hey didn’t right from the start, but after a few weeks we got there. With two iCu CRiCKEt national league players, two girls newly On Wednesday 28th May, Imperial Viggy had recently acquired tickets transferred from swimming to water 1st XI travelled to Chichester to to see ‘One Direction’ (his favourite polo, a few people who’d played before sPoRt iMPERiAL play their 1st XI in a BUCS ixture. boyband) in London, and indeed and a good partnership with two of was swapped for a ield player in the other teams they’d played before while Chichester were top of our league there was only “One Direction” he the girls from the Medics water polo inal quarter just so that she could get we were getting changed for the game. with 3 wins from 3, so we went into was heading, when he was out LBW team, we embarked upon our training a goal). he inal score? 25-2 to us, It, therefore, didn’t come as a surprise this game determined to get a good for a golden duck - walking back to for this year’s BUCS competition. which meant we’d made it through that their captain refused to shake result. We got of to the perfect start the pavilion. I personally thought it At our annual tour to Germany in the irst two rounds of the Trophy our hands after losing to us 18-5, with by missing our train to Chichester, was a quacking knock. November we even managed to win championship, qualifying for the Sophie scoring more goals by herself but were soon back on track (excuse Imperial’s best looking cricketer a match, which had never happened semiinals. (7) than Bath did in total. the pun) and raring to go. then walked out to bat, looking to before. Extremely happy about this In the semiinals we met he next playof game against Upon arrival, it seemed God had make an impact with the bat before great start to the season, nobody could Southampton once again, alongside Gloucestershire saw us turning up decided to take a lavatory break and he takes an exam break from cricket. have known that this was only the UWE and Warwick. We thought the with one substitute. We had clearly interrupt proceedings as the ground Together Zain and Vishal saw beginning… latter was going to be our strongest done so before, but after having played was softer than Viggy’s excuse for Imperial past 200, until Vishal holed After having come 3rd in our opponent, as did coach Adam who 10 matches in 9 weeks we were all being late. Nevertheless, looking out to deep square leg (he hasn’t league last year, we had stayed in the got stuck elsewhere in the country getting a little tired. In what felt like forward to taking advantage of the been to the gym much recently) for same division, only facing UCL and and ended up missing the irst match a very stressful match we comfortably wet conditions and bowling irst, a well made 41. Zain then ran Nick Southampton in a home – and away of the tournament. hankfully this hammered them 12-5, thus gaining we were promptly informed that we out without facing a ball, and Dave league. On the 26th of January we year we were blessed with a second us promotion to the Premier South were indeed batting. proved to us that Karma does in fact played the irst mini-tournament at coach, and so after the necessary league for next year. his amazing Juhin and Lomas opened up for exist, as he ran Zain out soon after. Ethos. In the irst match, we narrowly amounts of shouting from coach result did not quite sink in, as our last Imperial and batted solidly – a 50 run Whilst an asthmatic sloth could have managed to overtake Southampton Joe’s side we managed to win from match, the inal of the Trophy against opening stand, with some beautiful run better than those two, Imperial 7-5. he match afterwards was even Southampton a third time with the Liverpool, was just days away. shots down the ground from Juhin inished on a steady 212 -8 of 50 tighter with us beating UCL by 7-6. inal score coming to 7-5. his didn’t On the 25th of March, we all headed in particular. Unfortunately their left overs, a more than competitive score he week after, in the second mini- ill us with conidence, but all worries down to Guildford for “Trophy arm spinner managed to turn one in on a horrible wicket. tournament at a pool with two deep were unfounded as the game ended in Tuesday”. With support from Paula the end, bowling Juhin for 18. Correct me if I’m wrong (Arvind ends, Southampton and UCL were a smashing 13-4 win for us. he last and Jackson representing the club, Enter the Mohit. Having banged I’m looking at you) but a nephropathy both more convincingly beaten 7-3, semiinal game against UWE, who Hannah, Anthony and Neil from on for the past few weeks in these is deined as a disease of the kidney, meaning we’d won the league. Because were playing in BUCS for the irst Sport Imperial, and Klara’s and Jo’s incisive journalistic masterpieces similarly a neuropathy is a disease of the BUCS competition structure had time this year and as such had a fair mothers we embarked upon this last