We are now winless from our first 5 games in the league.
As per usual with the opposition, they turned up 5 mins after the scheduled start making no apologies. They asked to toss up but were quickly told by our skipper that they were batting as they had forfeited the toss. After a bit of grumbling they came out to bat and immediately there was controversy.
This is the same team who I wrote about denying a run out by 2 yards a few weeks ago. This week their opener was hit infront of all 3 on his back pad and their umpire didn’t give it. Our bowler hadn’t even looked at the umpire and just celebrated, I was keeping yesterday and I’ve honestly never been so certain on an appeal in my life, I’d started running to celebrate with him. When asked their umpire said “ermmm... is erm.... pitching outside the leg” as is the standard excuse with our left armer. Thankfully it didn’t cost us as he batted 10 overs for about 3 runs, but that’s not the point! We got the other opener cheaply before their number 3 hit a 50 in about 5 overs just slogging across the line. Thankfully we got him before he caused any more damage. We dragged it back from 110-4 off 18, to restrict them to 170.
I dropped down to 3 because I kept, but was in after 3 overs regardless. Our other opener was injured so we stuck our 9 & 11 up to open. Their opening bowler was comfortably the quickest I’ve faced in this league & he hit our two openers once each and they were both batting at square leg! I much prefer that type of pace and managed to clip him off my pads a couple of times before he bought himself off. I then got completely tied down by their slow first change bowlers and eventually got bowled for about 10. Once again we ended up 40-6 and didn’t make 100 in reply
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Topic: Your 2021 Season (Read 78193 times)