Post date: Jun 4, 2018 7:07:29 PM
The one that that started with a bang and ended up with some bangers.
So Briddy Twos returned to the unhappy hunting ground that is Millaton looking for their first home win of the season. After a long dry spell the ground was looking great and the strip looked hard. Great work by the grounds team.
Tim Shaw standing in for the recovering LJ lost the toss and ‘stuck them in’. Not convinced that is exactly how it works but that’s how he reported it as he strolled into the changing room.
As the 10 men walked out to the middle…hold on! We are only 10 where is Dean. I think he is still asleep in his car. Panic and Teeshaw scampering over to Dales car to wake him up. As it happens Dean had already woken from his slumber and was busy getting kitted up. Panic over.
First ball down the hill from Bomber Harris. Floaty full toss and …bang…the ball was smashed straight through mid off for 4. A sage like , ‘Hmmm....’ is heard from the slips.
Teeshaw on from the road end and second ball nipped one back and Lustleigh are one down (yes I did eventually find out who we were playing, I am sure its an age thing, I sort of don’t seem to pay much attention to who the opposition are these days. )
So where were we. Oh yeah … Lustleigh 1 down for 4 runs. In walks bat #3. Teeshaw turns on his shortened run up, next ball, bang 4 runs straight, next ball bang another 4 runs this time through extra cover… ‘Hmmm… this could be a long day ‘ are the words uttered from the slips.
Bombers second over down the hill included a full above the waist bunger. NO BALLLLLL !. ‘Sorry bat’ says DaleO as he turns and walks back to his mark. Tidy over from Dale apart from the no ball.
Teeshaw up the hill gets a bit more tap rom his second over. No boundaries from it but the ball is getting hit hard by the Lustleigh batters.
Then it happens …third ball in Dales third over. Out slips another beamer. NO BALLLLL! Sorry captain that’s him finished. Two beamers and he is out of the attack for the rest of the game. Bugger…that wasn’t in the plan!
Batstone finishes off the over gets smashed for a boundary for his troubles. Lustleigh 34 off 5.
Teeshaw starts to tidy up the bowling from the road end and puts in a tidy(ish) spell (8,1,3,45). Batsone at the grandstand end getting pasted. 3 boundaries in 4 balls…then the miscue and Lustliegh lose their second.
Big wicket next over from Tim as he snags their #3, and they are now 3 down, but with 70 on the board in the 9 th.
Joppers into the attack and snaffles another wicket in his second over. They are now 4 down. Are they starting to wobble…?
Corey ‘club pro’ Holliday comes into the attack and bowls very tidily (8,0,0,29) …Why ‘club pro’ you ask yourself reader….we will come to that later!
Jopps bowls out (8,0,2,34) taking a second wicket in his 6th over. Lusters are also 6 down in the 29th on 155 and the runs are starting to slow down dramatically.
Anthony ‘superstar’ Jutson comes on third over bang…WICKET, fourth over bang…WICKET, fifth over bang…WICKET…and the celebration on the third wicket!!…we have a star in the making here!
Gids comes on to finish the allotted overs. Bowls a great first up maiden as Briddy now look to wrap them up before their allotted overs. It doesn’t quite work out but Gids keeps his cool as the Lustleigh number 10 and 11 start to swish at everything. A scrambled single sees Lusters finish on exactly 200 from their 40 overs with 9 down.
So to tea…we are spoiled with an exceptional Joplin tea. The sandwiches are excellent, none of your plastic cheese and processed ham from the Joplin clan!
Briddy Innings and Lustleigh take to the field in rather garish yellow and black baggy hats…never seen the like!
Batstone opens with Buzz this week, following on from his 80 odd last week. Their openers have got some wheels !! The dry and hard briddy track offering them just what they want. Having a dig at short one Batstone goes for 0 caught at gully off probably the back of his bat.
The Corey ‘club pro’ walks out to join Buzz. The bowling continues with pace and a bit of bounce. Club pro and Buzz starting to look ok but runs not exactly easy to come by.
Lustleighs opener from road end bowls two maidens then breaks down half way through his third. He retired from field of play. We offer a replacement but Lusters politely decline.
Club Pro skies one and walks back to the pavilion. Takes a couple of calls on his mobile, packs his kit and then he is off and away… Club Pros do not need to hang around when their game is done. The rest of the stuff is for the minions!
Teeshaw now at the crease with Buzz and the pair start moving the game on. Through 50 and then disaster Teeshaw flips one up. IJ comes and goes in the same way and Briddy now not looking too great at 53 for 5.
Dean ‘sharp shooter’ Taylor, gets in on the action by triggering Buzz LBW off an alleged inside edge. Good knock from Buzz though for 20. We are now 6 down!
Dale ‘NO BALLLLLL!’ Harris plays a proper cameo, smiting the lustleigh bowling around for a quick fire and very entertaining knock.
Batstone (now umpiring) has a hissy fit at Lustleigh fielders who seem to think that they are better placed to determine what is a wide and what is not…
‘Mr fielder …see that field yonder that is the field in which I grow and harvest my F*cks. If you look you will see that they are not ripe, nor ready for harvesting, thus you understand that I am unable to give one for your kind opinion on wether that was a wide or not…’
At the time of writing the blood has slightly cooled and normality (ish) has returned to the Batstone brain.
So back to the game, Dale continues to paste the ball around, but sadly nobody can support him form the other end. He ends up 32 not out.
Briddy twos finish all out 111 all out in the 31st over.
We retire to the pavilion, shake hands with oppo, draw the stumps, put away the boundary markers, tidy the pavilion, switch off the water and lock away the generator and lock up. We note that Club Pro hasn’t left us his whites to launder and fold for him. We all agree that is a nice touch form Club Pro.
Thus we maintain our unenviable record of losing every match at home but winning every match on the road…maybe we just don’t like playing at Millaton!!
So to the White Hart, HQ as its now lovingly referred to. Lustleigh all rock up and sit enjoying the sun with us. Turns out that contrary to Steve bs earlier opinion they muppets, tossers and idiots, but actually are an alright bunch, they just don’t know what a wide is…
The White Hart, as is now becoming the habit, rock up with a number of plates of chips and a whole raft of Bangers….lush !
Where we off to next week? Doing the gardening/painting/whatever. It appears that we have a bye. Then back to Millaton to hopefully not keep up our record.