Match Report vs Abercarn
28 June 2009 @ Abercarn (Skipper Jonny F and Report
Paul)
On a sunny warm Sunday the Casuals rolled up to play Abercarn,
and a fine site it was, the ground looked easily 17 times
better than some of the other pitches we've played on..even
if the changing rooms were in dire need of improvement. The
pitch was flat, the outfield fast enough and the boundary
towards the river was about 50yards (45 meters for you metric
boffins). The oppo skipper looked like a decent player (you
can tell sometimes just by looking at them) and he sweet talked
Jam into thinking they were having a shit year and couldn't
hit a cow in the arse with a banjo.
I forget who won the toss but we had a bat with Will &
Jam doing the honours. A tall brisk medium bowler opened from
the rugby ground end and Will hit a boundary or 2 to the short
side and Jam took most of the bowling from the council estate
end from a podgy bloke bowling slow medium with plenty of
variation. Jam was first out in around the 10th over bowled
for 1, not his finest hour. Will was next to go for a decent
24 in a boundary or block innings caught at mid off from the
fat guy. Cracker getting a nose bleed batting 3 got 10 before
being run out not backing up on a quick single called by Titty
the scorebook wrangler, not Titty's fault, Ed was on his heals
a bit.
Titty (I like this new nickname) hit a good 25 with a few
good hooks and a very well hit straight driven 4, Steve's
brief appearance was marred for him by their lanky opening
bowler making a remark which was not taken well, his innings
ended 3rd ball for one. Stevo, next time your in work write
"MUST INGORE TWATTY COMMENTS" 100 times on the blackboard.
Titty was joined Easy who made his 1st runs of the season
off the edge 1st ball, well done Chris. Titty was out next
caught wafting to leg I think, Easy got 7, I dont know how
he was out cos I never wrote it down, but at least he scored
a few.
The mighty Ming played quite well I thought, he got away
with the odd attempted cow bang and he saw Dewbs in and out
for a Duck caught at mid on and I joined him and I stayed
for an over or 3 and got 12 getting caught at cover playing
too soon. Rog joined Ming and saw him depart LBW for 17 bringing
Shag to the wicket with about 4 overs to go for the last wicket
partnership. Rog and Shag ran and swiped for thier lives to
try and get us up to 150 of 40 overs in a fine 10th wicket
partnership that put some of the rest of us to shame. We scored
130 of fthe bat with 20 sundries.
Jam 1
Will 24
Ed 10
Titty 25
Steve 1
Easy 7
Ming 17
Dewbs 0
Me 12
Rog 16 Not Out
Shag 17 Not Out
Tea was plentiful, cakes and sandwiches,Tea and squash, outside
the rain fell for about 20 minutes, not that heavy and were
only held up for a short time.
They opened up with their 2 old pros who looked in no trouble
at all off the bowling of Dan off his long run and the swing
of Rog. Dan I think will admit he bowled a bit short at first
and the 2 old guys picked them off for 4's. Rog got the 1st
wicket, it was a bit of a surprise when one of the geezers
swiped at a full straight ball and got bowled, Rog also got
the next wicket with a direct hit run out from mid off, a
great throw.
Cracker and Myself took over the bowling and sufferd at the
hands of their 1st teamers, I bowled 6 overs for 40 odd and
Ed eight for 40 odd, we bought a wicket a piece in between
disappearing to all parts, I took the brunt of it and didn't
bowl that well. I did get the guy who spanked me all over
the place after he made 34 in about 8 overs. The figures are
not exact as the book is a bit of a mess.
So they are 4 down for about 110 around the 16th over or
so when Jam makes the overdue decision to replace me with
Dan, Dan off his short run (not feeling great from night before
methinks) and took 4 wickets, 2 bowled, 1 LBW which the batsman
hit the cover off.
To everyones amazement and a great indication of father time
creeping up on him Dan's third wicket was a stumping by Titty
standing up.. I must admit to taking the piss a bit in the
huddle, but all piss taking aside Dan got them worried a bit
and even though they got them of 28 overs we made a game of
it, in fact the game could have been drawn as they required
5 runs with one wicket remaining, and Rog dropped a very difficult
driving catch with the scores level.
We were about 30 to 40 runs short, they clobbered Me and
to a lesser extent Ed, and we dropped 2 or 3 catches but Dan
did us proud and it was a decent game and everyone apart from
the disgruntled Stevo (still smarting from his spat with the
Lanky bowler) agreed that a fixture next year was a good idea.
And I got home in time for chinese and to watch Top Gear,
so not a bad day all in all.
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