Match Report vs Boyz
of Summer 02 August 2018 @ Wenvoe (Skipper and report
Dan)
The last league match of the 2018 season was upon us all
too soon. The day had been overcast even with a spot of drizzle,
but on arrival to Wenvoe the sun was out and temperature was
climbing. Captain Dan lost the toss (again) , but the Cazh
were asked to bat – so felt like a win! Kim and Rob
opened up. The first over looked to spell disaster, second
ball, Kim chipped one towards the mid off fielder, fortunately
this chance wasn’t taken. From then on Kim went on the
rampage – including 20 runs off the 3rd over. The new
Foxy ball scoop #6 was brought into action very early on and
was used multiple time during the innings. Unfortunately the
new ball was lost somewhere in the wilderness of the Wenvoe
brook triangle in only the 5th over. Kim retired in the 8th
over. Alex joined Rob with the score on 78. Rob was then run
out the next over both batsman agreeing that a 2 was on- as
it turned out it wasn’t. Big Willy made his first batting
appearance for 12 months and looked solid from the off. He
kept Alex on his toes calling through and unexpected single,
which a direct hit was have seen Alex a goner.
Fortunately this wasn’t the case and Alex was back
in his swing – carting 2 massive 6’s before skying
one too many and was caught at long off. The score had continued
to climb to 120 off 13. During the following 4 overs the scoreboard
took a break and only 10 runs were scored – mainly due
to a better bowling display. In the 16th over both Will and
Steveo fell – Will top edged one back to the slow bowler
and Steveo was bowled by him. 129-4 off 16. Goffy and Dan
put on a little cameo with some mighty swishes – some
of which connected, putting on a partnership of 38 before
Goff was bowled (twice – once called a no ball) in the
last over. Tim came in to face the last 2 balls, but was unable
to add to the score and was deemed run out last ball (though
it looked more like a stumping). The Cazh finished on 166-6.
Kim 51 ret
Rob O 18 ro
Alex 25 ct
Big Willy 13 c&b
Steveo 7 b
Goffy 13 b
Dan 21 no
Tim 0 ro
Paul, Mark, Rich DNB
Extras 18
The Cazh took to the field, confident of a victory. Captain
Dan had done his stat homework and if a max points win and
other results going the Casuals way – there was a chance
of (somehow) coming 2nd in the league! Dan opened the bowling
with Shakey, Shakey got the first break through in his first
over – bowled. Dan got in on the act first ball of his
second, getting a successful lbw decision. Dan got another
next over hitting the top of off and Shakey picked up another
couple – both catches – one by Alex at cow and
the other by Dan at backward squareleg. The Cazh very much
on top 48-5 off 8. The 8 overs had taken quite a long time
to get through, the No2 batsman pulled up with cramp second
ball and requested a runner, which induced more hilarity with
running and non-running, plus the ball scoop came into play
a few times. So by the time Goffy and Paul came on to bowl,
the sun was already dipping below the tree line. Both Goffy
and Paul bowled through, though with contrasting success.
Neither took a wicket, but the Boyz middle order played very
well and looked a constant threat. Goff’s delivers were
given a lot of respect and he only went for 2 boundaries in
his 3rd over. Paul’s mix off seam and spin was more
to the liking of the batsmen who went to town a bit with the
short brook boundary. The was a run out though – calmly
through back to keeper Kim by Steveo in the 14th over. Unfortunately
it’s not possible to track the score, overs and fall
of wickets as those parts of the book aren’t filled
in, but the score was probably about 100. After the completion
of their spell it was really quite dark. Steveo and Rich were
asked to bowl. During Steveo’s first over the wicket
of the hard hitting No6 was gained with another run out –
which was excellent from the Cazh point of view – the
winning target would have been in sight had he stayed there.
Richie’s over went slightly awry, it started fine, but
picked up a case of the Britpop’s and couldn’t
bowl a ball on the strip. In fact, Captain Dan was now thinking
the worse – that there might be a repeat of the Medics
game (surely not)…at the end of the over Boyz needed
35 off 2 and the sights of a max points win were dashed.
Steveo’s 2nd over was excellent – only going
for 7. Rob was asked to bowl the last over and not only stopped
any boundaries, also got a wicket caught by Richie on the
brook edge – which was very good considering it was
now 9 o’clock and the ball was hardly visible against
the dark skies. Shakey not known for his vision, hearing or
speed, was hauled into action on numerous occasions at long
off – often standing there ‘looking alert’
but not seeing the ball until it was metres away from him,
he also chased down a boundary which did visible show a turn
of pace. The Casuals achieved victory by 21 runs, Boyz batting
really well in the middle/latter stages finishing on 145-8.
Dan 4-0-20-2
Mark 4-0-28-3
Goffy 4-0-16-0
Paul 4-0-42-0
Steveo 2-0-14-0
Richie 1-0-13-0
Rob O 1-0-6-1
Extras 22
The Cazh finally made it to the pub at about 9.45 and were
treated to some slightly dubious stat porn – but it
was a good reminder that our win ratio for the season had
made it over the 50% mark.
Joke of the day – what’s the difference between
jam and marmalade?
You can’t marmalade your c*** up a girls a***…
(though someone did say that they’d give it a go…)
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