Prem's vs Old Boys

Another Saturday, another beautiful day for cricket on Galloway 1 which seems to be our home pitch these days. With Ben and Rowly playing rep cricket we had to call up Rohit from the A's and luckily for us Chris was back from a quick fire flight to the UK for a funeral.

After a 'gentleman's agreement' at which their skip asked 'what do you want to do?' we had no hesitation in batting. On paper we had a decent line up and batted a long way down but we were hoping the top order could do the business for us. It also helped that 12 of their regular players were out for various reasons, and their team looked incredibly similiar to their A's team from the week before.

Still any mug who bowls can get a wicket on their day so we had to put our head down. We started well until Zeb had a communication breakdown with Chris and ended up running himself out. Braces did what he does best, scoring a quick-fire 20 odd before playing one shot too many and getting bowled. Aaron and Ryan chipped in for a few and Chris was looking great. At lunch we were 135/3 after 40odd.

After lunch Chris continued to make batting look incredibly easy and was joined by Toby. There must be something in the air because both Chris and Toby broke their bats while batting, and I broke mine at training on Thursday! Still they looked good and got us through to 188/4 when Chris was out for a well made 80odd. Skip's plan was to start booming and quickly get to 250 then declare and have plenty of overs at them. Obviously 188 wasn't a good number to start at as we went from 188/4 to 188/8 in the space of 2 overs!

Then Gaz walked in.

56 incredible runs off around 30 balls later and skip had his wish and declared at 267/9 after 63 overs. Some awesome hitting from Gaz, a couple of massive 6's in to 10 Brown Street and some lusty 4's to cow. Great stuff mate.

So we had 40 odd overs to bowl at them and it was fairly obvious from the start that they were under instructions to stone-wall it until their Hamilton reps got back next week. 106/4 at stumps after 42 overs at a mind numbing 2.5 runs per over. The bowlers bowled some good lines and the fielding was great all day so hopefully we can continue that form in to next week. We'll definitely need it with the players they'll likely have back.