Played at
@KettonJake 's old club today. I think i would also form my own breakaway club if i had to bat on that cabbage patch every week! On a wet green track balls were barely getting shin high, barring the odd one that would randomly rear up to my head off a length!
We only had 6 of us there with a few minutes to go as our skipper and several others were delayed in traffic so i had to act as captain. Won the toss and obviously had to bat on their very questionable wicket with so few of us there. I opened the batting and me and our other opener put together 40 off 10 overs before i got undone by one that nipped away and clipped the top of my off stump for 21. I had decided that on such a bad wicket i may as well just throw the kitchen sink at anything not hitting the stumps. Got plenty of chat about "only playing on the legside" (i'm a left hander, if you bowl on my legs you will be getting hit through the leg side funnily enough!) We then collapsed as per usual, and ended up on 108.
Our opening bowlers are brothers and are the 2 top wicket takers in the league, and as they do most weeks, had the oppo in trouble at 20-3. A hefty partnership looked to have taken the game away from us, but then our left-armer produced a quality 5-for to leave them needing 36 with 2 wickets in hand at the end of his spell. We then bought on our youngster who got carted in his 2 overs and the game was done! Had both our openers had another 2 overs each it may have been a different story.
Another good day for me in the field, took another sharp grab at gully to get rid of their gobby South African keeper who called me a cheat for not giving a stumping that he was adamant was out. (They were a weird mix, a gobby old keeper, a couple of gobby youngsters, and the rest were absolutely sound blokes!)
This means ive had 14 catching chances in the 14 games and i've taken 12 of them. Would be top of the division if we put our catches up on playcricket!
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Topic: Your 2018 Season (Read 150665 times)