Final league match of the season and came up just short. Opposition scored 143-8 off 40 overs and we ended up with 140-9 off our 40.
In their innings, the lad I support bowled his best spell of the year going for just 11 off 6 overs. Mind you I did tell him he was walking home as he dropped an absolute sitter off my bowling. In reply we scored 15 off the first 2 overs but quickly lost both openers and then took another 15 overs to reach 30. From then on, we were always behind the run rate and despite scoring over 70 in last 10 overs, we couldn't quite get over the line. In fairness to our opponents, they took a couple of very good catches including a spectacular one-handed caught and bowled which removed the one player who could have got us home in those last few overs with room to spare.
Match played in a great spirit despite me briefly having words with their wicketkeeper who throughout our innings made some absolutely ridiculous claims for caught behind. I had previously laughed off his appeals while umpiring (and so had all his team-mates) but he ran around liked he had just caught the ball to reclaim the Ashes in the penultimate over when I hadn't even got within a foot of a leg-side delivery. Anyhow shook his hand at the end, said "well played" and there was no lasting damage to either party.
Still got 3 friendly matches to play before the end of my 2018 summer season.
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Topic: Your 2018 Season (Read 150636 times)