Post date: May 26, 2018 9:59:38 AM
The one on the day of the wedding.
So week three and nobody is talking about the cricket, its all about the wedding of the year. ‘What will Meghans dress look like? Will her father turn up to walk her down the isle? ….these are all questions that were not asked or considered by anybody at all at Millaton today !.
So …who we got this week… ‘You got South Devon this week…seriously !! who are they? Somebody sadly did ask ‘where are they from ?’ … ok that might have been me tbh.Turns out they are Newton Abbott ( question …is it two T’s or two B’s… google )
Turns out it is spelt …Newton Abbot
So this week our skip Lee (blind man) Jutson is out following his eye operation. No Lee it does not make you look anything like Johnny Depp having an eye patch! So over to vice skip Tim Shaw for the week.
Steve b and a few of the early birds turn up to mark out the boundary open the pavilion etc. Only to find South Devon Abbot already at the ground and doing their warm ups.
Arranged in a circle with their coach standing in the middle of them going through a routine of Achilles stretches, hamstring stretches along with a few Yoga moves…Dale Harris delivers an ambitious punt for quote of the day.
Standing in the middle chewing on a sausage roll and a Costa from Sorton petrol station ‘what the F**k are they doing ? …(steve b) I think in Yoga that move is called an upward dog…they just did finished their downward dogs. (Dale O)… feel like I must be warmed up then , I’m doing a hot dog!!’
So to the game …
Tim Shaw now captain whilst Johnny Depp is incapacitated walks out for the toss. ‘whatever you do skip win and we need to be bowling’ . Tim Shaw walks back into the changing room we are bowling …’great; get in boi; cracking ; you the man; better than LJ he never wins’ ….well actually I lost the toss they want to bat! Hmmm that’s a worry. They obviously rather confident.
OK so we happy because we get what we want, we get to bowl first. At exactly this point Ebby (Fez) V does deliver the quote of the day. After dipping into kitbag and pulling out a clear plastic package…‘ oh a hate it when that happens, a man doesn’t have time to properly enjoy his sushi’ …yep he was genuinely tucking into a plate of Sushi. First for Millaton? Pressure on whoever is providing the next teas!
Briddy open the bowling with Ant Jutson and the (fully warmed up) hot dog Harris. Ant bowls splendidly with 3 overs for naff all. Bomber the same from the top end.
Jopps comes on from the road end and bowls with his regular miserly fashion, 7 overs for 17 runs. Tim Shaw comes on from the grandstand end for a few.
South Newton Devonians are meandering along at naff all an over, however they are looking extremely comfortable 10 overs they are at 36 and at 20 overs they still only at 71 for naught.
20 overs and Drinks …
Obviously something was said and South Abott start to get a wiggle on. Paul Burder (new boi) bowls two overs conceding only three scoring shots. His third goes for a few, so Rhino Lee has a go, but to no avail. Ebby ( sushi) V has a bit of a tough one as the batters really start to march on. 50 for bat #1 is followed by a 50 for bat #2.
First wicket goes down with an easy run out from Rhino and Ian Jutson in the 29th over. Bat #1 easily run out on 71. But Briddy really starting to feel the heat. Ant Jutson comes back and father and son have the other opener stumped on 51.
Newton Devon Abotts now 2 down but on 163 off 31.
Then the clouds cleared and Briddy get on top. Ebbster tacks a cracking catch at short third man Dale Harris takes 3 and Tim shaw mops up 2 more and suddenly Briddy are taking wickets and the score slowing.
Abbottt Devon South finish on 245 for 7
A cracking Tea from Bomber H and we spin around for the second innings. Only after checking out Meghans dress…all agree she looked beautiful!
Steve b to Tim Shaw …’so Tim we look light on batting this week. Best the top three hang around a bit’. First wicket down within 3 balls, second wicket down at third over. Briddylooking sick. 2 down for not many. Steve B and Paul Burdon hang around for a bit, another wicket gone.
Jack Shaw bats well and keeps the bowlers out for a good while. Another wicket goes down.
Rhino joins steve b and employs the ‘death or glory’ technique. Smashing a number of cracking boundaries and with a ‘lost ball’ acknowledgement to his golf prowess as his 6 over long off results in the Abott Newtons declaring a ‘lost ball’, he falls for a personal, and team, best score of 32
Dale (still warm from his hot dog) Harris dispatches a few boundaries, but once he goes and finally Steve b capitulatesthe innings withers and dies.
Briddy all out for 86.
Another poor showing at home for the 2’s
Deverton Abbott South walk away with substantial honours on the day. Could we have beaten them …hell yeah!
Just a bad day I guess…Meghan and Harry might have a different view on that mind.
So to HQ…we ignore that the FA cup is on the TV… again we drink more beer that we scored runs. The white Hart turns up with a bundle of Chips and Chicken Nuggets. Suddenly we realise that we don’t care about what Abott Devon South Newton just did to us, all we care about is that Meghan really did look proper hot in her dress !
Roll on next week as we are off to play Ipplepen 3rds on a rubber strip at Stover school. Bring it on !!