The ridiculous thing was the match was the league decider.
I honestly couldn't care less if they'd won the game legitimately, sometimes you just have to say the better team won on the day. The fact they had to resort to such tactics left a real sour taste after the game.
Clearly winning a plastic cup is more important to them than playing fairly and within the spirit of the game. Oh well, there's always next year (if we enter the competition, chasing round for players and turning up with 10 becomes tiresome very quickly...)
We played a team once, who all surrounded the boundary when we were fielding and sledged us. I've never seen that before. The non-striking batsman would sledge the bowler as the bowler was running in. We bowled them out quite cheaply, but they then fiddled the scorebook and (very clumsily) added 20 runs to their total, and then refused to come out of the dressing room until we agreed that to chase the augmented total.
We were so pissed off we knocked off the winning runs in under 20 overs with a hale of 6s, and then knocked off the additional 20 runs in just 5 balls. I smashed the final ball into the beer garden of the pub next door and walked straight to the car where the skipper was waiting and we drove off without even saying goodbye. Very satisfying.
I'm told that so many of their players were so embarrassed by this that they never played for the club again. They subsequently got relegated for the next 5 straight seasons and are now the lowest ranked 1st team in the entire league system.
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