Don't know If I'll be to keep this up, but I'll give it a go, I'll try and keep it short.
Home game (Friendly) for the 6th XI. This is quite historic for the club as its the first season that it looks like we're going to get 6 teams out on a regular basis. I captained one game last year and that was the first ever 6th XI. The club is going from strength to strength.
The game was played on ground 1 on the image above, normally we'd play on one of the other 2. Today the 5th XI were on ground 2.
Previous few days it had been raining and this year has been ridiculously wet. It had rained all day yesterday from first light to about 4pm. But today the sun came out and there was a bit of a breeze. Time we got there it was OK, but a bit soggy.
I'd checked out the form of the opposition and some of the batters in the games last year had strike rates of around 100! So my thoughts were that we needed to bowl otherwise we ran the risk of being skittled for 30 or 40.
A lot of the players in this team I've never played with before
Just home from the Saturday game, I haven't got the exact scores yet as they did them one of those bloody tablet things rather than doing it properly. But Ball park I reckon I was 8-1-22-2. Bowled a few Leg-Breaks today and they came out well, one resulted in a catch at square leg. I must have bowled 6-7 Leg-breaks of the 48 balls, all the others Flippers.
I batted long today too. The oppo we suspected was quite strong and I was happy when we fielded first - everyone at least got a bowl and we restricted then to 120 odd, They then turned us over 9 for 50 and I strolled out and joined the captain for the 10th wicket partnership and we put on a another 50 + and fell 19 short with 9 overs in hand. My fault played a more aggressive shot outside of the off-stump and it caught the inside edge and went on to the stumps. Retrospectively I look back at that and think - 9 overs left - 2 an over even I didn't score anymore runs the captain may have got those on his own. The oppo were running around like they'd just won the world cup whooping and jumping up and down like crazy! To be fair they could see the game slipping from their grasp and they were trying everyone and everything.
A couple of days later when they'd posted the scores on the playcricket website, the opposition with their dumb digital scoring got it completely wrong with regards our bowling
On-line I was credited with an extra wicket, but take that out of the equation and I've started the season with 8-1-19-2 which I'm happy with. Actually I've just checked and it looks like they've rectified the score book...
Check out Adam Walker 4 overs for 0. I think Taylor Millar with 2 has been credited with one of Jakes wickets? I'm not sure though.
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