After the heady days of Bordeaux, it was back to earth with Wally Squash Club & a gale force wind. My typing finger has done a fair bit of overtime recently, so this report may not be as extensive as usual; of course if we had won it might well have been different !
WSC batted first and Al & Westy bowled really well to keep a tight rein on the run rate, and at 4-26, we were firmly in control; Al took 3-17 off his 4 overs. At this point, the squash players phoned for help, and biked over a cricketer from Stoke Row, whose arrival coincided with a bout of generosity from Thompy & Wicksy, who both leaked runs faster than the dams of the Ruhr Valley. Smithy had the satisfaction of getting JayJamJani out, but our self appointed fielding coach, Bomber, didn't help our cause by missing a few in the slips, and was eventually banished to the deep, but unfortunately WSC had now got a defendable target of 126.
In very dark conditions, we struggled to find fluency in our batting; Ed (21) & Westy (24) both batted well, Al (16*) performed beyond his years, and a late flurry from Thompy (17) nearly threatened an unlikely win, but the squash club bowlers were pretty accurate with the big red ball, and we fell short by 11 runs.
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