Sunday 2s vs Carnegie
Author: Stephen ‘Raging Boner’ Bone
Match Report |
---|
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." So said Albert Camus in his nihilistic reimagining of the Greek legend of Sisyphus. Dammed by the gods and faced with the monotonous daily task of pushing his rock up a mountain, just to witness it roll back and begin again, our ‘hero’ contemplates suicide. For those of us who don’t have an eternity to fritter away rolling that rock gets boring, fast. Toss lost, bowl away. Having been Tossed the new ‘rock’ Beedle and Brown rolled as best they could, the mountain was high but so were they, very very high. 2 down before three figures. Good effort all round. Let’s see if Connor can do anything to get the rock rolling. What followed was possibly the most enjoyable spell of ‘spin’ bowling you will ever see. Sensing things had become boring he decided to produce what was without doubt the finest bouncer, yes BOUNCER, you will ever see from an off spinner. Bounce.Glove.Shoulder.Grill. The opposition fell about themselves, cheering, chanting and quite frankly baiting their own man: ‘Bring back the off spinner’ ‘Bounce him big man’ ‘Make him duck it’ This happened again, two bouncers, both to the face, from an off spinner. A brutal champagne worthy moment. Besides this brief spell of ‘joy’ we were flogged. 355 -7 (turned out the scorer had scored a quick fire 10 himself and actually we were chasing 365) Tea was provided by Mrs Beedle and was without doubt a highlight of an otherwise tedious day. So, how do you bat when chasing 365? The answer is you set personal targets. Besides Amogh anchoring another Fine innings while his young lad worked his way to MOTM only Beedle’s ‘ramp’ shot for 4 ticked the personal target box. Rohit holding aloft most of the pieces of his middle stump says all you need to know about the pace we faced. PTSD is a real possibility, in fact it took him about 45 minutes to take his pads off after being smashed out. Sweet baby Jesus. Defeat by 200+ runs There are worse things in life; Unwanted bumming A poke in the eye Tennis Boris Johnson Dundee Roadkill Ghosts/Ghouls It certainly didn’t feel that way at points and a quite brutal day of cricket called for some particularly jazzy cigarettes from our guests and quite a few beers. As we watched the rock roll back down the hill none of us bothered to chase it but we’ll be back next week, rolling away. Let’s just hope the fixture generator is a little kinder and the oppo contains midgets, girls or prosthetic limbs, that’ll make a game of it. Champagne Moment- it’s not often a spinner utilises the bouncer, Connor did, twice, both straight to the dome piece. Turns out bouncers are fun when they’re hitting other people. TFC- hands up left right and centre for this one, Will FK just sneaking it with a late surge (self nominated) in the voting. DDJ- Beedle pipped Rohit after a recount. Dropped one at slip, took a liberal approach to field placing and bowled a quite deliberate moon ball to make the day last a little bit longer. MOTM- Soham Bendre. Another fine effort from the young lad. Managed to bowl a maiden whilst all else were going at around 10 an over and then batted fantastically, even dodging the odd bouncer himself. |
Date | Time | Team | Opposition | Location | Putney | Opposition | Result | Scores | Points | Toss |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10/06/2018 | 1pm | Sunday 2nd | Carnegie | H | 130/8 | 365/7 | L | 0 |