Semi-final result: Totternhoe 85 all out, Colts 86 for 1

An rather easy win last night against an underperforming Totternhoe, particularly their batting. I won the toss again, 4 out of 5, and inserted. John Callender opened the bowling and started well taking two wickets, one bowled and one stumped and conceding only 7 off his first two overs. My first over was a bit of disaster with 17 coming off it. They then had a longish, but unproductive partnership, reaching only 40 odd off the first 6 overs. The start of their final collapse started in the 8th over, when Dave took 2 wickets in 2 balls, the first with a low long hop, the 2nd with a good straight low delivery resulting in a plumb LBW. However, this was not a spell that Dave will remember fondly when in his next over when he delivered three low beamers resulting in free hits, but one of which ended up with the batsman doing the only thing he could do to get himself out, namely run out, so oddly the deliveries did not cost us too much. Mike complete the demolition with fine turning delivery bowling their final batsman, with two overs to go: 85 all out.

Our innings was a bit of procession, we didn’t try to run too many singles and they also gave us a fair number of extras, including a sequence of three balls that gave us 14 runs, going no ball, wide (off the first attempt of the free hit), then a 6 off the final fair free hit. Our progress was slow but safe reaching 50 odd after 6 overs, losing no wickets. Finally Graeme reached 25 and retired and shortly after Don was out to steeply bouncing delivery. That left Dave and I to complete the innings with 3 overs to go.

So we are in the final again, well played all.

Played: John Callendar, Don Farenheim, Mike Hughes, Graeme Sprowson, Dave Whitely, Simon Williams.