They won the toss and decided to bat.
Tom made the first breakthrough, with a clean bowled: 26-1.
Several overs later, Carol held a catch off Tom’s bowling: 47-2.
A top edge off Christopher’s bowling gave me a catching opportunity: 59-3.
Two overs later Richard took his first catch of the season (a fine dive to his left): 64-4.
Our pace bowlers were looking very tired by this stage, having bowled most of their overs; I turned to spin, but when Phil was hit for three sixes off consecutive balls, had to take him off – and Christopher got his third wicket as Ivy held a catch: 86-5.
Another edge to Richard off Christopher’s bowling: 98-6.
The next ball sees Christopher clean bowl his man, and get a five-fer in the match: 98-7.
I took the last three wickets.
Christopher’s cakes were, sadly, too heavy to transport over from
We made a good start against aggressive fast bowling, our first wicket falling at 29. I was feeling a little unwell (too many fairy cakes I suspect) so Ivy went in next, and came back soon after: 30-2.
Christopher, our next batsman in, played a nice little cameo, before their spin bowler winkled him out: 62-3.
Fancying the idea of some spin bowling, I came in, in time to see Carol clean bowled: 66-4.
Steg’s wicket soon fell too: 71-5.
Could Richard and I make the sort of stand we had done last week? No. I was given out LBW (Hawkeye later showed it was not out): 73-6.
We were down to the tail now, particularly when Richard was bowled; 82-7.
Phil too was bowled: 82-8.
As was MinCat: 87-9.
Once again it was left to Vicus and Tom to save the day. The Australians kindly bowled a few no-balls and wides, to push the scores a little closer, but when Tom’s wicket fell we had only reached 94, and so lost the match.
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