Monday 17 July 2017

Rascals v's Canbashers 16.7.17 Match report

This week there will be two reports on the same game from 2 different perspectives.

Report 1.

Neilo has a 4 am alarm call on Monday morning so at high speed we flew through a 35 over game and lost, enabling Neilo to have a couple of pints in peace at about 10 o'clock in the Bell. (Their Guinness is dreadful btw)

Report 2.

Not for the first time this season there was an extremely long queue of talent lining up for the annual game v the Canbashers; it is most heartening to have to spend so little time organising the team and projects an image of a club in rude health.  Many apologies to those who didn't manage to get in and to those who did, lets try some nets................

Will Drew, our captain for the day, elected to bat on winning the toss which is a brave move generally best kept top secret until later in the day; and he must have been feeling weak at the knees as we crumbled to 50 for 6 on a frankly substandard wicket.  Sorry Jamie.  We managed to crawl to 127 as the second half of the order did well and it was a total we would have gladly accepted at 3.30. (roughly when we started)  Everyone got in and then found a novel way of getting out....but we got to a just defendable total somehow.  Lund, Grigson, Keeling F, Jamie M, and Ollie all got starts but were thwarted thru the gremlins in the pitch or lack of concentration against the dobbiest spinner ever to grace the lawns of Stonegate.

Our bowling and fielding were of an altogether different standard, and were kickstarted by one of the great slip catches of either the 20th or the 21st Century (spanning the history of this club) by Jez Sheldon off the bowling of Fred Keeling.  An absolute ripper which soon meant they were 10 for 3 and then 50 for 6.  However they made it to our total with 2/3 overs to spare as a few dropped/very close chances later on harmed our cause and the fact we were always 30-40 runs light came back to haunt us. 

Our record of played 4 won 2 lost 2 is now losing its initial glow, but with the Mike Martin and 2 games in September to go, how much better can we get?

Do we need more matches?  Should we start earlier?  Does Neilo need a job that doesnt necessitate a 4 am alarm call on Monday morning?  Should we have some Saturday fixtures? Does Neilo need a helicopter?  Isn't working a pain in the arse?

These pithy, weighty issues are on my mind this morning and this report has therapeutically dealt with them but with no satisfactory outcome thus far....thoughts on a postcard pls.

A lovely day and a close, competitive, low scoring match which hopefully our beloved skipper enjoyed enough to counter those beeps at 4 am this morning.

Thanks to all - Rosco

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