Match Report vs CBBies
08 August 2013 @ St Fagans (Skipper and Report Shakey)
The further pitch at St Fagans had its own unique character
during this oddly warm and dry summer - there was spin and
variable bounce from the road end and things tended to keep
slow and low from the field end. After some heavy downpours
it would be interesting to see how it played. We lost the
toss and batted.
Tesh and winkie started well against some tight bowling.
Anything wide that should have been hit usually kept very
low and scuttled through to the wickie. Tesh still managed
some pleasing drives, taking a liking to Imran's bowling from
the field end and hitting three boundaries. But with the introduction
of the slower bowlers everything changed and the runs dried
up. The left arm spinner who came on from the road end was
virtually unplayable with his quick darts spinning and jumping
viciously. Keeping your wicket intact was literally all you
could do - yet we had to score runs.
So the 16 runs from the opening 3 overs fell away and the
run out of tesh (27) in the 10th over removed our most fluent
batsman. We stuttered along with winkie, Will and Jonni all
out before Gareth and Paul put together a small stand with
the Gareth thump for four through the offside probably the
shot of the day. But as he was run out for 10 and Richie quickly
holed out, Paul and Ash steered us into port with a total
of 79-6 off 20. At least 20 runs shy with the small straight
boundaries.
Whether it was the quality of the bowling, the fear of the
pitch or the fact they were chasing a small total CBBs started
very quietly. Paul started with a maiden, shakes went for
3 runs off his two overs and Richie kept things tight but
the wickets wouldn't come. Matt proved more to the batsmens
liking but Jonni also kept it tight, going for 7 runs off
his two as the bowling was constantly changed in search of
wickets. At 63-0 off 13 it seemed a forlorn hope but Dave
then picked up a wicket caught. Will then bowled a pie.
Fielding at short midwicket to the left-handed batsman who
was about to receive the pie, I could see that it started
off as a nice juicy meaty one - sort of beef and ale. As the
ball looped slowly down the wicket it headed towards leg,
becoming perhaps more like a pork pie with copious amounts
of jelly. But as the batsman decided to play it from the comfort
of his crease, with keeper Ash up to the wicket, it changed
into more of a corned beef hash. The mixture of a hack to
leg and the thought of a tickle for one in the batman's mind
completed the transformation of the pie at the last second
into a lovely warm apple pie which he got the thinnest of
clear edges on. Ash supplied the custard with a nice leg-side
catch and I've run out of ways to embellish the pie story
even more.
The promotion of some lower order batsmen gave wickets to
Dave and winkie (who was bowling somewhere near his better
form when removing the bails of former cazh Gareth Davies)
but the undefeated opener ended proceedings with a well struck
six as CBBs reached their target with two overs to spare.
Some decent tight bowling and the flurry of late wickets gave
us something to talk about in the Plymouth Arms after and
at least we put up a fight.
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