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Match Report
Third team skipper Greg Horton is finally happy that relegation is not an issue. He
started the season looking for 6 wins from somewhere: the team gave him no 6
yesterday by narrowly beating Bransgore at the
Green.
Bransgore won the toss and batted.
Les opened up from the tennis court end with young Rob C coming in from the Church
End. Bransgore made a steady start taking advantage of a few loose deliveries which
they dispatched to the boundaries. Senior replaced Rob at the Church End before Les
got the first wicket bowling their opener. Runs continued to come at a good rate
until yours truly did their no 3 with a ripper that Warney would have been happy
with. Sadly my bowling went downhill after that although I did get the no 5 with one
that pitched at my feet and somehow he managed to lob it to Les at mid off. Robbo
came on for an out of sorts Senior and immediatley stemmed the flow of runs helped
by a good spell from Fraz it looked like we might get them out for around 160, sadly
the other bowlers couldn't keep up the momentum and despite a three wicket hall for
Rob C they reached 199 all out. Our best bowler once again was the evergreen Robbo;
he got the dangerous opener out and only went for just under 3 an over.
Teas were supplied by the Tosdevins and very warmly received by
all.
Greg gave us his usual "come on boys I fancy this with our strong batting line up"
speech and off we went.
Fraz went first up bowled by their young opener, Oz and Charlie put a small
partnership together before Charlie edged one to slip. Greg went next playing on
then Oz fell as well. Graham hit a few lusty blows before their opening spinner, who
bowled his 10 straight through, decided to bowl seam for his last over. Graham
bowled through the gate. Tosders out first ball.
78 for 6 became 85 for 7 when Rob was out C&B. All this time I was at the other end
watching wickets fall and honestly thinking of an early finish and hopefully a not
out for me. Senior changed all that! In a 9 over partnership we put on 46 running
well with the odd boundary. When Senior was out we had about 130 and I was looking
at 150 for another point. In walked Robbo promoted to no. 10 after last weeks run
fest at the end of the innings. To explain what happened next as amazing is an
understatement, their bowlers didn't seem to realise Robbo is a one shot man the
quicker and shorter they bowled the more he pulled them to the boundary. I think
they were getting a bit upset at this stage not helped by me laughing at Robbo from
the non-striker's end. We put on nearly 50 in quick time, me playing the anchor role
Robbo scoring 27: it's still making me smile now. Sadly their young opener finally
pitched one up and Robbo was done LBW. Les walked to the crease with 20 needed in 2
and a bit overs no problem. We both managed a couple of boundaries and found
ourselves needing 5 off the last over. I did the obvious thing being the senior
batsman and scored a single off the first ball leaving Les to do the rest he sort of
defended 2 deliveries so I had a quiet word and he promptly smashed the next one for
four back over the bowler's head. Game over with 2 balls to spare. I ended on 57 not
out the last three wickets got 120 runs and we are back at the top of the league,
thoughts of relegation long gone.
Blacky gave up his chance to play today so that we had an umpire, he did a great
job. Big thanks to Sandra for scoring.
Some of the details in this report might not be totally accurate as
I have a major hangover this morning, I'm sure Mo puts something extra in his
Cobra!!
