Well the trophy that my wife has kindly let me display in our downstair’s loo will have to be returned. This was an abject performance, unworthy of a long report. Winning the toss was to be the only upside of the evening. We bowled well to start and kept the scoring down, but failed to take early wickets. We finally broke through getting rid of one of their openers just shy of 25. We kept them down to under 10 an over until the last three overs when things fell apart, summed up by the last ball of the innings which went for 9 due to overthrows and three actually run singles.
Our running between the wickets ultimately led to our downfall, but Andy fell LBW early on, which was unfortunate as we felt he got his leg outside the line, then new boy Mike Howard strolled in and smashed his first ball for 6 via the top net, but sadly did not last long falling to the first of our run outs. Mike Hughes batted well and retired on 25, leaving Trevor and I to lead a recovery. In three balls we were both gone, me run out, when Trevor hammered a drive back to the bowler. Trevor was then out a caught. This left Mike and John to try and score 60 for the last pair, which was too much. Mike Hughes stuck around until there were 2 overs to go making 50, but we were all out 111.
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