We visited Daisy Cutters pretty little ground yesterday. I lost the toss, and we were put in to bat on a very green wicket.
I am concerned that we have been over-using Tom and Vicus, asking them to open both the batting and the bowling, so I asked Richard to open the batting today.
Tom was clean bowled in the second over (obviously intending to save his energy for bowling): 1-1.
Richard was our next man out: 23-2.
Vicus and I pushed the score on a bit, before I was caught behind: 66-3.
Vicus had the bit between his teeth now, and was slogging boundaries all around the field, before being bowled: 116-4.
Mincat was in sparkling form, and she and Steg made a nice stand of 51, before Steg was caught: 167-5.
Mincat had hardly finished celebrating her first-ever half-century before Jona was given out LBW: 171-6.
Mincat was clearly a bit excited about her batting, as she set off for a quick run, causing our Vice-Captain, Frangelita, to be run-out: 171-7.
Another duck followed as Realdoc was caught in the slips: 172-8.
If we were to reach a respectable score, Mincat would have to do something sensible – so she hit a six. Ivy responded too, and stopped the flow of ducks, before being caught behind: 220-9.
Sadly, Lisa was caught off the next ball, and we finished on a disappointing 220-10, with Mincat not out on 83 (her previous best was 34).
Tea was very nice, although the cakes weren’t a patch on the ones our ladies make. Vicus said the vegetarian sausage rolls weren’t much cop either.
With such a small total to defend, I decided that each bowler would bowl short spells, of no more than four overs. With two of last week’s bowlers rested today, I paired our bowlers as follows:
Openers: Tom and Vicus.
2nd pair (spin): Realdoc and me.
3rd pair: Steg and Ivy.
Steg did not manage to impress in the field, unlike last week, dropping a catch off Tom’s first spell.
With 31 runs on the board off the first 8 overs, I moved, as planned, to our second pair, and made a breakthrough in my second over, winning an LBW appeal: 43-1.
In his first spell, Steg showed that he has an interesting slow-medium action, bamboozling the batsman, who he clean-bowled: 68-2.
Back to the openers, and Tom achieved a caught and bowled: 77-3
Vicus got an LBW: 81-4.
Our spinners did nothing in their second spell, but Steg got his second wicket for BMCC with an edge to slips (great catch, Frangelita!): 139-5.
2 overs later and Steg achieved another edge, this time to Vicus in the slips: 147-6.
Our openers looked eager to break the tail, Vicus bowling his man: 152-7.
Tom achieved a thin edge, which Richard held: 153-8.
I drew the batsman into playing at a ball moving away from him, spooned up to Ivy at third man: 173-9.
Realdoc took the final, match-winning wicket, the ball flying into my waiting hands at gulley: 177-10.
Score sheet (much neater this time!) and league table are below. We are still in second place, but are catching up with the leaders:
5 comments:
looking at the names of the other teams is making me laugh again!
:-)
Oh dear I had a shocker. Good job Igot the last wicket to save a woeful performance.
well played chaps! and especially Mincat.
I'm stunned. Runs and wickets? A dropped catch is a little more like me, though.
*applauds MinCat's sterling effort with the willow*
I see the leaders have two games in hand over us. When do we have the pleasure of putting them to our collective sword? *cough*
Touch and go don't have 2 games in hand - everyone has played the same number of games. 3 of theirs were abandoned, due to rain, whilst we only lost 1 game due to flooding.
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