Great News for those of you bored with my blogs- I have a guest blogger for you this week. It's none other than Rob "Volvo" Macgregor of Smith's Cottage & Newcastle Uni. As he's reading English, whilst supporting Australia, it should be interesting........over to you Rob
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Moreton in last over thriller
Failure to check/respond to my email mixed with the wealth of talent that is on offer every week in our fair village meant that for Moreton cc vs. Southfield cc, this guest blogger was sitting on the sideline with a bottle of wine for company, ready to sit back and enjoy the fireworks.
To start, I had real optimism for the lads as when Nigel showed up to score with the greeting: “If I played at Southfield I’d be a junior member” it became apparent that the reason the opposition were late was due to several of them having technical problems with their stairlifts getting out of the home.
Being a fan of any great team, you take the rough with the smooth (see Ashes 2005, 2009, 20-20 rubbish etc etc) and it was certainly a rough start for the lads as they finally went out to field in weather that can at best be described as ‘total rubbish’. Last week in glorious sunshine there were no dropped catches, and the weather seems to be parallel to performance as all round the pitch there was prime examples of the eye hand co-ordination of blind people.
It would be unfair to name names but such is life, take a bow Davee T, Wicksy, Tompy (you only stand that far in front of the ball when you’re playing pool Tompy). Someone owes Jonny a pint as four were dropped off his bowling, two in one over.
The ball seemed to have been replaced with a hand grenade, no one wanted it and the opposition took advantage, the old guard opening up with some shots to all parts of the ground. As the opposition started clocking up the runs, the boys got their heads on a bit, and the new Bomber Zero made light work of diving everywhere to retrieve the ball with the precision of a preying mantis, a performance which also included a nice catch.
Bowling credits to Matt Baker, Jonny and Tompy who were for the most part on form. Wicksy however went for 32 of two overs in a fine example of where not to bowl. Big shout for Carl and Tompy with two pieces of memorable fielding, great dive from Carl and reaction catch from Tompy.
Southfield ended on 145 after their 20 overs, and the boys headed back in, knowledgeable of the momentous task ahead of them.
Half a bottle of wine left as The Tallest Opening Partnership in EnglandTM of Tim and Ed got off to a slowish start, and then started to gear up before both falling to the sound of the wicket rattling. All of a sudden, however, a decision from umpire and fellow non-playing member of the team Al Squires was to turn the game into a bona-fide thriller. Matt Baker, the most enthusiastic man in cricket, skied a ball that was caught on the boundary by a fielder who then stepped over the boundary, noticed only by a few. Surrounded by all these celebrating grown men, Al, aged twelve, with balls of steel turned round without hesitation and signalled six, confirming his bright future at the club there and then (as if it needed to be confirmed, when he’s bowling I could hang my washing on that line).
Then the batting really stepped up, with Jacobs going Crackers (cheers for the joke Jonny) firing shots to all parts of ground whilst Wicksy, in serious run debt after his shocking bowling went in and paid his overdraft off with some really nice stroke playing retiring off to 29.
AS the game drew to a close, it became very apparent that this was going to be down to the wire, needing ten off the final over, messers Jack and Jonny stepped up to the challenge, Jonny already having hit some nice boundaries, some ones and twos meant that five runs was needed off the final ball………. Unfortunately, it wasn’t Moreton’s day, as the bowler clearly wasn’t reading the script and put in a cracking final ball.
On the plus side, no ducks, bad luck Sammy, get the hat back on……
Nice one Junior Moneypenny- see you are good at something after all
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