Match Report vs Exbury,
Hampshire Tour Game 2 - 8 September 2013 @ Exbury (Skipper
and Report Cheese)
Arriving at the ground it was clear that from the state of
the wicket and the clouds in the sky that 40 overs a side
was never going to happen, this came even less likely when
the oppo brought out the heavy roller to the wicket dropping
it a couple inches below the water table. They would have
been better off playing sardines in woolly jumper but with
the start being pushed back to 3pm, we would have some sort
of game.
Casuals lost the toss and were in asked to field first with
the effect of the water out field being apparent straight
away firstly making the ball almost ungraspable and the ball
skimming to the boundary all too quickly. Everybody had two
overs and everyone got spanked to certain extent. Tesh took
an excellent catch off our guest bowler and with the other
wicket was a run out after a slip by the non-striker.
The cazh left the field to lick their wounds and tuck into
tea, to be meet by Cheese, captain for the day between them
and the tea table suggesting a quick turnaround. Now I doubt
there are few places that are more dangerous than standing
between a cazh team and the tea table but trying to make the
most of the game barely won past the growling stomachs.
Goff and Bari were the unfortunates chosen to open out the
innings, with the speed to return the crease at a premium
Goff decided that he had to find the perfect equipment. His
mum watching this faffing around decide a quick trip to the
toilet would be alright. Upon her return saw her son still
dithering in the kit bag and with an exasperated sigh enquired
to her sons’ tardiness which was met by a withering
glance from Goff and the rest of the cazh smirking and muffling
giggles.
During her trip to the toilet, Goff had finally got to the
middle; smashed a long hop to point who caught it and had
returned to the hutch. Thanks for coming Goff and this episode
was duly awarded the Tudor Thomas Trophy.
We had a couple of non-descript overs until the rain returned
and tea was taken with 3 types of cake with the hot topic
of conversation being name that flavour accompanied by the
bowl of lucky dip crisps.
The return to the pitch was short lived as the “fast”
bowler believed that saw dust had magically properties of
giving enormous amounts of grip and promptly went down like
a sack of shite both captains agreed that the game should
be called off and cazh returned over the bridge with another
tour completed
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