The sun was beating down from a clear blue sky at The Oval as Christopher and I made our way to the wicket.
We shared an opening stand of 69 before Christopher was run out: 69-1.
My 50 came and went, before Ad nicked a cut to the keeper: 93-2.
Mincat was run out: 103-3.
ILTV was bowled: 120-4.
Richard was caught in the slips: 133-5.
Carol was also caught: 151-6.
I was getting a little concerned that I was running out of partners, and was having to do a lot of work in very hot conditions (Christopher was the only other batsman to score in double figures) - still, eventually my century arrived.
Ivy was then caught in the slips: 160-7.Rob was adjudged LBW on his first ball: 160-8.
A tired shot saw me bowled: 160-9.
Our tail wagged a bit before Vicus was caught and bowled: 171-10.
I am afraid I failed to photograph the relevant page of the scorebook. It showed:
Christopher: 18
Dave: 101
Ad: 6
Mincat: 8
ILTV: 5
Richard: 7
Carol: 6
Ivy: 4
Rob: 0
Phil: 6 not out
Vicus: 5
As we tucked into our clotted cream tea we felt we had set a sufficiently daunting target.
This soon became obvious - Christopher took a wicket in the first over: 1-1.
I took one in the second over: 1-2.
Vicus got one in the next over: 5-3.
And Phil took two in his first over: 6-5.
I came back on and took 4 wickets, giving me a five-fer to add to my century: 6-9.
Rob knocked over the last wicket, with an edge to a diving Richard: 6-10.
We move back to second place in the league, with a vastly superior net run rate to everyone else. This will be important, for next week we play New Zealand, away. If we win, that run rate should put us top of the league table.
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