about the IC 1st XI batsmen batting the nervous system. changed this year, winning our league number of players who barely knew task of beating Liverpool. We knew it as if they’ve had their arms removed, Well it seemed that Chichester did not mean automatic promotion to how to pick up a ball, was a real breeze wasn’t going to be easy, although a day our very own Rahul Dravid, set up were sufering from a Ganapathy, the “Premier South” league – it merely with us obliterating them in a 16-2 or so before the match we found out (corner) shop and anchored the because Jayanth opened the bowling meant we’d qualiied for taking part game. he three wins meant we’d won that we were the only ones in division innings by building partnerships and was all over them like a rash, in playofs against the number 6 of the semiinals and so we’d qualiied for 2 who had so far remained unbeaten with Lomas and Jayanth (after picking up 3 early wickets for just the premier league and the winner of the Trophy inals, which were to take – Liverpool had lost one game during Lomas was caught for 25). Having 17 runs of his 7 overs. Similarly Western division 2. place during Trophy Tuesday. At the the league stages at the beginning of negotiated a very tricky period Simon kept the pressure on bowling Needless to say, we were happy to time of playing this day was only 10 the season. with a moving ball, and with the 10 overs for 28 runs. he notorious have won the league – even though days away, but there was hardly any he match started of with all of us score at 117-2 of 30 overs, Jayanth V.I.G. (gy) then picked up 3 for 18 there was so much more to come. time to celebrate, because our playof feeling very nervous, and as a result decided to turn militant and started to send Chichester on their way, as Alongside the league, there was a ixtures against Bath (bottom of making a good few mistakes. Each launching the ball to all parts of the IC 1st XI beat Chichester 1st XI by (nationwide) knockout-path in the Premier South) and Gloucestershire team scored alternately and by half ground bringing up another ine 50, 102 runs. ight for the Trophy. Our irst match in university (top of Western division 2) time we were 2-1 down. he third after which the opposition’s token Imperial – 212-8. Chichester – the irst round of this was against UCL were just around the corner. quarter saw similarly tight scores, ginger was heard remarking “that 110 all out. at their home pool which is reasonably BUCS had randomly assigned our but in the last half of the fourth was the worst 50 I’ve ever seen...” (he Aside from the landslide victory, deep, but narrow, so we’d lucked out. home playof ixture to be against quarter we managed to score 4 goals conceded 14 runs of his next over... there was a fair amount of “chat” We all put up a good ight and after Gloucestershire and our away ixture in a row, putting us to an 8-5 lead Just saying). between the two teams during a stressful four quarters we’d beaten to be against Bath, with some random that eventually culminated in a 10-6 Whilst Jayanth was batting like the match, which culminated in UCL once again, this time by 10-6. playing dates that in water polo win to us, securing that hard earned a crack addict, Vishal was calmly Chichester refusing to change the Onwards and upwards, our next nobody adheres to. Except for the gold medal to end what has been an building his innings, ready to set scoreboard, and then placing a match in the knockout tournament University of Bath – who insisted we amazing season of 12 matches, 139 of some ireworks near the end. “caution wet loor” sign near the was another away ixture, against UEA play them on a Wednesday that we goals (and 52 conceded, but we’ll Jayanth was soon caught for what, boundary where a couple of our in Norwich. We had some trouble could only make with exactly enough ignore that), no lost games, lots of in all seriousness, was a match ielders had slipped. getting our full team out and so we players for a team. Substituteless, travelling and amazing performances deining knock of 58, which meant We promptly shook hands, and turned up to Norwich with just one we skived of class and work and got from everyone. And with that, I that last week’s hero, the magician, left for London, but not after Jayanth substitute, only to ind that UEA had on a train to Bath. hey were clearly think it’s safe to say we’re all very the entertainer, the captain himself, had the last laugh (see picture). none. It was a special match for us, expecting to claim an easy victory much looking forward to take on the Viggy Venkateswaren strode to the Imperial have now got two out of because each of our players scored at over our 7-woman team, asking us opponents in the premier league next wicket and got ready to face his three wins, and can be considered least one goal (even the goalie, who to rate ourselves against some of the year! irst delivery. Rumour has it that real title contenders this season.