well, a really good weekend of cricket and rather satisfying personally!
Saturday - Ashorne and MM CC:
lost the toss on the first properly warm and sunny day and was asked to field first by bottom of the league (we're 3rd 3/4 points off top). That was really only one of two moments that didn't go our way. We bowled really well (although far too many extras again, it will costs us sooner rather than later) and bowled them out for 83. Didnt get a bowl but given they were 5 down quick I wasn't expecting too! I was then asked to open the batting (shock) and myself and the other opener raced (im boycott-esque and my partner idolises Chris Tavare) to 40 without loss after 10 overs before tea, I'd scored 7 at this point, but was determined to take my chance at the top of the order and get a score and us over the line. After tea we put on another 30 when my opening partner got a leading edge straight up to square leg to be out for 37 from an opening stand of 70. I followed an over later with the score on 71 for 23 (i just cant seem to get beyond the 20s at the moment but batting as well as i have for a long time). numbers 3 and 4 finished it off for a 8 wickets win. Not chasing it 0 down was the other bit that didn't go our way.
Sunday - Bishops Tachbrook CC:
What a game! a real nail biter and good fun against my Saturday club.
Lost the toss (only the second time i have this year and first didnt get to do what i wanted) and was asked to field. our bowling and fielding is our worst aspect but we performed magnificently (for us on a sunday). I opened the bowling and got through 6 overs for 26 with 3 maidens (my first 2 overs) and one over going for 16, so not all bad, im now bowling seam so the bad over was in the slot, still learning to adjust etc. My opening partner bowled his allocation of 8 for 1 for 30 odd. a really good yorker to remove their opener for 0 in the 3rd over.
i then shuffled the bowling and brought on our 14 year old off spinner second change and he bowled a very tidy line and length and picked up their number 3 for 60 something, caught by myself at long on. a couple overs later he picked up the other opener for 12. two top order wickets and a really good spell.
number 4 and five batted well and they got to 230 - 6 off the allowed 40 overs. I came back to bowl the last to end with 7-3-28-2.
Really happy with the performance in the field even with a 3 dropped catches, 2 tough ones and the dolly i put down to cheers, doh!
this is where i thought we'd struggle, we have a really good batting line up down to number 7 but we struggle to chase bigger totals.
The openers set off in pursuit and got to just over 50 when one got out for 44. number three wen in and batted until the 35th over when he was out for 76 and we were 200 ish for 2. this left us needing 30 off 5 over but as you'll recall from saturday I'm not a hitter and the other opener is the chap i opened with on saturday (currently 47*) we pick off singles and hit the occasional boundary needed 11 off the last two overs, they bring on their strike bowler who bowls well and leaves us with 8 required off the last:
39.1 Yorker dot.
39.2 full toss, hot out into off side, 2 runs
39.3 length, opener carves out to sweeper at cover, 1 run
39.4 full toss, i miss out and cue end it to deep mid wicket, 1 run
39.5 full and wise, not given by our umpire (because my partner played a shot - ump not a cricketer but bowls nicely doesnt know all the rules but had umpired all innings for us, so i cant moan too much as i should have already won us the game
39.6 yorker, hit into off side 1 run
we lost by two runs, fantastic last over by their bowler but we had two full tosses that should have been dispatched for the win
Really positive as we shouldn't have got close and a nice little 11* off 9 balls at the end for me so a decent weekend with 34 runs (not bad for a steady number 9) and a decent spell on sunday
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