Match report vs CBBies
8 May 08@ Wenvoe (Skipper and report Muff)
A lovely warm, hazy evening greeted the players to wenvoe.
on inspection the pitch, though soft, was a credit to the
often maligned wenvoe ground staff and it was game on.
Muff, steering the good ship casuals for the first time won
the toss(!) and decided to put the oppo in.
Pabs and Shandy were entrusted with the opening salvo and
we were treated to an exibition of cross bat slogging from
Imran, Paul particulary being unlucky as the Cbbies got off
to a flyer. All good things come to an end though and Pabs
finally got his man with Sharif taking a very good catch at
mid wicket. Shandy bowled an excellent 4 overs up the hill
being rewarded with a wicket, bowled. the Cbbies looked likely
to get a big total but were virtually stopped in there tracks
by 8 good overs from Kim and Muff (modesty not my strong point!)
Kim's line and length rewarded with a wicket bowled by a peach
of a delivery last ball of his spell, Muff picking up 2 wickets,
1 caught well by Kim and the other to the suprise of all watching
a caught and bowled (though i tried my hardest to drop it!).
Dewbs and Sharif were next with Dewbs reverting to what
he described as "leg-spin" (his quotation marks!)
which looked more like"ICE CREEEEEAM" to us but
was extremley effective and kept the pressure on the oppo
and was unlucky to have 2 chances go begging one by himself
and a tough chance to sharif (ed - kind reporting - it went
stright to him a dolly pace!), Sharif quickly made ammends
by taking 3 wickets in his only over (leaving him on a hat-trick
for next time) 2 caught by Shandy and one comically stumpped
by the excellent Smitts who, taking a leaf from the Goughy
book of keeping had argued (quite correctly) with the umpire
the ball before that he had stumped the batsmen who was given
not-out even though was quite clearly out before getting his
man with the next delivery.
Dewbs came back for his second over and picked up the last
wicket, again stumped by Smitts (Ed - off a wide...haven't
heard that for a while...). Cbbies 83 all out, a great effort
considering their rapid start.
Paul 4-0-1-33
Shandy 4-0-1-10
Kim 4-0-1-15
Muff 4-0-2-11
Dewbs 1.1-0-1-5
Sharif 1-0-3-6.
Opening for the Casz were Will in the anchor role and Osama
Bin O'Reilly in as the pinch hitter and blow me if it didnt
work, Steveo having a good old slap and Will trying to deafen
everybody with his calling milking the runs and giving Steveo
the strike.
Unfortuanatly Will shouted so loud that Steve, disorientated
and confused ended up stranded and was run-out for a quick
fire 17. Enter Mr Pike who looked good for the 3 balls he
faced before being bowled for 0. Will's innings came to an
end again bowled (the pitch a little lower and slower in the
twighlight) for 10. Ash and Smitts looked to keep us on track
but Smitts played over the top of the ball to be bowled for
3. With the required run rate slowly going up Dewbs and Ash
tried hard to pick up the runs where they could but faced
with accurate bowling the chances were limited, Dewbs being
bowled after what he said was a panic brought on by 2 dot
balls!! and Ash adjudged l.b.w trying to move it along for
a solid 10. Into the tail with the run rate hovering about
6 an over it was looking to be going down to the wire with
Sharif and Scott both new to the crease. Well, it looked like
it was going to be close untill Scott decided that he needed
a pint and smacked 21 off 2 and bit overs(144444) to finish
the game, an excellent knock that capped a fine all round
performance, Sharif ending on 2 not-out with Kim, Pabs and
Muff adding to their dnb totals. Good game, good banter and
a good start to the league season.
T hanks to all who played and the good support from Shag and
Shakes, JF for umpiring, Fox for remembering to bring the
kit and Andy Ffor his colourful scoring and for not doing
anything illegal to his pre-teen fan club....
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