So we managed to get a game in today. We had a pre-season friendly arranged but had to cancel due to weather but they contacted us this week and asked if we could field a side as with the drier weather back of last week and this forecasted good weekend they were confident they could produce a wicket and safe outfield.
Anyway pitch was superb given the awful wether we have had in East Anglia it wasn’t a raging green top it was slow and a bit tennis ball bounce but overall played well.
Anyway we won the toss and batted, agreed that batters would retire at 50 and all would bowl, opened and got my way to 50 and felt in good nick given the very limited winter and early season nets, used my match bat from last season “ UK made GN ultimate” and don’t know why this hasn’t been in my mind as match bat this year, forgot how good it is so will be going into the next few weeks with this beauty. Anyway we got to 184-9 off 40.
Then I remeber why I love cricket so much, TEA, scones, homemade cake, sausage roll and mini toad in the hole with gravy, stunning spread.
In reply they had a couple of county Jnr players that we managed to get early both due to playing too early on the ball and after that they limped to 87 from 27 overs losing wickets in clumps so a nice win and our team fielded really well taking all but one catch that was quite tough to 2nd slip.
Main thing though was cricket was played and played in the right way with a great oppo so a happy start to my 2018
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