Match Report vs Medics
11 June 2024 @ Wenvoe (Skipper Jim, Report Nylon Pylon)
Wet Windy Wenvoe? Not this time.
Although it wasn't perfect weather for cricket, it wasn't
raining for once which led to high hopes for the Caszh.
Skipper Hodkinson strolled to the middle with the Medics
captain for the toss. We lost. Medics elect to field first.
Rhys.D and handsome Steve (Biggs) get padded up and go to
the crease to start the game off. Rhys.D faced 4 dot balls
before spooning one in the air for the bowler to catch giving
him a duck and the bowler a wicket maiden for the first over
of the game. Fred. G in at 3. First runs of the game was a
boundary scored by Handsome Steve. Only a few more runs scored
before the fall of the second wicket Fred. G who was bowled.
Steve O in it 4. With Steve O walking to the middle the rest
of the Caszh did their usual of guessing how many balls before
his wicket would fall. The answer: 3. A swift return to the
changing rooms for one of our Vice captains. Rob.O in at 5.
This pairing could possibly be the most fascinating to watch
in the middle. Little dabs and great strokes from the pair
saw the score begin to rise before the fall of Rob.O wicket
being bowled. Dan.L in at 6. Strong hits from Dan.L and smart
shots from handsome Steve saw the score quickly spike until
the fall of the anchor man Steve.B who was caught on the joint
top score of 36. In at 7 the skipper: Jim.H. With only a couple
overs left the score slowly creeped up to a defendable total
of 131. Extras were a major help to the final score being
the third highest scorer. Handsome Steve and Dan.L joint top
scorer with 36.
TIME TO DEFEND.
131 the score to defend and defend we shall (try).
There may be 11 men on a team, this day we had 12 (we will
get to that soon)
Opening pair of Dan.L and Liam.F started the bowling. Runs
were leaked quickly as their opening batter looked to reach
the total fast (obviously wanted to go to the pub). It's the
fourth over, no wickets have been taken yet. Liam.F puts one
on the batters pads and.... TRIGGERED. The finger goes up
and the batsmen goes off. The second wicket came shortly after
with Dan.L bowling batsmen number 3. Liam.F in his 3rd over,
the ball leaves his hand hits the pads and..... TRIGGERED,
the finger goes up again (i think you can see where this is
going) and the batsman goes off. A great spell from Dan.L
and Liam.F saw the scoreboard show 48-3.
Dave.T and Ed.S come on to replace the opening pair. A very
loose over from Ed.S saw the extras shoot up and also saw
him being taken off after just the one over.
Dave.T took 2 wickets in his spell one being caught and one
being bowled. a very good spell from Dave saw the Caszh in
a good posiion.
Rob.O on to bowl. more runs were scored until Rob.O puts one
on the batters pads and..... TRIGGERED, again. Liam.W onat
the other end who hit the stumps in his first over, looked
like a tactical masterclass from the skipper until Liams shoe
broke and his rhythm was broken it was wide after wide after
no ball after wide. Not a good spell from the young Nylon
Pylon but we move back to Rob.O who puts another one on the
batsmans pads and....... TRIGGERED. Anyone would think we
were watching only fools and horses. We had our Dave we had
our TRIGGER all we needed was a Del Boy.
12th man being the umpire who had a very itchy trigger finger
which ultimately helped the Caszh get their hopes up.
As it turned out an expensive spell from the young Nylon Pylon
at the end of the game may have been the cause of this Caszh
loss but who knows, maybe it was all an act of God, maybe
the Caszh can only have nice weather or a win, not both. Devestating
for the Caszh but it is what it is.
D.Lewis- 3.3-0-27-1
L.Forster- 3-0-25-2
D.Thomas-3-0-18-2
E.Stag- 1-0-14-0
R.Owens- 4-0-15-2
L.Warren- 3-0-32-1
F.Grassem- 1-0-4-0
If there are any inaccuracies found in this post, i can only
apologise, scorebooks was a messy (mostly not filled in) and
memory was fuzzy.
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