We needed outright so the captain (that's me and
I was awesome) had the plans written down over a few
mid week beers in his pocket.
looking at this great team up against the Reds, this
could happen.
We win the toss and select to bowl, open up with Hatcher
and Pav. Surely this would get us a few wickets and
I was right 2nd over in kirsch takes a ripper in one
hand 3 inches of the ground yet somehow still in his
belly, hate to say it but it was one of the best I
have seen and actually at the time had to ask him
if he dropped it as I couldn't believe it ..REDS 1
for not much then Hatcher bowls a couple more and
Pav gets one and Reds are 4 for not much off 18.
The problem lies in that a bloke called Alec Kahn
plays for the reds and is the most boring batsman
that has graced Mercantile and for years they have
been asking someone to light a fire under him to get
him going, so you never know. Well it seems he has
been teaching the young Reds how to bat as they were
not getting runs but we weren't getting wickets fast
enough. Proof in that Horman was next to bowl and
took 3 for 8 off nine overs with Hyndman and Todman
bowling from the other end in an attempt to make them
play some shots, yet this was to no avail, Hyndo took
1 wicket for not many runs as for some reason they
didn't try to belt him.
Reds 8 for 80 off 36 overs.
Bring on Hags from the Pavilion end and as I am captain
I change over to the other end after Horman and before
Patterson. Hags bowls well and then with all of those
little Sausage fingers stretched out as far as they
could go Hyndo takes an absolute beauty to give Hags
a wicket then the following over Hags takes a beauty
of my bowling and Reds are sent on there way.
Reds all out for 90 odd yet off 39 overs which is
slightly annoying.
I bring my crumpled cigarette stained paper out of
my pocket with the supposedly ingenious batting line
up on it.
Simple - Patterson and Hyndman to open thinking that
Patto hasn't has much of an opportunity with the bat
and Hyndo is good to stay around for a bit and hopefully
score a few whilst there.
This happens Barnies 1 for 50 with Hydno out for 18
and Patto scoring freely
Now this is where my captaincy comes into question
as I thought the next 3 batsman were ones who can
score freely and at will and will get us to 200 by
the 22 over mark leaving 29 overs at them to gain
outright....surely this will happen
Deano - 1
Krischy - 0 yet did have a 26 run partnership with
Patterson
Rorison - 0 only relief is that he did it on the first
ball as to not to keep us in suspense.
I put myself in and we get to drinks at 4 for 154
with Patterson on 97.
Now I should have declared and everyone was telling
me to, yet we did need a few more runs and Patto deserved
it so I gave him one over. Kiss the cap...PATTO GETS
HIS TON and Todman gets out on the last ball
Barnies 5 for 166, 70 runs infront of reds total ..
get back in there Reds.
Open with Hatcher and Pav this time it's Pav's turn
and gets 2 quick wickets. Then Rob Huxley puts one
down, well actually it came at him slowly and hit
him in the chest but Red's Captain makes 50 so outright
is over, in comes Kirch and takes the Captain's wicket
and then Rob gets a belated wicket for the reds to
be 5 for 100 odd at stumps
Good effort all round 15 wickets and a Ton to Patterson
is not bad in a 90 over game, but it does leave us
with a tough ask on the weekend, according to Marty's
maths we need to basically get 20 wickets at a cost
of around 190 runs and then make about 250 ourself
for the cost of 4-5 wickets, which is possible against
this opposition, so get down there for a few drinks
early and do this.
Some interesting Stats.
Most Ducks for the Barnies since stats have been kept.
D Huxley 13
T Vana 12
Todman 12
M Vana 11
And those not quite good enought to get double digits
Gav on 8 after a stellar season of 4 and Pooch, Wrighty,
Brown, Kirsch and Bowden on 7
Also in the Player Championship which takes runs,
wickets, catches and run-outs into consideration
Bowden is on 28.6
Hyndman is on 28.4
With Runs worth .1, wickets worth 2 and catches worth
1
See you SAT..Todders
