A's vs Te Rapa

Well today was definitely an interesting day. At the start of the day I don't think anyone was too keen to play, it was drizzling and overcast with rain forecast. We won the toss and elected to field, hoping to make use of the virgin pitch and the humidity that was around. Unfortunately in the first 10 overs we weren't good enough and it was hard to set a field to bowling that was erratic at best. They weren't scoring heavily, we were just gifting them a lot of runs with wides and no balls and making it too easy for them.

A change was needed and on came Shabir, our supersub from the C's who got a wicket with his first ball. He bowled superbly all day at a tricky stage and ended up with figures of 1-45(ish) after 8 overs. After around 20 overs the rain came back heavily and held us up for an hour or so. At this stage the Prem's next to us decided that the ball was too slippery after a few raindrops so packed up their toys and went home. We got back on the field at 1:15 under gloriously sunny skies to play a 40 over a side game.

When we got back on, Rowly, who told me before the game that he couldn't bowl, bowled 8 overs with figures of 1-39. Te Rapa ended up on 220 for 3 after 40 overs which we thought was definitely gettable considering that we had the best of the batting conditions. I think they only hit around 6 boundaries in their innings due to the outfield being so slow.

Commins and Ryan opened up and Commins (a.k.a Gambhir) had to go to his sisters wedding at 4 so could only bat for an hour. And bat he did. He scored a magnificent 66odd with some booming 6's over midwicket. At one stage we were looking good at 82/2 but unfortunately a star collapse had us at 88/6 after 19 overs. From there we never really recovered, although Josh and Mark B batted well to get us through to 142 all out. In summary, not enough runs from the top 6 apart from Commins and (again) too many wides early on.

Hopefully we can do better against Melville next week.

POD Points
M Commins 3
Shabir 2
Josh 1