Back home for Easter so decided to play a friendly for my old side as they were very short.
They brought their own umpire who was very very generous on wides (for both sides). I think the tone was set in my first over when I nearly didn’t land one on the track and he gave it as byes 😂
We had virtually 0 bowlers and they got something like 270 off their 40.
We were bowled out for 100-ish. I opened and got an agonisingly slow 14 off about 50 as I watched ball after ball sail down my leg side (left-hander) and not get called a wide. I was actually timing the ball reasonably well for the 15 or so balls that landed within 5 foot of me 😂
I’m having enough of a problem closing myself off on the leg side lately and yesterday certainly didn’t help! Oh well - can only get better from here!