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.
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