Carol and Richard now decided to take the Finns on, driving and cutting in an amazing fashion, with sixes raining down on all parts of the ground. When Carol was finally bowled, we were only two runs short of a first inning’s lead: 183-5.
Frangelita was dropped off the first ball she faced. She then took us past the two hundred mark with a series of fours. At lunch we stood at a respectable 225-5.
Lunch was reindeer sandwiches (again) and turkey soup (again).
Richard’s 50 came up in the first over after lunch.
Frangelita was bowled as the score rose to 238-6.
Richard got stuck in the nervous nineties, and was then bowled, having reached a personal best of 93: 299-7.
At this point, with a lead of 114, I decided to declare.
I rather hoped that we would make a breakthrough before tea, but their openers turned out to be more dogged this time (although one of them did spend a little while curled up on the ground, after I hit him in the box). At tea they were on 65-0.
Nothing embarrassing happened during the tea interval, probably because I had given Ziggi and Cherrypie permission to leave the ground and go on a tour of the bars of
After tea, Tom made the first breakthrough, Frangelita performing a forward roll, handspring and double pike as she moved from Square Leg to catch the ball: 76-1.
I held on to a nick from Tom’s fastest ball of the day: 92-2.
Phil and Carol were knocked all over the ground in their short spell, but our spinners were more effective, Vicus clean bowling his man on: 143-3.
No more wickets fell, and they ended the day on 163-3 – a lead of just 49.
Our batting figures (sadly, an up-to-date bowling analysis wasn’t ready as I went to print) are shown below:
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