Saturday, October 24, 2009

October 24th A's lowdown

Well the morning started out fantastically with the sun shining and not a cloud in the sky. We had a good team on paper for the game and were confident of playing well and winning against Suburbs at Discovery Park. We won the toss and elected to field first for no other reason than there was a bit of dew on the outfield so the ball wouldn't travel as far.

Jespreet decided to turn up 15 minutes late for the game which didn't help as he was due to open the bowling... We had to make do with 10 while Chuck smashed 3 quick boundaries and I thought we were in for a long day! Fortunately though Mark had enough of being smashed all over the park so clean bowled him in his next over. A good catch from Ryan had them 2 down but they batted well to get to their 50 inside 12 overs and continued on from there. We caught a lucky break when their best batsman was given out LBW after an inside edge, and some good bowling from Reg, Toby, Aaron and Rowly had them bowled out for 174 with around 7 overs to spare. Wickets: Mark 1, Rowly 3, Reg 2, Toby 1 and Aaron 2... I'm missing one but I don't have the scorebook with me.

Our fielding still needs a bit of work as a few chances went down, but overall it was a good performance in the field and 175 was definitely gettable on an artificial pitch.

Rowly and Ryan opened the batting and got to around 20 before Rowly skied one to the covers. I strolled in and put on a few with Ryan before he got out for 22 and Toby joined me. After 17 overs we were 52 for 2 so well on track. After drinks I had a bit of a brain meltdown and followed Rowly with a skier to covers. Toby continued on his way and was joined by Tim after Officer Dicey decided he was out before anyone else knew what was going on. An honest cop, what are the chances... Tim and Toby batted superbly in the middle overs, they started slowly but worked into it and took us to the last 10 overs needing 55 runs. A few fingernails started to be bitten as we lost 4 quick wickets. Reg rocked on up and tried to hit his first over into next Thursday but failed to connect with a single one... after a few quiet words he knuckled down and along with Aaron (Brutus the barber beefcake) Barbour, took us from needing around 40 runs from 30 balls to needing 19 off the last 2 overs. They batted fantastically and Reg hit the winning boundary with 3 balls to spare.

So overall a great team performance against a good Suburbs outfit. Probably a bit closer than it needed to be, but a win is a win.

Stirlo

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