Despite being called a cheat and abused and having a bad game myself, still had a good win today, one that should see us move into the promotion places if other results go our way.
Batted first and was moved up to bat 3 at late notice as one of our players was badly ill so dropped out. Played myself in for 6 before playing a silly shot trying to go over the top and finding the hands of mid-on. We looked in a bit of trouble at 36-4, before our 5&6 scored 60* and 70 respectively. We ended up on about 195. Had 3 blokes on their team abuse me and call me a cheat for not giving a marginal LBW when i umpired (bare in mind i've given 2, 2 & 3 lbw's the last 3 times i've umpired, so i'm not adverse to giving them!) I felt it was too high and probably going down leg, enough of a doubt to not give it, but the man at cover seemed to have a better view of it... Didn't react to their abuse which was evidently what they wanted. I am many things, but a cheat isn't one of them.
They got off to a slow start and barring a good partnership in the middle overs they were always behind the rate. Our 13 year-old ended up going for very few runs off his 5 overs and our bowlers bowled very tight lines which was very satisfying! They ended up 20 runs short. I dropped a catch at long on which was my first drop of the season. Only saw the silhouette of it in the sky, but still should have grabbed it.
Then their senior batsmen who seemed to have a problem with us having 5 men on the boundary in the last over when we played them last year, refused to shake my hand or even look me in the eye when i walked past him at the end of the game.
Awful game personally and am still annoyed at the comments made, but crucially our youngsters played well and we got home.
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Topic: Your 2018 Season (Read 150677 times)