Yeah I completely agree with this. We played a team last year who you knew just by looking at them were utterly useless. We had played them earlier in the season, batted first and ended up winning the game by about 180 runs. This time they won the toss and elected to bat. Our skipper said are you sure, we have a fairly strong team out to which their skipper replied 'yeah, we don't want to be the team that just turns up and chases for 40 odd overs and then bats for a draw.' To which our Skipper replied 'Well if you want this fixture again next season, you should probably rethink that statement.'
We rolled them for 48 and the game was over within 3 hours. Luckily it rained so we didn't have to play a beer match. I think we have dropped them for this season.
The last friendly this year the oppo did this. So on e we got them 6/7 down and the kids were batting we just fed them runs.. Well, I did. My brief was 'go at 12 an over'. I bowled pies, moved all my fielders to slip, gully and the off side and preceded to bowl soooo ww full tosses, long hops. I had one man on the leg side, deep backward square leg! And he took two catches as they couldn't even miss one fielder
Still, couple of their crap kids got 50's and we had 200 ish to chase which at least ensured our lads got a bat.
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