Sunday 1s vs Bricklayers Arms
Author: Rohit “Upper Cheese Cut” Deshmukh aka R2-D2
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As soon as the Sunday 1s fixture was announced and whatapp group was created, as usual Beedle started his research on oppo. After a few rounds of discussion Beedle n Bone agreed that they have only known a bar who sells cheaper beers than putney. They day started when I turned up on the ground on glorious day only to see a determined man numbering the poles. Ahh I leave it there. No need to elaborate further on that after all Beedle is man of his words. Wibbs agreed with oppo that we would bat first. Hannaprod and Wibbs opened. Wibbs as usual was playing some proper cricketing shots and keeping scoreboard ticking while Hannaprod was doing his bit blocking 'n watching the ball carefully. To save us from boredom, the scorer (new ball nicking, one legged Welshman not English) came up with brain teaser. Q: “guess how many runs on the board that are not scored by Hannaprod ?” A : “all of them” Which was true till 10th over. While there was not much happening apart from dot balls we were kept entertained by an adorable puppy. But we were absolutely mortified when the owner of the puppy declared that he "can’t wait for that thing to die so he could stuff him and convert him into a trophy to give it the player who brings most joy to the team". Definitely a killjoy dry humour. Hannaprod was removed by an absolute blinder catch - this sort of catching has no place in Sunday cricket. Somebody and I’m not gonna say who (cause I ain’t no grass) suggested new nickname "Grannyprod". Bit harsh on him but he did end up being top scorer with his 28 (off 25 overs!! ). Who’s laughing now. Amogh got out very early by his standards but he was a happy man who enjoyed his time playing cricket in solitude without having to keep tabs on the little ones. After cheekily promoting myself up the order by claiming that I can’t bowl today. I walked in to get some BIG runs, started off well with a nice four. But I was given LBW albeit wrongly as IMHO it was going down the leg. It clearly stopped me getting my maiden ton. This is why we need to introduce DRS for Sunday’s. Thanks to some big hitting from Seb, Bone, Hoggy 'n Gus we managed to crawl past 150. Btw did I mention Steve bone hit a fabulous 6 - alofted drive to long on, or if you like, a hoik to cow - that’s one more shot to his locker. Callum looked in good touch. Played some sensible cricketing shots. Our innings was ended prematurely thanks to an over enthusiastic Beedle who ran himself out in the most comical way possible. He ended up running in circles like headless chicken. And there it was DDJ decided. Off we went to teas, After receiving some extra training and consultation from me on making sandwiches the previous week, Beedle 'n Bone managed to make very good quality teas. Wibbs was happy, respectable total of 178. Second innings we started off well for first few overs but we soon started leaking runs, thanks to our fielding which included some dropped catches, balls through legs, Hoggy kicking the ball 40 yards from long on all the way to deep mid wicket, also some strange ritual of running alongside ball escorting it all the way to boundary (just like Kim Jong Un’s body guards running alongside his car). We hoped the floodgates would open after Gus clean bowled the opener with an absolute beauty. But alas it wasn’t meant to be our day. Even when oppo needed 4 runs off 7 overs with 7 wickets in hand only Beedle believed we could win. Oppo batsman was bewildered by Beedle’s profanity after he caught one at gully (don’t mind him he’s good guy, he’s only abusing himself just like he ran himself out). He brought us joy 'n kept our spirits up thoughout the day through his antics. If that poor dog ever gets stuffed Beedle will be the first to receive that trophy. Btw did I mention while fielding at square Leg umpire claimed that their club is the only club in London that has 3 Nepalese playing for them. I too insisted that Putney CC is all inclusive club and all nationalities are welcome. Since we couldn’t agree on Man of the Match amongst ourselves (Hannaprod tried to nominate himself citing his top score of 28 but it was too slow mundane & prosaic) it was given to oppo opening bat who score unbeaten 60odd and he also opened bowling for them. Motm : Bricklayers batsman Ddj: Beedle (fielding, wicket celebration, dropped catch....) TFC: Seb's Nina for enduring that rubbish from boundary. Champagne moment: Gus C-B (bowling) |
Date | Time | Team | Opposition | Location | Putney | Opposition | Result | Scores | Points | Toss |
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22/07/2018 | 1pm | Sunday 1st | Bricklayers Arms | H | 177/10 | 178/3 | L | 0 |