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A full eleven (twelve including the support and scoring of Andy Hood) made their way to Machen in hope of a better team performance than the previous weekend.

Alas the writing was on the wall when I won the toss for the 2nd week running and decided to bat on a damp wicket – bollocks!

The opening stand of the 1st game was wiped from the memory as The Goad departed LBW for 4 (I can only call it as I see it!) – 7 for 1 – leaving Beaver Boy to come in and briefly accompany Easy at the crease before heading off without troubling the score with a familiar caught & bowled – 7 for 2.

As Paul advanced Easy made tracks back to the pavilion after being bowled for 2 with the score unmoved – 7 for 3.

Fitzy joined Paul in the middle only to see Paul sent back bowled for 1 – 12 for 4.

With me next up determined to provide a captain’s innings Fitzy left bowled for nought – 15 for 5 – and we weren’t even in the tenth over.

Foxy had a short stay before being caught without scoring – 19 for 6

Talking Horse was next up and spoke wisely declaring that picking the odd run up was the order of the day as there was an abundance of overs to play with before slashing his first ball square of the wicket (actions speak louder than words Mr Ed!)

I then prodded at one too many and was caught for 9 – 30 for 7 – rumours of a two innings game were abound.

Andy (newly declared all rounder) F entered the fray and to say the least things weren’t looking rosy in the Casz household but an un-casual like superb 8th wicket stand with Ed of 73 gave us an almost respectable total to protect. Andy finally falling (bowled) for 30 – 103 for 8.

Shagger strolled in and duly ran Ed out on 38 allowing DB1 ( 2 not out) to provide the comedy moment by hitting straight to a fielder (who dropped it) running and then introducing himself to Dan at the other end and recommending that perhaps he may consider that a run was in order, but too late, the fielder had composed himself, run a quick bath, worked out the trajectory and managed to run Dan out for 2 – 108 all out.

Worse news was to follow with the realisation that tea had not been provided by the local rugby club and as a result several of the team were rumoured to have gone apoplectic with rage the news that cake was missing.

Overs / Runs / Wickets
5 / 7 / 2
10 / 16 / 5
15 / 33 / 7
20 / 55 / 7
25 / 78 / 7
30 / 102 / 7
32 / 107 / 9

Wickets / Score / Batsman / Partnership
1 / 7 / 1 (The Goad) / 7
2 / 7 / 2 (Beaver Boy) / Nil
3 / 7 / 4 (Easy) / Nil
4 / 12 / 3 (Paul) / 5
5 / 15 / 6 (Fitzy) / 3
6 / 19 / 7 (Foxy) / 4
7 / 30 / 8 (Rich) / 11
8 / 103 / 5 (Andy F) / 73
9 / 106 / 9 (Talking Horse) / 3
10 / 108 / 10 (Shagger) / 2

Extras
NB 3
W 14
B 3

Without a sizeable total to defend we needed a tight start nut with their opener striking a few lusty blows we were on the back foot from early on and without the ever handy lady luck.

Shagger and Andy F opened with mixed fortunes returning 5-3-7-0 and 5-2-28-1 (bowled) respectively, Andy removing their opener in his second over.

First change saw Paul and DB1, Paul bowling a mixed bag with no return 8-2-22-0 and DB1 producing baby producing deliveries and unlucky not to pick up a couple more wickets in his 6-0-23-1 (bowled)

Beaver Boy, replacing DB1, returned 3-0-18-0 with Talking Horse a solitary 1-0-8-0.

Machen cantered to 109 for 2 off 28 overs

Extras
NB 1
W 1
LB 1
B 2 (Fitzy)

Overs / Runs / Wickets
5 / 26 / 1
10 / 37 / 1
15 / 52 / 1
20 / 67 / 2
25 / 84 / 2
28 / 109 / 2

Wickets / Score / Batsman
1 / 26 / 1 (Andy F)
2 / 56 / 3 (DB1)

Then it was off to a pub, waited outside for them to open for 15 minutes, and then engineered our part in helping to reduce a plethora of chips and bread (known affectionately in Wales as chip butties!) to traces of glistening fat and crumbs.

Played 2 Won 0 Lost 2

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