"Ouch" !

A hastily re-arranged home fixture, moved from Blewbury, when they discovered their star player didn't have enough fuel to reach their pavilion. Thompy's PA neglected to inform him of this change, and he narrowly avoided arrest at Blewbury, who were hosting a Juniors match, and don't take kindly to "lairy gingers" barging into a dressing room of kids.

Further delays whilst Blewbury introduced themselves to each other; one of them even thought we were his team mates ! They seemed more than happy that Aravinda de Silva had "signed up" under the recent twinning arrangements between Colombo and Blewbury, and was making his club debut. The threat of Moreton Midweek is in fact taken so seriously that they fielded several first team players, appointed 3 captains, and then tried to disguise the team as "moderate" with a sprinkling of Saga members.

They even insisted on spinning the coin, as if they were the hosts, and Moreton decided to bat first. Wicksey is in a rich vein of form, providing the day has a "Thurs" in it, which luckily it did, so he retired unbeaten. Jonny & Stuart looked deceptively good, and scored well, but it was left to Sammy to show us how it's done with a fine knock including 2 sixes into the pavilion; one rather fortunately caught by a fielder wearing oversized boots that just touched the boundary. The quest for sex six by Templedoom continues, and to be honest he didn't look any more likely to succeed this week, than he has for the last 5 years. Never mind he's in the team for his bowling, fielding, comic value with Bomber seemingly unavailable for this key role, now that he's concentrating on his picture framing business. 131 seemed a fair, if not great score, and we left the Blewbury captains trying to sort out a batting order with their new found friends.

New member Wayne opened the bowling, and showed plenty of flair for the job, and when his mate, "Gardener to the stars", Howard joined him, we wondered why Swagger was holding himself back ? Howard in fact enjoyed good success with 3 wickets, as did Thompy. Howard must owe a lemonade to 'Gus MacGregor who took a corking catch at fine leg, just as his Dad looked away to check the Aussie Rules scores. Josh's strike rate is an impressive 50% when fielding, and this week it featured 2 drops and 1 "decline" from the 6 misses the team collectively managed. Sammy dropped a straight forward catch from Aravinda before he got going, and this cost us dear. Dave dropped a much harder chance, so can't really be blamed, whilst Jonny spilled a sharp C & B and was so angry with himself that he headbutted the ground in frustration. Unfortunately someone had raked up all the grass cuttings from the previous week, so the anticipated "cushion"  was not there, and surprisingly his hair failed to soften the impact either.

Following recent changes to Moreton safety guidelines, his Mother was contacted, he was told to take a week off work, and he may have to bowl in a helmet next week to protect himself from further self- injury. Bowling honours went to Sammy, who although he lost the match, by dropping Aravinda, still came up with four wickets and 8 sorrys.

Next week FCC-so we might see some familiar faces- or we might not !